1997
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4.00
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Young-Eisendrath teaches readers how to learn from their hardships by drawing on the traditions that have enriched her life experience—the theories of Jung, the practice of psychoanalysis, and the teachings of Buddhism—as well as the stories of people who have faced tremendous downfall and come through it. An edifying work on the stewardship of pain.—Body Mind Spirit.
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Author
Polly Young-Eisendrath
Author · 8 books
Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, psychologist, and psychotherapist in private practice. She is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont and the founder and director of the Institute for Dialogue Therapy. She is past president of the Vermont Association for Psychoanalytic Studies and a founding member of the Vermont Institute for the Psychotherapies. Polly is also the chairperson of Enlightening Conversations, a series of conversational conferences which bring together participants from the front lines of Buddhism and psychoanalysis. Polly has published sixteen books, as well as many chapters and articles, that have been translated into more than twenty languages, including The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance> and Love Between Equals: Relationship as a Spiritual Path>.
