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A woman tells you, within minutes of meeting her, that she's in a support group for incest victims. In theory, this woman is trying to recover from her childhood trauma, but in reality, Caroline Myss writes, she's one of a growing army of people who practice "woundology," the use of their pain and suffering to manipulate those around them. Myss first noticed this phenomenon in the late 1980s, and began to analyze why so many people seemed to choose to carry such painful problems so proudly through life, to define themselves by the awful things that had happened to them. She offers a program to use "symbolic power"--a deep, spiritual insight that surpasses any conjured by the conscious mind--to craft a genuine conclusion to the illness or injury.
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Myss is a medical intuitive, a person who "sees" illnesses in the body by intuitive means. Here she writes about healing, the various attempts people make to do it, and why they get "stuck." A global thinker, Myss looks at the entire civilization and at "astrological ages" when discussing healing. She also explains the influence of chakras and astrological ages on healing. At the heart of the book is Myss's challenge to five myths that stand in the way of healing: My life is defined by my wound (perhaps the most original concept here); being healthy means being alone; feeling pain means being destroyed; all illness is the result of negativity; and true change is impossible. Myss believes that giving up these myths leads one closer to healing. Many will think her concepts too far out to be of use; others will see her as visionary. The latter will be looking for this book wherever New Age titles circulate well.?Barbara O'Hara, Free Lib. of Philadelphia
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Not Completely Useless, But ...,
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This review is from: Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (Paperback)
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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
But feeble!,
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This review is from: Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (Hardcover)
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!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Mean-spirited and circular,
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This review is from: Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (Paperback)
Myss makes a good point when she talk about people wearing their wounds as badges of honor..then proceeds to trash a woman for making a casual comment about her incest support group. The book is too full of these examples of people Myss deems as not ready to heal. Like a lot of fuzzy New Age thinking, her book presents arguments that allow her to have her cake and eat it, too. If you "heal," then it means you have "forgiven," according to Myss. If you don't, it's probably because you aren't ready to heal. Either way, you've bought Myss' book and earned her some money.
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