Psychoanalysis and the Paranormal: Lands of Darkness

ISBN-13: 9781855759855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 218 str.

Totton Nick; Nick Totton

Opis

The space of the paranormal can indeed be frightening. But psychoanalysis specializes in entering and tolerating frightening spaces. Why should this one be an exception? Nick Totton from the Foreword

Spis treści

Introduction -- Dream telepathy: experimental and clinical findings -- Parapsychology and Psychoanalysis -- Explicability, psychoanalysis and the paranormal -- Mercurius, archetype, and “transpsychic reality”: C. G. Jung’s parapsychology of spirit(s) -- The “alien abduction” syndrome -- Developments in the concept of synchronicity in the analytic relationship and in theory -- The ghost in the mother: strange attractors and impossible mourning -- “Each single ego”: telepathy and psychoanalysis

O autorze

Nick Totton is a therapist and trainer with nearly thirty years experience. Originally a Reichian body therapist, his approach has become broad based and open to the spontaneous and unexpected. Nick has an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies, and has worked with Process-Oriented Psychology and trained as a craniosacral therapist. He has authored or edited seventeen books, mostly on psychotherapy-related topics, including 'Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction'; 'Psychotherapy and Politics'; 'Press When Illuminated: New and Selected Poems'; and 'Wild Therapy'.