ABSTRACT

Have you ever felt there is more than one you? That sometimes you are one type of person, sometimes another? Do you ever find yourself saying `yes' when you meant to say `no'? Or deciding to do one thing, then actually doing another?
Most of us have had this experience of another personality taking us over, causing us to behave in an unintended way. Why do we do it? What's going on? Well known psychologist and writer John Rowan shows how each of us is made up of a number of `subpersonalities'. Some may help us, some may hinder us. If we want to be in charge of our inner world we had better find out who they are and what they do. John Rowan has written this book specifically to enable you to do this. Lively and entertaining, with questionnaires and simple exercises, Discover Your Subpersonalities will enable you to get to know the people inside you!

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

Let us call them subpersonalities

chapter 1|13 pages

Where do they come from?

Roles that we play

chapter 2|9 pages

How we do battle with ourselves

Internal conflicts

chapter 3|5 pages

Creating them to order

Possible selves

chapter 4|18 pages

Delving deeper

Our personal history

chapter 5|12 pages

How society tells us we are no good

The patripsych

chapter 6|7 pages

The deepest level of all

The collective unconscious and archetypes

chapter 7|10 pages

What are subpersonalities?

How we compartmentalize our minds

chapter 8|4 pages

Altered states of consciousness

Something we are all familiar with

chapter 9|3 pages

Maturity

Connections to the world outside us

chapter 10|4 pages

Relationships

How to understand what is going on

chapter 11|5 pages

Dream characters

Making use of our dreams

chapter 12|6 pages

Books and films: Steppenwolf

Subpersonalities in action on the stage

chapter 13|3 pages

Let's look at some of the explanations

Freud and psychoanalysis

chapter 14|6 pages

How do we work with our subpersonalities?

The Jungian tradition and active imagination

chapter 15|6 pages

How do we encounter our subpersonalities?

Psychodrama

chapter 16|6 pages

How do we get our subpersonalities to encounter one another?

Gestalt therapy

chapter 17|7 pages

How do we transform our subpersonalities?

Psychosynthesis

chapter 18|7 pages

How many subpersonalities have we got?

Transactional analysis and ego-state therapy

chapter 19|5 pages

Does everyone have the same subpersonalities?

Voice dialogue

chapter 20|4 pages

Can hypnotism help?

Hypnotherapy and neuro-linguistic programming

chapter 21|4 pages

Subpersonalities in the astrological chart

Greene and Sasportas

chapter 22|5 pages

The history of subpersonalities

From early cultures to today

chapter 23|9 pages

Recent thinking on subpersonalities

Psychologists, brain researchers and philosophers have their say

chapter 24|8 pages

Beyond the subpersonalities

The real self, the higher self and the soul