Living in the borderland the evolution of consciousness and the challenge of healing trauma / Jerome S. Bernstein.
| Author/creator | Bernstein, Jerome S., 1936- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005. |
| Description | xix, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Prologue -- Living in the borderland: the pathological and the sacred: Hannah -- Genesis: birth of the western ego. Genesis ; The archetypal thrust of Genesis ; The role of the alphabet: the aleph-bet ; An anthropomorphized ego cleaved from nature ; An ego wrenched from nature -- Make-up of this psyche split-off from nature. Western ego's fear of fragmentation ; Fragmentation complex -- Darwin and overspecialization. The threat of species suicide -- Beyond Darwin and Newton: complex adaptive systems. Chaos theory and the borderland -- A coevolutionary partner -- Introduction to part II: psychological and clinical implications -- A great grief -- Portals to the borderland. Evolution portal ; Personality structure portal ; Trauma portal -- Borderland/borderline -- Introduction to part III: A new emerging consciousness: building a clinical bridge between the mind-body split -- A cookout: fundamental differences and points of linkage between Navajo and Western healing systems. Navajo religion and healing ; Beauty ; Western approaches to healing -- Clinical adaptations between Navajo and western healing approaches: bridging the mind-body split. Clinical links: the transference dynamic ; Navajo clinical context ; The self and the hatathli ; Clinical implications ; Story as clinical tool ; The body ; Witnessing as clinical tool ; Sand painting, dream work, and the mind-body connection ; Synchronicity -- Spiritual redemption or spiritual bypass -- Transrational data in a western clinical context: synchronicity. Clinical examples: dreams ; The role of the clinician ; Transrational data in the context of allopathic medicine -- Environmental illness complex. Avoidance model of diagnosis and treatment ; Environmental illness complex ; The mind-body split in EIC ; Environmental illness complex and the borderland ; Ahead -- Further reflections -- Epilogue: the borderland: the place-of-potential-meeting. |
| Review | "Living in the Borderland addresses the evolution of Western consciousness and describes the emergence of the "Borderland," a spectrum of reality that is beyond the rational yet is palpable to an increasing number of individuals. Building on Jungian theory, Jerome Bernstein argues that a greater openness to transrational reality experienced by Borderland personalities allows new possibilities for understanding and healing confounding clinical and developmental enigmas." "Living in the Borderland challenges the standard clinical model, which views normality as an absence of pathology and which equates normality with the rational. Jerome S. Bernstein describes how psychotherapy itself often contributes to the alienation of Borderland personalities by misperceiving the difference between the pathological and the sacred. The case studies included illustrate the potential this has for causing serious psychic and emotional damage to the patient." "This challenge to the orthodoxies and complacencies of western medicine's concept of pathology will interest Jungian Analysts, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists and other physicians, as well as educators of children."-- Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-256) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004025714 |
| ISBN | 9781583917565 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 158391756X (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781583917572 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1583917578 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780203015391 |
| ISBN | 0203015398 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |