Beyond Psychology:An Introduction to Metapsychology电子书

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Illustrations

Exercises

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Part I — The Theory of Metapsychology

Chapter 1: The Person and the world

The Person-Centered Viewpoint

Personal Identity

Focal and Subsidiary Awareness

Acts of Perception

Instrumental Skills

Learning and Personal Growth

Unlearning and Relearning

Identity

Characteristics of a World

Entities

Phenomena: Perceivable Entities

Facts: Knowable Entities

Concepts: Conceivable Entities

The Relationship Among Phenomena, Facts, and Concepts

Quasi-Entities

The Person-World Polarity

Personal Reality

The Nature of Reality

Reality and Concurrence

Chapter 2: Ability

Being

Having

Having as Potential Causation

Prehension

Fetching and Acquiring

Releasing and Losing

Summary of Terms Relating to Having

Ways of Prehending

Assent and Intention

The Meaning of “Yes”

Two Kinds of Assent

Considering

Knowing

Doing

Creative Actions

Creating Concepts—Conceiving

Creating Phenomena—Picturing

Creating Facts—Postulating

Receptive Actions

Intention, Action, and Inaction

The Resultant Intention

Involuntary Actions

Automaticities

Chapter 3: The Anatomy of Experience

The Mind

The Mind-Body Problem

The Problem of Communication

Intention and Time

Cycles

Activity Cycles

Assent and Intention

Balancing Acceptance and Commitment

Limits on Intention

Incomplete Cycles

Dimensions of Experience

The Spatial Dimensions

The Temporal Dimension

The Polar Dimension

Movement Along the Polar Dimension

Causation and the Polar Dimension

Dimensions of an Activity

Success and Emotion

How Success Affects Emotion

Emotion and Physiology

How Emotion Affects Success

Chapter 4: The Genesis of Personal Reality

The Learning Cycle

The Organizing of Experience

The Pleasure Principle

Relief

Aesthetics

Order

Simplicity

Continuity

Scope

Ease

Stability

Congruity

Logical Consistency

Alignment

Heuristics

Balancing Pleasure, Order, and Heuristics

Empowerment, Validity, and Value

Falsehood

The Effect of Time

Cardinality

Closeness and Affinity

Affinity for People

Affinity for Impersonal Entities

Desire and Abhorrence

Affinity and Importance

Closeness and the Emotional Scale

Desire and Ability

Understanding

Control

Ability

Intention—A Combination of Desire and Ability

Drive

Intention and Power

Power is a Means, Not an End

The Power Triad Drive, Control, and Understanding

Drive

Control

Understanding

The Ascending Power Triad

Triad of Debilitation

Power and Empowerment

Chapter 5: Personal Relationships

Communication

Components of Communication

The Learning Cycle in Communication

Communication as an Intentional Act

Two-Way Communication

Declarations

The Person-Centered Context

Questions and Requests

Negotiating Communication Cycles

Communication, Comprehension, and Affection

Flows

Causation and Responsibility

Other-Determinism

Self-Determinism

Multi-Determinism

A Cause and the Cause

The Six Domains

The First Domain—The Self

The Second Domain—Intimates

The Third Domain—Groups

The Fourth Domain—Mankind

The Fifth Domain—Life

The Sixth Domain—The Infinite

The Domains as a Hypersphere

Inverted Domains

Using the Domains to Help People

Ethics

Integrity and Identity

Worldly Good and Evil

Personal and Interpersonal Good and Evil

Part II — Basic Disabilities

Chapter 6: Disabilities

Categorizing Disabilities

Fixation of Identity

Disabilities of Creating and Receiving

Upsets

Misdeeds

Justifications

The Function of Justifications

The Vicious Circle of Misdeeds and Justifications

Withholds

Harmful Effects of Withholds

Reduction of Comprehension

Erosion of Others’ Reality

Losing One’s Own Sense of Reality

To Communicate or not to Communicate?

