In The Self-Healing Mind, mental health counsellor and anthropologist Brian J. McVeigh explores how the mind works to heal itself by defining the features of conscious interiority. With insights from counseling, psychotherapy, anthropology, and history, this book explains the active ingredients of the self-healing mind and shows that the mental processes that help us get through the day are the same ones that can heal our psyches.
In The Self-Healing Mind, mental health counsellor and anthropologist Brian J. McVeigh explores how the mind works to heal itself by defining the features of conscious interiority. With insights from counseling, psychotherapy, anthropology, and history, this book explains the active ingredients of the self-healing mind and shows that the mental processes that help us get through the day are the same ones that can heal our psyches.
Brian J. McVeigh has an MA in anthropology, an MS in counseling, and a PhD in anthropology. He is a licensed mental health counselor in private practice and a scholar of Japan and China where he lived and taught for 16 years. For ten years he taught in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. The author of 16 books, he has an interest in how humans adapt, both through history and therapeutically. His current projects include The Psychology of Ancient Egypt: Reconstructing a Lost Mentality.
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Notes to reader * Prologue: Searching for the Active Ingredients of the Self-Healing Mind * PART 1: The Adaptive Mind, Consciousness, and Implications for Therapy * Chapter 1: Purposes and Premises: The Therapeutic Properties of Subjectivity * Chapter 2: What is Consciousness? Clarifying the Stuff of Mind * PART 2: The Benefits and Costs of Conscious Interiority * Chapter 3: The Advantages of Conscious Interiority * Chapter 4: Runaway Consciousness: The Price of Scaled-up Cognition * Chapter 5: A Brief History of the Interiorization of Psychotherapy * PART 3: The Meaning of Mental Health and How the Psyche Adjusts * Chapter 6: Treating Mental Illness and Facilitating Mental Wellbeing * Chapter 7: The Nature of Self: Systemized, Serialized, Dramatized * Chapter 8: The Self-Organizing Mind: Rhythms, Routines, Rituals * PART 4: Applications, Approaches, and Interventions * Chapter 9: Using Conscious Interiority as a Therapeutic Tool * Chapter 10: Key Therapeutic Skills and Conscious Interiority * Chapter 11: Groups and Families as Therapeutic Systems * Chapter 12: Emotions and Conscious Interiority * Chapter 13: Hypnosis and Meditation: Suspending and Modulating Conscious Interiority * Chapter 14: Human Diversity, Social Adaptation, and Psychotherapy * Epilogue: Final Thoughts * Appendices * A: Synopsis of Positive Psychology * B: Synopsis of Common Factors * C: The Historical Birth of Conscious Interiority * D: What Conscious Interiority is Not * E: Psyche-Biological Hardware or Cultural Software? * F: Examples of Metaphoric Creativity * G: Five Perspectives on Conscious Interiority: A Summary * H: Developmental Stages of the Lifespan and FOCI * Glossary: A Jaynesian Therapeutic Perspective on Techniques and Interventions * References * Index * About the author
* Preface * Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Notes to reader * Prologue: Searching for the Active Ingredients of the Self-Healing Mind * PART 1: The Adaptive Mind, Consciousness, and Implications for Therapy * Chapter 1: Purposes and Premises: The Therapeutic Properties of Subjectivity * Chapter 2: What is Consciousness? Clarifying the Stuff of Mind * PART 2: The Benefits and Costs of Conscious Interiority * Chapter 3: The Advantages of Conscious Interiority * Chapter 4: Runaway Consciousness: The Price of Scaled-up Cognition * Chapter 5: A Brief History of the Interiorization of Psychotherapy * PART 3: The Meaning of Mental Health and How the Psyche Adjusts * Chapter 6: Treating Mental Illness and Facilitating Mental Wellbeing * Chapter 7: The Nature of Self: Systemized, Serialized, Dramatized * Chapter 8: The Self-Organizing Mind: Rhythms, Routines, Rituals * PART 4: Applications, Approaches, and Interventions * Chapter 9: Using Conscious Interiority as a Therapeutic Tool * Chapter 10: Key Therapeutic Skills and Conscious Interiority * Chapter 11: Groups and Families as Therapeutic Systems * Chapter 12: Emotions and Conscious Interiority * Chapter 13: Hypnosis and Meditation: Suspending and Modulating Conscious Interiority * Chapter 14: Human Diversity, Social Adaptation, and Psychotherapy * Epilogue: Final Thoughts * Appendices * A: Synopsis of Positive Psychology * B: Synopsis of Common Factors * C: The Historical Birth of Conscious Interiority * D: What Conscious Interiority is Not * E: Psyche-Biological Hardware or Cultural Software? * F: Examples of Metaphoric Creativity * G: Five Perspectives on Conscious Interiority: A Summary * H: Developmental Stages of the Lifespan and FOCI * Glossary: A Jaynesian Therapeutic Perspective on Techniques and Interventions * References * Index * About the author
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