A Healing Conversation: How Healing Happens - Softcover

Symington, Neville

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855753596 ISBN 13: 9781855753594

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

How is it that someone can be healed of mental illness through talking with another person? This is what Neville Symington examines in this book. He believes that a person in their innermost being registers the essential character of the other person. The senses detect the outer contours of the personality but a deeper form of knowledge connects directly to the other person's inner being. Healing comes about if the inner world of the one is guided by principles that transcend the particular and this fosters a giving-ness in the one and the other. The egoism in each is then subsumed into a higher unity which results in a new subjective understanding. Personal understanding is a sign that a new ordering of the inner ingredients of the personality has taken place; that the form of being in the one has the capacity to generate in the other this new way of being. The author explores this fundamental reality that underlies human communication and teases out how this brings about healing.

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Neville Symington

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1855753596
• ISBN 13: 9781855753594
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160