Paul W. Ashton

From the Brink

Experiences of the Void from a Depth Psychology Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes some of the defences employed against experiencing the void and suggests ways of helping ourselves decrease the rigidity of those defences so that we can encounter the void and in that process engage with it progressively.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9781855754447
• ISBN-10: 1855754444
• Artikelnr.: 23372416

Autorenporträt

Paul W. Ashton

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Territory
On the territory of the void
A walk on the wild side: connecting "the void" with people
Primary or secondary?
Psychotherapy and spirituality
ORIGINS of the VOID EXPERIENCE
Introduction to ORIGINS of the VOID EXPERIENCE
Empty of oneself
The void in psychogenic autism
Another "black hole"
Memory within the Borderline condition
Trauma as a void experience
Amplifications
Myths and legends of the Creation
Dimitri's void
The King's sacrifice
The "Birthday Present"
The dark night of the soul
Treatment
Introducing the management of void states
Aspects in the treatment of void states
Connections, walls, and windows
On active imagination
Individual Experiences
Void as a gender experience
Void as a gender experience