Books by Amy and Arny Mindell
Recommended books for the frequently asked question:
Question:
“ Which of your books
do you recommended to learn about process work?”
Answer:
We answer; “We can’t be objective and suggest first seeing the
work of our colleagues work (and our own) at the Lao Tse Press
www.laotse.com.
From our own books, we suggest the books listed below and in particular:
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the general reader, a beginner about process
work |
Riding the Horse Backwards. |
| For feelings skills in therapy |
Metaskills |
| For ideas about creativity |
The Dreaming Source of Creativity |
| For shamanism |
The Shaman’s
Body |
| For symbolic background to process ideas |
Rivers Way |
| For beginning body practice |
Working with the Dreaming Body |
| For connections with Jungian Psychology |
Dreambody |
| A good beginner in Comawork |
Coma, A Healing Journey |
| More connections
between psychology
to physics |
Quantum Mind |
| For Dreamwork |
The Dreammaker’s
Apprentice |
| For Lucid Dreaming |
Dreaming While Awake |
| For Relationship work |
The Dreambody
in Relationships |
| For Group and Political Work |
choose one of the following;
The Year I, The Leader as Martial
Artist, Sitting in the Fire, and The Deep Democracy
of Open Forums. |
| For
psychological interventions in psychiatry |
City
Shadows |
| For
connections between Aboriginal Earth-Wisdom, psychology, and physics |
Earth Based Psychology |

Books by Amy Mindell
2005
The Dreaming Source
of Creativity: 30 simple ways to have fun and work on
yourself.
Lao Tse Press.
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From her experience and knowledge of process oriented
psychology and creativity, author, therapist, and artist Amy Mindell
takes you
on a journey to discover the hidden creativity and inspiration in your
body, in material objects, in the environment, and even in your day-to-day
work. Her book THE DREAMING SOURCE OF CREATIVITY, shows
how dreaming and imagination are essential aspects of a fulfilling
life. 
Filled with stories, easy to follow exercises,
and over 100 pictures, THE
DREAMING SOURCE OF CREATIVITY offers simple and easy ways
to creatively enjoy and work on yourself by sensing the “ intentional
field”, the dreaming source of creativity that is always
present within and around you. You
discover how creativity arises from almost nothing and is hidden
even in the most mundane parts of life. You will tap your deepest
nature using art, music, puppets, movement, relationships and
other amazing
worlds. The creative methods in this book are also helpful for those
therapists who would like to bring a creative and artistic dimension
to their work. Process oriented psychology offers a unique, mind-expanding
approach to creativity based upon dreams, body experiences, and overall
life situations. This is the first process oriented book exclusively
devoted to creativity. Using the “intentional field” as
the source of creativity is a new and unique perspective in art therapy,
acting, and dance.
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2002
Alternative
To Therapy : A Creative Lecture Series on Process Work.
LaoTse Press, Portland Oregon.
The magical figures in this book make learning
how to work with yourself and others an enjoyable experience. From 18 years
of studying the situations
arising in the practice of therapy and in the supervision of client/therapist
interactions, a core group of imaginary figures (from Amy’s dreams)
reveal central issues and principles in therapy. (350 pages.)
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1999
Coma : A Healing Journey :A Guide
for Family Friends and Helpers.
Lao Tse Press, Portland Oregon. http://www.laotse.com.
COMA guides
family and health care professionals in contacting people
in deeply altered or comatose states of consciousness.
Coma work attempts to raise the awareness or even awaken
people in these states-- regardless of the origin of
these statesby assuming their experiences are
potentially significant and meaningful.
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Review from www. Amazon.com, , by Linda J. Thorlakson
Independent Publisher January.1999 Mindell's revolutionary guide paves
the way for an exciting journey through the depths of human experience.
It renders a diagnosis of coma anything but a dead-end road
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1994/2001
Metaskills : the spiritual art of therapy.
