General Psychology

Code	Name	Price	Description
01402	Maslow, Abraham Psychology Of Religious Experience	$11.95	In his study of self-actualized individuals, among those with a mission outside themselves Maslow found examples of states written about by great religious teachers and mystics. He speaks about integrating the spiritual search with everyday existence. - 1967 Esalen - One Audiotape
02502	Watts, Alan East Religion and Western Therapy	$18.95	Our culture, says Watts, lacks a consciousness-altering religion, and therefore makes psychotherapy religion-like, with all the doctrine, dogma and sacraments of a religion. - 1971 Esalen - Two Audiotapes
02508	Watts, Alan, Stan Grof and Julian Silverman The Science Of Madness	$18.95	Watts talks of how differences from the norm are regarded as pathology, irrespective of whether it is a madman or a saint who is involved. Grof`s LSD studies led to his discovery that both "mad" and "normal" subjects eventually entered into experiences with religios qualities. Silverman discusses how some psychotic patients improve, not in spite of their psychosis, but through the psychosis. - 1968 Esalen - Two Audiotapes
02805	Bateson, Gregory Schizophrenia And The Double Bind	$11.95	Bateson addresses the question What is schizophrenia? through a detailed history of the development of his double bind theory. He includes a discussion of experimental neurosis and schizophrenogenic interaction as well as anecdotal material on the dynamics of schizophrenic families. - 1976 Esalen - One Audiotape
05403	Van Dusen, Wilson Confronting Hallucinations	$18.95	Van Dusen found that hallucinations seem to be entities that have their own consciousness and an existence independent from that of the patientt they haunt. He has carried on extensive conversations with these entities and has found that some of them have corresponded to demons and angels of Swedenborg. - 1968 Esalen - Two Audiotapes
05702	Keen, Sam An Erotic Psychology	$11.95	With great humor and insight, Keen speaks of human growth from the tantric sexual viewpoint. He also discusses sexual bonding in terms of the chakra system. - 1980 Esalen - One Audiotape
05703	Keen, Sam Fallibility Of Teachers	$11.95	As part of a conference on spirituality and therapeutic tyranny, Keen gives a pointed analysis of the ways in which power us nisused by those who should know better. - 1973 Esalen - One Audiotape
07001	Laing, R. D. Politics Of Experience	$11.95	Laing tells us that the schizophrenic is imprisoned by members of a normal society because he does not conform to standard patterns of communication and behavior. He has lost his ability to play the deadening social game of lie and counter-lie. - 1967 Esalen - One Audiotape
07002	Laing, R. D. Illusion Of Achievement	$11.95	Laing relates schizophrenia - seen as the voyage backward to discover the uncontaminated self - to his Zen-like philosophy. - 1967 Esalen - One Audiotape
07003	Laing, R. D. Blowout Center	$18.95	The blowout center began when Laing and a few others banded together to enter an auto-initiatory journey to the self. Such a journey involves a radical dissolution of the ego and is a shattering experience in an attempt to rediscover the ancient mysteries of self-healing through encountering death and rebirth. Laing feels that the inner journey is a natural process and should not be suppressed sedatives and electric shock treatments. - 1967 Esalen - Two Audiotapes
09101	Frankl, Viktor Existential Vacuum	$11.95	Frankl describes the feeling of emptiness and loss of faith that plagues us in this age of affluence and success, and suggests how psychiatry can deal with the resulting vacuum in human existence. - 1969 Esalen - One Audiotape
10105	Rudhyar, Dana Fate and Free Will	$11.95	Reconciling individual development and mystical self-realization with cosmic patterns and the intense desire of all cultures to maintain social order has been a focal point of Rudyhar's study. He contrasts the great problems of different cultures - liberation in India, freedom of choice in Europe, and individual rights in America - and maintains that in a very real sense, they are all false problems, because they are meaningless unless defined by their opposites. The role of cosmic patterns, then, is not to determine events, but to provide a context for interpretation. - 1970S - One Audiotape
10701	Szasz, Thomas Psychiatric Medicine: Cure Or Control	$11.95	Szasz sees the function of some psychiatrists as social control, determining who is sick and who is "normal," with no objective standards of mental health or illness. He explores psychiatric techniques defined as "treatment" as disquised forms of extra-legal punishment and confinement for those of whom society disapproves. - 1973 Esalen - One Audiotape
34203	Naranjo, Claudio Enneagram and DSM III	$11.95	Psychiatrist and Gestalt therapist Naranjo originally gave this talk to a group of psychology professionals. He examines the profound usefulness of the enneagram in shedding light on the character types described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. - 1994 - One Audiotape
38607	Palmer, Helen Intuition In The Clinical Setting	$26.95	Palmer discusses applying the practices of sacred traditions to the therapist's task of forming a reliable intuitive connection with clients. - 1987 San Francisco - Three Audiotapes
DC004	Laing, R. D. Did You Use To Be R. D. Laing? (Video)	$40.95	Laing was one of the most influential and controversial figures in the field of psychology in the 1960s and '70s. This engaging film profile of Laing draws on stories from his own life and from his patients' experiences. 90 min. - - One VIDEO
JN005	Frankl, Viktor Self-Transcendence	$11.95	Frankl criticizes psychological or spiritual systems that simply encourage returning to a sense of balance, saying our basic purpose in life is to find and fulfill meanings that make us stretch beyond even our developed, healthy selves. - 1968 Vienna - One Audiotape
JN006	Freud, Anna On Aggression	$11.95	The only available recording by the daughter of Sigmund Freud, a respected psychoanalyst in her own right. She discusses the role of aggression and hostility in shaping the personality of the child. - 1954 London - One Audiotape