The Self-Healing Mind

Brian J. McVeigh has an MA in anthropology, an MS in counseling, and a PhD in anthropology. He is a licensed mental health counselor in private practice and a scholar of Japan and China where he lived and taught for 16 years. For ten years he taught in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. The author of 16 books, he has an interest in how humans adapt, both through history and therapeutically. His current projects include The Psychology of Ancient Egypt: Reconstructing a Lost Mentality.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes to reader
Prologue: Searching for the Active Ingredients of the Self-Healing Mind

PART 1: The Adaptive Mind, Consciousness, and Implications for Therapy
Chapter 1: Purposes and Premises: The Therapeutic Properties of Subjectivity
Chapter 2: What is Consciousness? Clarifying the Stuff of Mind

PART 2: The Benefits and Costs of Conscious Interiority
Chapter 3: The Advantages of Conscious Interiority
Chapter 4: Runaway Consciousness: The Price of Scaled-up Cognition
Chapter 5: A Brief History of the Interiorization of Psychotherapy

PART 3: The Meaning of Mental Health and How the Psyche Adjusts
Chapter 6: Treating Mental Illness and Facilitating Mental Wellbeing
Chapter 7: The Nature of Self: Systemized, Serialized, Dramatized
Chapter 8: The Self-Organizing Mind: Rhythms, Routines, Rituals

PART 4: Applications, Approaches, and Interventions
Chapter 9: Using Conscious Interiority as a Therapeutic Tool
Chapter 10: Key Therapeutic Skills and Conscious Interiority
Chapter 11: Groups and Families as Therapeutic Systems
Chapter 12: Emotions and Conscious Interiority
Chapter 13: Hypnosis and Meditation: Suspending and Modulating Conscious Interiority
Chapter 14: Human Diversity, Social Adaptation, and Psychotherapy

Epilogue: Final Thoughts

Appendices
A: Synopsis of Positive Psychology
B: Synopsis of Common Factors
C: The Historical Birth of Conscious Interiority
D: What Conscious Interiority is Not
E: Psyche-Biological Hardware or Cultural Software?
F: Examples of Metaphoric Creativity
G: Five Perspectives on Conscious Interiority: A Summary
H: Developmental Stages of the Lifespan and FOCI

Glossary: A Jaynesian Therapeutic Perspective on Techniques and Interventions
References
Index
About the author