Why people don't heal and how they can
By: Caroline Myss
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780609802243
Subjects: Psychosomatic Medicine; Personality; Mind and body; Medicine and psychology; Health aspects
Other titles: Why people do not heal and how they can
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Harmony Press, 1997.

Includes index.