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Imagination, Illness and Injury: Jungian Psychology and the Somatic Dimensions of Perception book cover

1st Edition

Imagination, Illness and Injury Jungian Psychology and the Somatic Dimensions of Perception

By Melanie Starr Costello Copyright 2006
144 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge
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How does the body influence the way we see the world? Imagination, Illness and Injury examines the psychological factors behind perceptual limitations and distortions and links a broad range of somatic manifestations with their resolution. Melanie Starr Costello applies Jungian theory to a variety of cases, attributing psychosomatic phenomena to cognitive processes that are common to us... Read more

Introduction. Part 1. The Imaginal System: Archetypes and Complexes and Perceptual Determinants. Archetypal Constrictions of Identity: A Case of Resolution through Injury. Albert Speer’s Twilight of Evil: A Case of Near-Death Awakening. The Unconscious Complex and Olfactory Messaging: A Case of Repetition Compulsion. Part 2. Somatic Elements of Perception: The Interpersonal Origins of Awareness. The Psyche-Soma Split: A Case of Maternal Negligence. Psychosomatics in Analysis: A Case of Repair through Regression. Building the Bridge: A Case of Restoration through Dyadic Imaging. Conclusions.

Biography

Melanie Starr Costello is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. USA She is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute-Zurich and holds a PhD in the History and Literature of Religions from Northwestern University. She lectures frequently in the United States on the topic of psychology and spirituality.

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