Articles
Using excerpts from an autobiographical manuscript (Schavrien, 1993), along with self psychological theory, the author sorts out both having been shot in the face and having foreseen the incident in precognitive dreams. She uses these experiences to investigate the way mirroring of the personality, not just from parents and loved ones, but also from community, culture, landscape or deity, can contribute to harm or healing. As a psychotherapist specializing in Post Trauma Stress Disorder (PTSD) who was then stricken with it, she tracks the shattering and reconstitution of self--from spiritual emergency to spiritual emergence.