Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair

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We are all touched at some point by the dark emotions of grief, fear, or despair. In an age of global threat, these emotions have become widespread and overwhelming. While conventional wisdom warns us of the harmful effects of "negative" emotions, this revolutionary book offers a more hopeful view: there is a redemptive power in our worst feelings. Seasoned psychotherapist Miriam Greenspan argues that it's the avoidance and denial of the dark emotions that results in the escalating psychological disorders of our time: depression, anxiety, addiction, psychic numbing, and irrational violence. And she shows us how to trust the wisdom of the dark emotions to guide, heal, and transform our lives and our world.

Drawing on inspiring stories from her psychotherapy practice and personal life, and including a complete set of emotional exercises, Greenspan teaches the art of emotional alchemy by which grief turns to gratitude, fear opens the door to joy, and despair becomes the ground of a more resilient faith in life.

Editorial Reviews

The Los Angeles Times

By calling the emotions "dark," Greenspan does not mean that they are bad, only that our culture encourages us to suppress and shun them. In her view, there are no negative emotions, only human emotions and negative attitudes toward emotions that we can't bear. — Kim Chernin

Publishers Weekly

In this heartfelt therapeutic manifesto, psychotherapist Greenspan (A New Approach to Women and Therapy) argues that grief, fear and despair are not pathologies to be medicated away but emotions that help us grow psychologically and spiritually. The disavowal of these painful emotions (which she blames on Western culture s privileging of masculine reason over feminine emotion; lifelong lessons in suppressing emotional pain; and modern psychology s focus on dispelling feelings, not learning from them ) leads to depression, numbness and violence in both individuals and the world at large. But by attending, befriending, and surrendering to grief, fear and despair we can effect an alchemical transformation through which they become gratitude, faith and joy. Greenspan s eclectic approach to healing invokes depth psychology, Hasidic Judaism and Buddhist meditation ; her desire to make meaning out of suffering owes something to religious traditions that acknowledge the redemptive value of pain, as well as psychoanalysis s dedication to lighting up the mind s dark recesses, while her praxis includes New Age and recovery movement therapeutics such as visualization, breathing exercises, chakra bodytalk and prayer. Drawing on her clinical experience and her own painful recollections of the death of her infant son and her parents travails during the Second World War, Greenspan writes intensely and compassionately. This is a committed, serious look at the emotions most of us would rather sweep under the rug. (Jan. 28) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781590301012
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
Publication date: 5/11/2004
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 248,878
Product dimensions: 5.92 (w) x 8.96 (h) x 0.88 (d)

Meet the Author

Miriam Greenspan is an internationally known psychotherapist, writer, and speaker who has helped to establish the field of women's psychology. She is the acclaimed author of A New Approach to Women and Therapy and lives in Boston with her husband and two daughters.

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Anonymous

Posted September 3, 2003

Amazing

This book is absolutely amazing. I think that this is a much needed book at this point in time - not only does she address individual psychology, but also the impacts culture and world events have on us. Great exercises, well written, powerful examples. I recommend this to everyone, men and women alike.
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Anonymous

Posted February 10, 2003

Seeing Emotions in a global context

Passionate and beautifully written, this book combines the author's story, stories from her clients' lives, and cultural critique. It's basic message is that there is nothing to fear about painful emotions, and that therre is, rather, wisdom and healing to be found in experiencing them directly. Also, they are not just individual experiences, but reflect our relation to the world. To heal ourselves, ultimately, we must heal the world. You won't forget this book.
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