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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Credits and permissions in order of appearance in the text | |
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| Illustration credits | |
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| List of plates and figures | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The present work | |
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| Two worlds | |
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| Trauma and the self-care system | |
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| Considering the soul | |
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| The soul's development | |
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| The interruption of trauma | |
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| Concluding thoughts | |
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| Trauma and life-saving encounters with the numinous | |
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| Depth psychology's discovery of the spirit world | |
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| Encounters with the mystery | |
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| Visitations at the moment of dying | |
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| The Virgin Mary as guardian angel | |
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| Mary and the baby at 25,000 feet | |
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| A mystical experience in Jungian analysis | |
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| The remarkable "presences" of this chapter | |
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| Loss and recovery of the soul-child | |
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| The child between the worlds: D. W. Winnicott's transitional space | |
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| First case: baby in a cage | |
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| Second case: stockbroker and the buried child | |
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| Third case: Dellie and the pony | |
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| The lost and recovered child in world mythology | |
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| Dissociation and the dark side of the defensive system: Dante's encounter with "Dis" in the Inferno | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Dis and aggression | |
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| Glimpses of Dis in the clinical situation | |
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| Dis in psychoanalysis, Jungian theory, and beyond | |
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| The descent | |
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| "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" | |
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| Dis and the demon of depression | |
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| Clinical example: the case of Helen | |
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| The descent continued: Limbo | |
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| An example of a breakthrough with spiritual implications | |
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| Stuck in Limbo: malignant innocence | |
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| Diane: malignant innocence | |
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| Dis and embodiment | |
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| Further descent into the nether regions | |
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| Digression on angels at the gate of Dis | |
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| The descent continued: encounter with Dis | |
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| Encountering Dis up close in the transference | |
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| Conclusion: two kinds of suffering | |
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| Trauma, transformation, and transcendence: the case of Mike | |
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| Introduction | |
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| First meeting | |
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| Comment on the basic split of early trauma | |
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| Initial sessions and the recovery of lost children | |
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| Grief work | |
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| Recovery of the lost boy/child | |
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| Inner and outer boys | |
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| Recovery of the lost feminine | |
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| Middle phase: new relationship to aggressive energies | |
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| Anger in the transference | |
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| The pie-baker and the stained glass man | |
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| Churches as sanctuaries for integration of love and hate | |
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| Revelation, the Buddha's tear, and the arrival of sympathy | |
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| Regression and reconstitution of the old defense | |
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| The return of Sympathy | |
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| Voluntary sacrifice and the beheading game | |
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| Opening into pain is opening into God | |
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| Summary | |
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| Wholeness and anti-wholeness defenses | |
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| Introduction | |
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| To be seen in our wholeness | |
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| Wholeness and our spiritual inheritance | |
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| Wholeness, distorting mirrors, and the personal narrative | |
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| Jung's recovery of wholeness through a dream | |
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| Jung's later description of wholeness | |
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| Contributions of neuroscience toward an understanding of wholeness | |
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| The case of Cynthia | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Psychoanalytic approaches to the inner world: applying theory to the cases so far | |
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| Ronald Fairbairn and inner persecution | |
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| John Steiner and psychic retreats | |
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| Christopher Bollas and the inner world as ghostland | |
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| Arnold Modell and the private self | |
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| Neville Symington and the true vs. false God | |
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| Comment | |
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| James Grotstein and the ineffable subject of the unconscious | |
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| Innocence, its loss, and recovery: reflections on St. Exup�ry's The Little Prince | |
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| Innocence and how psychoanalysts view it | |
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| Innocence in the Western literature | |
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| St. Exup�ry's The Little Prince | |
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| The case of Barbara | |
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| The story: a little prince between the worlds | |
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| Innocence risking experience | |
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| Taming: wheatfields | |
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| Invisible things of the heart | |
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| Little prince meets pilot | |
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| Story of Barbara, continued | |
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| The Little Prince concluded: the pilot begins to understand | |
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| Lessons from our story | |
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| Barbara: a late dream | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| C.G. Jung's divided self: learning to live "between the worlds" | |
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| Introduction and links to previous chapters | |
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| C.G. Jung's odyssey between the worlds: parallels with The Little Prince | |
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| Hidden candlesticks | |
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| Jung's story, continued | |
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| The dialectic of Jung's two worlds in relation to Freud and psychoanalysis | |
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| Overview of Jung's life story | |
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| Winnicott's review of Memories, Dreams, Reflections | |
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| Winnicott's allegations about Jung's psychopathology | |
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| Evaluating Winnicott's interpretations | |
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| Summary and conclusions | |
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| Dis-memberment and re-memberment: reflections on a case of embodied dream work in light of Grimm's fairytale, The Woman Without Hands | |
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| Introduction | |
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| On the inclusion of fairy tales | |
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| The oppression of the body by the mind | |
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| The case of Deborah | |
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| The Woman Without Hands: part I | |
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| Deborah's early therapy process | |
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| Toward a theoretical understanding | |
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| The Woman Without Hands: part II | |
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| Deborah's therapy process: the silver hands stage | |
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| The Woman Without Hands: part III | |
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| Deborah's time in the "forest" | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |