Trials of the visionary mind spiritual emergency and the renewal process /
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| Author / Creator: | Perry, John Weir |
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, c1999. |
| Description: | xvi, 197 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4420931 |
| Summary: | Stress may cause highly activated mythic images to erupt from the psyche's deepest levels in the form of turbulent visionary experience. Depending on whether the interactions between the individual and the immediate surroundings lean toward affirmation or invalidation, comprehension of these visions can turn the visionary experience into a step in growth or into a disorder, as an acute psychosis. Based on his clinical and scholarly investigations, John Weir Perry has found and formulated a mental syndrome which, though customarily regarded as acute psychosis, is in actuality a more natural effort of the psyche to mend its imbalances. If the upset is received in the spirit of empathy and understanding, and allowed to run its course, an acute episode can be found to reveal a self-organizing process that has self-healing potential. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 197 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-190) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585090343 0791439879 0791439887 |