Empowering Dialogues Within: A Workbook for Helping Professionals and Their Clients

Vignettes Figures and Exercises ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xv

Chapter 1 Discovering the True Self 1.1

Psychological Pioneers 1.3

Corporate Self 1.6

Development of Higher Selves 1.9

Postconventional Integration and Transcendence 1.12

Recognition of Higher Selves 1.14

Chapter 2 Exercises for Empowering the Self 2.1

Finding the Self through Memories 2.2

Empowering the Will 2.4

Synthesizing the Self 2.7

Recognizing and Remembering Spirit 2.11

Chapter 3 Identifying Personality Parts 3.1

Psychological Pioneers 3.3

Origin of Inner Parts 3.4

Corporate Self 3.9

Naming Parts to Return to the True Self 3.18

Chapter 4 Exercises for Identifying Inner Parts 4.1

Personae—Adaptable Personalities 4.3

Distracters—Fixed Personalities 4.4

Directors—Hidden Personalities 4.7

Emotional Entities—Instinctual Personalities 4.10

Identifying Inner Images 4.11

Identifying Names for Parts and Selves 4.19

Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of the Parts 4.23

Chapter 5 Engaging Personality Parts with Dialogue 5.1

Mind as Metaphor 5.3

Material Mind and Dialogue 5.4

Steps to the Dance of Dialogue 5.10

Dialogue in a Child’s Mind 5.20

Review and Practice Exercises 5.25

Chapter 6 Therapists’ Guide to Empowering Dialogues 6.1

Therapy through Dialogue 6.3

Coaching Aids 6.6

Counseling Emotional Entities and Abreaction 6.11

Comparison to Related Approaches 6.15

Chapter 7 Historical Context and Possible Proofs 7.1

Forerunners to Therapies of Parts and Selves 7.2

Philosophical Context and Contributions 7.7

Psychoneurological Evidence 7.9

Appendix A Terminologies for Parts and Selves A.1

Appendix B Development of Higher Faculties B.1

Appendix C Psychotherapy Approaches Referenced in the Text C.1

Glossary G.1

References R.1

About the Author AA.1

Author Index AI.1

Subject Index SI.1