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Psychosynthesis : a psychology of the spirit / John Firman and Ann Gila.
Van Pelt Library BF204.7 .F575 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Firman, John, 1945-2008.
- Series:
- SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transpersonal psychology.
- Psychosynthesis.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Conceived by Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli, psychosynthesis is one of the first Western psychologies that addresses both spiritual development and psychological healing and growth by recognizing and supporting the particular life journey of the person -- the individual's own unique path of Self-realization. Firman and Gila present a comprehensive account of psychosynthesis, providing a transpersonal integration of developmental, personality, and clinical theory. They reveal some of the relationships between psychosynthesis and contemporary developmental research, object relations theory, intersubjective psychology, trauma theory, the recovery movement, Jungian psychology, humanistic and transpersonal psychology, and common psychological diagnoses.
- Contents:
- 1 The Life and Work of Roberto Assagioli 9
- Roberto Assagioli and His Influences 11
- 2 The Psychosynthesis Model of the Person 19
- Assagioli's Diagram of the Person 20
- The Middle Unconscious 21
- Primal Wounding 27
- The Lower Unconscious 29
- The Higher Unconscious 31
- "I," Consciousness, and Will 34
- Self 38
- 3 The Stages of Psychosynthesis 45
- Stage Zero: Survival of Wounding 47
- Stage One: Exploration of the Personality 53
- Stage Two: The Emergence of "I" 56
- Stage Three: Contact with Self 58
- Stage Four: Response to Self 61
- In Summation 64
- 4 Multiplicity within the Personality 67
- Subpersonalities are Normal 68
- The Birth of a Subpersonality 70
- Subpersonalities in Survival 73
- Recognition 77
- Acceptance 81
- Inclusion 85
- Synthesis 89
- 5 The Nature of Personal Identity 93
- A Disidentification Exercise 94
- Empathic "I" 95
- Spirit, Soma, and Psyche 102
- Transcendence-Immanence 103
- 6 A Psychosynthesis Developmental Theory 111
- Bigger Than We 111
- Opening the Inner Door 112
- Authentic Personality 115
- External and Internal Unifying Centers 118
- Primal Wounding 121
- Survival Personality 125
- Recognition 130
- Acceptance 134
- Inclusion 139
- Synthesis 142
- 7 The Higher and Lower Unconscious 149
- Primal Wounding and Splitting 150
- The Lower Unconscious and Higher Unconscious 153
- Positive and Negative Idealization 156
- Psychological Disturbances 159
- Psychology and Spirituality 167
- 8 Self-Realization 171
- "I" and Self 171
- Personal Psychosynthesis 177
- Transpersonal Psychosynthesis 179
- Self-Realization 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791455335
- 0791455343
- OCLC:
- 48871451
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