Bring White Beads When You Call on The Healer
Bring White Beads, a wonderfully readable book, honours the professional and the general reader by its insights and the author's narrative powers. Her life achievement is Sesame, the highly respected therapy project and organization of the United Kingdom. Across more than forty years she was visionary founder, and Honorary Director. Today Sesame has an excellent training program of positive benefits to innumerable patients around the globe. This book documents her pioneering work in dramatherapy, from her carefully crafted therapeutic achievements in the UK to her exploration of healing rituals in South Africa.
As if the above were not enough, Bring White Beads reveals an exceptional sensitivity and insight into the cultural practices of African and Western peoples. Mrs Lindkvist is a most perceptive observer. She tells an intensely personal story with disarming honesty and impeccable detail.
This is a rare book of a genuine quest - both inner and outer - toward larger harmonies. Marian Lindkvist individually and uniquely sounds the ancient and ageless mysteries of healing.
'Bring White Beads is an important book, not only for members of the healing and caring professions, but for any reader who is open to discover wisdom in the moving language of the body. Marian Lindkvist has devoted a lifetime to learning and communicating a language of the body. This book is a vivid, moving, and thoughtful account of a courageous personal journey as well as being a fascinating description of the development of original drama and body-centered methods of therapy, research, and training.'
Robert F. Hobson, B.A., M.D. FRCPsych., D.P.M., Hon. Reader in Psychotherapy, University of Manchester, Training Analyst, Society of Analytical Psychology
'This book documents the groundbreaking work of Marian Lindkvist in the field of drama therapy. In South Africa she reveals-deep roots... It is fascinating reading. For creative arts therapists, anthropologists, mental health clinicians, and anyone with an inquiring mind, this book (is) a marvelous find.'
David Read Johnson, PhD, RDT-BC Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Past President, National Association for Drama Therapy, Past Editor-in-Chief, 'International Journal of Arts in Psychotherapy'
'Marian Lindkvist's work has been extraordinarily valuable in helping people develop communication skills that would have otherwise been in-accessible to them. This book is a valuable tribute to this work and the Sesame Institute, with which I have been happy to have been associated. It is beautifully written and should appeal to a wide readership.'
Sir Jonathan Miller, M.D.
Table of Contents
Dual Forewords by Robert F Hobson (University of Manchester) and David Read Johnson, (Yale University)
Prelude
Sesame in the United Kingdom
Psychotherapy (Windsor) Work in the Field
Speech Doesn't Count - Much
Movement-with-Touch
An Interlude:
The Sesame Institute Sesame in the United States
The African Scene
In the Transvaal
Enter the Patients
Recapitulation
Further Visits - New Links
The Artist
Eastern Cape and Cape Province Training and Practical Work
Women
The Visit to the lgqira
The Transkei and Cape Town
London
Adaptation of African Dance
Finale
The Gathering of the Threads
Appendices
Book Price £20, Postage & Packing £3.50 (UK only), TOTAL £23.50.