Why People Don't Heal and How They Can by Caroline Myss
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Book Reviews of Why People Don't Heal and How They Can
Book Review: More Blah from "Dr." Myss
Summary: 1 Stars
Caroline Myss, in the day when she was still boasting her bogus PhD in "Energy Medicine" from a unaccredited university. One of the greatest problems with this book is that it is a distant memory to Caroline Myss, who is busily promoting her latest creation, Entering the Castle, which focuses on prayer and grace. In Castle, Myss' focus is the notion of grace. She does not believe that everyone will receive grace and deliverance from disease, and she has held this since her work on Anatomy of the Spirit (though it was discussed slightly differently). I do not know why she would claim that illness is a product of wrong thought when she clearly states that you could do all the work and still not receive a healing. That said, I think it is inappropriate for her to say, "And how they can." In this book, just like in her others, she claims superior knowledge than most and ridicules and condescends to her reader. Her book is devoid of science, and makes its weighty claims based on anecdotes and testimonials (any quack pseudoscience has the same to back them up). To summarize: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah by Caroline Myss.Book Review: Very off-putting
Summary: 1 Stars
I found this book very off-putting. I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one who felt that way. I would welcome a good book about how to move through and past old wounds, but not a book like this, so scornful and insulting, making it sound like incest survivors go around parading their wounds in order to manipulate people (her very words, honestly). In my own experience, most survivors of childhood trauma try to deny, bury, and forget their wounds. It is only because wounds keep resurfacing and interfering with present happiness that people seek help. Yes one can get stuck ... but Myss isn't the person who can help them get unstuck, with her judgemental attitude. At least, I wasn't able to benefit from this book because her attitude really turned me off.
It's amazing how many people here are so quick to say that if you criticize her book, you are just "proving her point" and you "don't want to heal." Simply amazing. Most people do want to heal. People try many different techniques and paths to heal. There is no one answer, and Ms. Myss certainly has no copyright on healing.
Book Review: Stay away from Healers especially those who have written a book
Summary: 1 Stars
I am so glad that others find Myss harsh and a not a true healer. It is funny ( not) how fake healers like herself put themselves in a position to be around those who feel wounded ( god I hate that word) and then destroy them a little more.
I suggest everyone avoid healers because going to them automatically puts one in the "damaged Victim catogory ) it is a horrible place to be. We all need to know we are valid and decent and heroic and have the right to weep or be human.
Going to these people , with their fancy seminars in out of the way places, just re-creates being one-down.
So we never get it all together. so what?
Book Review: This is a negative review and should provide some balance.
Summary: 1 Stars
This is one of the most mean spirited books I have ever had the misfortune to read. The treatment of the incest survivor in the Findhorn Community dining room is particularly ugly involving an apparently flagrant disregard for limits and lack of respect for the woman's personal boundaries, no matter what her flaws might be. The criticism of such people who exhibit "woundology", the main thrust of the book, reeks of hubris. DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. Instead read anything by a TRAINED and EDUCATED Jungian. (please be advised that this is a revision of the review I sent earlier and should replace it.)Book Review: Offers healing but instead blames the wounded ---
Summary: 1 Stars
I would not recommend this book to anyone trying to understand and recover from childhood trauma or abuse. She is arrogant, self righteous and critical of the victim. In my opinion, not the voice that anyone needs to hear in order to heal.