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1 online resource (167 pages) |
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Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies ; 28 |
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Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; 28
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| Contents |
Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Evolution of Consciousness: a New Perspective on Our Search for Meaning; 1 Models of the Evolution of Consciousness; 2 The Goal of the Journey; 3 Evolution and Consciousness: an Incredible Journey; Chapter 1 The Evolution of Matter and Mind; 1 Introduction; 2 Methods of Inquiry: the Search for Meaning; 3 Evolutionary Psychopathology; 4 Consciousness and Learning; 5 Ultimate Causes; 6 Is Evolution Really Blind?; 7 The Evolution of Matter |
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8 The Emergence of Life on Earth9 The Anthropic Principle; 10 The Evolution of Proteins and of Higher Forms of Life; 11 Quantum Biology; 12 From Rocks to Musicians, Engineers and Philosophers: the Problem of Entropy; 13 The Primacy of Mind over Matter?; 14 From Matter to Culture: a Co-Operative Journey?; 15 The Animal Mind-Ethology; 16 The Missing Ingredient: Mind?; 17 Are There Limits to Darwinian Theory?; 18 Wallace's Perspective: Teleological Considerations; 19 Evolutionary Patterns; 20 Circular Causality: a Systemic Approach; 21 The Mind/Brain Issue; 22 Genetic Expression: a Systemic View |
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23 Evolution: a Systemic Approach24 Relevance to Psychotherapy; 25 Conclusions; Chapter 2 Awareness: Constructivist, Psychodynamic and Eastern Perspectives; 1 Introduction; 2 Language and Awareness; 3 The Continuum of Experience; 4 The Experience of Meditation; 5 Maps and Territory: Kelly and Piaget; 6 Levels of Awareness: Kelly and Freud; 7 Reality: Kelly and Lacan; 8 Group Construing; 9 The Unconscious; 10 Pre-Verbal and Somatic Construing; 11 Suspension; 12 Constriction and Dilation; 13 Submergence; 14 Loosening and Tightening; 15 Constructivism, Buddhism and Duality |
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16 The Healing Essence of Buddhism17 Transcendence, Ascendance and Descendance; 18 Somatoform Disorders; 19 Catharsis, Insight and Integration; 20 Non-Dual States; 21 Critique and Conclusions; Chapter 3 Consciousness and Mindfulness; 1 Introduction; 2 Suffering; 3 The Talking Cure; 4 The Inner Observer; 5 The Role of Meditation; 6 Mindfulness and Dis-Identification; 7 Awareness Training; 8 Attention, Awareness and Self-Regulation; 9 Somatisation versus Symbolisation; 10 Attachments; 11 Attachment and Loss; 12 Defensive Detachment; 13 Adaptive Dis-Identification |
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14 Non-Attachment Techniques of the Orient15 More Advanced Mindfulness Meditation Practice; 16 The Silence of Meditation; 17 Mindfulness in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy; 18 Psychoanalysis as Mindfulness; 19 Gestalt Therapy Perspective; 20 Abreaction, Insight and Integration; 21 Potential Problems with Detachment and Dis-Identification; 22 Pathological Regression; 23 Suitability; 24 Conclusions; Chapter 4 The Development of Symbolisation from the Pre-Verbal to the Trans-Verbal: an Evolving Consciousness; 1 Introduction; 2 Individual Development of Symbolisation |
| Summary |
This volume provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the emerging concept of the evolution of consciousness. The simple, but dynamic, theory of evolving consciousness blends the powerful insights of modern science with the deep wisdom of age-old cultures, synthesising the traditions of East and West, of the head and heart, of male and female and of science and spirituality. To borrow a phrase from American philosopher Ken Wilber, it is a concept that "transcends and includes" all that has gone before. By integrating diverse multi-disciplinary approaches, it provides an overarching and transcending model that moves us to a new level of meaning and understanding of our place in the world, and in so doing deepens our work as psychotherapists |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Consciousness.
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Self-consciousness (Awareness)
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Brain -- Evolution.
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Evolutionary psychology.
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Cognitive psychology.
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Human evolution.
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Brain -- Evolution
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Cognitive psychology
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Consciousness
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Evolutionary psychology
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Human evolution
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Self-consciousness (Awareness)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Halpin, Maeve
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| ISBN |
9004408754 |
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9789004408753 |
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