LoginThe Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth Through Transformational Crisis
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This work presents a persuasive case for the existence of "spiritual emergencies"--extreme mental states experienced by some individuals in the process of personal metamorphosis. The Grofs (editors of Spiritual Emergency, Tarcher, 1989) denounce Western psychiatric practices that label persons in such states as mentally ill. They instead distinguish between psychiatric disorders and spiritual emergency, offering alternative modes of therapy for the latter. As the Grofs aim to show, the cycle of inner death and rebirth that typifies spiritual emergency ultimately leads to personal transformation and healing through a co
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Manufacturer: Jeremy P. Tarcher
Release date: 1 February 1990
ISBN-10 : 0874775531 | ISBN-13: 9780874775532
Release date: 1 February 1990
ISBN-10 : 0874775531 | ISBN-13: 9780874775532
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