Primordial Psyche: A Reliving of the Soul of Ancestors
A Jungian and Transpersonal Worldview
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"Primordial Psyche is a remarkable book, covering a range of spiritual phenomena from indigenous folk psychologies and pagan rituals to visionary revelations and magical thinking. It is rooted in Jungian thought but supplements it with a cogent analysis of disruptions in the modern psyche that are apparent in contemporary religious dogmas. Diego Pignatelli demonstrates the insights that have made him one of today's most original writers on the complexities of the human psyche". Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Saybrook University Co-author, Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them "Diego Pignatelli sheds healing light upon the so-called disorders of the psyche that psychiatry tries to deal with, but only from within their medical model. Primordial Psyche gives us important spiritual perspectives on the full spectrum of human experiences that, let us hope, can be made of by clinicians everywhere to help more and more people reach their full potential, including our own". Stuart Sovatsky, PhD , Author, Words From the Soul
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Primordial Psyche (iUniverse 2011) introduces innovative perspectives to the etiology of personality disorders and their connection with the unconscious phenomena,tribal rituals in pre-ancestral religions,magical thinking and animistic thought,visionary revelations in ancient worldviews reviewed from an archetypal perspective as reorganization of the archaic depth of the psyche in psychosis.This Jungian synthesis by Diego Pignatelli introduces a new positive evolutionary theory of borderline psychosis,the relationship between the creative individual and the society,creativity as well as the Hero archetype and the archetype of meaning,the methods and avenues of cutting-edge explorations of transpersonal psychology to primordial psyche and shamanic experiences for healing,insight and growth,including holotropic therapy and consciousness research and some difference with Jungian therapy in coping with the archetypal experiences through a revaluation of Jungian thought and analytical psychology.
About the Author
Diego Pignatelli is a visionary, poet and writer as well as an independent scholar in transpersonal psychology. His areas of interest include transpersonal psychology, modern consciousness studies, nonordinary states of consciousness (NOSC), Jungian psychology ,Jungian Alchemy, Grof-ian’s psychology as well as Grof-ian frame work and insight. A review on his Italian book (Il Risveglio dell’Intelligenza –published by Montedit 2007) has been published in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Volume 40 n 1, and in the AHP Perspective, the newsletters of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Pignatelli’s articles appear in the AHP Perspective, MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), as well as in Documents for Serious Psychonauts.