Psychological Interventions in Psychiatry
Arnold Mindell is internationally known as an innovator in linking body and psyche, and as the founder of Process-Oriented Psychology, a development of Jungian psychology which connects with body work. City Shadows, the first book to apply Process-Oriented Psychology to psychiatry, presents new and hopeful ways of working for mental health professionals. These methods have proved successful in dealing with psychosomatic and relationship problems, and are particularly useful to those working with people going through extreme and psychotic states with or without the use of drugs.
Mindell discusses different aspects of the crisis in modern psychiatry related to the use of bio-medical thinking. He presents the Process-Oriented Psychology model by analyzing fourteen of the most difficult psychiatric clients of a social welfare agency. He gives detailed descriptions of work with schizophrenic, manic, depressive, suicidal, retardation and drug abuse patients, showing how--with the use of Process-Oriented Psychology--these states can be ameliorated and the patients integrated into everyday life.
The Author
A key figure in the revolutionary field of dream and body work, Arnold Mindell is the author of Dreambody, Working with the Dreaming Body, River's Way, and The Dreambody in Relationships. He is an analyst in private practice, President of the Research Society for Process-Oriented Pyschology, Zurich, and analyst and teacher both at his society and at the Jung Institute, Zurich.