Psychology - Psychology

A useful source book for Pagan spiritualists. Elisabeth Goldsmith examines symbols found in the art and artefacts from across cultures and throughout history. Explanations reveal the symbolism of the Elements, the Lotus, the Tree of Life, the Cross, the Swastika, and many more.

Elisabeth Goldsmith begins Ancient Pagan Symbols with a poetic description of the creative forces of life and the metaphysical love affair between men and women, lingham and yoni, sun and moon - sex. When first published in the 1920s, this book was thought scandalous, but it has endured generations to become one of the most important references for Pagan spiritualists. Goldsmith examines symbols found in the art and artefacts from across cultures and throughout history.

Scientists and mystics through history have realised that every human being is a carrier of opposite and complementary life energies. Given a variety of names - yin and yang poetic and rational emotional and intellectual feminine and masculine - these energies exist in everyone regardless of gender. Androgyny involves recognizing the eternal flux of these opposing energies within us. On a journey that takes us through Taoism Gnosticism Kabbalah Alchemy Astrology Tibetan Tantra Kundalini Yoga and the works of Plato Freud and Jung June Singer shows how crucial awareness of the androgynous soul has been to those inquiring into the mysteries of human nature. Consciousness of our own androgyny can lead to a new sense of personal unity within the larger universe. It is no accident that men and women today are expressing previously undeveloped sides of their natures. One of the most thorough investigations of the subject in the current literature ANDROGYNY is full of psychological and spiritual insights that speak to today's sexual confusion. Singer shows how we can embrace both complementary and contradictory attitudes towards sex and gender. Finally she proposes a range of choices by which we can identify ourselves secure that the masculine/feminine interaction within each of us is not only normal but also the dynamic factor in our wholeness.

An updated edition of the groundbreaking, in-depth study of the Great Goddess archetypes, now available for a new generation of astrologers. New edition with updated ephemerides (1930-2050). This book shows how the discovery of the asteroids Ceres, Pallas Athena, Juno, and Vesta coincided with the shift of a woman's role and power in society and the reactivation of the feminine principle. The femininearchetypes were previously the exclusive domain of the Moon and Venus, limited to social roles as mate and mother. The arrival of Pallas Athena (the Goddess of Wisdom) and Vesta (the High Priestess) broke through the confines of woman's stereotypical role. Demetra George shows how the asteroid Goddesses, the Moon, and Venus comprise a mandala of the full expression of the feminine principle. Included in this edition are ephemerides of 16 minor asteroids, an astronomical and astrological portrait of the asteroids in the sign sand houses and in aspect to other planets and asteroids, along with lists of the asteroids' positions in the signs and houses of famous people's charts.

Jungian analyst Ann Ulanov's latest book springs from a question posed to her by an analysand curious about the author's repetitive bouts of poison ivy. Himself an analyst she writes he wondered if I had ever asked myself what my attacks of poison ivy meant. His question struck me like a wooden mallet on my forehead. I was stunned. Thus begins this insightful and beautifully written account of the author's decade-long journey to uncover the origin of and find meaning and healing from fifty years of suffering from chronic poison ivy allergy. By raising the possibility that poison ivy a noisome contact allergy can also be located within psychosomatic phenomena the author's premise is straightforward: the psyche will often make use of the body in the form of such repetitive poison ivy outbreaks to communicate dissociated emotional experiences. Piecing together a poignant narrative of familial and personal neglect - coupled with growing awareness of her own kinship with the poison ivy plant itself a plant that blooms in neglect that is never cared for except to exterminate it - Ann Ulanov renders bare her own process of discovering and integrating the dissociated unmirrored experiences of her life that had lived itself over and again through painful bodily paroxysms. Those familiar with Ulanov's other books will immediately recognize and appreciate her clarity and ease of expression. There is much to chew on here especially that which concerns the psychological meaning of physical symptoms. Following her own example this book is a call to enter into conversation with the deeper parts of ourselves which like poison ivy are often untended and rejected. This is work initiated by analysis and continued through our own dialoguing with dreams and imagination in a way that is profoundly spiritual. We do this the author writes in order to build up a sturdiness to receive in ourselves what has been there from the beginning.

