Automatic writing

Intro. by William A. White.

Jung's Psychology of the unconscious is mentioned twice in the 127-item bibliography.

Part 1. 1 What automatic writing is. 2 Development of the personality and its problems: Schematic representation of mental states. 3 (Development cont.): The conflict and its role in the production of pathological types of adjustment; difference in psychological types. 4 Walled-off portions of the personality and their outlet through automatic writing; forms of dissociation; types of automatic writing. 5 Methods of developing automatic writing; mechanism of automatic writing. 6 Uses of automatic writing; danger of its undirected use; the value of directed use. 7 Phantasy productions: fairies. 8 Phantasy productions: asocial trends. 9 The use of automaticd writing: as a means of unearthing conflicts and especially hidden fears; as an adjunct to psychoanalysis; as a means of getting at early childhood impressions. 10 Involuntary expression as association in contradistinction to dissociation; automatic drawing; automatic speech. 11 Multiple involuntary expression. 12 Automatic writing in children; in criminals; in psychotics; in stammerers. Part 2 - Star Zorada - The case of strange conicidences

'The writer of this book...has applied the method of automatic handwriting for discovering what was going on in the minds of her patients which was inaccessible to ordinary questioning....'

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