Beyond Therapy, Beyond Science: A New Model for Healing the Whole Person

By Anne Wilson Schaef and Ann E. Wilson Schaef -

Book Overview

Original, controversial, and provocative--this long-awaited work confronts the reigning scientific and psychotherapeutic worldviews and presents Schaef's innovative process for working with addicted and codependent people. She argues that the prevalent views perpetuate the addictive process they seek to cure, and she describes her Living Process model for healing the whole person.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062507826
• ISBN13: 9780062507822
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Felt Like a Pair of Brown Loafers in a World of Tuxedos?

This book explains how fitting into this world can be costly and painful. If you have never 'fully adjusted' to the demands of our modern world or have delved into "self-help" and/or therapy and found no durable answers, this book suggests that it is because of our addictive relationships to the world. This is a convincing critique of the folly of our present worldview. This is a clarion call to trusting your own processes on your own journey through life.Caveats: I could have edited this book and made it a much tighter presentation of her points; read the author's "When Society Becomes an Addict" first perhaps - just what in the hell are Lincoln Logs and Holograms?But no matter, she pulls in a lot of exciting material and personal experiences. It's a great ride.

Eye-opening analysis of what we are doing wrong.

Recommended for anyone looking for growth and spiritual healing, and who may wonder why current models of helping have not done so. The author challenges what is happening and offers practical alternatives gleaned from her life and those of her clients, while on the path of growth and recovery.