Introduction

  • The “self” and How It Develops
  • What is Self Awareness?
  • Summary

Topic One: My Guiding Myth

  • Discovery and Revision
  • Myths, Fairy Tales and Folklore
  • Our Personal Mythology
  • Cognitive Structures as Templates for Belief
  • Self-Statements
  • Coding System
  • Unconscious Templates
  • Neuronal Connections
  • Developmental Processes
  • Identification of Our Prevailing Myth
  • The Dialectical Process and the
  • Emergence of a Counter Myth
  • The Process of Discovery and Revision
  •      Stage 1
  •      Stage 2
  •      Stage 3
  •      Stage 4
  •      Stage 5
  • Summary

Topic Two: Psychology In Perspective

  • Psychology is Born in the Lab
  • A Brief History of Psychology
  • Forces and Facets of the Diamond
  • Behaviorism: The First Force
  • Psychodynamic or Psychoanalytic Perspectives:
  • The Second Force
  • The Humanistic Perspective: The Third Force
  • Existentialism
  • Transpersonal: The Fourth Force
  • Cognitive Approach
  • Biological/Medical Approach
  • or Neuroscience
  • Evolutionary Perspective
  • Family, Culture and Societal Factors
  • Gender

Topic Three: How Consciousness Works

  • Is Truth or Reality Fixed?
  • What’s That?
  • Evolving Consciousness
  • Awakening
  • Body and Soul

Topic Four: Freudian Defense Mechanisms

  • Repression
  • Suppression
  • Denial
  • Displacement
  • Reaction Formation
  • Projection
  • Regression
  • Rationalization
  • Fixation
  • Sublimation
  • Summary

Topic Five: Gender

  • The Biology of Belief
  • Evolutionary Lens on Gender
  • Complementary Strategies
  • Gender Lenses

Topic Six: Gender and Society

  • Historical Considerations
  • Gender Styles
  • Gender and Conformity

Topic Seven: Jung’s Theory

  • Individuation
  • The Nature of Libido
  • Principle of Opposites
  • Principle of Equivalence
  • Principle of Entropy
  • Archetypes
  • The Seductive Quality of Archetypes
  • Major Archetypes
  • Persona
  • Shadow
  • Anima/Animus
  • Self

Topic Eight: Psychological Types

  • Attitudes
  • Introversion
  • Extraversion
  • Functions
  • Irrational Functions
  • Rational FunctionsHierarchical Nature of Functions
  • Eight Major Types
  • Extraverted-Thinking Type
  • Extraverted-Feeling Type
  • Extraverted-Sensation Type
  • Extraverted-Intuitive Type
  • Introverted-Thinking Type
  • Introverted-Feeling Type
  • Introverted-Sensation Type
  • Introverted-Intuitive Type
  • Summary

Topic Nine: Transpersonal Healing

  • Non Ordinary States of Consciousness
  • The Realms of Consciousness
  • The Perinatal Realm
  • Holotropic Breathwork
  • My Personal Experience
  • Weblinks (Transpersonal Healing)

Topic Ten: Transpersonal Techniques

  • Bruce Lipton and the New Biology
  • Energy Medicine
  • EMDR
  • The EMDR Process
  • Why EMDR Works
  • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
  • Energy Psychology
  • The Technique
  • Six Healing Sounds
  • EMDR and the Six Healing Sounds
  • Summary

Topic Eleven: Why Do I Feel Guilty When I Say, “No?”

  • The Will of the Individual
  • The Separation/Symbiotic Paradox
  • A Tool for Overcoming Guilt

Topic Twelve: Love or Approval

Topic Thirteen: Understanding Dreams

Conclusion

 

EXERCISES

Exercise One: Basic Fears Exercise

  • Step 1: Identifying My Fears
  • Step 2: The Tough Child
  • Step 3: The Desperate Child
  • Step 4: Insights

Exercise Two: Positive Programming

  • Changing the Tapes
  • Step 1
  • Step 2
  • Step 3

Exercise Three: Questioning the Question

Exercise FOUR: Core Beliefs

Exercise Five: Me, Myself, Mom  and Dad – An Exercise in Jungian Archetypes

  • Mother
  • Father
  • Persona
  • Shadow
  • Anima/Animus

Exercise Six: Dreamwork Exercise

  • Directions

Exercise seven: Journal Work Issues

References