Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective (Suny Series in the Philosophy of Psychology)

In this book, Michael Washburn provides a psychoanalytic foundation for transpersonal psychology. Using psychoanalytic theory, Washburn explains how ego development both prepares for and creates obstacles to ego transcendence. Spiritual development, he proposes, can be properly understood only in terms of the ego development that precedes it. For example, many difficulties encountered in spiritual development can be traced to repressive underpinnings of ego development, and significant gender differences in spiritual development can be traced to corresponding gender differences that emerge during ego development. Washburn draws on a wide range of psychoanalytic perspectives in discussing ego development and uses both Eastern and Western sources in discussing spiritual development. In rethinking transpersonal psychology in psychoanalytic terms, he explains how essential elements of Jungian thought can be grounded in psychoanalytic theory.

Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective (Suny the Philosophy of Psychology)

Politics & Social Sciences

WASHBURN, MICHAEL

Philosophy

State University of New York Press

In this book, Michael Washburn provides a psychoanalytic foundation for transpersonal psychology. Using psychoanalytic theory, Washburn explains how ego development both prepares for and creates obstacles to ego transcendence. Spiritual development, he proposes, can be properly understood only in terms of the ego development that precedes it. For example, many difficulties encountered in spiritual development can be traced to repressive underpinnings of ego development, and significant gender differences in spiritual development can be traced to corresponding gender differences that emerge during ego development. Washburn draws on a wide range of psychoanalytic perspectives in discussing ego development and uses both Eastern and Western sources in discussing spiritual development. In rethinking transpersonal psychology in psychoanalytic terms, he explains how essential elements of Jungian thought can be grounded in psychoanalytic theory.

This book maps the course of human development from the earliest stages of ego development to the highest stages of ego transcendence. This new edition is a thorough revision of the first edition. Drawing on both psychoanalysis and analytical psychology and on both Eastern and Western spiritual sources, the book maps the course of human development from the earliest stages of ego development to the highest stages of ego transcendence. Washburn formulates an important paradigm for transpersonal psychology and clearly distinguishes it from the other major paradigm in the field, the structural-hierarchical paradigm of Ken Wilber. In Washburn’s view, human development is a spiral movement played out between the ego and its ultimate source: the Dynamic Ground. Ego development in the first half of life moves in a direction away from the Dynamic Ground; ego transcendence in the second half of life spirals back to the Ground on the way to a higher union with the Ground―whole-psyche integration. Washburn’s spiral paradigm helps explain why human development has the character of a journey of departure and higher return, of setting out into the world and then finding one’s way “home.” This new edition more effectively integrates key psychoanalytic and Jungian ideas by placing them within a developmental framework that resolves their contradictions. Washburn’s paradigm stresses both the biological roots and the spiritual potentialities of the psyche and is sensitive to the ambivalences, dualisms, transvaluations, and higher syntheses of life.

The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

State Univ of New York Pr

This book maps the course of human development from the earliest stages of ego development to the highest stages of ego transcendence. "I find it a psychologically more pertinent synthesis of the claims, experiences, and insights in transpersonal development than Wilber's paradigm. It is neater, more parsimonious, and more powerful." -- James N. Mosel This new edition is a thorough revision of the first edition. Drawing on both psychoanalysis and analytical psychology and on both Eastern and Western spiritual sources, the book maps the course of human development from the earliest stages of ego development to the highest stages of ego transcendence. Washburn formulates an important paradigm for transpersonal psychology and clearly distinguishes it from the other major paradigm in the field, the structural-hierarchical paradigm of Ken Wilber. In Washburn's view, human development is a spiral movement played out between the ego and its ultimate source: the Dynamic Ground. Ego development in the first half of life moves in a direction away from the Dynamic Ground; ego transcendence in the second half of life spirals back to the Ground on the way to a higher union with the Ground--whole-psyche integration. Washburn's spiral paradigm helps explain why human development has the character of a journey of departure and higher return, of setting out into the world and then finding one's way "home." This new edition more effectively integrates key psychoanalytic and Jungian ideas by placing them within a developmental framework that resolves their contradictions. Washburn's paradigm stresses both the biological roots and the spiritual potentialities of the psyche and is sensitive to the ambivalences, dualisms, transvaluations, and higher syntheses of life. "Washburn brings together many insights from psychotherapy and from meditation in an incomparably illuminating map of emotional-spiritual processes of transformation." -- Donald Evans

Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

Presents an account of human development from a depth-psychological, transpersonal perspective. Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of human spirituality will find something of value in Michael Washburn’s new book. Drawing on a rich variety of psychoanalytic, Jungian, and existential-phenomenological sources and on both Western and Asian spiritual texts, Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World provides a theoretical foundation for the idea that human development follows a spiral path. Washburn shows that ego development early in life requires us to turn our backs on original sources of our existence and, therefore, that spiritual development later in life requires us to spiral back to these sources on the way to whole-psyche integration. He elucidates the underlying causes and pivotal events that set development on its spiral course and traces six major dimensions of experience as they unfold along the spiral path: the unconscious, the energy system, the ego system, the perceived other, the experiential body, and the life-world. In providing a theoretical foundation for the idea of the spiral path, Washburn defends the idea against its critics and helps explain why the idea has been compelling to so many people in diverse traditions.

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

Presents an account of human development from a depth-psychological, transpersonal perspective.

Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

This book presents a transpersonal theory of human development. Using a broad range of both Western and Eastern sources, Washburn answers the challenge of Carl Jung. He shows how modern humans can integrate themselves and attain self-realization rather than self-destruction.

The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

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Business & Money

Sheffield, Christine

Real Estate

Independently published

In Recentering the Self, Michael Washburn presents a new account of the ego, ego development, and the role of the ego in spiritual life. He starts by tracing the premodern antecedents of the notion of the ego in Greek philosophy and Christian theology and then explains the seventeenth-century emergence of the notion in Descartes's radically new account of the soul's relation to the body. Reviewing subsequent criticisms of the notion, the author formulates a revised conception of the ego that highlights the ego's inherently two-sided nature, as a subject and agency that, although rooted within interior consciousness, lives originally and primarily in the material, social world. Washburn uses this revised conception of the ego to explain how the two sides of the ego develop in concert over major stages of the human lifespan and why the ego, despite widespread belief to the contrary, plays primarily a positive role in spiritual life. Recentering the Self makes important contributions to the history of philosophy, consciousness studies, phenomenology, developmental psychology, and spiritual or transpersonal psychology.

Recentering the Self: A Defense of the Ego (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

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Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective (Suny the Philosophy of Psychology)

Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective (Suny Series in the Philosophy of Psychology)

The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development

The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development

Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

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Recentering the Self: A Defense of the Ego (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)