My Animal, My Self A Breakthrough Way to Understand How You and Your Animal Reflect Each Other |
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| Author:
| Williams, Marta |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60868-169-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2013 |
| Publisher: | New World Library
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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Many devoted animal lovers are baffled by a bad behavior in their companion animal. These field-tested techniques for understanding and improving such behaviors look both at the animal and at their human companion. The reason? Animals can mirror the people they live with physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually -- in both positive and negative ways. The companion animal of a human with a serious illness or dysfunctional behavior may take the same on in an effort to help....
More DescriptionMany devoted animal lovers are baffled by a bad behavior in their companion animal. These field-tested techniques for understanding and improving such behaviors look both at the animal and at their human companion. The reason? Animals can mirror the people they live with physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually -- in both positive and negative ways. The companion animal of a human with a serious illness or dysfunctional behavior may take the same on in an effort to help. But animals are also active participants in their own lives and may be offering less mirroring and more teaching by their behavior. Marta Williams, informed by her own decades of work and her interviews with veterinarians, animal behavior specialists, and trainers, teaches readers to actively communicate with their animal companions -- through mirroring, empathy, psychodrama, and other techniques. Each chapter includes real world examples and hands-on activities and exercises that heal both animal and human.