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 numinous
process that manifests itself continuously in manifold ways.
- Illness,
complexes, relationship difficulties, and social conflicts 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/