Miriam Greenspan and Healing Through the Dark Emotions

Available in Dutch translation
from Zwerk Publishers

Ms. Greenspan welcomes inquiries, comments, or requests for workshops and speaking engagements. Please email her at: GreenspanM@aol.com

Webpage designed by
Nick Baker

Miriam Greenspan
Renowned Psychotherapist and author of A New Approach to Women and Therapy (bio)

Table of Contents from
Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair

After 9/11: A Note to the Reader ix

Preface xi

Introduction 1

Part One: Emotion-Phobia

1. Listening to Pain 11

2. Vulnerability: The Power of No Protection 28

3. How Dark Emotions Become Toxic 45

Part Two: Emotional Alchemy

4. The Alchemy of Dark Emotions: Three Skills and Seven Steps 73

5. From Grief to Gratitude 90

6. From Despair to Faith 117

7. From Fear to Joy 165

Part Three: Emotional Ecology

8. We Live in the World and the World Lives in Us 207

9. Global Healing in a Brokenhearted World 242

Part Four: A Home Course in Emotional Alchemy

10. Thirty-three Emotional Exercises 265

Epilogue: Dark Emotions in an Age of Global Terror 295

Notes 301

Bibliography 305

Acknowledgement 311

Copyright 2003 by Miriam Greenspan