ISBN:
9780197647875
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (345 pages)
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Abstract:
In The Self-Healing Mind, mental health counsellor and anthropologist Brian J. McVeigh explores how the mind works to heal itself by defining the features of conscious interiority. With insights from counseling, psychotherapy, anthropology, and history, this book explains the active ingredients of the self-healing mind and shows that the mental processes that help us get through the day are the same ones that can heal our psyches.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- The Self-Healing Mind -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes to the Reader -- Prologue: Searching for the Active Ingredients of the Self-Healing Mind -- Part I -- 1. Purposes and Premises: The Therapeutic Properties of Subjectivity -- 2. What Is Consciousness? Clarifying the Stuff of Mind -- Part II -- 3. The Advantages of Conscious Interiority -- 4. Runaway Consciousness: The Price of Scaled-Up Cognition -- 5. A Brief History of the Interiorization of Psychotherapy -- Part III -- 6. Treating Mental Illness and Facilitating Mental Well-Being -- 7. The Nature of Self: Systemized, Serialized, Dramatized -- 8. The Self-Organizing Mind: Rhythms, Routines, Rituals -- Part IV -- 9. Using Conscious Interiority as a Therapeutic Tool -- 10. Key Therapeutic Skills and Conscious Interiority -- 11. Groups and Families as Therapeutic Systems -- 12. Emotions and Conscious Interiority -- 13. Hypnosis and Meditation: Suspending and Modulating Conscious Interiority -- 14. Human Diversity, Social Adaptation, and Psychotherapy -- Epilogue: Final Thoughts -- Appendices -- A. Synopsis of Positive Psychology -- B. Synopsis of Common Factors -- C. The Historical Birth of Conscious Interiority -- D. What Conscious Interiority Is Not -- E. Psyche-Biological Hardware or Cultural Software? -- F. Examples of Metaphoric Creativity -- G. Five Perspectives on Conscious Interiority: A Summary -- H. Developmental Stages of the Life Span and FOCI -- Glossary: A Jaynesian Therapeutic Perspective on Techniques and Interventions -- References -- About the Author -- Index.
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