Adventures in self-discovery
By: by David Seabury.
Publisher: Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill book company inc.
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Psychoanalysis.; Neuroses.
First sentence: There was a time in your life when you dreamed dreams, the vision in childhood of what maturity would bring.
Description: Adventures in Self-Discovery is a book based on the author's own psychic experiences. Seabury tries to shew that in order to get rid of a neurosis, or to change a personality, the most important step for the individual is to see that he has been going against his own nature. In order to make a fresh start he should thrust away tradition and his early childhood experiences and be his true self. He believes that there are moments of insight when the individual sees his difficulties so clearly that he can make an attempt to overcome them; helped by this insight and by means of his will power he can then direct his energies towards creative living, as he calls it.
Table of contents: title: A Personal Narrative
pagenum: 3
label: I.; title: Threads of the Plot
pagenum: 14
label: II.; title: Obsessing Phantasies
pagenum: 32
label: III.; title: Your Inner Life
pagenum: 46
label: IV.; title: Drama in Your Experience
pagenum: 61
label: V.; title: The Story of Ourselves
pagenum: 78
label: VI.; title: The Book Beautiful
pagenum: 93
label: VII.; title: Significance of Symbols
pagenum: 105
label: VIII.; title: The Magic of Words
pagenum: 136
label: IX.; title: Living by Inspiration
pagenum: 148
label: X.; title: Creative Consciousness
pagenum: 167
label: XI.; title: Tearing Life Apart
pagenum: 182
label: XII.; title: Release and Self-Realization
pagenum: 195
label: XIII.; title: Life Begins When You Do
pagenum: 206
label: XIV.; title: The Growing Principle
pagenum: 219
label: XV.; title: Liberation
pagenum: 232
label: XVI.; title: Spiritual Development
pagenum: 244
label: XVII.; title: Your Dynamic Principle
pagenum: 259
label: XVIII.; title: The Meaning of Experience
pagenum: 281
label: XIX.; pagenum: 309
label: Index