Finding a “Lower, Deeper Power” for Women in Recovery

✍ Scribed by MARY ELLEN O'HARE-LAVIN

• Book ID: 102872698
• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 938 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0160-7960
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-007x.2000.tb00172.x

✦ Synopsis

For decades people have accommodated and adjusted to the direction prescribed by recovery programs. The dominant admonition of recovery programs to find a “higher power” may be appropriate and helpful to many people, but some are beginning to question this direction for their own individuation processes. Through the use of the ancient Greek myths of Persephone, Psyche, Orpheus/Eurydice, and the ancient Mesopotamian myth of Inanna, readers will be taken in the direction of the underworld to experience an alternative heroic journey motif in search of a “lower, deeper power.”