Brian J. Mcveigh

The Self-Healing Mind (eBook, ePUB)

Harnessing the Active Ingredients of Psychotherapy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Evolutionary psychology explains why some mental illnesses developed, but to answer questions about how to improve our mental well-being in the face of these challenges--how the mind works to heal itself-we should look to more recent changes in mentality. In The Self-Healing Mind, mental health counsellor and anthropologist Brian J. McVeigh postulates that around 1000 BCE, population expansion and social complexity forced people to learn "conscious interiority"--a package of cognitive capabilities that culturally upgraded mentality. He argues that the mental processes that help us get through the day are the same ones that can heal our psyches. Adopting a common factors and positive psychology perspective, McVeigh enumerates and defines these active ingredients of the self-healing mind: mental space, introception, self-observing and observed, self-narratization, excerption, consilience, concentration, suppression, self-authorization, self-autonomy, and self-reflexivity. McVeigh shows how these capabilities underlie the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic techniques and interventions. Though meta-framing effects of psyche's recuperative properties correct distorted cognition and grant us remarkable adaptive abilities, they sometimes spiral out of control, resulting in runaway consciousness and certain mental disorders. This book also addresses how maladaptive processes snowball and come to need restraint themselves. With insights from counseling, psychotherapy, anthropology, and history, The Self-Healing Mind will appeal to practitioners, researchers, and anyone interested in neurocultural plasticity and how therapeutically-directed consciousness repairs the mind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197647882
• Artikelnr.: 64114144

Autorenporträt

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