No Enemies Within: A Creative Process for Discovering What's Right About What's Wrong
Markova has a talent for imaginative applications of psychiatric and Asian healing concepts (which she credits extensively). Focusing on internal stresses, she creates a logic and an atmosphere for appropriating them, guiding the reader to uncover their positive function and search for alternative expressions. Her rather elaborate theoretical structure has some telling points, chiefly allowing for individual variations in coping with problems, while her own experiences and client examples demonstrate how to transform bad things by using the imagination. Reading the exercises and the ideas of others begins to stretch the mind, but the development she projects seems most compelling in the processes she offers, perhaps requiring presence and participation to reveal their worth.Virginia Dwyer