Addresses the evolution of consciousness, describing the emergence of the
Borderland consciousness and the challenge this presents to the Western
medicine's concept of pathology."Living in the Borderland" addresses the evolution of Western consciousness
and describes the emergence of the 'Borderland,' a spectrum of reality that is
beyond the rational yet is palpable to an increasing number of individuals.
Building on Jungian theory, Jerome Bernstein argues that a greater openness to
transrational reality experienced by Borderland personalities allows new
possibilities for understanding and healing confounding clinical and
developmental enigmas. In three sections, this book examines the psychological
and clinical implications of the evolution of consciousness and looks at how
the new Borderland consciousness bridges the mind-body divide. Subjects covered
include: Genesis: Evolution of the Western Ego; Transrational Data in a Western
Clinical Context: Synchronicity; Trauma and Borderland Transcendence;
Environmental Illness Complex; and integration of Navajo and Western healing
approaches for Borderland Personalities. "Living in the Borderland" challenges
the standard clinical model, which views normality as an absence of pathology
and which equates normality with the rational. Jerome S.; Bernstein describes how psychotherapy itself often contributes to the
alienation of Borderland personalities by misperceiving the difference between
the pathological and the sacred. The case studies included illustrate the
potential this has for causing serious psychic and emotional damage to the
patient. This challenge to the orthodoxies and complacencies of Western
medicine's concept of pathology will interest Jungian Analysts,
Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists and other physicians, as well as educators of
children. Jerome S. Bernstein is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Santa
Fe, New Mexico.
