Facing the Wolf: Inside the Process of Deep Feeling Therapy

By Theresa Sheppard Alexander

Book Overview

This powerful account of an intensive, eight-session therapy offers an important paradigm for confronting and working through the problems of childhood abuse. Alexander shows how this type of therapy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452275210
• ISBN13: 9780452275218
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A Real Gem

This book wonderfully outlines a healing process that we all possess in varying degrees. The author's courage in revealing her own journey provides a very meaningful backdrop to "Deep Feeling Therapy". I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in bringing about lasting personal change in themselves. Don't let the fact that it is out of print give you the wrong impression. I paid a premium to purchase it used - worth every penny!

"Facing the Wolf" by Theresa Sheppard Alexander

This is probably one of the best books on Primal Type Therapy available today. While Arthur Janov's books reached a large number of interested readers, promising early "cure" for neurosis, he never explained the actual process of the therapy. As a result, a number of people who tried to go through it alone, were very confused. Some of them did well, but others (both patients and therapists) misunderstood the therapy and landed up in difficulties. Ms Sheppard Alexander's book is unique in that she describes the process, step by step in a way that the unsophisticated reader can understand, and the professional can find meaningful and helpful. I have personally passed this book on to several clinical psychologists and their response has been most enthusiastic. Lay people who I have shared it with have also found it moving and helpful to themselves. The writer describes her own childhood traumas in a way that anyone can understand and identify with. More importantly she talks about how, through the therapy, she was able to start working through these traumas, and transform her life from being a frightened, bewildered 20 year old, who dropped out of college, into the successful mature professional she is today. Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in the 'deep feeling psychotherapies'. - Pat Torngren

A personal look at someone confronting their worst fears.

Its just a very good book. Its not just for those in pain. Thersa Alexander had a horrible childhood, and yet she came out alive and well, and has thrived as a thearpist and a person. I highly recommend this book.

A sensitive, inside view of deep feeling therapy.

Theresa Alexander documents her own Primal Therapy experience in a direct narrative form depicting her intital three week intensive. Chapters alternate between client point of view and therapist point of view. Insightful, poignant,and ultimately hopeful. I cried my way through the book, and sighed at the end.