Feeling and Personhood

Informationen zum Autor John Heron founded the Human Potential Research Group at the University of Surrey, and later pioneered personal and professional development programs for doctors, as Assistant Director, British Postgraduate Medical Federation, University of London. He now runs the South Pacific Centre for Human Inquiry, New Zealand. Klappentext John Heron presents a radical new theory of the person in which feeling, differentiated from emotion, becomes the distinctive feature of personhood. The book explores the applications of Heron's ideas to living and learning and includes numerous experiential exercises. Central to Heron's analysis are interrelationships between four basic psychological modes - affective, imaginal, conceptual and practical. In particular, feeling is seen as the ground and potential from which all other aspects of the psyche emerge - emotion, intuition, imaging of all kinds, reason, discrimination, intention and action. The author also shows the fundamental relation of his ideas to theory and practice in transpersonal psychology and philosophy, and examines the implications of his theory for understanding and enhancing both formal and life learning. Zusammenfassung A theory of the person which considers "feeling". The book distinguishes feeling from emotion! and defines it as resonance with being! the capacity to be unified with what is present. It relates this to the theory and practice of a transpersonal psychology and philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Theory of the person: preliminaries Theory of the person: overview States of personhood The ego The affective mode: feeling The affective mode: emotion The imaginal mode The psyche and its worlds A One-Many Reality Jung, Kolb and Wilber Life cycles and learning cycles A brief look at learning Formal learning cycles The reality-creating learning cycle

Autorentext

John Heron founded the Human Potential Research Group at the University of Surrey, and later pioneered personal and professional development programs for doctors, as Assistant Director, British Postgraduate Medical Federation, University of London. He now runs the South Pacific Centre for Human Inquiry, New Zealand.

Klappentext

John Heron presents a radical new theory of the person in which feeling, differentiated from emotion, becomes the distinctive feature of personhood. The book explores the applications of Heron's ideas to living and learning and includes numerous experiential exercises.

Central to Heron's analysis are interrelationships between four basic psychological modes - affective, imaginal, conceptual and practical. In particular, feeling is seen as the ground and potential from which all other aspects of the psyche emerge - emotion, intuition, imaging of all kinds, reason, discrimination, intention and action. The author also shows the fundamental relation of his ideas to theory and practice in transpersonal psychology and philosophy, and examines the implications of his theory for understanding and enhancing both formal and life learning.

Zusammenfassung
A theory of the person which considers "feeling". The book distinguishes feeling from emotion, and defines it as resonance with being, the capacity to be unified with what is present. It relates this to the theory and practice of a transpersonal psychology and philosophy.

Inhalt

Theory of the person: preliminaries
Theory of the person: overview
States of personhood
The ego
The affective mode: feeling
The affective mode: emotion
The imaginal mode
The psyche and its worlds
A One-Many Reality
Jung, Kolb and Wilber
Life cycles and learning cycles
A brief look at learning
Formal learning cycles
The reality-creating learning cycle