Evolution and consciousnes : : from a Barren Rocky Earth to artists, philosophers, meditators and psychotherapists / / Michael (Michelo) DelMonte and Maeve Halpin.

• Superior document: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies
• VerfasserIn: DelMonte, Michael (Michelo),; Halpin, Maeve,
• TeilnehmendeR: Halpin, Maeve,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2023]
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: Revised edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (182 pages)

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 The Systems Perspective -- 2 Consciousness in Evolution -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Authors -- Summary -- Introduction: The Evolution of Consciousness: A New Perspective on Our Search for Meaning -- 1 Models of the Evolution of Consciousness -- 2 The Goal of the Journey -- 3 Evolution and Consciousness: An Incredible Journey -- 1 The Evolution of Matter and Mind -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methods of Inquiry: The Search for Meaning -- 3 Evolutionary 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 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Language and Awareness -- 3 The 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 -- 1 Summary -- 2 Introduction -- 3 Suffering -- 4 The 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 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Individual Development of Symbolisation -- 3 Symbolisation and Communication -- 4 Levels of Symbolic Development -- 5 Pre-verbal Symbolisation: An Evolutionary Perspective -- 6 Projective Identification -- 7 Hysterical Identification -- 8 Co-ontogeny, Identification and Transference -- 9 Failures 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.

Author Index -- Subject and Name Index -- Endorsement.