The Map of the Psyche: The Truth of Mental Illness - Softcover

Nuske, Timothy R.

 
9781452511290: The Map of the Psyche: The Truth of Mental Illness
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1452511292 ISBN 13: 9781452511290
Verlag: BalboaPressAU, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I-or are the others crazy -Albert Einstein For more than half his life, author Tim Nuske thought he was crazy. During a certain ten-year period and beyond, he could have fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for at least half of the close to 400 mental disorders described in psychiatry's billing bible, the DSM. Building on these experiences, Nuske presents a thought-provoking theory of the mind and how it relates to mental illness, a widespread social concern affecting countless millions. But are such experiences a real biological illness or brain disease? Are they caused by a chemical imbalance or genetic defect? And what does the mind have to do with a mental illness/disorder/disease? Following a life changing experience and spiritual awakening Tim entered university to study psychology, intent on gaining a better understanding of his own madness and the mind, and to help others with what he had learned. The Map of the Psyche: The Truth of Mental Illness is the result of four years of research and over a decade of personal experience with mental illness. He had to be mental to map the mind. Psychologists and philosophers have been trying to understand the mind for hundreds of years: Tim mapped it in under three (plus a lifetime of prior experience). Offering an alternative to psychiatric labelling and drugging, he shares what he considers to be a more accurate and effective approach to mental health care. The truth is in the psyche. The truth is found within.

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The Map of the Psyche

The Truth of Mental Illness

By Timothy R. Nuske

Balboa Press

Copyright © 2013 Timothy R. Nuske
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4525-1129-0

Contents

Preface....................................................................ix
Introduction...............................................................1
Map of the Psyche: The Basics Simple Psyche Says...........................7
Section 1 – Pyramid Map....................................................
1.1. Freud's Model of the Conscious........................................13
1.2. Conscious Model and Trait Theories....................................15
1.3. Moral Compass.........................................................17
1.4. Moral and Trait Theories..............................................26
1.5. 3-D Pyramid Model.....................................................29
1.6. Emotions..............................................................29
1.7. Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)..........................34
Section 2 – Star Map.......................................................
2.1. Shapes, Symbols, and Sacred Geometry..................................37
2.2. Psyche and Merkaba....................................................44
2.3. Personal and Collective Unconscious...................................48
2.4. Sex in the Psyche.....................................................51
Section 3 – Inner Processes................................................
3.1. Ego...................................................................55
3.2. Persona...............................................................62
3.3. Self..................................................................66
3.4. Consciousness.........................................................69
3.5. Psyche Meets Quantum..................................................72
3.6. Psyche Meets Spirit...................................................75
Section 4 – Mental Illness.................................................
4.1. The Truth of Mental Illness...........................................79
4.2. Anxiety Disorders.....................................................93
4.3. Mood Disorders........................................................99
4.4. Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders.................................104
4.5. Eating Disorders......................................................106
4.6. Personality Disorders.................................................111
4.7. Schizophrenia.........................................................118
Conclusion.................................................................127
References.................................................................137


CHAPTER 1

Section 1

Pyramid Map

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent;curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined withself-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

—Albert Einstein

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a mandoes not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase inknowledge if he knows what it is not.

—Carl Jung


1.1. Freud's Model of the Conscious

The original structural framework of the psyche model was basedon Sigmund Freud's model of the conscious. The model of theconscious is divided into three types of mental processes: conscious,preconscious, and unconscious (Figure 1).

Conscious mental processes are rational, goal-directedthoughts at the center of awareness. Preconsciousmental processes are not conscious but could becomeconscious at any point, such as knowledge of the colourof robins. Finally, unconscious mental processes areirrational, organized along associate lines rather thanby logic . . . they are inaccessible to consciousnessbecause they have been repressed—that is, kept fromconsciousness to avoid emotional distress. Unconsciousprocesses, while barred from consciousness, are notinert. Because they are not consciously acknowledged,they may leak into consciousness and affect behaviourin unexpected and often unwelcome ways ... (Burton,Westen, & Kowalski, 2009, p. 417)


Freud described the conscious as what is in active awareness,while the preconscious is "not conscious but could becomeconscious at any point, such as knowledge". The unconsciousis at the base of the model and is organized along associativelines rather than according to standard logic, and is designated ano-fly zone for the ego (see 3.1. Ego). The unconscious containsautomatic processes key to survival, such as maintainingcirculation, respiration, and so on. It also contains repressed ordistressing processes that may leak into awareness in the form ofanxiety. A leaky tap is a useful metaphor for the conscious's—ormore specifically, the ego's—access to the unconscious; it may driprarely and remain unnoticed for some time, or it may be fully openand spill over quite rapidly. If a tap represents the limited accessto the unconscious, then imagine a dam holding back the weightof an ocean to represent the unconscious itself (although in factit is much bigger even than this).


1.2. Conscious Model and Trait Theories

To further reinforce the base structure of the design, personalitytrait theories are used—here in part, with more in the followingsections—including the 16 Personality Factors (16PF; originallyproduced by Raymond Cattell) and the Five Factor Model (FFM;Goldberg, 1993; McCrae & Costa, 1997). The extroversion–introversion and anxiety/neuroticism traits are placed alongsideFreud's model of the conscious (Figure 2). The conscious relatesto extroversion and the external (Ext) world of body, objects, andpersons. The preconscious relates to introversion and the internal(Int) world of mind, thoughts, and ideas. The body and minddescribed here refer to a somatic and psychic base, not to somethingphysical. The individual sub-traits of the big five overarching traitsfrom the FFM are listed in Table 1 below.

The trait associations originate from the similarities whencompared to the conscious model. Extroversion scales up alongsidethe conscious, which is defined as what is in active awareness,and activeness is an extroversion trait. Introversion scales downalongside the preconscious, relating to the inner world of ideas andknowledge, and is the opposite of active. The separation point forextroversion–introversion in relation to the conscious model is atthe conscious–preconscious line. There is, however, some overlap,so this line is not a clearly defined one. Anxiety/neuroticism tapsinto the unconscious, so the experience of more anxiety suggestsmore unconscious...

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BalboaPressAU
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2013
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Englisch
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ISBN 13 
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