Meditative Therapy: Facilitating Inner-Directed Healing (Practical Therapist) - Softcover

Emmons PhD, Michael; Emmons M.S., Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886230110 ISBN 13: 9781886230118

Publisher: Impact, 1999

Synopsis

Two decades ago, Emmons' popular work, The Inner Source, showed thousands of readers how to tap their own powerful “inner source” of emotional healing. Now he offers to the professional therapist a full description of the therapeutic procedures that facilitate inner-directed healing and explains the therapist's role in guiding clients' growth psychologically, physiologically and spiritually. A selection of the Behavioral Science Book Service.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Emmons, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice, who has been a consultant to educational, government and business organizations, a trainer of marriage and family counseling interns at California Polytechnic State University, and author/co-author of seven books.

Emmons and assertiveness training became synonymous when he co-authored Your Perfect Right with Robert Alberti. Since 1970, he has devoted much of his life's work to furthering and understanding assertiveness. Although his focus on assertive living has taken center stage, he has been an innovator in terms of dealing with the whole person, mentally, physically and spiritually.

A lifelong meditator, Emmons has practiced daily, often in the garden by a koi pond. This practice helped him form his approach to psychology and led him to develop the system he calls meditative therapy. The Inner Source: A Guide to Meditative Therapy first detailed this holistic, eyes-closed method that facilitates an inner source to generate therapeutic and creative experiences. Meditative Therapy expands on this method as a therapeutic modality with wide ranging mental, physical, emotional and spiritual effects.

Janet Emmons, MS is a licensed marriage and family counselor, holistic health workshop leader, and member of the Psychology Graduate Advisory Board at California Polytechnic.

Review:

"...a practical and powerful guide to inner-directed healing..."
—R. Leo Sprinkle, PhD

“...clear, concise, fascinating, and profound...describes numerous case studies of its helpfulness...I have witnessed this technique make profound changes in clients...well written, interesting reading...I've safely and effectively used this technique with clients of widely diverse diagnoses, of various age and ethnic groups...”
—Renee Rees, PhD, Fellow & Diplomate, American Board of Medical Psychotherapists & Psychodiagnosticians

“...unusually creative and explicit guide...a very interesting book and one that could profitably be read by many practitioners.”
—E. Thomas Dowd, PhD, Kent State University, The Counseling Psychology Quarterly

About this edition

• Publisher: Impact
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1886230110
• ISBN 13: 9781886230118
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230