Vedantic Self and the JungianPsyche, The

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Title: Vedantic Self and the JungianPsyche, The
Author: Whitfield, Carol, Ph.D.(Radha)
Item Code: ISBN9789380049120
Publisher: Arsha Vidya Centre, Chennai
Edition: 1st ed., Date: 2009, 150 pp., PB
Description: This book, being a follow-up to her first book entitled ‘Jungian Myth and Advaita Vedanta’, continues on with a similar theme, but with a focused concentration on the healing capacity of each discipline and their integration into a greater whole.Psychological theories are based on the experiences of the one constructing the theory. If the Vedantic Self becomes a differentiated component of one’s experience, then it will naturally weave its way into one’s psychological model of the mind…New knowledge affects the old. Such has always been the case. As we go on learning and differentiating our experience, our theories change to accommodate our growth. In this case, if the existence of the Vedantic Self is differentiated from the psyche, then new knowledge is produced in that act of differentiation which then must be accounted for in the formulation oif the psychological theories that inform our work….According to Vedanta, it is the lack of differentiation of the Self from the psyche and world that is responsible for our pain and suffering, and so the solution to our problems lies ultimately in Self-knowledge. Psychological health in Vedanta depends on this differentiation. To the degree that a person identifies the Self with that which it is not, through either projection or superimposition, to that degree the person suffers….The book includes and Introduction covering: Jung’s Psychological Model of the Mind, Advaita Vedanta, The Need for a Synthesis, Preliminary Considerations and Assumptions, and The Structure of the Study. Its chapters include: Advaita Vedanta, The Jungian Myth, Jung’s Psychological Model of the Mind, and the last chapter includes Therapeutic Implications and a section For Future Study as well as a listing of References.