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La Liebre de Marzo S.L. Psicologia Transpersonal En Una Perspectiva Psic
Book SynopsisPartiendo de la psicología transpersonal, Washburn nos explica como el desarrollo del ego a la vez nos prepara para su trascendencia y crea obstáculos a ésta. Propone que el crecimiento espiritual solo puede entenderse adecuadamente en términos del desarrollo del ego que le precede. Al considerar la psicología transpersonal en términos psicoanalíticos nos explica como elementos esenciales del pensamiento junguiano pueden enraizarse en la teoría psicoanalítica. El autor logra con éxito una síntesis de dos de las más importantes tradiciones psicodinámicas: el psicoanálisis y la psicología transpersonal."Este libro puede resultar de gran utilidad para todos aquellos analistas que han encontrado en su práctica clínica casos para los que el estrecho modelo freudiano no tiene explicación posible. Pensamos sobre todo en junguianos, frommianos o reichianos, aunque el modelo que presenta Washburn pueda iluminar a todo psicoterapeuta de orientación dinámica. Michael Washburn es profesor del d
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State University of New York Press Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Tom Pettys Southern Accents
Book SynopsisBy 1985 Tom Petty had already obtained legendary status. He had fame. He had money. But he was restless, hoping to stretch his artistry beyond the confining format of songs like The Waiting and Refugee. Petty's response to his restlessness was Southern Accents. Initially conceived as a concept album about the American South, Southern Accents's marathon recording sessions were marred by aesthetic and narcotic excess. The result is a hodgepodge of classic rock songs mixed with nearly unlistenable 80s music. Then, while touring for the album, Petty made extensive use of the iconography of the American Confederacy, something he soon came to regret. Despite its artistic failure and public controversy, Southern Accents was a pivot point for Petty. Reeling from the defeat, Petty reimagined himself as deeply, almost mythically, Californian, obtaining his biggest success with Full Moon Fever. Michael Washburn explores the history of Southern Accents and how iTrade ReviewMichael Washburn, in his first book, [Tom Petty’s Southern Accents] argues that we can glean significant cultural understanding from [Tom] Petty’s failure. * LA Review of Books *This is a great read that digs hard into the background of the making of the album … This is a book that every Tom Petty fan should read – but you don’t have to be a fan to appreciate it. Washburn has written an assessment of the creative process that anyone could appreciate. Creativity is not just about the great artistic successes; it’s often just as well served by the flawed visions as the realised masterpieces, something that Michael Washburn clearly understands and conveys through this book. * Americana UK *In Michael Washburn’s new book for the 33 1/3 project — a series of insightful, deep dives into albums — he confronts the conundrum that swirls around [Tom Petty’s] Southern Accents. * Leo Weekly *Table of ContentsTrack Listing Introduction Down South Who Did You Expect to Meet? Southern Accents Rebels Born in the CSA Free Fallin' The Best of Everything Acknowledgements Endnotes
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) The Ego and the Dynamic Ground A Transpersonal
Book SynopsisMaps the course of human development from the earliest stages of ego development to the highest stages of ego transcendence.This new edition is a thorough revision of the first edition. Drawing on both psychoanalysis and analytical psychology and on both Eastern and Western spiritual sources, the book maps the course of human development from the earliest stages of ego development to the highest stages of ego transcendence. Washburn formulates an important paradigm for transpersonal psychology and clearly distinguishes it from the other major paradigm in the field, the structural-hierarchical paradigm of Ken Wilber.In Washburn''s view, human development is a spiral movement played out between the ego and its ultimate source: the Dynamic Ground. Ego development in the first half of life moves in a direction away from the Dynamic Ground; ego transcendence in the second half of life spirals back to the Ground on the way to a higher union with the Ground-whole-psyche integration. Washburn''s spiral paradigm helps explain why human development has the character of a journey of departure and higher return, of setting out into the world and then finding one''s way home.This new edition more effectively integrates key psychoanalytic and Jungian ideas by placing them within a developmental framework that resolves their contradictions. Washburn''s paradigm stresses both the biological roots and the spiritual potentialities of the psyche and is sensitive to the ambivalences, dualisms, transvaluations, and higher syntheses of life.
