Evolution and Consciousness

From a Barren Rocky Earth to Artists, Philosophers, Meditators and Psychotherapists
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40757-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies

This volume 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 the feminine and the masculine and of science and spirituality. 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. An appreciation of the evolution of consciousness can deepen our connection to ourselves, to others and to the natural world, while bringing a new dimension to the work of psychotherapy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Michelo Delmonte, Michael

Halpin, Maeve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Naturphilosophie, Philosophie und Evolution

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

emsp;Ivor Browne

emsp;The Systems Perspective

emsp;Consciousness in Evolution

Preface

Acknowledgements


Introduction The Evolution of Consciousness: a New Perspective on Our Search for Meaning

emsp;1 Models of the Evolution of Consciousness

emsp;2 The Goal of the Journey

emsp;3 Evolution and Consciousness: an Incredible Journey

1 The Evolution of Matter and Mind

emsp;1 Introduction

emsp;2 Methods of Inquiry: the Search for Meaning

emsp;3 Evolutionary Psychopathology

emsp;4 Consciousness and Learning

emsp;5 Ultimate Causes

emsp;6 Is Evolution Really Blind?

emsp;7 The Evolution of Matter

emsp;8 The Emergence of Life on Earth

emsp;9 The Anthropic Principle

emsp;10 The Evolution of Proteins and of Higher Forms of Life

emsp;11 Quantum Biology

emsp;12 From Rocks to Musicians, Engineers and Philosophers: the Problem of Entropy

emsp;13 The Primacy of Mind over Matter?

emsp;14 From Matter to Culture: a Co-operative Journey?

emsp;15 The Animal Mind—Ethology

emsp;16 The Missing Ingredient: Mind?

emsp;17 Are There Limits to Darwinian Theory?

emsp;18 Wallace’s Perspective: Teleological Considerations

emsp;19 Evolutionary Patterns

emsp;20 Circular Causality: a Systemic Approach

emsp;21 The Mind/Brain Issue

emsp;22 Genetic Expression: a Systemic View

emsp;23 Evolution: a Systemic Approach

emsp;24 Relevance to Psychotherapy

emsp;25 Conclusions

2 Awareness: Constructivist, Psychodynamic and Eastern Perspectives

emsp;1 Introduction

emsp;2 Language and Awareness

emsp;3 The Continuum of Experience

emsp;4 The Experience of Meditation

emsp;5 Maps and Territory: Kelly and Piaget

emsp;6 Levels of Awareness: Kelly and Freud

emsp;7 Reality: Kelly and Lacan

emsp;8 Group Construing

emsp;9 The Unconscious

emsp;10 Pre-verbal and Somatic Construing

emsp;11 Suspension

emsp;12 Constriction and Dilation

emsp;13 Submergence

emsp;14 Loosening and Tightening

emsp;15 Constructivism, Buddhism and Duality

emsp;16 The Healing Essence of Buddhism

emsp;17 Transcendence, Ascendance and Descendance

emsp;18 Somatoform Disorders

emsp;19 Catharsis, Insight and Integration

emsp;20 Non-Dual States

emsp;21 Critique and Conclusions

3 Consciousness and Mindfulness

emsp;1 Introduction

emsp;2 Suffering

emsp;3 The Talking Cure

emsp;4 The Inner Observer

emsp;5 The Role of Meditation

emsp;6 Mindfulness and Dis-Identification

emsp;7 Awareness Training

emsp;8 Attention, Awareness and Self-Regulation

emsp;9 Somatisation versus Symbolisation

emsp;10 Attachments

emsp;11 Attachment and Loss

emsp;12 Defensive Detachment

emsp;13 Adaptive Dis-Identification

emsp;14 Non-Attachment Techniques of the Orient

emsp;15 More Advanced Mindfulness Meditation Practice

emsp;16 The Silence of Meditation

emsp;17 Mindfulness in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

emsp;18 Psychoanalysis as Mindfulness

emsp;19 Gestalt Therapy Perspective

emsp;20 Abreaction, Insight and Integration

emsp;21 Potential Problems with Detachment and Dis-Identification

emsp;22 Pathological Regression

emsp;23 Suitability

emsp;24 Conclusions

4 The Development of Symbolisation from the Pre-Verbal to the Trans-Verbal: an Evolving Consciousness

emsp;1 Introduction

emsp;2 Individual Development of Symbolisation

emsp;3 Symbolisation and Communication

emsp;4 Levels of Symbolic Development

emsp;5 Pre-Verbal Symbolisation: an Evolutionary Perspective

emsp;6 Projective Identification

emsp;7 Hysterical Identification

emsp;8 Co-Ontogeny, Identification and Transference

emsp;9 Failures of Symbolisation: Somatisation

emsp;10 Transitional Objects

emsp;11 Symbolic “Castration”

emsp;12 Sublimation

emsp;13 Dreaming and Verbal Symbolisation

emsp;14 Lacan and the Symbolic Order

emsp;15 Society and Verbal Symbolisation

emsp;16 Para-Verbal Symbolisation

emsp;17 Trans-Verbal Symbolisation

emsp;18 Summary and Conclusions

Conclusion

Bibliography

Name and Subject Index

Author Index

Über Autor(innen)

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

Maeve Halpin is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist (PSI) and founder-manager of the Appletree Health and Wellness Therapy Centre in Dublin. She compiled and published How to be Happy and Healthy: the Seven Natural Elements of Mental Health in 2014.