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FOREWORD: | A General Overview of 'THE HUMAN WHOLE'
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CHAPTER 1:
INTRODUCTION TO 'HIGHER' PSYCHOLOGY
| Scientific method in psychology -
Mistaken scientific ideas about the person -
The meaning of life/philosophy in psychology -
The reinstitution of perennial insights -
The psychologist's dilemma -
Vedantic broadening of psychological vision -
Key philosophical assumptions in psychology.
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CHAPTER 2:
SELF-AWARENESS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING
| Understanding others and self-knowledge -
'Who am I and why?' -
Identity as ego vs. the self -
Understanding the self as a whole -
Selfhood and the body-soul dilemma -
Limits to objectification of the human subject
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CHAPTER 3:
HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS |
The thesis of mentalism- the primacy of consciousness -
'Subjective' or 'objective' experiences? -
The relations between thinking and being -
Individual consciousness -
Levels of consciousness (enstasis).
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CHAPTER 4:
WHAT IS 'THE UNCONSCIOUS'?
| Five distinct meanings of 'the unconscious' -
1- The unconscious as the subconsciousness -
The subconscious and positive input - the computer analogy -
Limits of the computer analogy -
2- The unconscious as unreflected learned behaviour -
3- The unconscious as unrecognised needs -
4- The unconscious as repressed self-experience -
Recovered memory vs. false memory syndrome -
5- The unconscious as collective ideation -
Paranormal phenomena and the unconscious.
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CHAPTER 5:
VICTIMS OF FATE OR WELDERS OF DESTINY?
| Free will' and physical conditions -
Volition as the 'inner moment of truth' -
Limits and conditioners of volition -
Determinism, pre-destiny and fate -
The doctrine of karma -
Conscious will and personal autonomy.
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CHAPTER 6:
VALUES IN PSYCHOLOGY | Self-fulfilment in Psychology
- Universality of human values: Truth, Care,
Peace, Duty, Justice - Human values applied
in practise - Values vs. anti-values
- Values and psychic health.
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CHAPTER 7:
THE PERSON AS A WHOLE
| Personality integration -
Dangers of person classifications and typologies.
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CHAPTER 8:
THE HUMAN PSYCHE
| Confused terms and levels of understanding -
The human psyche -
Elucidation of the seven-stage model -
Body, mind, spirit: the ego, the mind and the 'I'.
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CHAPTER 9:
THE EGO
| Development of ego and personality -
Vedanta & the Freudian concept of ego -
Structures in the balanced person's ego -
Ego-centredness contrasted to self-expansion.
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CHAPTER 10:
ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE HUMAN MIND
| On the mind's capacities -
.... its faculty of self-direction -
...memory & forgetting -
....perception of manifold wholes (gestalts) -
The programmed mind vs. directing awareness
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CHAPTER 11: PERCEPTION OF REALITY AND PROJECTION
| The mind's perceptive faculties -
Mental structuring of 'reality' -
Perceptive reception & mental projection -
The nature of emotional-mental projection -
Projection in understanding.
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CHAPTER 12:
INTELLIGENCE
| Intelligence as mental and conceptual skills-
Practical and social intelligence -
The synthesising intelligence -
Intelligence as moral discrimination -
Intuitive intelligence.
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CHAPTER 13:
WHAT PSYCHIC HEALTH IS
| The role of values in psychic balance -
Standards for the healthy psyche -
Early development & psychic health -
Motivation: feelings & thoughts -
The influence of imitation on personality.
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CHAPTER 14:
MENTAL-EMOTIONAL DISORDER
| Mental derangement -
Inner mental process in derangement -
Fallacies of perception and cognition -
Reality sense and derangement -
Mental disorder, self-image and identity.
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CHAPTER 15:
BEYOND THE MIND
| The overself -
The 'I' witnesses the cosmos -
Selflessness -egoless self -
The inner voice?
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CHAPTER 16:
THE HUMAN FACULTY OF UNDERSTANDING -
| Understanding as based on practical relations -
Collective and personal understanding -
Language and the psychology of understanding -
Values that underpin personal understanding - Creativity and understanding -
Understanding as a human quality.
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CHAPTER 17:
SELF-TRANSFORMATION
| Motives and goals of self-transformation -
Human values and self-transformation in therapy -
The cradle of self-understanding -
Personal investigation and teachings -
Past, present & future in self-transformation -
The present & gnosis -
The past & diagnosis -
The future & prognosis.
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CHAPTER 18:
FIVE ASPECTS OF SELF-DISCOVERY
| Self-trust - Self-enjoyment
- Self-reflection - Self-sacrifice
- Self-fulfilment - Self-transformation
as expansion.
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CHAPTER 19:
SELFHOOD AND SELF-PERCEPTION
| Self-image: its physical, social, and universal aspects -
Altering self-perception -
The social persona -
Being oneself -
The false self -
Divided selfhood -
'Selfless selfhood'.
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CHAPTER 20:
SELF-DISCIPLINE AND RESPONSIBILITY
| Fatalism and pessimism in modern theories -
Voluntarism in practice -
Personal freedom and consequences -
Self-discipline and control of the mind -
'Positive thinking' examined.
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CHAPTER 21:
NON-ATTACHMENT
| Attachments & emotions -
Satisfaction & attachments -
Converting negativity (6 ways) -
Questions for self-reflection.
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CHAPTER 22:
SELF-DEVELOPMENT THROUGH LOVE
| Confusions as to what love means -
Romantic love, partnerships, marriage -
Self-love and inauthenticity -
Exclusion and inclusion -
'The short cut'.
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APPENDIX:
SOME THERAPEUTIC SYSTEMS CRITICALLY REVIEWED
| Psychoanalysis and the human whole -
Projective symbolism in therapy -
Character types and psychologisation in psychoanalysis
Dreams in psychotherapy -
Alfred Adler's individual psychology -
C.G. Jung's psychology -
Other past-oriented techniques -
Ego-centered therapies: egs 1) Gestalt Therapy 2) Neuro-linguistic Programming.
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