Ecstasy

Leading psychotherapist offers compelling insights into the vital force of ecstasy.

In this provocative and insightful new book, psychologist Michael Eigen presents a phenomenology of ecstatic states. Ecstasy is a force to be reckoned with — sometimes creative, sometimes destructive. Eigen argues that there is an ecstasy that comes through the ever—necessary confrontation of our psychic cores with suffering and degradation, and he shows that when we can learn to be present with these feeling...