Psychoanalysis and the Paranormal - Lands of Darkness

List of contents

Introduction -- Dream telepathy: experimental and clinical findings -- Parapsychology and Psychoanalysis -- Explicability, psychoanalysis and the paranormal -- Mercurius, archetype, and “transpsychic reality”: C. G. Jung’s parapsychology of spirit(s) -- The “alien abduction” syndrome -- Developments in the concept of synchronicity in the analytic relationship and in theory -- The ghost in the mother: strange attractors and impossible mourning -- “Each single ego”: telepathy and psychoanalysis

About the author

Nick Totton is a therapist and trainer with nearly thirty years experience. Originally a Reichian body therapist, his approach has become broad based and open to the spontaneous and unexpected. Nick has an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies, and has worked with Process-Oriented Psychology and trained as a craniosacral therapist. He has authored or edited seventeen books, mostly on psychotherapy-related topics, including 'Body Psychotherapy: An Introduction'; 'Psychotherapy and Politics'; 'Press When Illuminated: New and Selected Poems'; and 'Wild Therapy'.

Summary

This book demonstrates, in different ways, that paranormal phenomena are of direct relevance to psychoanalysis, and that they frequently impinge directly on its clinical practice—most obviously in the forms of telepathy and synchronicity.

Product details

• Authors: TOTTON, Nick Totton
• Assisted by: Nick Totton (Editor), Totton Nick (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367326258
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32625-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Parapsychological studies, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)