Shrinking the Judge:

Freeing the Inner Child

by Rick Malter, Ph.D. & Rosalie Malter, M.A.

$14.95

Dr. Rick and Rosalie Malter have written a highly informative book on the "Judge" part of personality. The "Judge" may also be described as the "Inner Terrorist." The book describes the power of imagery in effective psychotherapy and personal growth. In this book, the Malters introduce a new psychological model relating the Judge ("Inner Terrorist"), the Inner Child, and the Warrior archetype from Jungian psychology. Basically a simple idea, the Judge dominating the Inner Child has proven to be one of the most powerful tools they've discovered for emotional growth, healing childhood trauma, recovery from addiction and codependence, and making fundamental life changes with greater freedom and self-confidence. Above is an illustration of the "Judge" looming over the "Inner Child."

For more information about the "Judge" or "Inner Terrorist," see below to read "Beyond Cognitive Behavioral Therapy:The Power of Imagery in Psychotherapy."

For additional articles about the "Judge" or "Inner Terrorist", click below:

Psychological Factors, Stress, and the Health Disease System

Emotions and the Judge

Rage and Outrage

Excerpts from the Judge book

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The Strands of Health: A Guide to Understanding Hair Mineral Analysis

by Rick Malter, Ph. D.

$19.95

Dr. Rick Malter has drawn on his many years of study, experience, and practical clinical application of hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (TMA) in writing THE STRANDS OF HEALTH. He has spent countless hours in exploring the relationship between physiology and the mind. In this book he shows how nutrition affects both the mind and the body’s physiology. Dr. Malter is one of the very few in his field who not only understands the mind/body connection, but who has been developing and applying these concepts for over two decades. Information in THE STRANDS OF HEALTH is not just theoretical, but brings to you practical, hands on information from Dr. Malter’s personal and clinical experience accumulated from working with thousands of actual cases. He shows how the relationship between the mind and the body is clearly reflected in hair TMA profiles. This book is a significant contribution to understanding nutritional science.

Dr. David L. Watts, Research Director , Trace Elements Laboratories, Dallas, Texas

For more information, click Hair Analysis or Mind/Body Connection.

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Beyond Cognitive Behavioral Therapy:

The Power of Imagery in Psychotherapy

Richard Malter, Ph.D.
Education & Health Resources
2295 W. Trail Blazer Drive
Cottonwood, Arizona 86326
(928) 649-9343

American Psychological Association Mid-winter Convention
February 6, 1998
LaJolla, CA

OVERVIEW

The Judge is that part of our personality that judges and criticizes whatever we do. The Judge exercises psychological power and control by terrorizing our inner child causing us much pain, anguish, low self-esteem, anxiety and depression. One of the main functions of the Judge is to block us in growth and development towards realizing our true potential. We all have an inner Judge component in our personality. The development of the Judge is inherent to our human nature and the manner in which our minds and body are connected by means of the stress response. Even though we all have a Judge , we can learn to become aware of its presence and reduce its power and control over our lives. It gains control by terrorizing our inner child outside our awareness. We can also learn to become aware of the many ploys of the Judge to take control of our lives and to thwart us in our attempts to live our lives to the fullest.

The Judge is often found to be active in the development of physical dis-ease and physical pain as well as emotional pain. It is important for therapists to recognize the Judge in their clients and to learn how to reduce its psychological power as a vital part of the therapy process. It is also important for us as therapists to recognize our own Judge and how it may affect us in our therapy role as well as in other aspects of our lives. Our Judge may be blocking us from developing our own potential to its fullest or leading us to judge our clients, thus interfering with the therapy process.

The concept of the Judge and how it is related to the Jungian archetypes of the vulnerable inner child and the strong mature Warrior are highly relevant to therapeutic work with addiction recovery, psychotherapy clients, and clients with stress-related illnesses. The concept of the Judge is easier to explain to clients and to work with than the related concepts of the Critical Parent or Freudian Superego. This is because the presence of the Judge and its impact in peopleâs lives is so commonly experienced. Because the Judge is phenomenological in the way it is experienced by people, the use of art and gestalt techniques to image it in a very concrete form allows clients to confront their own unique Judge image or symbol, to feel its psycho-physiological impact, and then to shrink its psychological power over them. When people are guided through this process, there is a dramatic reduction in the intensity of the stress response triggered by their own unique Judge image.

It is the psychological power of the Judge image or symbol, experienced in a phenomenological way that offers us therapeutic access to this powerful destructive personality part. This process involving imagery can have a much more profound life changing effect than can other more traditional cognitive and verbal therapy processes alone. Shrinking the person's Judge is very empowering and results in greatly reducing the inner psychological source of stress.