The primordial mind in health and illness
Subtitle: a cross-cultural perspective
By: Michael Robbins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hove; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415454605; 9780415454612
Subjects: Ethnopsychology; Cognition; Psychoanalysis; Subconsciousness
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The big picture; title: Western models of primordial mind: Freud and Klein; title: Western models of primordial mind II: Jung, Bion, Matte-Blanco; title: Western models of primordial mind III: Piaget, Werner attachment theory and implicit knowledge; title: Primordial mental activity; title: Dreaming; title: The primordial mind in everyday life; title: The relationship between mental processes in spiritual cultures; title: The mind of a shaman; title: Shamanism and psychosis; title: Special sensitivity: synesthesia and lucid dreaming; title: Creativity; title: Psychosis; title: Thoughtful reflections of psychotic persons; title: Language, thought and communication; title: Neuroscience of primordial mind; title: Analogy and transformation in human systems; title: Conclusion.