Incongruities and Problems

Awareness of Incongruity

Problems

The Value of Problems

False Solutions

The Ability to Have Larger Problems

Incomprehension and Education

Incomprehension and the Learning Cycle

Barriers to Learning

Cumulative Effects of Learning Failures

Fixed Identities

Chapter 7: Pain and Aberration

Pain, Aversion, and Repression

Pain

Physical Pain

Situational Pain

Pain and Unawareness

Simple Unawareness

Directed Unawareness

Repression and Aversion

Strategies of Repression

Failure to Perceive

Failure to Interpret

Failure to Verify

Failure to Decide

Delusion

Layers of Delusion

Reaching Underlying Truths

Stress

Traumatic Incidents

The Effects of Incomplete Cycles

Remembering and Repressing Traumatic Incidents

Sequences of Traumatic Incidents

The Traumatic Incident Network (Net)

Aberration

Reliving a Past Trauma

Dealing with Activation

Repressing and Reliving

Identification with the Winning Identity

The Dark Side of Human Nature

Automaticities

Automatisms and Skills

Secondary Gain

Automatisms and Fixed Identities

Automatisms as Resistance to Help

Part III — Applied Metapsychology

Chapter 8: Viewing, an Effective Approach to Personal Enhancement

The Facilitator

Two Phases of Learning

Incomplete Integration

Integration vs. Reception

Nurturing Integration

Viewing as Pure Integrative Learning

Creating a Safe Environment

Rules of Facilitation

Avoiding Dependence

The Viewing Session

The Process of Viewing

End Points and Overruns

Planning the Viewing Session

Assessing

Inquiring

Inquiring for Data

Listing

Indicators

Recognizing an End Point

Traumatic Incident Reduction

What Traumatic Incident Reduction Does

How TIR Works

Sequences and Roots

The End Point of TIR

The Assessment Step

The Viewing Step

The Experienced Viewer

General and Remedial TIR

Transcendent Experiences

Past Lives

Attached Beings

Solo Viewing

Chapter 9: Case Planning

The Curriculum

Theory of the General Curriculum

Sections of the Curriculum

Life Stress Reduction

Help Section

Memory Enhancement Section

Communication Section

Resolution Section

Reconciliation Section

Resilience Section

General TIR Section

Rightness Section

Advanced Techniques

Unstacking

Individuation Technique

Sub-Personalities

The Turning Point

Unburdening and Discovery

Remedial and Curricular Actions

Following the Viewer’s Attention

Cycling Through the Curriculum

Disturbance Handling

Techniques for Disturbance Handling

Handling Activated Traumas

Handling Upsets and Worries

Handling Withholds

Special Unburdening Techniques

Types of Viewing Techniques

What is a Technique?

Basic Components of Viewing Techniques

Patterns

Actions

Items

Objects

Locations

Directionalities

End Points

Technique-Specific End Points.

A Classification of Viewing Techniques

Receptive Subjective Techniques

Creative Subjective Techniques

Receptive Objective Techniques

Creative Objective Techniques

Viewing Patterns

Retrospection

Inquiring

Unlayering

Undoing an Automatism

“Taking Over” an Automatism

Extinguishing Automatisms

Checklist

Sequential Unlayering

Combinations of Patterns

Basic Viewing Actions

Locating

Looking and Describing

Comparing

Selecting

Creative Actions

Life Stress Reduction

The Initial Interview

Case Planning for Life Stress Reduction

Assessment Lists

Debug Lists

Handling Overruns

When to Use a Remedy

Selection Errors

TIR Errors

Emergency Remedies

In-Life Handling

Addressing Illness

Continual Misdeeds

Handling Failures in Life

Consultation

Handling Conditions

Engagement

Below Failure

Failure

Danger

Emergency

Drudgery

Normal

Success

Final Success

Completing Cycles Program

The Schema Program

Conclusions

Afterword

Appendices

Appendix I — Emergency Remedies

Remedies for Injuries and Illnesses

The Touch Remedy

Pattern for the Touch Remedy

The Re-Enactment Remedy

Grounding Remedy

Remedies for Recent Traumatic Incidents

Conversational Remedy

Past-Present Comparison

Informal TIR

Appendix II — Applied Metapsychology

Training in Applied Metapsychology

Where to Find a Facilitator

Glossary

Index

References