{"title":"Neville Symington","description":"\u003cp\u003eNeville Symington’s works delve deeply into the complexities of the human psyche, blending insights from psychoanalysis with philosophical reflection. His writing explores themes of healing, identity, and self-awareness, offering thoughtful perspectives on psychological growth and transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a rich, contemplative journey through the intricacies of the mind, where clinical understanding meets compassionate enquiry. Symington’s books encourage profound dialogue and self-examination, appealing to those interested in both psychology and the deeper questions of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-healing-conversation-by-neville-symington-9781855753594","title":"A Healing Conversation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow is it that someone can be healed of mental illness through talking with another person? This is what Neville Symington examines in \u003cem\u003eA Healing Conversation\u003c\/em\u003e. He believes that a person in their innermost being registers the essential character of the other person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePersonal 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author explores this fundamental reality that underlies human communication and teases out how this brings about healing. He believes that this has existed wherever there has been true friendship within civilisation, and that psychotherapy and psychoanalysis attempt to distil this essence and apply it in a clinical setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47604951974124,"sku":"9781855753594","price":63.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781855753594-a-healing-conversation.jpg?v=1778116456"},{"product_id":"the-blind-man-sees-by-neville-symington-9781855759848","title":"The Blind Man Sees","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe papers in this book have been written over a period of fifteen years, and focus on the similarity between psychoanalysis and religion. Symington argues that psychoanalysis can be seen as a scientific religion with Freud as the leader of the movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe examines the various stages of the journey made by a religious leader from \"blindness\" to \"founding an institution\" and finds counterparts in the development of psychoanalysis while drawing examples from Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. He invites the reader on a journey with him - to examine the human mind, our society, the process of psychoanalysis, science, and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe successfully uses examples from the consulting room to illuminate his arguments. Symington's honest accounts of the search for answers relevant to all of us encourage the reader to think further and deeper than he or she had intended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe psychoanalyst examines scientifically the emotional pattern in himself and the other. He can only do this to the extent to which he is self-aware. As what he is exercising is the inner pattern of his and the other's relationship, then, according to my definition, what he is engaged in is a religious activity. As he is doing it in an orderly way about a determinate subject-matter, he is acting as a scientist. Hence my claim that psychoanalysis is a scientific religion.\u003c\/em\u003e - Neville Symington, from the Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47607904436460,"sku":"9781855759848","price":106.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/fbb671e777ae67ef906234dbbacd433a.jpg?v=1778186744"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/neville-symington.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}