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Deep Feeling, Deep Healing: The Heart, Mind, and Soul of Getting Well
Deep Feeling, Deep Healing provides radical feeling-centered, body-focused awareness tools for both professionals and general health seekers. Bernay-Roman shares the methods he uses as resident psychotherapist at the world famous Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida. He transforms the latest findings from the mind/body science of psychoneuroimmunology into practical deep-feeling techniques for busting dysfunction, mobilizing the healing system, quickening recovery, and breaking out of ruts. Full of illuminating and moving case studies.
320 pages, Paperback
First published April 24, 2001
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June 10, 2014
Therapy for the heart and not just the head.
I had the pleasure of meeting Andy Bernay-Roman recently as I spent time at Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach Florida. Andy led a healing-circle group during which he demonstrated a great deal of skill and empathy in leading people into deep emotion which helped many of those present to identify issues in their lives that were impacting them in ways that may well have contributed toward serious health problems.
I was impressed enough that I took the opportunity to spend some time with Andy one on one and I found the experience to be cathartic and healing. When I saw that Andy had a book I mentioned to him that I review regularly on Amazon and he graciously provided me with this book. No promises were made or inferred in return for the book and this review represents my honest opinion.
There are many different approaches within different schools of therapy. Often, the focus in upon "talk" which leads the patient through many different levels of analysis of why they are the way they are and why they do the things they do. Often these methods can lead to an extremely long period of time and depending on the therapist, the therapist may even be pretty passive and provide minimal guidance through the process.
Andy practices an approach in his therapy that is based in part upon the work of Arthur Janov who developed Primal Therapy. It also incorporates elements of gestalt therapy. He operates on the premise that trauma in early childhood is often at the root of much suffering in people's life. The earlier the trauma, the more deep rooted the pain is centered in a patient's psyche as brain development moves outward.
By recognizing this general principle and recognizing that human behavior is often driven by a desire to not feel pain, Andy believes that in the face of overwhelming pain whether physical, emotional or mental, people will find ways to cope either by denial, disassociation, or whatever means are available to manage. When this happens, the emotional and energy invested can be such, that development is arrested or slowed and the body carries pain throughout itself. Pain that is not felt inevitably leads to suffering.
So, the key to deep healing is, as the title suggest, deep feeling. More than analyzing and understanding what caused the pain, the solution is not just to understand it, but rather to move through it, feel the pain from the past and by that then move forward toward all around health, emotional integrity and connectedness.
Throughout the book, Andy shares his personal experiences from the past as an intensive care nurse, his own personal growth through therapy and group experiences and more recently as a therapist in residence at Hippocrates for more than 20 years.
This book strikes a good balance between theory and experience and is peppered with stories and case studies that illustrate the different points that Andy is attempting to make. It is a valuable resource both for Therapists and those participating in or considering therapy.
What is especially exciting about this approach is that the results are often experienced in a relatively short period of time compared to other more passive forms of therapy. Aside from my appreciation of Andy personally in my short time working with him, I found this book to be extremely helpful, and that is only reinforced by my experience with him.
5 Stars.
I had the pleasure of meeting Andy Bernay-Roman recently as I spent time at Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach Florida. Andy led a healing-circle group during which he demonstrated a great deal of skill and empathy in leading people into deep emotion which helped many of those present to identify issues in their lives that were impacting them in ways that may well have contributed toward serious health problems.
I was impressed enough that I took the opportunity to spend some time with Andy one on one and I found the experience to be cathartic and healing. When I saw that Andy had a book I mentioned to him that I review regularly on Amazon and he graciously provided me with this book. No promises were made or inferred in return for the book and this review represents my honest opinion.
There are many different approaches within different schools of therapy. Often, the focus in upon "talk" which leads the patient through many different levels of analysis of why they are the way they are and why they do the things they do. Often these methods can lead to an extremely long period of time and depending on the therapist, the therapist may even be pretty passive and provide minimal guidance through the process.
Andy practices an approach in his therapy that is based in part upon the work of Arthur Janov who developed Primal Therapy. It also incorporates elements of gestalt therapy. He operates on the premise that trauma in early childhood is often at the root of much suffering in people's life. The earlier the trauma, the more deep rooted the pain is centered in a patient's psyche as brain development moves outward.
By recognizing this general principle and recognizing that human behavior is often driven by a desire to not feel pain, Andy believes that in the face of overwhelming pain whether physical, emotional or mental, people will find ways to cope either by denial, disassociation, or whatever means are available to manage. When this happens, the emotional and energy invested can be such, that development is arrested or slowed and the body carries pain throughout itself. Pain that is not felt inevitably leads to suffering.
So, the key to deep healing is, as the title suggest, deep feeling. More than analyzing and understanding what caused the pain, the solution is not just to understand it, but rather to move through it, feel the pain from the past and by that then move forward toward all around health, emotional integrity and connectedness.
Throughout the book, Andy shares his personal experiences from the past as an intensive care nurse, his own personal growth through therapy and group experiences and more recently as a therapist in residence at Hippocrates for more than 20 years.
This book strikes a good balance between theory and experience and is peppered with stories and case studies that illustrate the different points that Andy is attempting to make. It is a valuable resource both for Therapists and those participating in or considering therapy.
What is especially exciting about this approach is that the results are often experienced in a relatively short period of time compared to other more passive forms of therapy. Aside from my appreciation of Andy personally in my short time working with him, I found this book to be extremely helpful, and that is only reinforced by my experience with him.
5 Stars.
November 6, 2008
The stories in this book are pretty cool. The author is sooo qualified in so many different areas that at times he sounds like he's spouting an encyclopedia or thesaurus at you and at other times he sounds like he's talking to a friend. Not my favorite, I'm just reading it for a massage CEU course but it helped me to better understand myself and others around me even though I don't agree with all of it, most of it holds water.
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January 30, 2009I have to read this for a continuing ed course. Dragging my ass through chapter 2 and hoping it gets better.
December 23, 2013
I read this for a CEU course. It was very spotty in terms of style and editing but I enjoyed and learned from some of it.
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