Front cover image for Being and becoming : psychodynamics, Buddhism, and the origins of selfhood

Being and becoming : psychodynamics, Buddhism, and the origins of selfhood

Print Book, English, 2008
North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, Calif., 2008
xvi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781556437625, 1556437625
214064453
Being and self
Sentence and early experience
The nature of being
Source
The relationally dynamic self
Self as process, Buddhist concepts
The intransigent self and dependent co-arising
A relational paradigm
The womb of spirit and the empathetic holding field
Basic needs
Umbillical affect and primal feelings
Development cycles
The transmarginal stress hierarchy
Transitional modes of relating
Introduction to personality adaptions and reaction patterns
Personality forms generated by wounding at the level of being
Wounding at the level of well being, status, and achievement
Bounding and attachment
The automatic nervous system
Healing the wounded self