Empowering Dialogues Within

Kate Cohen-Posey is Director of Psychiatric & Psychological Services in Lakeland, Florida. She is the author of Making Hostile Words Harmless: A Guide to the Power of Positive Speaking for Helping Professionals and Their Clients, Brief therapy Client Handouts (both published by Wiley) and How to Handle bullies, Teasers and Other Meanies. A dynamic presenter, she has a passion for teaching professionals a method that helps people find their way out of mental anguish by going deeper inside.

• Vignettes Figures and Exercises ixPreface xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction xvChapter 1 Discovering the True Self 1.1Psychological Pioneers 1.3Corporate Self 1.6Development of Higher Selves 1.9Postconventional Integration and Transcendence 1.12Recognition of Higher Selves 1.14Chapter 2 Exercises for Empowering the Self 2.1Finding the Self through Memories 2.2Empowering the Will 2.4Synthesizing the Self 2.7Recognizing and Remembering Spirit 2.11Chapter 3 Identifying Personality Parts 3.1Psychological Pioneers 3.3Origin of Inner Parts 3.4Corporate Self 3.9Naming Parts to Return to the True Self 3.18Chapter 4 Exercises for Identifying Inner Parts 4.1Personae—Adaptable Personalities 4.3Distracters—Fixed Personalities 4.4Directors—Hidden Personalities 4.7Emotional Entities—Instinctual Personalities 4.10Identifying Inner Images 4.11Identifying Names for Parts and Selves 4.19Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of the Parts 4.23Chapter 5 Engaging Personality Parts with Dialogue 5.1Mind as Metaphor 5.3Material Mind and Dialogue 5.4Steps to the Dance of Dialogue 5.10Dialogue in a Child’s Mind 5.20Review and Practice Exercises 5.25Chapter 6 Therapists’ Guide to Empowering Dialogues 6.1Therapy through Dialogue 6.3Coaching Aids 6.6Counseling Emotional Entities and Abreaction 6.11Comparison to Related Approaches 6.15Chapter 7 Historical Context and Possible Proofs 7.1Forerunners to Therapies of Parts and Selves 7.2Philosophical Context and Contributions 7.7Psychoneurological Evidence 7.9Appendix A Terminologies for Parts and Selves A.1Appendix B Development of Higher Faculties B.1Appendix C Psychotherapy Approaches Referenced in the Text C.1Glossary G.1References R.1About the Author AA.1Author Index AI.1Subject Index SI.1

"…Empowering Dialogues Within may be the answer to your prayers (or to your questions to your Higher Self). Even though the reader's basic approach to therapy might not be psychosynthesis, I felt the author did an excellent job of including psychosynthesis with other ideologies. I would highly recommend this book to any practicing therapist/counselor...I loved this book." (AAP News; January 2009)