Psychotherapy, the Alchemical Imagination and Metaphors of Substance

by Alan Bleakley

Alchemy is popularly viewed as a secret way of turning worthless base metal into gold, and then a precursor to modern chemistry. This is often taken as a metaphor for psychological development. This book describes an innovative "third way" for both the education and exercise of an alchemical imagination that embraces both material matters and psychological insight: alchemy as lyrical poetics, or the intensive production of embodied metaphor. Alchemy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111154777
• ISBN13: 9783111154770
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"