Tempe, Arizona. New Falcon 94/Lao Tse Press
Metaskills, the feeling attitudes behind personal therapeutic
talents, are the alpha and omega of healing. Amy breaks new ground in
a theory and practice of the most ancient of all arts. http://www.laotse.com.
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Books written together
by Amy and Arny Mindell
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1992
RIDING THE HORSE BACK-WARDS, process
work in theory + practice.
New York + London. Penguin, Lao
Tse Press, 2000. http://www.laotse.com.
An overview of Process Oriented Psychology based upon a seminar
given while they were scholars in residence at the Esalen Institute in
California.
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2007
E
A R T H-Based Psychology
in Shamanism, Physics and Taoism
PATH AWARENESS
: in the teachings of Don Juan, Richard Feynman and
Lao Tse
The Yaqui Indian shaman,
Don Juan, says “align yourself with the powers
of the earth”. The Nobel prize winning physicist
Richard Feynman tells us that elementary “particles
sniff all paths and take the one with least action”.
The mystic Lao Tse says, “the sage follows the
way, and everything benefits.”
Arnold Mindell now combines
and updates these various teachings from shamanism,
physics and Taoism to create what he calls earth-based
“path consciousness”, a fundamental, human
spiritual experience linked to the nature of the planet
earth.
By connecting quantum
physics with aboriginal mythology, Mindell develops
new methods to guide us and determine the best momentary
psychological direction through inner turmoil, relationship
trouble, and community issues. By connecting “path
awareness” to the inner experience of the earth
as well as the real physical universe, he develops elementary
methods that can be learned by anyone and applied just
about anywhere.
In the 22 chapters,
9 appendices and 114 pictures and diagrams, you find
ca. 250 pages of Earth based Psychology describing new
“directional methods” for dreamwork, relationship
awareness and organizational development. In the appendices
you can catch up on the basics of quantum thinking and
vectors.
Now available from Amazon Books and Lao Tse Press!
Book Review From Independent Book Reviews, Trade Show 2007 issue
Although a highly credentialed Ph.D., Dr. Arnie Mindell is not difficult to understand. What is hard to fathom is why no other psychologist has seen
these connections before. Most psychologists provide insight, therapy, and
personality adjustments based on the assumption that individuals must adjust
to society and culture. How can we ever become well-adjusted if that which
we are seeking to adapt to is itself somewhat out of balance?
If we look to nature and physics for a model of relationships between
matter, particles, and movement and how they interact, we can align our
psychological inner work to mirror the way all things involving matter and
energy perform.
Sentient awareness involves not just the everyday adjustments we accept to
function in civilization, but also a welcoming of the noetic, the ineffable,
and the dream-like, among other subtle pressures from forces in the
Universe.
Lest the reader think that Mindell is giving us science lessons, they need
only apply themselves to the 22 chapters and the many exercises that are
simple to practice, but that have profound "aha" consequences. For example,
chapter 11, "The Physics and Aikido of Least Action," includes exercises
involving Snow White, the Tao Te Ching, and waltzing with a chair. The net
result: a respite from using guile to cope with stress and a reliance on"whistling while we work."
This wonderful follow-up to Mindell's series that covered dream-bodywork and
quantum healing practices has its chapters divided into four parts and
includes intriguing headings such as "The Universe's View of Body Symptoms"
and "Where Relationships Come From," the latter of which includes the
insightfulness found in the geometry of love. Earth-Based Psychology has 11
short valuable appendices such as "Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell." It also
has 16 pages of endnotes, a six-page bibliography, and a helpful nine-page
index. This is a groundbreaking and delightful way for 21st-century seekers
to think about and use psychotherapy, whether as an individual or therapist.
Reviewed by; Thomas Peter von Bahr, Pacific Northwest Group, Lopez Island,
Wash.
