Evolution and Consciousness, Revised Edition

From a Barren Rocky Earth to Artists, Philosophers, Meditators and Psychotherapists
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52374-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 321 g

Reihe: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delmonte, Michael M M G S

Halpin, Maeve

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

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: An Evolving Consciousness

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

Index

Endorsement

Über Autor(innen)

Michael (Michelo) DelMonte, Ph.D. (1982), Trinity College Dublin. Michael was Principal Clinical Psychologist at St. Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College. He co-founded “The Transnational Network for Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Well-Being” (1990) in Tokyo.

Maeve Halpin is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist (PSI), clinical supervisor and founder-manager of the Appletree Health and Wellness Therapy Centre in Dublin. She is a co-founder of the Theravadan Irish Sangha Trust (IST, 2011). She compiled and published How to be Happy and Healthy: the Seven Natural Elements of Mental Health in 2014.