1. Arnold Mindell was an American author, therapist, and teacher in the fields of transpersonal psychology, body psychotherapy, social change, and spirituality.
16 Facts About Arnold Mindell
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Arnold Mindell is known for extending Jungian dream analysis to body symptoms, promoting ideas of 'deep democracy,' and interpreting concepts from physics and mathematics in psychological terms.
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Arnold Mindell studied applied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
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Arnold Mindell subsequently entered analysis with Riklin and Marie-Louise von Franz and trained as a Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute.
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Toub represents Arnold Mindell as a charismatic, unconventional post-Jungian teacher and psychotherapist who was a "a guru-like figure" for Toub's parents.
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Arnold Mindell died on June 10,2024, at the age of 84.
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Arnold Mindell founded and developed process oriented psychology, or process work.
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Arnold Mindell is a holder of the World Certificate for Psychotherapy awarded by the World Council for Psychotherapy.
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Arnold Mindell has been described as 'a natural interculturalist who excels at building relationships across cultural boundaries.
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Arnold Mindell has been the subject of two Thinking Allowed programs, the independent television series hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove.
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Arnold Mindell has been interviewed on Shrink Rap Radio, New Dimensions Radio and Somatic Perspectives on Psychotherapy.
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Arnold Mindell has been criticised for teaching New Age concepts and practices that are unclear and unknown within the mainstream of psychology; and it is noted that he is not licensed as a clinical psychologist in Oregon.
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The 'dreambody' concept was developed in the 1970s while Arnold Mindell was a practicing Jungian analyst, derived from his observation of connections between people's dreams and their body symptoms and published in Dreambody: the Body's Role in Revealing the Self.
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In 1995, Arnold Mindell extended the dreambody concept to a theory and practice of working with people in coma and near death states; this work inspired a UK theatre production by Improbable theatre.
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Arnold Mindell published books dealing with large group conflict resolution and leadership, notably The Leader as Martial Artist: An Introduction to Deep Democracy and Sitting in the fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity.
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Arnold Mindell's work is known for proposing analogies between the concepts of mathematics, classical and quantum physics and psychological experiences; his books include simple exercises to guide the reader to explore their own experience of these ideas.