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2004
THE QUANTUM MIND AND HEALING: How To Listen
And Respond To Your Body's Symptoms
Hampton Roads. www.hrpub.com
With
many practical exercises, this book explores how and why dreams influences
your biology, and how emotions are linked
to invisible, (quantum) dimensions of symptoms. Awareness
training and examples make the theory a living experience
connecting psychology, biology and physics. There are chapters on anti
aging, music therapy, and symptom oriented relationship-work
in which
symptoms are influenced by non-local aspects of relationships
with individuals and communities. For professionals and clients
focusing on symptoms, for students of the life sciences and
physics, The
Quantum Mind and Healing:
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Integrates alternative and allopathic medicine attitudes creating
useful symptom approaches
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Shows how physics, biology and psychology come together
- Explores the quantum and dreaming dimensions of symptoms
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Suggests why + how community problems effect symptoms
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Show why and how music can be medicine
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Uses awareness as an time-bending factor to explore the origins
of life and death.
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On the back cover: By Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. Author
of Cheating Time, Matter into Feeling, Mind into Matter, the National
Book award winning Taking the Quantum Leap and many other books.
Dr. Arnold Mindell's latest work goes farther than
his previous Quantum Mind and lays the ground for 21st
century healing. Anyone practicing medicine or needing
healing today will find great value in reading it.
Mindell, taking up where Carl Jung left off, has emerged as the leading expert
in the uses of metaphors and concepts from quantum physics to heal the mind
and psyche. This book is both an opportunity to learn psychology and how quantum
physics notions offer new hope as well as a manual of operations for the psyche
filled with new processes and imaginative insights
Book
Award; 2004 New Age Retailer Narcissus Award Finalist
(from over 4,500 entries)
Book review of June
12, 2004 by Thomas Peter von Bahr;
of the Pacific Northwest Group.
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We are thankful to the United States
NLP Magazine, “Anchor Point”
and to the reviewer, Charles Levine for the following
reviews of Arny’s books, The Dreammaker’s
Apprentice, the Deep Democracy of Open Forums, and
The Quantum Mind and Healing.
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Book Reviews - Sept 2004 Today’s
Books; PNS Publish 500
“ !!!! Exceptional - Adult Nonfiction –for
Consciousness/Alternative Healing; Quantum physics.
Chronic illness. Guided exercises. “
(From ForeWord Magazine, Volume 7, Number 5, September/October
2004)
“ Mindell offers an original, level-headed exploration
of human psychology, physics, medicine, spiritual
traditions, and the importance of awareness, so as
to develop “greater understanding and relief
from physical pain.”
From
Shirley Maclaine: Despite his many achievements,
it is not a stretch to say that The Quantum Mind and
Healing is quite probably Mindells most important
and best work yet. In it, Mindell explains that you
can use the discoveries of quantum physics to access
your bodys own intelligence and self-healing
abilities. Embracing both conventional and alternative
medicine, he shows that to truly heal you need both
medicine and your own natural wisdom.
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2002
THE DEEP DEMOCRACY OF OPEN FORUMS: How
to Transform Organizations into Communities : Practical Steps To
Conflict Prevention And Resolution For The Family, Workplace And
World, Hampton
Roads. www.hrpub.com.
The focus of this organizational
and group development book is practice; the deepest feeling skills
and essential linear techniques needed
to facilitate
small and large groups. This work is adaptable to any known group or organization.
Process-oriented Open Forum methods create less stressful and more creative
transformations through inner and outer awareness work. The concept of
the psycho-social activist is introduced together with insights into
the resolution
of severe organizational conflicts and war.
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Review quote: on back cover by
Daniel Bowling, JD, CEO, Duke University Dispute Management
Center, Durham, NC. "Repression of conflict
destroys countries, communities, organizations, relationships,
and love. Unless we learn to use conflict to develop
awareness, we will ultimately destroy our world. Dr.
Mindell brilliantly and clearly teaches us how to
follow the Tao of Conflict, the path of paradoxical
awareness."
From
Shirley Maclaine
You can take the subtlest of signals and use
them to transform impossible problems
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2002
The DREAMMAKER’S APPRENTICE; The Psychological
and Spiritual Interpretation of Dreams.
Hampton Roads 2001/Lao Tse Publishers 2008 http://laotse.com. 
