Evolution and Consciousness, Revised Edition
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52374-6 (ISBN)
This volume is a newly revised and updated edition of Evolution and Consciousness (Brill, 2019) and 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.
Michael (Michelo) DelMonte, Ph.D. (1982), Trinity College Dublin. Michael was Principal Clinical Psychologist at St. Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College. He co-founded “The Transnational Network for Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Well-Being” (1990) in Tokyo. Maeve Halpin is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist (PSI), clinical supervisor and founder-manager of the Appletree Health and Wellness Therapy Centre in Dublin. She is a co-founder of the Theravadan Irish Sangha Trust (IST, 2011). She compiled and published How to be Happy and Healthy: the Seven Natural Elements of Mental Health in 2014.
Foreword
Preface to the Revised Edition
Acknowledgements
Notes on Authors
Summary
Introduction:The Evolution of Consciousness: A New Perspective on Our Search for Meaning
1Models of the Evolution of Consciousness
2The Goal of the Journey
3Evolution and Consciousness: An Incredible Journey
1 The Evolution of Matter and Mind
1Introduction
2Methods of Inquiry: The Search for Meaning
3Evolutionary Psychopathology
4 Consciousness and Learning
5 Ultimate Causes
6 Is Evolution Really Blind?
7 The Evolution of Matter
8 The Emergence of Life on Earth
9 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: Evolving Mind?
17 Are There Limits to Darwinian Theory?
18 Wallace’s Perspective: Teleological Considerations
19 Evolutionary Patterns
20 Circular Causality: A Systemic Approach
21 Panpsychism: A Systemic Approach
22 The Mind/Brain Issue: A Systemic Approach
23 Genetic Expression: A Systemic View
24 Evolution: A Systemic Approach
25 Relevance to Psychotherapy
26 Conclusions
2 Awareness: Constructivist, Psychodynamic and Eastern Perspectives
1Introduction
2Language and Awareness
3The 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
16 The Healing Essence of Buddhism
17 Transcendence, Ascendance and Descendance
18 Somatoform Disorders
19 Catharsis, Insight and Integration
20 Non-dual States
21 Critique and Conclusions
3 Consciousness and Mindfulness
1Summary
2Introduction
3Suffering
4The Talking Cure
5 The Inner Observer
6 The Role of Meditation
7 Mindfulness and Dis-Identification
8 Awareness Training
9 Attention, Awareness and Self-Regulation
10 Somatisation versus Symbolisation
11 Attachments
12 Attachment and Loss
13 Defensive Detachment
14 Adaptive Dis-Identification
15 Non-Attachment Techniques of the Orient
16 More Advanced Mindfulness Meditation Practice
17 The Silence of Meditation
18 Mindfulness in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
19 Psychoanalysis as Mindfulness
20 Gestalt Therapy Perspective
21 Abreaction, Insight and Integration
22 Potential Problems with Detachment and Dis-Identification
23 Pathological Regression
24 Suitability
25 Conclusions
4 The Development of Symbolisation from the Pre-verbal to the Trans-verbal: An Evolving Consciousness
1Introduction
2Individual Development of Symbolisation
3Symbolisation and Communication
4Levels of Symbolic Development
5Pre-verbal Symbolisation: An Evolutionary Perspective
6Projective Identification
7Hysterical Identification
8Co-ontogeny, Identification and Transference
9Failures of Symbolisation: Somatisation
10 Transitional Objects
11 Symbolic “Castration”
12 Sublimation
13 Dreaming and Verbal Symbolisation
14 Lacan and the Symbolic Order
15 Society and Verbal Symbolisation
16 Para-verbal Symbolisation
17 Trans-verbal Symbolisation
18 Summary and Conclusions
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Endorsement
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.12.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies ; 31 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 321 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-52374-X / 900452374X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-52374-6 / 9789004523746 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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