Contents

Forewords:

Danatella Marazziti................................................................................................ ix

Alwyn Scott........................................................................................................... xi

Nick Mansfield..................................................................................................... xiii

David R. Hawkins............................................................................................... xvii

Introduction............................................................................................................. xxi

The Puzzle............................................................................................................... xxv

Part I: Learning the Languages.................................................................................... 1

1. Humanity's Search for Mind and the Subject: A Brief Review

of the Evolution of Neuropsychobiology.................................................................. 3

2. An "Ideographic," Suprapersonal Language of Rules and Universal
Symbols: Alwyn Scott and Nonlinear Dynamics................................................... 15

3. A "Demotic," First-Person Language of the Individual and the

Social System: Apuleius and the Myth of Psyche................................................... 27

4. The Language of the Objective Observer: Gerald Edelman and Neurodarwinism: Antonio Damasio and the Feeling of Knowing................................................................... 33

Antonio Damasio and the Feeling of Knowing................................................................................. 39

Part II: Seeking the Understanding............................................................................ 45

5. Consciousness......................................................................................................... 47

6. The Unconscious..................................................................................................... 59

7. The Database........................................................................................................... 71

8. Affectivity............................................................................................................... 79

9. The Neural/Mental Gap: Intuition, Self and Ego, a Trilingual Map........................ 91

Part III: Applying the Knowledge............................................................................. 101

10. The Three Languages and Science: A New Scientific Paradigm?........................ 103

11. The Three Languages and Treatment.................................................................... 115

12. The Psychotherapeutic Dialogue: Intersubjectivity............................................... 127

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