Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing TraumaTaylor & Francis, 2005 - 261 pagine Living in the Borderland addresses the evolution of Western consciousness and describes the emergence of the 'Borderland,' a spectrum of reality that is beyond the rational yet is palpable to an increasing number of individuals. Building on Jungian theory, Jerome Bernstein argues that a greater openness to transrational reality experienced by Borderland personalities allows new possibilities for understanding and healing confounding clinical and developmental enigmas. There are many people whose experiences of reality is outside the mainstream of Western culture; often they see themselves as abnormal because they have no articulated frame of reference for their experience. The concept of the Borderland personality explains much of their experience. In three sections, this book examines the psychological and clinical implications of the evolution of consciousness and looks at how the new Borderland consciousness bridges the mind-body divide. Subjects covered include: · Genesis: Evolution of the Western Ego · Transrational Data in a Western Clinical Context: Synchronicity · Trauma and Borderland Transcendence · Environmental Illness Complex · Integration of Navajo and Western healing approaches for Borderland Personalities. Living in the Borderland challenges the standard clinical model, which views normality as an absence of pathology and which equates normality with the rational. Jerome S. Bernstein describes how psychotherapy itself often contributes to the alienation of Borderland personalities by misperceiving the difference between the pathological and the sacred. The case studies included illustrate the potential this has for causing serious psychic and emotional damage to the patient. This challenge to the orthodoxies and complacencies of Western medicine's concept of pathology will interest Jungian Analysts, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists and other physicians, as well as educators of children. Jerome S. Bernstein is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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Prologue | 3 |
Living in the Borderland The pathological and the sacred Hannah | 6 |
Genesis Birth of the western ego | 15 |
Genesis | 18 |
The Archetypal thrust of Genesis | 20 |
Role of the alphabet the alephbet | 22 |
An anthropomorphized ego cleaved from nature | 23 |
An ego wrenched from nature | 27 |
Clinical adaptations between Navajo and western healing approaches Bridging the mindbody split | 136 |
The transference dynamic | 137 |
Navajo clinical context | 138 |
The Self and the hatathli | 139 |
Clinical implications | 140 |
Story as clinical tool | 145 |
The body | 149 |
Witnessing as clinical tool | 150 |
Makeup of this psyche splitoff from nature | 33 |
Western egos fear of fragmentation | 34 |
Fragmentation complex | 36 |
Darwin and overspecialization | 39 |
The threat of species suicide | 40 |
Beyond Darwin and Newton Complex adaptive systems | 48 |
Chaos theory and the Borderland | 52 |
A coevolutionary partner | 56 |
Introduction to Part II Psychological and clinical implications | 69 |
A Great Grief | 71 |
Portals to the Borderland | 81 |
Personality structure portal | 83 |
Trauma portal | 91 |
BorderlandBorderline | 102 |
Introduction to Part III A new emerging consciousness Building a clinical bridge between the mindbody split | 121 |
A cookout Fundamental differences and points of linkage between Navajo and western healing systems | 125 |
Navajo religion and healing | 127 |
Beauty | 129 |
Western approaches to healing | 130 |
Sand painting dream work and the mindbody connection | 155 |
Synchronicity | 159 |
Spiritual redemption or spiritual bypass | 167 |
Transrational data in a western clinical context Synchronicity | 173 |
Dreams | 176 |
Role of the clinician | 191 |
Transrational data in the context of allopathic medicine | 198 |
Environmental illness complex | 204 |
Avoidance model of diagnosis and treatment | 208 |
Environmental illness complex | 210 |
Mindbody split in EIC | 211 |
Environmental illness complex and the Borderland | 214 |
Ahead | 219 |
Further reflections | 223 |
Epilogue The Borderland the placeofpotentialmeeting | 228 |
Appendix | 240 |
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