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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Historical Roots of Holotropic Breathwork | |
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| Sigmund Freud and the dawn of depth psychology | |
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| Humanistic psychology and experiential therapies | |
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| The advent of psychedelic therapy | |
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| Abraham Maslow, Anthony Sutich, and the birth of transpersonal psychology | |
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| Theoretical Foundations of Holotropic Breathwork | |
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| Holotropic states of consciousness | |
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| Dimensions of the human psyche | |
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| The nature, function, and architecture of emotional and psychosomatic disorders | |
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| Effective therapeutic mechanisms | |
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| Strategy of psychotherapy and self-exploration | |
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| The role of spirituality in human life | |
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| The nature of reality: Psyche, cosmos, and consciousness | |
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| Essential Components of Holotropic Breathwork | |
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| The healing power of breath | |
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| The therapeutic potential of music | |
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| The use of releasing bodywork | |
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| Supportive and nourishing physical contact | |
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| Mandala drawing: The expressive power of art | |
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| The Practice of Holotropic Breathwork | |
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| Use of Holotropic Breathwork in individual sessions and groups | |
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| Setting and interpersonal support system | |
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| Theoretical preparation of participants | |
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| Screening for physical and emotional contraindications | |
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| Practical instructions for breathwork sessions | |
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| Preparation for the session and the relaxation exercise | |
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| Conducting Holotropic Breathwork sessions | |
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| The spectrum of holotropic experiences | |
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| The role of the facilitators | |
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| Mandala drawing and the processing groups | |
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| Integration of the Breathwork Experience and Follow-Up Work | |
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| Creating conditions for optimal integration | |
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| Easing the transition to everyday life | |
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| Conducting follow-up interviews | |
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| Using various methods complementing Holotropic Breathwork | |
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| Trials and Tribulations of Holotropic Breathwork Facilitators | |
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| Encounter with the military junta in Buenos Aires | |
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| Competing with the exhibition of Doberman pinshers | |
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| Culture-bound challenges for Holotropic Breathwork facilitators | |
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| Technological ordeals in Holotropic Breathwork sessions | |
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| The pisspot, oinking piglets, and smoldering Kleenexes | |
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| Supreme ordeal Down Under | |
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| Conducting Holotropic Breathwork in adversarial settings | |
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| Therapeutic Potential of Holotropic Breathwork | |
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| Healing of emotional and psychosomatic disorders | |
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| Favorable effect on physical diseases | |
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| Effect on personality, worldview, life strategy, and hierarchy of values | |
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| Potential for healing of cultural wounds and historical conflict resolution | |
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| Therapeutic Mechanisms Operating in Holotropic Breathwork | |
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| Intensification of conventional therapeutic mechanisms | |
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| Dynamic shifts in the psyche's governing systems | |
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| The therapeutic potential of the death-rebirth process | |
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| The therapeutic mechanisms on the transpersonal level | |
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| Healing as a movement toward wholeness | |
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| Physiological Mechanisms Involved in Holotropic Breathwork | |
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| Biochemical and physiological changes | |
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| Holotropic Breathwork and the "hyperventilation syndrome" | |
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| Psychodynamics of psychosomatic disorders | |
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| Past, Present, and Future of Holotropic Breathwork | |
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| Training of Holotropic Breathwork facilitators | |
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| Holotropic Breathwork and the academic community | |
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| Benefits of the holotropic perspective | |
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| Holotropic states of consciousness and the current global crisis | |
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| Special Situations and Interventions in Holotropic Breathwork Sessions | |
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| The experience of choking and of pressure on the chest | |
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| Experience of muscular tensions and spasms | |
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| Problems related to blockages in the genital area, sex, and nudity | |
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| Overactive, erratic, and aggressive behavior | |
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| Working with demonic energy | |
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| Excessive self-control and inability to let go | |
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| Working with nausea and the tendency to vomit | |
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| Standing and dancing in the sessions | |
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| Reliving the memory of biological birth | |
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| Holotropic Breathwork and Other Breathing Techniques | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About Grof Transpersonal Training | |