Before revision: The Dutch psychiatrist Jan Foudraine wrote extensively about it, tracing its history through the work of Laing and Jung, and eventually considering it “a permanent change in gestalt.” He cites an example where one sees a black vase, then one blinks, and instead one sees two white faces in profile opposite each other .Jan Foudraine, Metanoia (2004) p. 94 In transactional analysis, metanoia is used to describe the experience of abandoning an old scripted self or false self for a more open one: a process which may be marked by a mixture of intensity, despair, self-surrender, and an encounter with the inner void.Petrushka Clarkson, On Psychotherapy (1993) p. 63-4 See also References Further reading James, William, (1890), The Principles of Psychology, (New York) Jung, Carl, (1960), The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, CW 8.
After revision: (the Rubin vase)The Dutch psychiatrist Jan Foudraine wrote extensively about it, tracing its history through the work of Laing and Jung, and eventually considering it “a permanent change in gestalt.” He cites an example where one sees a black vase, then one blinks, and instead one sees two white faces in profile opposite each other .Jan Foudraine, Metanoia (2004) p. 94 In transactional analysis, metanoia is used to describe the experience of abandoning an old scripted self or false self for a more open one: a process which may be marked by a mixture of intensity, despair, self-surrender, and an encounter with the inner void.Petrushka Clarkson, On Psychotherapy (1993) p. 63-4 See also References Further reading James, William, (1890), The Principles of Psychology, (New York) Jung, Carl, (1960), The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, CW 8.