Finding Our Minds

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Today's episode is a review of personality through the lens of developing a healthy self. How does this relate to identity, character, and development? Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and Leah Faye discuss.  

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In this episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and co-host Leah Faye discuss the various ways in which those suffering from mental illness choose to identify. Today's lecture unpacks how mental suffering can arise when a society chooses to project an identity onto an individual whose sense of self is at conflict with the societal projection. 

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This meditation is meant to be paired with episode 5, and focuses on our sense of self. 

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In this episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan breaks down the concept of multiple selves, and the experience of multiple selves in a dissociative context. How does one unify the self? What is the difference between multiple selves and multiple experiences?

Works cited in today's episode:

Steven Kuchuck:  The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

Richard Schwartz:  ifs-institute.com/resources/articles/internal-family-systems-model-outline

Richard Schwartz:  Internal Family Systems Therapy, 2nd Edition

Galen Strawson:  Selves

Galen Strawson:  The Subject of Experience

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In this episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses the Jungian definition of individuality, and the means by which Carl Jung studied the sense of self. The co-hosts discuss the impact Jungian and post-Jungian psychology has on the sense of binaries, and the concept of individuation. 

Works cited in today's episode:
Murray Stein: Handbook of Jungian Psychology

Christine Becker: Letting your Life Speak:  The Gentle Art of Individuation. The Jungian Path.

C.G. Jung:  Psychological Types

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Today's episode explores how we define a healthy sense of self. 
Books referenced in today's episode:
Galen Strawson: Selves; The Subject of Experience

Jiri Benovsky: Mind and Matter: Panpsychism, Dual-Aspect Monism,
and the Combination Problem

Daniel Stern: The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from
Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology

Peter Fonagy: Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development
of the Self.

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Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses the concept of self and how it is defined from a psychotherapist's perspective. Who or what experiences the concept of self? Works discussed in today's episode include:
 Jiri Benovsky:  Mind and matter:  Panpsychism, dual-aspect monism, and the combination problem.

Philip Bromberg:  Standing in spaces:  The multiplicity of the self and the psychoanalytic relationship.  In Contemporary Psychoanalysis, volume 32.

Lionel Corbett and Leanne Whitney:  Jung and non-duality:  Some clinical and theoretical implications of self ans totality of the psyche.  In the International Journal of Jungian Studies, volume 8.

Galen Strawson:  The subject of experience

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In this first episode of Season 3 our co-hosts Dr. Mac and Leah Faye attempt to define the "self" while asking the question: What is it we are actually experiencing when we talk about our 'self' as a sensation?

Leslie Kean:  Surviving Death: A journalist investigates evidence for an afterlife
Harvey J. Irwin & Carolyn J. Watt: An Introduction to Parapsychology 5th Ed. 
Julie Beischel.  Among Mediums:  A Scientist’s Quest for Answers
Daniel Stern:  The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A view from psychoanalysis and developmental psychology
Galen Strawson: The Subject of Experience

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Looking for a therapist and have no idea where to start? Uninsured? Worried about what type of therapy is right for you? Not sure what questions to ask a potential new therapist? Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses with Leah how to go about the task of finding the right fit. 

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 In our next episode Dr. Arnd-Caddigan discusses tactics narcissistic abusers use in depth, and looks at ways one can heal from the experience. This meditation is meant to accompany Season 2, Episode 9, as a way to help ease mental suffering that results from gaslighting and other abusive tactics. We hope you find peace and solace in today's meditation.