When we lose a loved one the experience is simultaneously mythical and personal. Grubbs anchors the mythical aspect of loss in the story of Gilgamesh and the loss of his beloved Enkidu which sets him on a quest for his beloved and the meaning of life. The personal aspect arises in the particular path we take in recovery from loss. Both realms blend in the dream space where we often encounter our lost beloved. Detailing the grieving process and the types of dreams that manifest during its various stages Grubbs reveals the enormous positive potential for our individual soul-growth. We also learn how our lost beloved grows with us in his or her own soul process. She presents several personal stories of people who have worked through their grief through their dreams and provides practices for readers to catch their dreams honour them and their departed loved ones and grow in a healthy direction from the experience. Her description of The Day of the Dead celebrated in Mexico provides an insightful example of how other cultures accept death as part of the life process. In 1984 while studying for her master's degree in social work Dr. Grubbs suddenly lost her son Michael to a freak accident. While in the throes of grief she religiously recorded her dreams which became the precursor to BEREAVEMENT DREAMING AND THE INDIVIDUATING SOUL. Dr. Grubbs studied at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich has been practicing depth psychology since 1987 and is an experienced workshop and seminar leader.

A practising psychiatrist specialising in bipolar disorder for nearly twenty years, Dr. Burgess has helped countless children and teens navigate the minefield of mania and depression and lead successful, happy lives. Drawing on the real questions asked by patients and parents and families of affected children, THE BIPOLAR HANDBOOK FOR CHILDREN, TEENS, & FAMILIES tackles every area of the disorder: causes; medical treatment and psychotherapy; strategies for creating a healthy lifestyle; and preventing, coping with, and treating bipolar episodes. More than five hundred questions and answers address: · how to choose the right doctor or specialist for your child · what treatment and medication protocols are best, and · how to reduce stress to prevent manic and depressive episodes. Special chapters on practical strategies for academic success, building healthy relationships, issues that specifically affect teens versus smaller children and coping techniques for families and friends further explore the impact of the disorder on daily life. THE BIPOLAR HANDBOOK FOR CHILDREN, TEENS, & FAMILIES, also, includes diagnostic criteria, making this a versatile guide - perfect for both quick reference and in-depth study.

More than ever the time is ripe for June Singer's penetrating commentary on William Blake's work The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. For even the most devout literary scholars and art historians much of Blake's mystical visions and writings are perplexing. With his pen and brush he gave birth to mythological figures and fantastic metaphors. Singer shows us that Blake was actually tapping into the collective unconscious and giving form and voice to primordial psychological energies or archetypes that he experienced in his inner and outer world. Blake's writing and art was his personal dialogue between God and his own inner self - a reconciliation of duality - in which we can find clues to contemporary issues. In the 18th century Blake was a pioneer in finding nurturing and celebrating his personal connection with the divine a search that still appeals to people who are coming to terms with the contemporary struggle between science and spirituality the conflict between reason and imagination. With clarity and wisdom Singer examines the images and words in each plate of Blake's work applying in her analysis the concepts that C.G. Jung advanced in his psychological theories. There is no more perfect lens with which to look at Blake's work than that of Jung's concepts of the archetypes the process of individuation and the mysterium coniunctionis in which consciousness and the unconscious are united. This edition includes a new preface by June Singer and a reproduction of 24 pages from Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

Dr. Koltuv a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst shows the mythological she-demon Lilith as an archetypal part of the Self and in this fascinating study helps the reader to reconnect with this powerful energy in order to transform it and apply it to his or her own life. Lilith a long-haired she-demon of the night flies through Sumerian Babylonian Assyrian Canaanite Persian Hebrew Arabic and Teutonic mythology. It is said that Adam's original consort was Lilith and she represents the first Eve or the woman who tempted Adam with the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. Lilith is many things: she is seductress child-killer an evil energy. Lilith is also one of the essentially motherless forms of the feminine Self and arose as an embodiment of the neglected and rejected aspects of the Great Goddess. Lilith is Adamah that part of the Self today's women need to reconnect with in order to no longer be spiritual outcasts. Barbara Koltuv's book shows how the instinctual side of femininity has been dreaded and rejected by traditional patriarchal culture and religion. - Edward Whitmont author of Return of the Goddess

An in-depth study that stresses the importance of the imagination in the psychotherapy of borderline conditions. Psychoanalytic theory object relations and developmental approaches are combined with a Jungian archetypal orientation to delve into deep structures within the borderline sector and the analytic encounter. Nathan Schwartz-Salant trained as a Jungian analyst in Zurich. He is director of the Center for Analytical Perspectives in New York and has a private practice in New York City and Princeton.