Discover your subpersonalities - Our Inner World
and the People In It
John Rowan
Routledge 1993 ISBN 0-415-07366-9
Inside us we have parts of ourselves which in some ways have a life of
their own. We become aware of them when they pop out and take over. We
find ourselves saying "Yes" when we mean to say "No".
We torture ourselves over the jobs we have not done, or have not done
well enough. We argue with ourselves as to whether to get out of bed or
not. We eat things we know are bad for us. It is possible to treat each
of these as a person. Some of them may help us, some may hinder us. If
we want to be in charge of our own inner world, we had better find out
who they are and what they do. This is a self-help book with many exercises
to try out and questionnaires to complete.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Let us call them subpersonalities
Chapter 1. WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?
Roles that we play
Chapter 2. HOW WE DO BATTLE WITH OURSELVES
Internal conflicts
Chapter 3. CREATING THEM TO ORDER
Possible selves
Chapter 4. DELVING DEEPER
Our personal history
Chapter 5. HOW SOCIETY TELLS US WE ARE NO GOOD
The patripsych
Chapter 6. THE DEEPEST LEVEL OF ALL
The collective unconscious and archetypes
Chapter 7. WHAT ARE SUBPERSONALITIES?
How we compartmentalise our minds
Chapter 8. ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Something we are all familiar with
Chapter 9. MATURITY
Connections to the world outside us
Chapter 10. RELATIONSHIPS
How to understand what is going on
Chapter 11. DREAM CHARACTERS
Making use of our dreams
Chapter 12. BOOKS AND FILMS; STEPPENWOLF
Subpersonalities in action on the stage
Chapter 13. LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE EXPLANATIONS
Freud and psychoanalysis
Chapter 14. HOW DO WE WORK WITH OUR SUBPERSONALITIES?
The Jungian tradition and active imagination
Chapter 15. HOW DO WE ENCOUNTER OUR SUBPERSONALITIES?
Psychodrama
Chapter 16. HOW DO WE GET SUBPERSONALITIES TO ENCOUNTER ONE ANOTHER?
Gestalt therapy
Chapter 17. HOW DO WE TRANSFORM OUR SUBPERSONALITIES?
Psychosynthesis
Chapter 18. HOW MANY SUBPERSONALITIES HAVE WE GOT?
Transactional Analysis and Ego State Therapy
Chapter 19. DOES EVERYONE HAVE THE SAME SUBPERSONALITIES?
Voice Dialogue
Chapter 20. CAN HYPNOTISM HELP?
Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Chapter 21. SUBPERSONALITIES IN THE ASTROLOGICAL CHART
Greene and Sasportas
Chapter 22. THE HISTORY OF SUBPERSONALITIES
From primitive cultures to today
Chapter 23. RECENT THINKING ON SUBPERSONALITIES
Psychologists, brain researchers, philosophers have their say
Chapter 24. BEYOND THE SUBPERSONALITIES
The real self, the higher self and the soul
FURTHER READING. INDEX
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