Uncovering the Unconscious: A Course in Self Transformation

This book is helpful for clinicians and coaches as well as for everyone who wants to help others as well as themselves. My research on PTSD, grief, and stress-mastery has led me to write this book to help people understand their identity, relationships, and unconscious attitudes. I also present steps to take towards personal growth.The book is divided into three sections. Part I, “Identity,” explores how self-attributions lead to a better sense of identity as one matures. By better developing a conscious self within, we can change our goals, add to our attitudes, re-prioritize our personal values, and transform our plans for how to enhance our capacities. Part II, “Relationships,” focuses on gaining constancy and continuity in loving, caring relationships. People reflect back to us who we are, and our attachments to some of them stabilize our essential identity. To clarify ourselves, we can look into our minds for models of our relationships. Part III, “Processing Emotional Meanings,” centers on mastering emotions and controlling undesirable reactions. Changing our ideas about who we are means changing the beliefs in which selfhood is embedded. This section helps you understand how to amplify and use self-observations, and even how to access the sometimes nonconscious potential for emotional experiences that you both fear and desire. Read more