Discover Your Subpersonalities

Our Inner World and the People in It

John Rowan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134966561
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Have you ever felt there is more than one you? That sometimes you are one type of person, sometimes another? Do you ever find yourself saying `yes' when you meant to say `no'? Or deciding to do one thing, then actually doing another?
Most of us have had this experience of another personality taking us over, causing us to behave in an unintended way. Why do we do it? What's going on? Well known psychologist and writer John Rowan shows how each of us is made up of a number of `subpersonalities'. Some may help us, some may hinder us. If we want to be in charge of our inner world we had better find out who they are and what they do. John Rowan has written this book specifically to enable you to do this. Lively and entertaining, with questionnaires and simple exercises, Discover Your Subpersonalities will enable you to get to know the people inside you!

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: let us call them subpersonalities
• 1 Where do they come from? Roles that we play
• 2 How we do battle with ourselves: internal conflicts
• 3 Creating them to order: possible selves
• 4 Delving deeper: our personal history
• 5 How society tells us we are no good: the patripsych
• 6 The deepest level of all: the collective unconscious and archetypes
• 7 What are subpersonalities? How we compartmentalize our minds
• 8 Altered states of consciousness: something we are all familiar with
• 9 Maturity: connections to the world outside us
• 10 Relationships: how to understand what is going on
• 11 Dream characters: making use of our dreams
• 12 Books and films: Steppenwolf — subpersonalities in action on the stage
• 13 Let's look at some of the explanations: Freud and psychoanalysis
• 14 How do we work with our subpersonalities? The Jungian tradition and active imagination
• 15 How do we encounter our subpersonalities? Psychodrama
• 16 How do we get our subpersonalities to encounter one another? Gestalt therapy
• 17 How do we transform our subpersonalities? Psychosynthesis
• 18 How many subpersonalities have we got? Transactional analysis and ego-state therapy
• 19 Does everyone have the same subpersonalities? Voice dialogue
• 20 Can hypnotism help? Hypnotherapy and neuro-linguistic programming
• 21 Subpersonalities in the astrological chart: Greene and Sasportas
• 22 The history of subpersonalities: from early cultures to today
• 23 Recent thinking on subpersonalities: psychologists, brain researchers and philosophers have their say
• 24 Beyond the subpersonalities: the real self, the higher self and the soul
• Further reading
• Index