{"product_id":"trials-of-the-visionary-mind-spiritual-emergency-and-the-renewal-process-9780791439883","title":"Trials of the Visionary Mind: Spiritual Emergency and the Renewal Process","description":"Stress may cause highly activated mythic images to erupt from the psyche's deepest levels in the form of turbulent visionary experience. Depending on whether the interactions between the individual and the immediate surroundings lean toward affirmation or invalidation, comprehension of these visions can turn the visionary experience into a step in growth or into a disorder, as an acute psychosis. Based on his clinical and scholarly investigations, John Weir Perry has found and formulated a mental syndrome which, though customarily regarded as acute psychosis, is in actuality a more natural effort of the psyche to mend its imbalances. If the upset is received in the spirit of empathy and understanding, and allowed to run its course, an acute episode can be found to reveal a self-organizing process that has self-healing potential.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines what the acute psychotic experience stirs up in the psyche and how to empathetically respond. Understanding the function of mythic themes is reached through the author's investigation into myth and ritual of antiquity and also the visionary experience undergone by prophets and social reformers in various ages and parts of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Weir Perry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 5.90w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791439883\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Weir Perry\u003c\/b\u003e is Former Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of History: Individuality in Evolution\u003c\/i\u003e, published by SUNY Press; \u003ci\u003eThe Self in Psychotic Process: Its Symbolization in Schizophrenia; Lord of the Four Quarters: Myths of the Royal Father; The Far Side of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eRoots of Renewal in Myth and Madness\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40389493096563,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":50.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f9de0c6a-f5e0-4d6b-8eba-7f0793374f82.jpg?v=1661608578","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/trials-of-the-visionary-mind-spiritual-emergency-and-the-renewal-process-9780791439883","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}