Kramer (psychiatry, U. of California-San Diego Medical School) combines Eastern, holistic, and family systems approaches to healing and describes practical tools for achieving psychological and spiritual transformation through relationships, for both general readers and professionals. He discusses the use of meditation, guided imagery, and energy c

This enlightening book integrates humanistic and transpersonal psychotherapy principles with family systems work. Transforming the Inner and Outer Family discusses a wide range of creative methodologies, such as the use of meditation, guided imagery, and energy centers in the body to bridge the inner and outer experiences of the individual and family members. Chapters explore the healing capacity of intense affect to unify significant others through the transformation of fear, anger, and grief to understanding, compassion, love, and forgiveness. The book is practical as well as theoretical,...