Towards an Integrated Analytical Psychology

Towards an Integrated Analytical Psychology presents a comprehensive review of some of the salient philosophical, cultural, social, and clinical ingredients that have gone into contemporary visions of human personality development and psychotherapy and proposes a "unified field" theory of mental representation which puts psychoanalytic, analytic, and cognitive-behavioral perspectives in a mutually integrative framework. The model proposed by Matthew Bennett, called Integrative Analytical Psychology, presents two major dimensions of personality development, and is integrative of Jungian and psychoanalytic perspectives, but places the Jungian concept of archetype as its core organizing principle. The six mental representations included within this model are: Archetype, Symbol, Object, Complex, Schema, and Self. This book strongly accents clinical application, and more broadly considers the applied clinical implications of these mental representations to psychotherapy and clinical practice. Towards an Integrated Analytical Psychology offers a novel model of understanding personality and will be of direct and immediate use for psychotherapists and students of psychotherapy, especially those from the psychoanalytic and analytic/Jungian tradition. It would also be of interest to social workers, marriage, and family therapists and psychiatrists.

Matthew Bennett PsyD, is a licensed psychologist currently serving as a Department Chair and Full Professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. He lectures widely on personality development, personality disorders, and comparative models of psychotherapy.

Introduction Part I: The Vertical Model 1. Mental Representations as Holons and Harmonics 2. The First Harmonic: Archetype 3. The Second Harmonic: Symbol 4. The Third Harmonic: Object 5. The Fourth Harmonic: Complex 6. The Fifth Harmonic: Schema 7. The Sixth Harmonic: Self 8. Other Perspectives on Mental Representation 9. Integration: Representational Vectors and Horizons 10. Implications for Therapy: Theaters and Levels of Psychotherapy Part II: The Horizontal Model 11. The Circumplex Model of Personality Organization 12. The Representational Axes 13. The First Quadrant: Sensitives 14. The Second Quadrant: Imperials 15. The Third Quadrant: Radiants 16. The Fourth Quadrant: Penitents 17. The Spiral Developmental Path 18. Integration and Conclusions