Coma: A Healing Journey: A Guide for Family, Friends, and Helpers

by Amy Mindell

Overview

Coma: A Healing Journey, is a heartful and practical guide to non-intrusive communication with coma patients. Extending her husband, Arnold Mindell's pioneering work with people in comatose and near death conditions, Amy Mindell provides step-by-step exercises to help family members and caregivers communicate with, and care for, patients thought to be lost in coma. The book helps to bridge the divide between the coma patient and concerned family, friends, and healthcare professionals while furthering the comatose person's meaningful communications and inner journey. The deep relationship that comes from caring for, and communicating with, the person in coma, makes healing a part of the caregiver's, as well as the patient's, journey.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642372434
Publisher:	Gatekeeper Press
Publication date:	06/03/2019
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Amy Mindell, PhD, is a process oriented therapist, teacher, workshop facilitator, author, and artist. Together with her husband, Arnold Mindell, she teaches Process Work worldwide and works with individuals in coma and vegetative states. Trained in dance and movement, she brings a deep understanding of nonverbal states to her work. She is the author of 4 other books including Metaskills: The Spiritual Art of Therapy and The Dreaming Source of Creativity.

Editorial Reviews

Book Review 1:

A consummate guide for reconnecting with, and caring properly for, those we may consider ‘lost to coma.’ An absolute must for committed caregivers. -- Ondrea and Stephen Levine, authors of Embracing the Beloved and Healing with Life and Death

Book Review 2:

Mindell’s approach to coma replaces the static image of a subhuman patient in a vegetative state with the dynamic vision of a person in an altered state of consciousness journeying into healing. The implications of this are nothing short of revolutionary and will have enormous consequences for persons in coma and for those who care for them. -- Michael Kearney, M.B., F.R.C.P.I., consultant in Palliative Medicine, Our Lady’s Hospice, Dublin, author of Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing

Book Review 3:

This practical guide will bring comfort to caregivers and family members of coma patients, as well as teaching them useful skills. -- Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine & Miracles and Peace, Love and Healing

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