Evolution and consciousnes : : from a Barren Rocky Earth to artists, philosophers, meditators and psychotherapists /

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

"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 insi...

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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)
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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.

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