Process Work

Process Work has evolved into a diversified methodology and psychotherapeutic practice with applications in:

• medicine
• psychiatry
• individual counseling
• relationship counseling
• organizational and community development
• conflict facilitation and mediation

It's philosophy is originally positive as it believes in a meaningful process that manifests itself continuously in manifold "dreamlike" ways.

• Illness, complexes, relationship difficulties, and social conflicts

They are painful and in need of healing or alleviation.

They are also an opportunity for bringing awareness into the dreaming reality and a potential for enriching growth and development.

Process Work believes in inner and outer diversity as a path towards compassionate understanding of oneself and the world.

It is deeply evolutionary in its quest for meaning and community building.

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Process Work grew out of Arnold Mindell's never ending curiosity and interest in integrating physics, social sciences and psychology.

As a young physics graduate from the MIT Arnold Mindell went to Zurich, Switzerland to continue his research in theoretical physics at the Swiss Federal Polytechnical Institute.

Bothered by bad dreams he started therapy with Marie Louise von Franz a leading Jungian analyst at the time. When she asked him about his dreams he returned the question: "can't you tell? Why is it that they are not obvious to you or anyone else?"

Von Franz encouraged him to study that question and for Arnold Mindell this became the initial step of an ongoing journey into the world of night dreams and the living dreams, the manifestation of the dreaming in relationship difficulties, physical symptoms, altered states, coma, and world conflicts.

His path led him to study psychology, become a training analyst at the Jung institute in Zurich, found his own school of psychology (Process Work), develop methods of working with large groups and organizations (World Work and Deep Democracy), return to physics and apply quantum mechanics to medicine and the body.

He is now considered as the most innovative Jungian theorist and most read Jungian author.
Please visit his website at: http://www.aamindell.net/