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The Path of Relationship
The Life and Work of Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
By Dianne Braden, M.A., Jungian Analyst
Praise For The Path of Relationship
Although commonplace in therapeutic circles now, in the early 1970s, when the Stones' were developing their work, working with inner selves was not even being considered. The Stones' have taken the Jungian concept of archetypal images and made them come alive, turning selves from concepts into healing realities. They have developed Voice Dialogue and the Psychology of Selves into a full blown psychotherapeutic system. They have held the flag for dream work and perhaps more than that. Hal and Sidra have lived the work and played an important role in the counterculture of America. Combining European Jungian work and a Cognitive Behavioral approach, they translated what they discovered into a democratic, plain-language depth therapy, perfect for the 21st century. They have lived as artists. Bless them both and my friend Dianne for recording their journey for us.
-Martin Pollecoff, Chair, United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy
In The Path of Relationship, Dianne Braden continues the journey begun in The Fireside Chatswith Hal and Sidra Stone. Braden brings a keen eye, a warm heart, and an evocative voice to the process. In The Path of Relationship, she continues to tell the unique story of the Stones', but also sensitively documents her journey with them. The book is elegantly and poetically crafted, rewarding the reader with richly articulated scenes that pull us into a living moment. While the book serves as an overview of the main conceptual framework of voice dialogue work, Braden does not address the theory in dry conceptual terms: She brings the framework alive, illustrating the Voice Dialogue approach through anecdotes of the Stones and the voice dialogue community. Anyone interested in Voice Dialogue, Depth Psychology, or simply stories of relationship and life richly lived will be drawn to The Path of Relationship.
-Mark Winborn, PhD, NCPsyA- Jungian psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist. Author of Deep Blues, Shared Realities, and Interpretation in Jungian Analytics: Art and Technique
THE FIRESIDE CHATS WITH HAL AND SIDRA STONE
by Hal Stone, Ph.D., & Sidra Stone, Ph.D.,
Editing & reflections by Dianne Braden, M.A., Jungian Analyst
The Fireside Chats is a book of the future if you’re interested in tools and thoughts that enhance your relationships,
your analytic work, and your connections to a larger community. If your patients talk about their relationships (and whose don’t!) and you’ve avoided couple’s work in your practice in the past, this book gives you a unique opportunity to enter into another way of thinking about what Jung understood at the end of his life:
" … I falter before the task of finding the language which might adequately express the incalculable paradoxes of love. “Eros” is a “kosmogonos”, a creator and mother-father of all higher consciousness … we are in the deepest sense … the instruments of cosmogonic love…" (MDR)
In content, this is a book about relationship as teacher. The Stones' work rests on the understanding that consciousness
can be as available as turning to the person you are with and asking yourself what you can learn by being with them. In form, this is a series of intimate dialogues recorded at the event of the same name in 2009 in Mendocino, California. Edited and reflected upon by Dianne Braden, Jungian analyst, this stands as a chance to witness personal and spontaneous conversation with Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone, originators of the Psychology of Selves and the Aware Ego Process. Presented in a tone and attitude that makes it possible to feel like you’re present to the meeting itself, Dianne Braden offers an experience of connection with, and appreciation of, these psycho-spiritual elders who teach what they live. Psychologists both, their collective professional experience spans six decades of working at depth with individuals, couples, and groups.
Offering a rare opportunity to engage with their mature thought and reflections, the Stones share their thoughts about the process of aging in relationship, how death and dying can be handled consciously, psycho-spiritual growth, and the gift of working with dreams. Solidly dovetailing with Jungian thought and other psychological trends (Hal Stone was a former president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and Sidra Stone was the executive director of an innovative residential treatment center for adolescent girls) their combined perspectives span multiple therapies, decades, and thoughts about the evolution of consciousness.
