Autorentext

Ray Vespe received his B.A. Psychology degree from Cornell University (1958), M.S. Clinical Psychology degree from Case Western Reserve University (1959) and Ph.D. Counseling Psychology degree from the California Institute of Integral Studies (1986). He has educated, trained, supervised, counseled and mentored graduate students in the Integral Counseling Psychology program at CIIS (1972-1990), the Transpersonal Psychology program at the California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (1977-1979) and the Transpersonal Counseling Psychology program at John F. Kennedy University (1978-1990). Ray has worked in a wide variety of inpatient, outpatient, agency and group treatment settings and was Clinical Director of the Integral Counseling Center (1975-1978/1982-1990), San Leandro Community Counseling (1990-1992) and Marin Treatment Center (1992-2004). He has been a student of Tao for sixty-two years, has engaged in psychotherapy work for fifty-seven years and has maintained a licensed private practice for forty-four of those years. Ray is currently retired and living in Sonoma County, California.

Klappentext

Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese classic in military strategy and warfare that has been consulted and applied by international leaders for over two-thousand five hundred years. It is founded on the fundamental principles, wisdom and practices of ancient Chinese Taoism and shares the ethical value of resolving conflicts, winning battles and defeating enemies through knowledgeable, enlightened and compassionate ways of not fighting a war.The Art of War is relevant for managing both interpersonal conflicts between ourselves and fellow human beings and intrapersonal conflicts between our primary executive ego-self and our various subordinate ego-selves.Its practical value, relevance, applicability and usefulness are its being a context and springboard for encouraging, inspiring and stimulating the creating, devising and implementing of your own ways of navigating intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts based upon the nature of your unique self, the nature of specific conflicts and the nature of particular opponents and adversaries.