Care for the Soul: Between Body and Spirit - Psychotherapy Founded on Anthroposophy

`We must draw the slumbering soul away from the darkness of sleep so that it no longer vanishes from its own scrutiny but stands before itself as a being of pure spirit which, in volition, is creatively active through - yet also beyond - the body.’ - Rudolf Steiner. According to Rudolf Steiner’s independent research, the soul or psyche has a relationship to both the body and the spirit.Psychologists and psychotherapists can only work in a truly healing way, he says, if they take this spiritual fact into account.This expertly-compiled anthology explores the nature of the soul as elaborated by Steiner in his writings and lectures.However, the book comprises more than an account of the psyche and life of the soul, but deals equally with the methodology for comprehending it - the scientific, and above all spiritual-scientific, means of doing so.Steiner questions methods and thought structures that are fundamental to contemporary psychology.Rather than looking backwards to conditions that i