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Mapping the Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche
Mapping the Wild Mind A Field Guide to the Human Psyche Author:Bill Plotkin Depth psychologist Bill Plotkin describes himself as a “psychologist gone wild.? As a thinker, author, and wilderness guide, he has been literally breaking new paths for decades. Plotkin?s revisioning of human psychology is eco-centric, rather than ego-centric. His vision of what it is to be fully human at every stage of life demands profound re... more »lationship with the whole of the world of which we are a part. Here, Plotkin uses the four directions — north, south, east, west — to describe facets of the self. Each of these facets is vulnerable to wounding which produces damaging subpersonalities. For example, north represents the nurturing adult but a wound here can result in a rescuer or inner critic. Rather than focusing on “solving? such a problem, Plotkin holistically shows readers how to incorporate the missing and soothe wounds. The resulting wholeness joyfully connects public and private, personal and cultural, the human and the more-than-human.« less