The Orphan: A Journey to Wholeness<\/i>\u00a0addresses loneliness and the feeling of being alone in the world, two distinct characteristics that mark the life of an orphan. Regardless if we have grown up with or without parents, we are all too likely to meet such experiences in ourselves and in our daily encounters with others. With numerous case examples, Dr. Punnett describes how loneliness and the feeling of being alone tend to be repeated in later relationships and may eventually lead to states of anxiety and depression. The main purpose of this book is not to just stay within the context of the literal orphan, but also to explore its symbolic dimensions in order to provide meaning to the diverse experiences of feeling alone in the world. In accepting the orphan within, we begin to take responsibility for our own unique life journey, a privileged journey in which one can at some point in time say with pride, I am an orphan.<\/p>\n
“This awesome book on the orphan, its inner, outer, and symbolic meaning, is a deep and thorough investigation into the feeling of being alone in the world. The core of this archetype gives rise to our potential to search for meaning and wholeness as does all our suffering, and \u2013 if we stay with it \u2013 it becomes our teacher. Punnett\u2019s book is a must for all of us and reading it grants us a deeply rewarding experience.”\u00a0\u2014Kathrin Asper, PhD, author of The Abandoned Child Within<\/i><\/p>\n
“This well-focused meditation demonstrates that the archetype of the orphan is always alive in us, even if we try to devalue and marginalize it as a symbol we can safely reject along with the children we ask to carry it. Audrey Punnett has illuminated how central this neglected mythologem is to what our souls want therapists, social workers, and clergy to recognize. Her book makes a psychological home for aloneness itself\u2014a rare and touching achievement.”\u00a0\u2014John Beebe, MD, author of Integrity in Depth<\/i><\/p>\n
“At the very end of his biography C.G. Jung wrote, \u201cWhen Lao-tzu says: \u2018All are clear, I alone am clouded,\u2019 he is expressing what I now feel in advanced old age.\u201d This feeling of seclusion is why he, at the age of 75, engraved the quotations from alchemy about the orphan on his stone at Bollingen. It is this wisdom that is behind the archetype of the orphan if we can only accept it. This is, to me, the most precious message of Audrey Punnett\u2019s book on the orphan.”\u00a0\u2014Andreas Schweizer, PhD, author of The Sungod\u2019s Journey through the Netherworld<\/i><\/p>\n
Audrey Punnett, PhD, is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich with diplomas in both Child\/Adolescent and Adult Analytical Psychology. She is an Associate Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, the University of California San Francisco \u2013 Fresno; Adjunct Professor, Alliant International University; Registered Play Therapist \u2013 Supervisor, and Certified Sandplay Therapist \u2013 Teacher, ISST & STA, past President of the Board of Trustees. She is a member of AGAP, serving on the Board, and the CGJI-SF, past Chair of the Infant, Child & Adolescent Training Committee (iCAT). She has lectured and given workshops on the orphan in Europe, New Zealand, Taiwan, Canada and the USA, and published in peer reviewed Journals. Dr. Punnett maintains a private practice in Fresno, California.<\/p>\n
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\nTitle: The Orphan: A Journey to Wholeness<\/i><\/strong>
\nAuthor:\u00a0Audrey Punnett
\nPaperback:\u00a0180 pages
\nCondition: New
\nEdition: First
\nIndex, Bibliography
\nPublisher: Fisher King Press\u00a0(June 21, 2014)
\nLanguage: English
\nISBN-10: 177169016X
\nISBN-13: 978-1771690164<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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