Brian L. Weiss - Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives

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This thought-provoking, beautifully written book breaks through the barriers of conventional psychotherapy and presents an innovative and highly effective treatment. It should be taken seriously by those in the mental health profession.Edith Fiore, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and author of You Have Been Here Before

As a traditional psychotherapist , Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from the space between lives, which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career.

A profoundly moving account of one mans unexpected spiritual awakening. This significantly courageous book has opened the door to a marriage between science and metaphysics. Must reading for a soul-searching, hungry world.Jeanne Avery, author of Astrology and Your Past Lives

A spellbinding case history substantiating the effectiveness of past-life therapy. The book will open doors for many who have never considered the validity of reincarnation.Richard Sutphen, author of Past Lives, Future Loves and You Were Born Again to Be Together

BRIAN L. WEISS, M.D. , a psychiatrist, lives and practices in Miami, Florida. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School and is the Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. Dr. Weiss maintains a private practice in Miami and conducts international seminars and experiential workshops as well as training programs for professionals. He is also the author of Through Time into Healing and Same Soul, Many Bodies. You can visit his website at www.brianweiss.com.

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Also by Brian Weiss

Same Soul, Many Bodies: Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives Through Progression Therapy

Eliminating Stress, Finding Inner Peace

Mirrors of Time: Using Regression for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Healing

Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love

Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited

Through Time into Healing

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Weiss, Brian L. (Brian Leslie).

Many lives, many masters.

A Fireside book.

1. Catherine, 1952 or 3 2. ReincarnationBiography. 3. Weiss, Brian L. (Brian Leslie). 4. Reincarnation therapy. I. Title.

BL520.C37W45 1988 133.9013 [B] 87-34323

ISBN-13: 978-0-671-65786-4

ISBN-10: 0-671-65786-0

ISBN-13: 978-1-4516-9459-8 (ebook)

To Carole, my wife,

Whose love has nourished and sustained me for longer than I can remember.

We are together, to the end of time.

My thanks and love go to my children, Jordan and Amy, who forgave me for stealing so much time from them to write this book.

I also thank Nicole Paskow for transcribing the audiotapes of the therapy sessions.

Julie Rubins editorial suggestions after reading the first draft of this book were most valuable.

My heartfelt thanks go to Barbara Gess, my editor at Simon & Schuster, for her expertise and her courage.

My deep appreciation goes to all of the others, here and there, who have made this book possible.

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I know that there is a reason for everything. Perhaps at the moment that an event occurs we have neither the insight nor the foresight to comprehend the reason, but with time and patience it will come to light.

So it was with Catherine. I first met her in 1980 when she was twenty-seven years old. She had come to my office seeking help for her anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias. Although these symptoms had been with her since childhood, in the recent past they had become much worse. Every day she found herself more emotionally paralyzed and less able to function. She was terrified and understandably depressed.

In contrast to the chaos that was going on in her life at that time, my life was flowing smoothly. I had a good stable marriage, two young children, and a flourishing career.

From the beginning, my life seemed always to have been on a straight course. I had grown up in a loving home. Academic success had come easily, and by my sophomore year in college I had made the decision to become a psychiatrist.

I was graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Columbia University in New York in 1966. I then went to the Yale University School of Medicine and received my M.D. degree in 1970. Following an internship at the New York University-Bellevue Medical Center, I returned to Yale to complete my residency in psychiatry. Upon completion, I accepted a faculty position at the University of Pittsburgh. Two years later, I joined the faculty of the University of Miami, heading the psychopharmacology division. There I achieved national recognition in the fields of biological psychiatry and substance abuse. After four years at the university, I was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the medical school, and I was appointed Chief of Psychiatry at a large university-affiliated hospital in Miami. By that time, I had already published thirty-seven scientific papers and book chapters in my field.

Years of disciplined study had trained my mind to think as a scientist and physician, molding me along the narrow paths of conservatism in my profession. I distrusted anything that could not be proved by traditional scientific methods. I was aware of some of the studies in parapsychology that were being conducted at major universities across the country, but they did not hold my attention. It all seemed too farfetched to me.