Healing the soul in the age of the brain : becoming conscious in an unconscious world

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Part 1 - The importance of being conscious. 1 A brief introduction to the soul. 2 The technocrat and the cowboy. 3 An introduction to the psychotherapeutic process. Part 2 - The medical model and the psychotherapeutic model: a personal commentary on psychiatry, science, and the philosophy of life. 4 A lecture to young psychiatrists. 5 The swimming pool and the quest. 6 The end is in the beginning: a tribute to Bruno Bettelheim. Part 3 - Science: the untold story. 7 Two kinds of truth: the principle of complementarity. 8 A science of subjectivity: complementarity and consciousness. Part 4 - Experiencing the psychotherapeutic process. 9 Anxiety and the spirit of questioning. 10 Introspection and putting it into words. 11 Resistance and transference. 12 But isn't psychoanalysis supposed to be about sex?. Part 5 - History lessons. 13 Respect the symptom. 14 Freud's theory of the soul: from the swimming pool to the quest. 15 Integratinjg the swimming pool within the quest: "Where it was, there shall I become". Part 6 - The mind-body problem and the crisis in our culture. 16 What is the soul?. 17 What are we really hearing when we listen to Prozac?. 18 Materialism, morality, and the search for meaning

'...sounds the alarm on what he sees as one of the most dangerous assumptions of our time: the idea that there is a ?quick fix" for the soul in the form of medication , that taking a pill can substitute for the more complex jurney to the self offered by psychotherapy. Combining a Renaissance sensibility with an unshakable humanism, Dr. Frattaroli shows why tapping into the soul is the highest quest on which we can embark.'

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