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The Mystery of Human Relationship

Alchemy and the Transformation of the Self

By: Nathan Schwartz-Salant

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The Mystery of Human Relationship

Alchemy and the Transformation of the Self

By: Nathan Schwartz-Salant

All human relationships are containers of emotional life, but what are the structures underlying them? Nathan Schwartz-Salant looks at all kinds of relationships through an analyst's eye. By analogy with the ancient system of alchemy he shows how states of mind that can undermine our relationships - in marriage, in creative work, in the workplace - can become transformative when brought to consciousness. It is only by learning how to access the interactive field of our relationships that we can enter this transformative process and explore its mysterious potential for self-realization.

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1134740700

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The Order-Disorder Paradox

Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society

By: Nathan Schwartz-Salant

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The Order-Disorder Paradox

Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society

By: Nathan Schwartz-Salant

Increasing order in a system also creates disorder: this seemingly paradoxical idea has deep roots in early cultures throughout the world, but it has been largely lost in our modern lives as we push for increasing systematization in our world and in our personal lives. Drawing on nearly five decades of research as well as forty-five years working as a psychoanalyst, Nathan Schwartz-Salant explains that, in a world where vast amounts of order are being created through the growing success of science and technology, the concomitant disorder is having devastating effects upon relationships, society, and the environment. As a Jungian analyst with training in the physical sciences, Schwartz-Salant is uniquely qualified to explore scientific conceptions of energy, information, and entropy alongside their mythical antecedents. He analyzes the possible effects of created disorder, including its negative consequences for the creator of the preceding order as well as its potentially transformative functions. With many examples of the interaction of order and disorder in everyday life and psychotherapy, The Order-Disorder Paradox makes new inroads into our understanding of the wide-ranging consequences of the order we create and its effects on others and the environment.

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North Atlantic Books

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1623171164

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9781623171162

The Black Nightgown

The Fusional Complex and the Unlived Life

By: Nathan Schwartz-Salant

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The Black Nightgown

The Fusional Complex and the Unlived Life

By: Nathan Schwartz-Salant

A woman's dream of being trapped in a black nightgown reveals a dread that dominates her psyche and blocks her development as a self. In her story and others, Jungian analyst Nathan Schwartz-Salant reveals how the same complex characterizes our society as a whole. This archetypal pattern is the Fusional Complex. The Fusional Complex is like the Renaissance alchemists' prima materia, said to be vile and worthless, ubiquitous and easily discarded, and yet essential for the creation of that most highly prized goal of the alchemical opus: the lapis, a symbol of the self. Like the prima materia, the Fusional Complex is found everywhere--in addiction and codependency, in masochistic submissions that sacrifice essence and potential, in the dark corners of relationships that are fixed in old patterns and simmer in contempt and resentment, and in the array of the character disorders. Because it generally goes unseen, however, these disorders do not transform. Through the theory of the Fusional Complex, and with the non-ordinary perception that detects it, we can learn to make transformative discoveries that are rarely possible through usual analytic procedures. And through the cultural and individual examples of The Black Nightgown, we will see that the Fusional Complex is the doorway through which any new form of consciousness and associated self--the structure that bestows a sense of identity and order within human life--must pass.

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Chiron Publications

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1888602414

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The Black Nightgown

The Fusional Complex and the Unlived Life

By: Nathan Schwartz-Salant

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The Fusional Complex and the Unlived Life

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Breakdown and Breakthrough

Psychotherapy in a New Dimension

By: Nathan Field

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Breakdown and Breakthrough

Psychotherapy in a New Dimension

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Breakdown and Breakthrough examines the essential role of regression in the patient's recovery from mental illness. In light of this Nathan Field reassesses the role of the therapist tracing psychotherapy back to its earliest spiritual roots and comparing modern analytic methods with ancient practices of healing and exorcism. The author uses vivid examples from his psychotherapeutic practice to show how, with the apparent breakdown of the therapeutic method itself, patients can break through to a new level of functioning. The book goes on to consider how psychotherapy has been affected by fundamental developments in twentieth century science, such as the move from old, classical assumptions of linear causation to non-linear complexity from reductionism to a holistic systems approach and from mental mechanisms to acknowledging the mysteries of unconscious interaction. Taking up the radical vision originally proposed by Carl Jung and later fostered by eminent psychotherapists such as Winnicott and Bion, the author shows how psychotherapy can be reframed to admit the existence of a psychological fourth dimension. Nathan Field reappraises ideas of health and pathology, psychoanalysis and healing, sex and spirituality in light of a dramatic shift in the way we understand ourselves. How this shift alters the shape of psychotherapy in the twenty-first century is the challenge the practitioners, teachers and trainees must all address.

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1134837445

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The Order-Disorder Paradox

Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society

By: Nathan Schwartz-Salant

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Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society

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The Mystery of Human Relationship

Alchemy and the Transformation of the Self

By: Nathan Schwartz-Salant

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The Mystery of Human Relationship

Alchemy and the Transformation of the Self

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Annotation By analogy with the ancient system of alchemy, Jungian analyst Nathan Schwartz-Salant shows how states of mind can undermine our relationships both private and public, but when brought to consciousness can become positive factors.

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1134740719

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Gender and Soul in Psychotherapy

By: Nathan Schwartz-Salant

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Gender and Soul in Psychotherapy

By: Nathan Schwartz-Salant

A collection of works on the study of Gender and soul by several Jungian analysts including Murray Stein, Nathan Schwartz-Dalant, and Edward Whitmont.

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0933029519

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The Borderline Personality

Vision and Healing

By: Nathan Scwartz-Salant

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The Borderline Personality

Vision and Healing

By: Nathan Scwartz-Salant

This book offers insights into the inner life of the so-called borderline patient that are unparalleled in the psychoanalytic or Jungian literature. Its grasp of the deep anxieties selfhood poses for the deeply wounded person is thoroughly clinical in its relevance to treatment and yet almost religious in its respect for the soul-struggle of the individual caught in this painful syndrome. Dr. Salant's empathy lifts his work into a class entirely by itself, as the text to which most psychotherapists will turn when they want to understand some of their most difficult patients from the inside.

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1888602813

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Book's by Nathan Schwartz-Salant

The Mystery of Human Relationship

The Mystery of Human Relationship

The Order-Disorder Paradox

The Order-Disorder Paradox

The Black Nightgown

The Black Nightgown

The Black Nightgown

The Black Nightgown

Breakdown and Breakthrough

Breakdown and Breakthrough

The Order-Disorder Paradox

The Order-Disorder Paradox

The Mystery of Human Relationship

The Mystery of Human Relationship

Gender and Soul in Psychotherapy

Gender and Soul in Psychotherapy

The Borderline Personality

The Borderline Personality

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