The Architecture of the Soul A Unitive Model

The Architecture of the Soul presents an innovative model of the human person that provides the most comprehensive lens for interpreting and treating human dysfunction. Drawing from a wide range of philosophies and disciplines, the author shows us how to achieve a multi-layered understanding of each person's complete reality-and thereby treat dysfunction effectively. Book jacket.

Albert J. LaChance, Ph.D., LADC, CAS, DAPA, is a certified addiction specialist and a licensed addictions counselor who has treated individuals, families, and groups since 1991. His next book, Cultural Addiction: The Greenspirit Guide to Recovery, will be published in 2006.

FOREWORD BY PAUL WEISS

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Introduction

1

(22)

A Yielded Will

2

(4)

A Fraying Culture on a Fraying Planet

6

(1)

Murdering the Biosphere

7

(2)

A Layered Brain and a Layered Self

9

(2)

Consciousness: Primary Awareness

11

(2)

Going Deeper: Secondary Awareness

13

(3)

And Deeper Still: Tertiary Awareness

16

(7)

CHAPTER ONE: The Cognitive Subpsyche

23

(12)

The Holomind

29

(6)

CHAPTER TWO: The Affective Subpsyche

35

(12)

The Primal Self

44

(1)

The Cosmos As Self

45

(2)

CHAPTER THREE: The Instinctual Subpsyche

47

(30)

Instinct and Morality

52

(1)

Instinctual Pathologies

53

(9)

Twelve-Step Programs: Re-Ordering Disorders

62

(15)

CHAPTER FOUR: The Personal Subpsyche

77

(10)

CHAPTER FIVE: The Familial Subpsyche

87

(16)

The Human Courtship Ritual

90

(6)

The Family As a Cultural Unit

96

(4)

Pathology of the Familial Subpsyche

100

(3)

CHAPTER SIX: The Cultural Subpsyche

103

(17)

Does God Remember?

105

(15)

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Trans-Primate Psyche

120

(35)

The Primal Roots of Familying

132

(2)

The Primal Roots of Emotions

134

(1)

The Primal Roots of Abstraction, Imagination, and Self-Awareness

135

(3)

The Primal Roots of Socio-Political Society

138

(11)

The Primal Roots of Culture and Religion

149

(6)

CHAPTER EIGHT: The Trans-Mammalian Psyche

155

(23)

The Dreamers

167

(11)

CHAPTER NINE: The Trans-Organic Psyche

178

(23)

Yin and Yang

184

(5)

Extinction and the Trans-Organic Self

189

(3)

Ritual, Recovery, and Remembering the Way Forward

192

(9)

CHAPTER TEN: The Pre-Organic Psyche

201

(13)

CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Temporal Cosmological Psyche

214

(9)

CHAPTER TWELVE: The Pre-Temporal Cosmological Psyche

223

(16)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

239

(8)

INDEX

247

(12)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

259

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