Books by Amy and Arny Mindell


Recommended books for the frequently asked question:

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“ Which of your books do you recommended to learn about process work?”

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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:

For 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

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Books by Amy Mindell

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2005

The Dreaming Source of Creativity: 30 simple ways to have fun and work on yourself.

Lao Tse Press.
Harold and Big Blue are enjoying this book very much.

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 book coverComa : 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 states—by 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

 

 

 

1994/2001

Metaskills : the spiritual art of therapy.
Metaskills book coverTempe,  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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1992Riding the Horse Backwards book cover

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.

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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.

Thanks to the www.newageretailer.com -800/463-9243 for bringing this review to our awareness.

 

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:Quantum Mind and Healing book cover

  • Integrates alternative and allopathic medicine attitudes creating useful symptom approaches

  • Shows how physics, biology and psychology come together

  • Explores the quantum and dreaming dimensions of symptoms
  • Suggests why + how community problems effect symptoms

  • Show why and how music can be medicine

  • 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 Mindell’s most important and best work yet. In it, Mindell explains that you can use the discoveries of quantum physics to access your body’s 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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2002Deep democracy of open forums book cover

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”

 

2002

The DREAMMAKER’S APPRENTICE; The Psychological and Spiritual Interpretation of Dreams.
Hampton Roads 2001/Lao Tse Publishers 2008 http://laotse.com. The Dreamamkers apprentcie

“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/Dreaming while awake book cover

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.

 

2000Quantum Mind book cover

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 Mindell’s 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.

 

1996 

THE SHAMAN’S BODY.  A New Shamanism For Health,  Relationships And Community. 
San Francisco.  Harpercollins. http://www.amazon.com/.  The Shaman's Body

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.

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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.”

 

1992/2000Leader as martial artist

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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1991/2000Working on yourself alone

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.

 

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.”

October 2008: Arny’s Rethinking Extreme States
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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1987Dreambody in relationships

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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1985Rivers Way

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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1984Working with the dreaming body

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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1982/1998Dreambody

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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