“DREAMMAKER’S APPRENTICE uses “Heightened States of Awareness to Interpret Dreams." It
is about the psychological and spiritual Interpretation of dreams. It’s been
100 years since Freud, and this is a beginning of a new process oriented
dreamwork based upon perception of subtle signals. The new method includes
analytical and
gestalt techniques yet gives the dreamer a sense of the origin of dreams.
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— From the book
I bring forward exercises and experiments that give us access to
that invisible Dreammaker's mind and the "tug" we feel from subtle, usually forgotten,
altered states of consciousness and mystical experiences that occur continuously
throughout both day and night. This book is about learning to experience
these altered states, and using them to understand the meaning of dreams.
In this way we can each know, in our own way, the thoughts of God and the
meaning of dreams—the Dreammaker.
It is my belief that without the experience of the source of dreams, we cannot
properly understand dreams. The aspect of dreamwork I stress in this book
informs you about how to live your life better by living closer to that virtual
source of dreams, the experience of the Dreaming and thoughts of God. Also,
when you live closer to the source of dreams, you sense and understand your
everyday life as arising with all those things you call your problems and
symptoms. When you know the Dreaming behind everyday life, problems no longer
seem like frozen states, but are experienced as streams of creative power.
You feel rooted in an awesome, unfathomable, but deeply enriching universe.
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2001
DREAMING WHILE AWAKE, Techniques For 24 Hour
Lucid Dreaming.
Charlottesville, VA. Hampton Roads. http://www.hrpub.com/
Life is depressing without access to the Dreamtime,
to the world of Aboriginal Australia, and to its connection with the
Quantum Mind.
The soul like essence
of events is presented as the central issue of all meditation procedures,
and reveals the resolution to many issues in everyday life. A pioneering
work connecting
quantum physics with Aboriginal Dreamtime Thinking, ancient Buddhist philosophy
of the Abhidhamma and modern psychology to form a new awareness work. Written
with cartoons, this easy to read book has been described by some “as the
missing basis to a truly transpersonal psychology.”
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From the Book Review Section of the Institute of Noetic Sciences:
“ Reading the book is much like taking a step into the Dreaming, stepping
outside of time and rigid thought patterns in order to notice that we are truly
not separate from “sentient reality,” but rather one expression of
that same Dreaming reflecting back on itself. (Laurie Simpkinson is on the staff
of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Her previous dream research includes work
with Stephen LaBerge and Amit Goswami….) See the entire review:…Link
to review from Shift magazine.
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2000
THE QUANTUM MIND, Journey To The Edge
Of Psychology And Physics.
Portland OR. Lao Tse Press. http://www.laotse.com.
This book connects, in
a step-by-step, and elementary fashion, psychology and dreamwork with
math and quantum physics, to create the basis for a new integrated
science. Topics from the psychology of numbers to the creation of
the universe
and the origins of reality are considered.
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Comments From Dave Stein, Joint Staff (Defense), Pentagon, Washington
DC. Quouted from his book review, Frontier Perspectives, a Publication
of the Temple University, Philadelphia, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring
2001
Quantum Mind is at the forefront of a paradigm shift that may
be unprecedented in scope. In large measure, the book was possible
because of Mindells brilliant insights and his rare capability
to identify relationships among several areas of knowledge relationships
that escape notice (in CR) by many others. He communicates concepts
from diverse fields in an effective, exciting, and reader-friendly
way. For example, he uses metaphors that will help some readers appreciate
nature more Alice in Wonderland to compare CR with NCR, a
juggler to illustrate shuffling symmetry, highway speeding to illustrate
the uncertainty principle, and athletic fields to explain mathematical
fields. One chapter presents a historical perspective, discussing
the marginalization of the spirit during the Renaissance, in which objective
science replaced Church dogma as the repressor of personal
experience. Nuggets of perennial wisdom, familiar to many people
on paths of self-development, come alive as Quantum Mind relates
them to mathematical and scientific principles. The book is a must-read,
not only for those who want to explore the exciting new possibilities
in the sciences but also for anyone on a path of self-development
(as is everyone, in a sense). Complete with its practical exercises,
this book can be not only read but also experienced.
