I wrote the book the Search for Being over a number of years in my thirties and forties. Each chapter describes the perspective of a different psychologist, psychoanalyst, or philosopher. The book is about:
how we can lose our connection to our own sense of being
needs that must be met for us to develop as individual beings
how we differentiate from our families
authenticity
deviating from family patterns
barriers to being
our mind in an intersubjective context
the core of being
our inner sense
moving from unformulated to formulated experience
selfhood
the narrative self
the quest for a new mode of being
using therapy or analysis to come to a new way of being
the person-environment fit
the archetype of orientation
the relationship between violence and being
representing reality
wholeness
The ideas discussed in the book can make us more conscious of what is involved in recovering our sense of aliveness. To read a sample chapter of the book, The Search for Being, click the title of the book to be taken to the publisher's web site.
Back in the days when I was reading so many books in the area of psychology and psychoanalysis, I also wrote two other books - The Self-Analysis Workbook and Growing Socially and Emotionally A Discussion Guide for the Intermediate Teacher. I am working on developing links for those books at http://www.xlibris.com. Although they currently do not have links you can go to the Xlibris web site to purchase them. The Table of Contents' titles of each book is below:
The Self-Analysis Workbook by Bonnie Lee Calcagno
101 pages
Table of Content Titles -
Reclaiming Your Freedom
How The Self Is Formed
Insights From Object Relations Therapy
Insights From Self-Psychology
Insights Into Narcissism
Insights Into Schizoid Disorders
Insights Into Borderline Personality Disorders
Insights Into The Family
Insights Into Being
Insights Into Freedom
Insights Into Aggression
Insights Into Love
Insights Into Relationships
Insights Into Intersubjectivity Theory
Insights Into Healing Childhood Wounds
Insights Into Desires
Insights Into Defenses
Insights Into Existentialism
Insights Into The Self
Growing Socially and Emotionally A Discussion Guide for the Intermediate Teacher by Bonnie Lee Calcagno
124 pages
Table of Content Titles -
You're a Very Special Person
Becoming An Excellent Student
Abuse or Caring
Getting Along With Others
Anger
Fear
Coping
Sadness
Growing Up
Sometimes People Have Handicaps
Your Thoughts Affect Your Feelings
Values
Creativity
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