Applied Metapsychology Dictionary

Frank A. Gerbode

• Publisher: Modern History Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781615994748
• eBook ISBN: 9781615994762
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Humanism in Philosophy

The term "metapsychology" (small m) means, briefly: The science that unifies mental and physical experience. Its purpose is to discover the rules that apply to both. It is a study of the person, their abilities and experience, as seen from their own point of view. Applied Metapsychology (AMP) is the subject that puts the principles of metapsychology to work for the purpose of relieving traumatic stress, promoting personal growth and development, and empowering people to improve the quality of their lives.

This dictionary includes most of the terms used in Applied Metapsychology. Working out a proper and consistent vocabulary for metapsychology has been a continual compromise between what sounds graceful in ordinary English and what conveys a precise meaning. Many of our terms also occur in normal speech in a sense similar to, but usually not exactly the same as, that given here, just as physics uses terms like "mass", "density", and "energy" in a specialized and more precise way. Natural language is preferred instead of inventing new terms, because their meaning is similar enough to normal usage to give the reader an intuitive idea of what is meant, while the metapsychological definition provides the needed precision for the subject.

The terminology has evolved over time. This dictionary gives the current lexicon, but some changes will likely occur in the future, and no doubt this dictionary will have to be modified and expanded. An appendix of this dictionary contains some commonly used abbreviations and acronyms in the subject of Applied Metapsychology

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Glossary

Aberration: Distortion of thought, perception, intention, identity, and behavior, caused by the traumatic incident network.

Ability: A combination of control and understanding. Control is what corresponds, on the person side of the person-world polarity, to order on the world side. Understanding corresponds to heuristics. “An ability” is the potential for performing a specific action or type of action, whereas “ability” (used without an article) means a more general capability or potentiality. Thus “an ability” could be regarded as the exercise of ability in a specific area.

Ability Enhancement: The activity of employing AMP techniques after Life Stress Reduction to enhance a viewer’s abilities.

Ability Enhancement Workshop: One of several workshops that teach the techniques of the different sections of the Ability Enhancement Viewing Curriculum.

Ability Enhancement Viewing Curriculum: See Curriculum.

Acceptance: A form of assent that completes an activity cycle. Compare commitment.

Access: The ability to receive something causatively. Also (as a verb) to exercise causation in a receptive mode. Compare influence.

Acknowledgment: An indication given by the receiver of a communication to the originator of the communication that is intended to convey the datum that the communication was received and comprehended. It is also an indication, given by the issuer of a request to the person who complies, that the issuer is aware of the compliance.

Acting Out: Behavior that is caused by the reactivation of one or more traumatic incidents. It is an unconscious re-enactment of the behavior that occurred at the time of the traumatic incident or incidents as (usually rationalized) behavior directed toward present-time objects or people. It may also be behavior influenced by the traumatic incident that has been reactivated. The behavior may be appropriate to the past incident or incidents, but it is usually not appropriate to the present situation. Therefore it often has destructive consequences.

Action: An instance of causation by a person. The exercise of an ability.

Action Plan: In consultation mode, a series of actual steps to be taken in life by the client. The plan is devised by the client with the practitioner acting as consultant.

Active: An active sequence or traumatic incident is one of which a person is recently or easily reminded. Compare inactive.

Activity: The action or actions (creative or receptive) that a person takes in order to fulfill an intention.

Activity Cycle (Cycle): The entire history of an activity, from beginning to end. A cycle has a point of creation or starting, a period during which it is persisting, continuing, and changing; and a point of ending. For any given person, different periods of time are defined by the cycles that exist for that person. Some cycles are brought into being by the intentions that rule the various creative actions, others by intentions associated with the various receptive actions. Formulating an intention gives a person something to do, an activity in which to engage. The activity, the cycle, and the period of time so created last as long as the intention lasts and no longer.

Addictions Program: An AMP program for addressing addictions.

Adverse Childhood Experience Studies (ACEs): The studies by Felitti and Anda commencing in 1994 that amply demonstrate the need for the effectiveness of TIR and TIR for children.

Aesthetics: The appreciation of beauty. A “positive” kind of pleasure, not pleasure derived from relief of pain or discomfort.

Affection: Affinity directed toward a person, not a thing. The wish to be close to another person, to share a common space and viewpoint. An impulse toward communion. A high degree of affection is referred to as “love”. Compare desire, disaffection.

Affinity: A willingness to be close to, or to assume the viewpoint of, something or someone, to reach for or share space with that person or thing. It is a willingness to have something, or to be close to someone. When directed toward a person, affinity is affection; when directed towards a thing, it is desire. Compare aversion.

After the Fact Item: In TIR, an item that places the viewer in a part of an incident or incidents that occur after the main trauma. “A feeling of repression”, for instance, is probably an after-the-fact item. “Depression about relationships” might be an after-the-fact item as well. A descriptive item can equally well be after-the-fact. If the viewer provides the item “The time I was in the hospi...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Glossary
• Commonly Used Abbreviations in Applied Metapsychology
• About Applied Metapsychology International