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Comments from Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., author of "The New Alchemy," "The
Spiritual Universe," "The Dreaming Universe," and the
national book award winning "Taking the Quantum Leap."
What Mindell accomplishes is breathtaking in its scope, and in
its ability to communicate difficult ideas easily in a friendly teaching
manner. Using his notes from the course taught for years to students
of psychology, his experience as a therapist and physicist, and his
clear writing ability makes this book a must-read for students and
lay persons interested in the ever-growing field of depth psychology.
Mindell sprinkles psychological exercises throughout the text providing
the reader with imagined experiences of entering a black hole, appearing
in parallel universes, taking the mind boggling quantum leap, and
many, many others. It is at once a physics text, psychology text,
and a friendly popular read. I highly recommend it.
Review by Midwest Book Review, from Oregon, Wisconsin
In Quantum Mind, Arnold Mindell takes the reader to the common
root underlying both physics and psychology to reveal physics as
the basic pattern for understanding psychology, and the psychology
of perception as the basis of physics. Mindell offers a wealth of
practical guidance backed by theoretical insight. He brings quantum
awareness to such everyday matters as difficult relationships, physical
symptoms and life-threatening illness, spiritual emergence, and the
complexities of community life in a world of human diversity. Starting
with the psychological foundations of numbers and counting, Quantum
Mind takes the reader on a fascinating tour of mathematics, quantum
physics, relativity, and cosmology -- showing at each point the myriad
levels on which human consciousness and the physical world intertwine
and co-create one another. The reader comes to know the universe
and individual consciousness as two sides of an interactive mirror
reflecting one another. Quantum Mind is a seminal, ground-breaking,
enthusiastically recommended, completely accessible survey and analysis
that will engage, inform, and challenge students of psychology, psychotherapy,
physics, and the symmetry between the mathematics of physics and
everyday perceptual experience.
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1997
SITTING IN THE FIRE: Large Group Transformation Through
Diversity And Conflict.
Box 40206, Portland, OR. Lao Tse
Press. http://www.laotse.com.
A dramatic text filled with examples about how to deal with abuse, revenge, anger and rage in multicultural
settings. There are methods for developing eldership as well
as process work views on revolutions, and racism.
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Review From Caduceus Magazine Book Review.2002
This work goes beyond current theories of group dynamics to create
a new perspective known as “Worldwork”. Worldwork is
aimed at hearing all that needs to be represented in the group; transforming
the patterns of abuse and domination, which permeate most cultures
and groups, through paying attention to the effects of power, rank,
revenge and abuse.
Sitting in the Fire is a thought-provoking study
of the humanness which pervades all groups and somehow organizes
their interactions; those dynamics which seem to overtake us and
give us the feeling that large group interactions are unsafe and
difficult to deal with. Dr. Mindell explains how this happens, outlines
strategies for staying aware and techniques to facilitate the transformation
of situations beyond our known comfort zone. In order to transform
our beliefs around community, this book informs us about how to:
* study notions of rank and privilege and their effects on personal interactions;
* learn how to recognize revenge and hear the story of hurt behind it;
* notice the signs of abuse and how to support those who have been abused,
or have abused, in their healing processes;
* honor the importance of eldership in the transformation. (eldership is the
ability to be able to support both the sides of the conflict at the same time.)
Review from Bookshelf: 1993. Book Review of the Month
Mindell, a well-known psychologist and author, prescribes deep
democracy and effective leadership for many of the troubles of our
time. His arena is not limited to organizations, but includes communities
and even nations in all areas of the globe, many of which he has
attempted to work in. He calls us to 'worldwork,' a method that helps
small and large groups of people to live, work, and grow together
within their environment (p.3). This approach unites psychology and
the other social sciences with physics and spirituality -- but is
not limited even to these widely divergent fields.
