Discover Your Subpersonalities: Our Inner World and the People in It

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Cover Title Copyright Contents Introduction: let us call them subpersonalities 1 Where do they come from? Roles that we play 2 How we do battle with ourselves: internal conflicts 3 Creating them to order: possible selves 4 Delving deeper: our personal history 5 How society tells us we are no good: the patripsych 6 The deepest level of all: the collective unconscious and archetypes 7 What are subpersonalities? How we compartmentalize our minds 8 Altered states of consciousness: something we are all familiar with 9 Maturity: connections to the world outside us 10 Relationships: how to understand what is going on 11 Dream characters: making use of our dreams 12 Books and films: Steppenwolf — subpersonalities in action on the stage 13 Let's look at some of the explanations: Freud and psychoanalysis 14 How do we work with our subpersonalities? The Jungian tradition and active imagination 15 How do we encounter our subpersonalities? Psychodrama 16 How do we get our subpersonalities to encounter one another? Gestalt therapy 17 How do we transform our subpersonalities? Psychosynthesis 18 How many subpersonalities have we got? Transactional analysis and ego-state therapy 19 Does everyone have the same subpersonalities? Voice dialogue 20 Can hypnotism help? Hypnotherapy and neuro-linguistic programming 21 Subpersonalities in the astrological chart: Greene and Sasportas 22 The history of subpersonalities: from early cultures to today 23 Recent thinking on subpersonalities: psychologists, brain researchers and philosophers have their say 24 Beyond the subpersonalities: the real self, the higher self and the soul Further reading Index