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A Healing Conversation
How Healing Happens
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Ideal for readers interested in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, mental health, philosophy of human relationships, and anyone curious about the healing power of dialogue and communication.
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.
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How is it that someone can be healed of mental illness through talking with another person? This is what Neville Symington examines in A Healing Conversation. 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. 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.
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Dr Peter March praises Symington's book for offering a relational account of persons that challenges traditional views and promises to profoundly impact psychiatry as Einstein's theories did physics. Another reviewer highlights its accessible and clear writing style, noting that the book explores how honest, open human interaction can be deeply restorative. It is described as radical, profound, humane, and intelligent, and is considered deserving of becoming a classic in the understanding of therapeutic conversation.
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ISBN: 9781855753594
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 May 2006
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Karnac Books
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
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Width: 147.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 160
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About the Author
Neville Symington is a member of the British and Australian Psychoanalytical Societies. His books include 'Narcissism: A New Theory', 'The Making of a Psychotherapist', 'A Pattern of Madness' and 'Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis' (all published by Karnac Books); 'The Analytic Experience', and 'The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion' (written with Joan Symington). He has a private psychoanalytic practice in New South Wales, Australia.
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