Direct Connection

by Judith S. Miller

In Direct Connection: Transformation of Consciousness, Dr.
Judith Miller integrates her acquired knowledge and understanding of the mystical into an innovative therapeutic approach that redefines the concepts of mental health and mental illness. This provocative text relates the intimate story of the author's search for meaning in her own life that led to her exciting breakthrough in the treatment of mental illness. Dr. Miller challenges the medical establishment to re-examine the way in which it perceives human nature. Is a schizophrenic religious delusion a symptom of a disease, or an actual spiritual experience? Dr. Miller encourages us to be open to all possibilities in this illuminating and dynamic book.

About the Author: Dr. Judith Miller received her doctorate from Temple University and has held professorships at Antioch College, Temple University, and Columbia University. She has maintained a private practice since 1988 providing group and individual psychotherapy.

She conducts many workshops and her lecture presentations include: Advanced Theory for Healing Psychoses, New Approaches for Treatment of Mental Illness, and New Approaches for Understanding Schizophrenia. Since 1989 she has made numerous television and radio appearances discussing mystical experiences and mental illness.

Dr. Miller is a member of the American Psychological Association, the
American Society of Psychical Research, and the Association of Transpersonal Psychology.

She currently resides in Pennsylvania with her husband Marty.

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Sean Halpin · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read this book in graduate school while taking a class taught by Judith Miller. Take one look inside and you will understand my rating. Go ahead. Flip to any page and you will likely find some leaky thought that the author failed to fully vet before purging it onto paper and calling it an insight. She talks to her dead dog! Now I understand that this is the type of book that spiritual believers tend to gravitate towards. But even those who were very religiously devote in the class I took with Judith Miller disagreed with her fluffy style. A cantor and a conservative jew balked. In one section of the book she recants a trip to a concentration camp where she scooped a handful of souvenir bones from the gravel. Ultimately I gave this book one star because I am unable to give it anything less.

[kyana · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book changed the way I viewed the field of psychology. This author teaches psychological diagnosis at Temple U. and her methods of treating patients with mental disorders such as bipolar disorder could completely change the field. She effectively treats patients in very unconventional ways. Not a great writer, but she gets her points across in a clear manner.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book in graduate school when I was taking Dr. Miller's class. It is one of my favories.