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Article: Keeping the soul in shape A psychotherapist's simple prescription
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 13, 1992
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The title "Care of the Soul" suggests a do-it-yourself manual for
handy mystics, the sort of thing you find on the shelves of a New Age
book-tique between "Karma Cleansing Made Simple" and "How To Fix Up
an Old Psyche."
But Brookline psychotherapist Thomas Moore says his new book isn't
particularly trendy -- a lot of it is devoted to analyzing the soul
content of ancient myths -- and is about self-discovery and
self-acceptance rather than techniques for self-improvement and
realization of one's potential, the gist of most pop-psych books.
"To be soulful is to be involved in the everyday problems of
life," says Moore.
To emphasize this homey message, the picture on the dust jacket of
"Care ...