Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance / / Alan Bleakley.

Alchemy is popularly viewed as a secret way of turning worthless base metal into gold, and then a precursor to modern chemistry. This is often taken as a metaphor for psychological development. This book describes an innovative "third way" for both the education and exercise of an alchemic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Medical & Health Humanities : Aesthetics, Analyses, Approaches , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Series Editors’ Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1: Thinking “Slantwise”: Context for the Book and Definitions of Terms
  • Chapter 2: The Alchemical Imagination
  • Chapter 3: Metaphors of substance
  • Chapter 4: Life distilled
  • Chapter 5: Fire
  • Chapter 6: Red Sulphur
  • Chapter 7: Green Sulphur
  • Chapter 8: Salt
  • Chapter 9: Transference Part I
  • Chapter 10: Transference Part II
  • Chapter 11: Operations
  • References
  • Index