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what horses can teach us about trust, bonding, creativity, and spirituality
xxxiii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Horses for horseless people -- The horse metaphor -- Animals and the human spirit -- True intimacy -- Belonging -- The herd instinct -- The flock instinct -- The pack instinct -- Human urges -- To the country -- Equine therapy -- Horse sense and sensitivity -- Holding and touch -- Shifting the psyche -- The looking glass -- Compassion -- Feelings and emotions -- The psychopathic mode -- The psychotic mode -- The middle ground -- Horse whispering -- The grounding nature of horses -- Being oneself -- Fear and aggression -- Working with gang youth -- Sexuality and delinquents -- Preliminaries to disciplined play -- The power of paradox -- Educating the unconscious mind: storytelling -- Weaning -- Educating the unconscious mind: symbols -- The mythic horse -- Knowing oneself -- Affecting others -- Facing fear -- Facing the death experience -- Between two worlds -- Moral development -- In search of a a creative core -- The creative spirit -- Passion -- The creative process: becoming a centaur -- Mystical union -- Exercising the spirit with horses -- Artists of life -- Beholding beauty -- The god in us -- Self-scrutiny, or purgatory -- Avoiding purgatory -- Redemption.
Adele von Rüst McCormick and Marlena Deborah McCormick.
Includes bibliographical references and index.