Sunday, August 14, 2011

Pathologizing our Emotions

The Shaking Woman - reminds me a bit of 'Through a glass darkly' by Caroline ? the ABC Broadcaster. Relentless analysis of their own condition/predicament.
Caroline was coming to grips with the prolonged illness & death of her beloved father, all the more stark, as an only child.
Suri the author of the Shaking woman has episodes of shaking she thinks in relation to a grief reaction to her father's death. She examines many hypothesis re: this shaking - mental, emotional and physical and comes to no real answer.
It seems the heart and emotions are hard to pathologize, but we continue to try.
Also have dipped into 'The Psychology of Spirituality' by Larry Culliford - finding the true self.
Part One - Themes & Variations - What comes around comes around.
The author asserts spirituality is about wholeness, this point cannot be overemphasised.
The book discusses faith in children, healthcare and more - just wish I had a bit more time to read it - got from the Flinders Uni library while browsing with my son - now overdue.
Request from local library? ANF?

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