The Architecture of the Soul A Unitive Model of the Human Person

by LaChance, Albert J.; Weiss, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781556436024
• ISBN10: 1556436025
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-08
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books
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Summary

The Architecture of the Soul presents an innovative model of the human person that provides the most comprehensive lens for interpreting and treating human dysfunction. Drawing from a wide range of philosophies and disciplines, the author shows us how to achieve a multi-layered understanding of each person's complete reality-and thereby treat dysfunction effectively. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Albert J. LaChance, Ph.D., LADC, CAS, DAPA, is a certified addiction specialist and a licensed addictions counselor who has treated individuals, families, and groups since 1991. His next book, Cultural Addiction: The Greenspirit Guide to Recovery, will be published in 2006.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD BY PAUL WEISS	ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xi
Introduction	1	(22)
A Yielded Will	2	(4)
A Fraying Culture on a Fraying Planet	6	(1)
Murdering the Biosphere	7	(2)
A Layered Brain and a Layered Self	9	(2)
Consciousness: Primary Awareness	11	(2)
Going Deeper: Secondary Awareness	13	(3)
And Deeper Still: Tertiary Awareness	16	(7)
CHAPTER ONE: The Cognitive Subpsyche	23	(12)
The Holomind	29	(6)
CHAPTER TWO: The Affective Subpsyche	35	(12)
The Primal Self	44	(1)
The Cosmos As Self	45	(2)
CHAPTER THREE: The Instinctual Subpsyche	47	(30)
Instinct and Morality	52	(1)
Instinctual Pathologies	53	(9)
Twelve-Step Programs: Re-Ordering Disorders	62	(15)
CHAPTER FOUR: The Personal Subpsyche	77	(10)
CHAPTER FIVE: The Familial Subpsyche	87	(16)
The Human Courtship Ritual	90	(6)
The Family As a Cultural Unit	96	(4)
Pathology of the Familial Subpsyche	100	(3)
CHAPTER SIX: The Cultural Subpsyche	103	(17)
Does God Remember?	105	(15)
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Trans-Primate Psyche	120	(35)
The Primal Roots of Familying	132	(2)
The Primal Roots of Emotions	134	(1)
The Primal Roots of Abstraction, Imagination, and Self-Awareness	135	(3)
The Primal Roots of Socio-Political Society	138	(11)
The Primal Roots of Culture and Religion	149	(6)
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Trans-Mammalian Psyche	155	(23)
The Dreamers	167	(11)
CHAPTER NINE: The Trans-Organic Psyche	178	(23)
Yin and Yang	184	(5)
Extinction and the Trans-Organic Self	189	(3)
Ritual, Recovery, and Remembering the Way Forward	192	(9)
CHAPTER TEN: The Pre-Organic Psyche	201	(13)
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Temporal Cosmological Psyche	214	(9)
CHAPTER TWELVE: The Pre-Temporal Cosmological Psyche	223	(16)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	239	(8)
INDEX	247	(12)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR	259