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The primal wound : a transpersonal view of trauma, addiction, and growth / John Firman and Ann Gila.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in the philosophy of psychologyPublication details: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585053413
  • 9780585053417
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Primal wound.DDC classification:
  • 150.19/8 21
LOC classification:
  • BF204.7 .F57 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Ch. 1. An Addiction/Abuse Workshop -- Ch. 2. The Source of Human Spirit -- Ch. 3. The Human Spirit -- Ch. 4. The Development of Spirit -- Ch. 5. The Primal Wound -- Ch. 6. The Higher and Lower Unconscious -- Ch. 7. Personalities and Subpersonalities -- Ch. 8. Self-Realization -- Ch. 9. Psychosynthesis Therapy -- Ch. 10. The Psychosynthesis Therapist.
Summary: The primal wound is the result of a violation we all suffer in various ways, beginning in early childhood and continuing throughout life. Because we are treated not as individual, unique human beings but as objects, our intrinsic, authentic sense of self is annihilated. This primal wounding breaks the fundamental relationships that form the fabric of human existence: the relationship to oneself, to other people, to the natural world, and to a sense of transpersonal meaning symbolized in concepts such as the Divine, the Ground of Being, and Ultimate Reality. In this book Firman and Gila apply object relations theory, self-psychology, transpersonal psychology, and psychosynthesis to the issues of psychological wounding, healing, and growth and show how this wounding can be redeemed through therapy and through changing one's way of living.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-273) and index.

Print version record.

Ch. 1. An Addiction/Abuse Workshop -- Ch. 2. The Source of Human Spirit -- Ch. 3. The Human Spirit -- Ch. 4. The Development of Spirit -- Ch. 5. The Primal Wound -- Ch. 6. The Higher and Lower Unconscious -- Ch. 7. Personalities and Subpersonalities -- Ch. 8. Self-Realization -- Ch. 9. Psychosynthesis Therapy -- Ch. 10. The Psychosynthesis Therapist.

The primal wound is the result of a violation we all suffer in various ways, beginning in early childhood and continuing throughout life. Because we are treated not as individual, unique human beings but as objects, our intrinsic, authentic sense of self is annihilated. This primal wounding breaks the fundamental relationships that form the fabric of human existence: the relationship to oneself, to other people, to the natural world, and to a sense of transpersonal meaning symbolized in concepts such as the Divine, the Ground of Being, and Ultimate Reality. In this book Firman and Gila apply object relations theory, self-psychology, transpersonal psychology, and psychosynthesis to the issues of psychological wounding, healing, and growth and show how this wounding can be redeemed through therapy and through changing one's way of living.

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