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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael M.M.G.S. DelMonte , Maeve HalpinPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 31 Weight: 0.321kg ISBN: 9789004523746ISBN 10: 900452374 Pages: 166 Publication Date: 02 March 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword 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 EndorsementReviewsThis book is absolutely breathtaking in the extent of its exploration of concepts and theories, ranging from the Western psychotherapies to Eastern traditions of mindfulness and meditative practice. But even more amazing and exciting is that it weaves interconnections with a range of other disciplines, including physics, cosmology, genetics, neuroscience and philosophy. In so doing, it questions much of currently accepted wisdom. These ideas are presented clearly and coherently, accessible to the general reader as well as to clinicians, therapists and scientists. - Ray Fuller, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin, Author of Life of Brain and Six Confessions of the Self-serving Brain (2021). Author InformationMichael (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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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