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Summary: This is a negative review and should provide some balance.
Review: This is one of the most mean spirited books I have ever had the misfortune to read. The treatment of the incest survivor in the Findhorn Community dining room is particularly ugly involving an apparently flagrant disregard for limits and lack of respect for the woman's personal boundaries, no matter what her flaws might be. The criticism of such people who exhibit "woundology", the main thrust of the book, reeks of hubris. DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. Instead read anything by a TRAINED and EDUCATED Jungian. (please be advised that this is a revision of the review I sent earlier and should replace it.)
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Summary: You're missing the point of the book
Review: To say that those who have been through childhood or other types of trauma, shouldn't read this book is stating that you completely missed the point. The victim role can prohibit one from seeing things clearly, i.e., as a victim. If you know and understand the body of work that is Carolyn Myss, getting out of the "woundology" state is a key point in her work.
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Summary: Not Completely Useless, But ...
Review: We all know people with legitimate illnesses who seem to wallow in their misfortune. However, we all suffer from illnesses, and we all age -- some of us dwell on our ailments, others are stoic to the point of self-neglect. The author is obviously a charlatan, who has positioned herself as the Camille Paglia of New Age Healers.As others have pointed out,she has no credentials, and isn't even a healer -- she is a professional busy body, telling others where to get off, and it is sad that people have actually gone to her in their desperation. There are plenty of New Age healers who aren't charlatans, who have a genuine gift of love and will to help others. She basically says that some people need their illnesses for attention or whatever, and that others experience spiritual growth through their physical travails. None of this is exactly news. I just worry that people who come down with cancer or whatever will think it's their own fault if they don't heal, as she seems to think. This book isn't really a waste of time -- but it is mean spirited, reduces a complex topic to a formula, and is completely lacking in a spiritual element. Which is ironic, because she is preaching spirituality. Scary.
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Summary: But feeble!
Review: What a waste of time and money! The style is clumsy and unreadable. Myss cannot write. The book makes 5 basic points about why people don't heal i.e they get a pay-off from their illness, but this has already been said in more detail in her book Anatomy of the Spirit (which was a marginally better read). I find Myss rude and abrassive, with an angry and aggressive tenor. May New Age literature improve!
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Summary: Using sacred energy for spiritual healing, and much more.
Review: WHY PEOPLE DON'T HEAL AND HOW THEY CAN Caroline Myss On her first-ever national public television broadcast, Dr. Caroline Myss lifts the curtain on the human body's energy network, and the vast data banks which store our thoughts and feelings. Why People Don't Heal and How They Can covers the psychology of wounds and power, using sacred energy for spiritual and physical healing, and much more. Here is a bold new vision for healing, presented by Dr. Myss in her own words, that will electrify you with its unlimited possibilities for improved health and spiritual connection. Caroline Myss, Ph.D. is a pioneer in the field of energy medicine and human consciousness. She holds degrees in journalism, theology, and intuition and energy medicine. Over the past decade, her work with Norman Shealy, M.D., a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon and founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, has helped define how stress and emotion contribute to the formation of disease. She is the coauthor, with Dr. Shealy, of The Creation of Health and author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Why People Don't Heal and How They Can. For further information about Dr. Myss, please visit her Website at www.myss.com
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