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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 | |