Volume 6, Number 1, 5-25, DOI: 10.1007/BF01078290

The bardic mystery and the dew drop in the rose: The poet in the therapeutic process

M. Ann Reed

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Abstract

This study responds to Jungian therapist Kane's findings that most clients need therapists to help them descend into their own bodies and let their old selves die—that descent is renewing only if activated and supported by Self, not by memory of coerced death. Research of the ancient Bardic Mystery, which incorporates the Eleusynian, indicates such descent is renewing only when activated and supported by lyric, epic, and dramatic voices in harmonic relationships. Descriptive of Bardic Mystery and the poet's role of unweaving unwholesome lyric-epic-dramatic voice relationships, the study identifies implications for poet-therapist-client relationships.

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