Close to the Bone - Life Threatening Illness and The Search for Meaning(重病在身 )|报价￥22.80|图书,进口原版,Science & Techology 科学与技术,Medicine 医学,
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基本信息
·出版社：Scribner Book Company
·页码：224 页码
·出版日：1998年
·ISBN：0684835304
·条码：9780684835303
·版次：1998-01-01
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 32开
内容简介
Publisher Comments :
The bestselling author of Goddesses in Every Woman sheds light on the experiences of the seriously ill, and shows how facing mortality can be a life-transforming process. Patients, their caretakers, and their loved ones will all reap tremendous benefits from this spiritual but pragmatic book.
FromPublishers Weekly
The crisis brought on by a serious or disastrous illness is the concern of this richly probing essay by a Jungian analyst and medical doctor. Although various diseases are touched on, cancer?especially as it affects women?is Bolen's focus. Yet far from being a grim tract, this book is a kind of metaphysical how-to filled with hope, second chances and sound guidance. But from the very first "initiation story" the author narrates for us?the myth of the abduction to the underworld of Persephone, an ancient Greek emblem of spring, vitality, rebirth?Bolen makes clear that there are dark and dangerous realms to traverse to learn how to help make oneself well and whole again. In her view, there is no mind/body split, no dichotomy between psyche and soma: the mind is everywhere in the body and affects physiological outcomes. While the book's Jungian tone will keep some readers away (even as it attracts others), and while it's not full of original ideas, it is a skillful assemblage of views on the harrowing experience of physical illness and mental dissociation from which we can and may emerge with a new clarity about who we are and what we want our lives to be.
FromLibrary Journal
From a best-selling author (Goddesses in Everywoman, LJ 7/84): advice on making serious illness a chance for growth.
Book Dimension
Height (mm) 216 Width (mm) 142
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书评
From Publishers Weekly
The crisis brought on by a serious or disastrous illness is the concern of this richly probing essay by a Jungian analyst and medical doctor. Although various diseases are touched on, cancer?especially as it affects women?is Bolen''s focus. Yet far from being a grim tract, this book is a kind of metaphysical how-to filled with hope, second chances and sound guidance. But from the very first "initiation story" the author narrates for us?the myth of the abduction to the underworld of Persephone, an ancient Greek emblem of spring, vitality, rebirth?Bolen makes clear that there are dark and dangerous realms to traverse to learn how to help make oneself well and whole again. In her view, there is no mind/body split, no dichotomy between psyche and soma: the mind is everywhere in the body and affects physiological outcomes. While the book''s Jungian tone will keep some readers away (even as it attracts others), and while it''s not full of original ideas, it is a skillful assemblage of views on the harrowing experience of physical illness and mental dissociation from which we can and may emerge with a new clarity about who we are and what we want our lives to be.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
From a best-selling author (Goddesses in Everywoman, LJ 7/84): advice on making serious illness a chance for growth.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
FromBooklist
Jungian analyst Bolen offers a thought-provoking and optimistic book about the roles patient, friend, and physician may play during life-threatening illnesses. A patient entering a hospital with a serious illness is, she posits, similar to Demeter, the Sumerian Inanna, and other mythical characters who made trips to the underworld and experienced the psychological pall of losing their will and sense of control. Bolen argues that standard psychotherapy for such patients can be harmful because it concentrates on what is wrong with the patient; depth psychology, on the other hand, focuses on what is right with the patient. Indeed, Bolen maintains that life-threatening illness can provide opportunities, such as a chance to ask "who you are when you stop doing" and "do you matter?" . Bolen concludes that the importance of the soul has been neglected. Patients, family members, and caregivers should concentrate on freeing the soul and supporting the individual in whom it resides.William Beatty--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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