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Where has the imagination gone in current psychiatric practice? While Psychiatry Slept dares to ask this question. It challenges psychiatry's literalistic theories and demonstrates how the imagination is always revealing itself through nighttime dreams, physical symptoms, hallucinations, delusions, and synchronicity. Using material from actual patient cases over his thirty-five years as a psychiatrist, the author weaves a collection of fictional stories showcasing the vibrant realm of the imaginal-that region between mind and body-returning psychotherapy to its original meaning: "therapy of the soul."
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"While Psychiatry Slept gives you all the pleasures of a novel and yet may reset your psychological thinking in a profound way. The characters are so real that you can love and hate them, the ideas so challenging to a high-tech medical world that you sense heart and soul returning."
Thomas Moore, author, Care of the Soul and Ageless Soul
"Mecouch envisions a new future for psychiatry. Using creative dreaming and storytelling, he describes a most imaginative and useful way to work with mental 'illness.' Fun, engaging, a must-read for everyone interested in human nature."
Amy and Arnold Mindell, Ph.D.'s, authors, Riding the Horse Backwards