Historically, the language and concepts within clinical theory have been steeped in linear assumptions and reductionist thinking. Because the essence of psychotherapy involves change, Psyche’s Veil suggests that clinical practice is inherently a nonlinear affair. In this book, Terry Marks-Tarlow provides therapists with new language, models and metaphors to narrow the divide between theory and practice, while bridging the gap between psychology and the sciences.
Key Features
- Applies contemporary perspectives of chaos theory, complexity theory and fractal geometry to clinical practice.
- Discards traditional conceptions of health based on ideals of regularity in favour of models that emphasize unique moments, variability, and irregularity.
- Explores philosophical and spiritual implications of contemporary science for psychotherapy.
- Case-based approach that aspires to a paradigm shift in how practitioners conceptualize critical ingredients for internal healing.
- Appeals to both specialist practitioners and generalist readers with its novel treatment of sophisticated psychoanalytical issues and tie-ins to interpersonal neurobiology.
Additional Information
Psyche’s Veil is written at the interface between artistic, scientific and spiritual aspects of therapy.
