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Shadow, Consciousness and Buddhism
A Psychodynamic and Buddhist Perspective “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Carl Jung What Is the Shadow? The shadow refers to those aspects of the psyche that have been rejected, disowned or pushed out of conscious awareness. It is the not-me ; the parts of ourselves that we do not know, or that we once knew dimly and then repudiated. These aspects are not necessarily negative. Qualities that are creative, tender,
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Shock and Trauma in Mindfulness-Based Core Process Psychotherapy
Introduction Human beings do not emerge into the world as blank slates. Our sense of self and our subjective experience of reality are shaped by a complex convergence of factors; family systems, culture, socio-economic conditions, climate, historical moment and the prevailing collective psyche. Trauma is woven through all of these layers. Given the long and often violent history of life on Earth and the precarious evolution of human societies, it is difficult to argue that tr
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