Arnold Mindell: Working with the Dreaming Body, 1985

From page 2 of  the Introduction (emphasis added)

Today, 85 years after Freud’s introductory discoveries,’we are left with a very fragmented legacy called modern psychology. Body therapies are split off from dream therapies and dream therapy is normally done without reference to body feelings. Relationship difficulties are either dealt with analytically, behaviourally, or as part of a system. People are treated like machines which can be Programmed. Psychotic people are ‘still locked uP behind bars. The dying and diseased are chopPed uP by medicine men as if the flesh had no soul in it. It seems as if psychology is now composed of bits and pieces, an unintegrated spectrum of many different colours which are poorly, If at all, connected to each other.

This book introduces a single theoretical framework which integrates the immense variety of human psychology. I call this framework of psychology ‘process work’ because it is based upon discovering the exact mode or channel in which the person is moving. My basic idea is to uncover this human

process, and follow it, whether it is diagnosed to be  terminal, group orientated, diseased or normal. Process-oriented psychology is discussed theoretically in my book Dreambodv, and River’s Way (Routledge & Kegan Paul, to be published). The present work differs from Dreambody in several ways. In the following chapters I stress practical work, not theory. I expand past theories and demonstrate how to work with physically ill people as well as with dying patients relationship crises, severely psychotic people and ordinary dreamers with simple body problems. In my opinion, if you work with a wide spectrum of situations, rather than specialize in only dream or body work, relationship conflicts, psychiatry, medicine or children’s psychology, then your appreciation of the complete nature of any one given individual is fuller and richer .