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The Snake in the Clinic: Psychotherapy's Role in Medicine and Healing

Author(s) : Guy Dargert

Reviews and Endorsements

‘This book throws into question some of medicine’s conventional ways of healing and our underlying assumptions about how we view and treat illness and disease. This book is essential reading. The Snake in the Clinic provides us with much food for thought, within both medicine and psychotherapy. A truly mind-challenging publication.'
- Philippa Weitz, Commissioning Editor, UKCP Book Series and Director, PWT Academy for Online Counselling and Psychotherapy

‘One of the most elegant, powerful, and accessible books on psychotherapy that I have read. Dargert recognises that the psychotherapist’s job is to tend to the symptom rather than to eradicate it. I thoroughly recommend this book not only to specialist professionals in healthcare or psychotherapy, but also as general reading to fire the imagination of the public.’
- Professor Alan Bleakley, Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities, Plymouth University Peninsula School of Medicine

‘In this fascinating book Guy Dargert demonstrates how science supports the conclusion that imagination has profound physical effects toward good or ill health. It will help physician and patient, nurse and psychotherapist, and anyone who can sense that illness and mystery are siblings.’
- Robert Bosnak, PsyA, Jungian psychoanalyst, author of Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel, and founding director of the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary for Asclepian medicine

‘This excellent book delivers a state of the art account of the complexities of psychotherapy practice in the twenty-first century. It should be required reading for all professionals involved in the health field.’
- Denise G. Ramos, PhD, Clinical Professor of the Center for Jungian Studies (PUCSP) and author of The Psyche of the Body: A Jungian Approach to Psychosomatics

‘It should be read not only by psychotherapists but by anyone claiming to engage in healing.’
- Dr Robert Marshall, Associate Professor, University of Exeter Medical School

‘This is a readable and fascinating magical mystery tour. I wish all GPs and patients could read and be enlightened by it. To understand and accept illness gives some meaning and even relief to suffering in all its forms.’
- Dr Jane Slater, General Practitioner

‘This is a moving, thought provoking, and inspiring book.’
- Tom Warnecke, psychotherapist, artist and editor of The Psyche in the Modern World: Psychotherapy and Society

‘This book thrillingly redefines health and illness. It urges us to embrace the energy behind symptoms of ill-health in order to release what we uniquely are. It is a wonderful invitation to consciously inter-play in the web of life and actively open up to the unknown.’
- Mary Murray, M. Pharm, PhD, artist, researcher, health activist and Embodied Imagination Practitioner; part of the global Reimagining Resistance Project