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1996
THE SHAMAN’S BODY. A New Shamanism
For Health, Relationships And Community.
San Francisco. Harpercollins. http://www.amazon.com/. 
An psycho-shamanic exploration of the teachings of Carlos Castaneda’s Yaqui
Indian teacher, Don Juan Matus. This book is both a passionate spiritual text,
filled with practical exercises showing the shamanic underpinnings of everyday
reality.
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From Booklist , November 15, 1993
Mindell's is one of the most sober-minded and informed recent
books on the subject. He warns us, for instance, that shamanism is
not an individualistic search for peak experience but a form of psychic
community service. His is an unsentimental, unsensational view of
shamanism that emphasizes its challenges rather than its ego-gratifying
power. Using the vocabulary of Carlos Castenada's Don Juan books,
Mindell discusses shamanism in many aspects of Western life--for
instance, in therapy, medicine, and partnering. His strong, mature
voice merits wide hearing. Pat Monaghan.
Read an excerpt from Chapter One. (PDF format, 84 KB)
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1994/2007
COMA, KEY TO AWAKENING: Working With
The Dreambody Near Death.
New York + London. Penguin-Arkana.//Lao
Tse Press, to be republished. http://www.laotse.com.
How to work with dreams and the body in near death experiences. A first
book, showing that working with comatose people especially near death, reveals
ultimate human experiences.
Now available as a free pdf
file download (file size is 4.3MB). To open the
file please use the password ltpcoma1. Note:
The first letter of the password is l for letter. 
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Reprinted April 2004: Arny's Coma, Key to Awakening: Working With The Dreambody Near Death. New York + London. Shambhala/Penguin-Arkana./Lao Tse Press available from Amazon.com.
With examples of comatose people near death, "Coma" indicates
how some people in these and related altered states of consciousness
communicate intelligent, ultimately human and often transpersonal
information. This book suggests ways of working with comatose states
that can be applied by health care providers and "untrained" family
members. Aspects of this book appeared internationally on stage,
produced by the London based "Improbable Theatre", in 2001.
NBC's TV "Unsolved Mysteries" aired comments from this
book in 2002, and December of 2003.
Comment from Stephen and Ondrea Levine
“ We cannot recommend this book highly enough.”
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1992/2000
THE LEADER AS
MARTIAL ARTIST, An Introduction To Deep Democracy, Techniques
And Strategies For Resolving Conflict + Creating COMMUNITY.
Harper
Collins, San Francisco. Lao Tse Press. 2000. http://www.laotse.com.
A book about the practice of dealing with large, multicultural groups, with global
theories and applications to business and politics. Definitions
of Field and ghosts, connect leadership with the martial arts.
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Comment from Michael Murphy, founder
of Esalen Institute
“ This book shows how the deeper layers of human
nature can be engaged in large and small groups, and how capacities
for leadership can be brought into play during many kinds of
social situations. The Leader as Martial Artist is unique,
groundbreaking work.”
Comment by Angeles Arrien
“ In the twenty-first century this book will become
a classic guide for leadership that empowers and preserves
the ecological well being of human beings as well as Mother
earth herself.”
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1991/2000
WORKING
ON YOURSELF ALONE, inner dreambodywork.
New
York and London. Penguin or Lao Tse Press http://www.laotse.com.
How to work on your symptoms, dreams and relationships alone, using
channels of awareness, including seeing, hearing, feeling, body
movements, and the environment.
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Review from BoMi (Body Mind in association with
Amazon.com)
In Working On Yourself Alone, Arnold Mindell applies the insights
from Process-Oriented Psychology to meditation and personal awareness.
You will find him drawing heavily on Eastern traditions and wisdom,
as he makes the case that through following our own inner process
we can
discover our natural meditation practice that will at times include
proprioceptive (body) work, auditory focus, artwork, breathing,
etc. I found the book
very practically useful both as a student of meditation and as a
student of process work. I liked it because it gave me insight
into HOW TO burn
my wood and trusting my own process (even becoming conscious of what
wood there is for me to burn). In contrast to Leader as Martial Artist
or Sitting in the Fire, Working on Yourself Alone focuses much more
narrowly on personal applications of PW.
