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