Navaho symbols of healing
By: Donald Sandner.
Edition: 1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
Series: A Harvest/HBJ book.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Navajo Indians -- Religion.; Navajo Indians -- Medicine.; Healing -- Southwest, New.; Symbolism (Psychology)
Description: In this original and superbly researched work, a Jungian-trained psychiatrist explores ancient Navaho methods of healing--methods that use ritual and vibrant imagery to bring the psyche into harmony with the natural forces that surround it. Through his interactions with Navaho medicine men, Sandner conveys the rigors of their training and the complexities of their purification and evocation rites, including the use of sand paintings as healing mandalas and the esoteric meaning of the pollen path.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 275-290.