An examination of the causes and treatment of serious mental illness draws on brain science, psychiatry, transpersonal psychology, and patient case histories to present an innovative view of the workings of the human mind
An enormously impressive, profound, and important book. Ken Wilber
An overwhelmingly valuable book. Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
John Nelson has written an important and compelling book. He provides us with a thorough, well-referenced review of contemporary theories of psychotic illness, including a broad sweep of how conventional psychiatry views the psychoses. The Association for Humanistic Psychology Newsletter
Nelson s level of expertise with both the Western medical model and the Hindu chakra system is quite exceptional and perhaps unique among transpersonal theorists. Healing the Split would make an ideal textbook for a transpersonal psychology course. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology"
"An enormously impressive, profound, and important book." -- Ken Wilber
"An overwhelmingly valuable book." -- Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"John Nelson has written an important and compelling book. He provides us with a thorough, well-referenced review of contemporary theories of psychotic illness, including a broad sweep of how conventional psychiatry views the psychoses." -- The Association for Humanistic Psychology Newsletter
"Nelson's level of expertise with both the Western medical model and the Hindu chakra system is quite exceptional and perhaps unique among transpersonal theorists. Healing the Split would make an ideal textbook for a transpersonal psychology course." -- The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology