Metaxis and Recovery: Towards a New Vision of Health
by Jeremiah D. McAuliffe, Jr. MA and Jeffrey C. Wilson MD PM
C 1989 Jeremiah D. McAuliffe, Jr. and Jeffrey C. Wilson
CHAPTER ONE: THE HUMAN SITUATION The Complexity of Human Life Basics of Our Situation Part I: Pain and Limits Basics of Our Situation Part II: Denial of Death Basics of Our Situation Part III: Culture and the Denial of Death Basics of Our Situation Part IV: Today's Sacrificial Rituals Compartmentalization The Fullness of the Mundane "Drive to Bar" Re-lived Sham Shamming Ourselves The Hero Life as Journey: The Hero, Survivor, Creator The Willingness to Change The Imaginative Hero: The Artist of Life Excavating Meaning and Insight: The Role of Imagination. The Rise of the Expert Class CHAPTER TWO: THE FIELD MODEL. Science and Paradigms The Story of Flatland. Our Current Scientific World Views The Need for a New Paradigm The New Physics and Paradigm Shift A New View of the Human The New Map of Health-Towards Field Thinking The Ecological Field The Structure of the Field: A Four Pole Model Natural Social Subjective Divine How the Mystery Appears or is Known The Realm Within Our Boundaries and Limits Synchronicity: The Door to Field Thinking Field Thinking Field Thinking and the Role of Assessment Guide for Assessment: Congeniality Guide for Assessment: Compassion Guide for Assessment: Compatibility The Goal of Assessment: Metaxis Some Implications of the Field Approach CHAPTER THREE: FOUNDATIONS OF THE FIELD MODEL Beginning of the Field Approach: Martin Heidegger Basic Dynamics of the Human-As-Field: Robert Lifton The Pervasiveness of Symbols Examples of Symbolization Three Functions of Symbols Lifton: Failed Adaptation and Numbness to Symbolic Meaning Dynamics of the Human: Summary Constructing the Field Part I: Adrian van Kaam Constructing the Field Part II: William Thompson Progress in Symbolization: Eric Voegelin Foundations of the Field Model: Summary The End Result of the Human-as-Field: Metaxis CHAPTER FOUR: THE NATURAL POLE. Complexity and Simplicity Cartesian Simplicity and Field Complexity The Natural Pole The Body-As-Machine: Its Strengths and Weaknesses Medicine as Interpretation and Ideology Towards the Field Understanding of Disease The Field Approach and Disease Illness Adaptation Examples of Disease, Illness and Adaptation Idealism and Holistic Fads Need for Balance and an Integrated Vision of Health Towards a New Vision of Health From Within the Field Approach Spirit and Body Human Spirituality and the Mystery Human Spirituality and Medicine Movement: Symbolic Growth as an Aid to Healing Illness, Survival, and Recovery Other Concerns of the Natural Pole The Environment: Interweaving of Social and Natural Regions Addiction: Interweaving of Spiritual and Natural Concerns. CHAPTER FIVE: THE DIVINE POLE The Divine Pole. Symbols and the Mystery Symbolic Behaviors Religion and Spirituality Buddha's Story Generic Religion Religion and Superstition The Wisdom of the Atheist: From Superstition to Spirituality Is Religion Always Neurotic? Dogma and Mysticism Fundamentalism and Gnosticism Spirituality and Recovery Positive Abandonment: Our Relation to the Mystery Conclusion on Religion Soul Making, Tradition and Recovery Soul Making and Boundary Other Aspects of the Divine Pole CHAPTER SIX: THE SOCIAL POLE The Stranger William James' Response to Freedom The Social Pole Social Systems: The Family Importance of the Divine Pole: Transcending Social Determination Social Systems: Culture Historical Considerations: The Rise of the American Myth The Primacy of American Functionalism Functional Rituals Egocentricity: The Disease of Social Conformity Interweaving of the Social and Subjective Poles Part I Society in Disarray Self-Examination: Interweaving of the Subjective and Social Poles Part II Recovery and Metaxis in the Social Pole CHAPTER SEVEN: THE SUBJECTIVE POLE Danger of Elevation of the Subjective Pole The Self and the Field The Ego and the Self Psychology and the Destruction of Transcendence The Subjective Pole and Psychology: The Example of Carl Jung Otto Rank's Corrective to Psychology: The Heroic, Creative Artist Creation of the Self: Movement, Connection, Integration. Dynamic Cycles in the Creation of the Self The Universality of Myth The Mythic Hero Constructing the Personal Myth: Tools for Growth Reprise: The Denial of Death