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic
Book SynopsisIn this book, Michael Washburn provides a psychoanalytic foundation for transpersonal psychology. Using psychoanalytic theory, Washburn explains how ego development both prepares for and creates obstacles to ego transcendence. Spiritual development, he proposes, can be properly understood only in terms of the ego development that precedes it. For example, many difficulties encountered in spiritual development can be traced to repressive underpinnings of ego development, and significant gender differences in spiritual development can be traced to corresponding gender differences that emerge during ego development.Washburn draws on a wide range of psychoanalytic perspectives in discussing ego development and uses both Eastern and Western sources in discussing spiritual development. In rethinking transpersonal psychology in psychoanalytic terms, he explains how essential elements of Jungian thought can be grounded in psychoanalytic theory.
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State University of New York Press Recentering the Self
Book SynopsisReformulates the notion of the ego and provides a new perspective for understanding ego development and the role of the ego in spiritual life.In Recentering the Self, Michael Washburn presents a new account of the ego, ego development, and the role of the ego in spiritual life. He starts by tracing the premodern antecedents of the notion of the ego in Greek philosophy and Christian theology and then explains the seventeenth-century emergence of the notion in Descartes''s radically new account of the soul''s relation to the body. Reviewing subsequent criticisms of the notion, the author formulates a revised conception of the ego that highlights the ego''s inherently two-sided nature, as a subject and agency that, although rooted within interior consciousness, lives originally and primarily in the material, social world. Washburn uses this revised conception of the ego to explain how the two sides of the ego develop in concert over major stages of the human lifespan and why the ego, despite widespread belief to the contrary, plays primarily a positive role in spiritual life. Recentering the Self makes important contributions to the history of philosophy, consciousness studies, phenomenology, developmental psychology, and spiritual or transpersonal psychology.
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State University of New York Press Recentering the Self
Book SynopsisReformulates the notion of the ego and provides a new perspective for understanding ego development and the role of the ego in spiritual life.In Recentering the Self, Michael Washburn presents a new account of the ego, ego development, and the role of the ego in spiritual life. He starts by tracing the premodern antecedents of the notion of the ego in Greek philosophy and Christian theology and then explains the seventeenth-century emergence of the notion in Descartes''s radically new account of the soul''s relation to the body. Reviewing subsequent criticisms of the notion, the author formulates a revised conception of the ego that highlights the ego''s inherently two-sided nature, as a subject and agency that, although rooted within interior consciousness, lives originally and primarily in the material, social world. Washburn uses this revised conception of the ego to explain how the two sides of the ego develop in concert over major stages of the human lifespan and why the ego, despite widespread belief to the contrary, plays primarily a positive role in spiritual life. Recentering the Self makes important contributions to the history of philosophy, consciousness studies, phenomenology, developmental psychology, and spiritual or transpersonal psychology.
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Healing the Split Integrating Spirit Into Our
Book SynopsisThe links between madness, creative genius, and spiritual experiences have tantalized philosophers and scientists for centuries. In Healing the Split, John Nelson brings the lofty ideas of transpersonal psychology down to earth so they can be applied in a practical way to explain the bizarre effects of insanity on the human mind. Drawing on a vast knowledge of Eastern philosophy and mainstream neuropsychiatry, he heals the split between orthodox and alternative views with a comprehensive approach that goes beyond both. Starting where R. D. Laing and Thomas Szasz left off, Nelson revises and expands their radical views in light of modern brain science. He then turns to ancient tantric yoga for a synthesis that weaves brain, psyche, and spirit into a compelling new conception of mental illness.For professionals who seek to meet the needs of their patients more creatively, this book offers a unique synthesis. For people in emotional crisis, it clarifies the distinctions among intractable psychosis, temporary breakdowns in the service of healing (spiritual emergencies), and psychic breakthroughs (spiritual emergence). And for anyone interested in the seemingly inexplicable workings of the human mind gone mad, this fascinating exploration of psychotic states of consciousness will be exciting reading.
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