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1990
THE YEAR I, Global
Process Work. Community Creation From Global Problems, Tensions and
Myths.
New
York and London. Penguin-Arkana.
A first book about the mythic background to world problems, and descriptions
of new methods for dealing with large groups.
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1988/2009
CITY SHADOWS, Psychological
Interventions In Psychiatry.
1988. Penguin-Arkana, Lao Tse Press 2009. ( New York, London, Portland Or.)
A first book defining extreme states including
psychotic experiences and how to deal with them with
and without the use of medication.
From the back cover:
The city shadows are the repressed and unrealized
aspects of us all., lived openly by the so called mentally
ill. In this compassionate book, the Swiss analyst
Arnold Mindell, ... presents mental-health professionals
of all kinds with new and exciting challenges in their
work. Process-oriented therapy does not see patients,
a priori, as sick, but as people experiencing, extremely,
states with which we are all familiar to some degree;
and they are best helped by connecting and working with
the language of their bodies and interior worlds.
The medical paradigm has relieved much human suffering. But the allopathic medical basis, still makes people feel “sick,” and may contribute to isolating us from one another. One of Jung’s gifts to the world was his understanding, for example, that dreams are meaningful. He called them teleological, that is meaningful, not pathological or only problems.
We need a more teleological view of unusual mental states as well. That is why I called statistically unusual forms of consciousness “extreme states” instead of “illnesses.” The medical paradigm and approach are important, but the larger view, that all human experiences belong to the total picture of who we are as a human race, is important at well. Someone with unusual mental experiences, someone in an extreme state, is not just ill, but a “city shadow,” a part of our larger collective, a voice that is usually marginalized.
My book, City Shadows, written twenty years ago, was meant to initiate and outline methods for understanding, working with, and integrating people suffering from unusual states of consciousness instead of only isolating them from the rest of the world. May the future pick up this initial direction and move forwards in appreciating the vast diversity in our human nature.
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1987
THE DREAMBODY IN RELATIONSHIPS.
New
York and London. Penguin. http://www.laotse.com.
New paths in relationship work, based upon training and studies of signal
exchanges and myths. Filled with examples of using space, dreams,
and postures as signals.
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1985
RIVER'S WAY, THE PROCESS SCIENCE
OF THE DREAMBODY.
London and Boston. Penguin.
A renewed definition of therapy, based upon Taoism, connecting mythology, divination,
and modern physics.
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1984
WORKING WITH THE DREAMING BODY.
London,
England. Penguin-Arkana//Lao Tse Press, 2000. http://www.laotse.com.
A popular and practical book about how to work with sensory channels, the
body and dreams. Makes dreambodywork accessible.
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1982/1998
DREAMBODY, The Body's Role In Revealing The Self.
Portland
OR. Sigo Press, 1981//Lao Tse Press.//Lao Tse Press 2000. http://www.laotse.com.
The cornerstone connecting somatic experiences with dreams and myths and fairy
tales, describing the author’s transition from Jungian Psychology to process
work.
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National Theatre Play Bill Magazine July 11,
2004 on about what is happening with Dreambody at Sundance
Theatre July5-25th 2004.
“ Dreambody (working title) written and directed
by Krzysztof Warlikowski, "a new piece adapted from
the writings of Arnold Mindell to be directed by Warsaw-based
theatre artist, Krzysztof Warlikowski. Utilizing case studies
and other text from Dr. Mindell's work, Warlikowski and
his actors will create a play that addresses the body's
role in revealing the unconscious. Drawing from Grimm's
fairy tales, as well as other sources, Warlikowski explores
the field of mind/body connection." "
Link also
to article : The Dreambody: A New Integrative Approach to Illness
by Pierre Morin, MD, Ph.D.
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