Calm, Clear, and Loving


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This web site is to give information on the book by Mitchell D. Ginsberg:

Calm, Clear, and Loving:
Soothing the Distressed Mind, Healing the Wounded Heart.
Reflections on Nietzsche, Janet, Freud; Psychotherapy, Love, and Mindfulness


This book is a guide to understanding consciousness and a tool to deal with life's struggles. It is interested in the mind, not the intellectual mind, but the vibrant consciousness that is the sum of our thinking, feeling, and emotional processes, called the wise heart or the heart-mind. It presents some theoretical considerations to help understand this mind, and also addresses the nature of experiential processes that the troubled mind undergoes. These concerns are addressed in part from a theoretical perspective. One key interest is in the psychology of distress and its being soothed or resolved.

The book also addresses actual experience of stresses in life, including those of some more intense moments that some have experienced, including life traumas of varying intensities.

I have addressed these issues through the decades first in a theoretical way, with a philosophical interest in clarity and articulateness of understanding.

In addition, I have been worked practically with people, seeking to be of help to those in dire stress, including those who have experienced both one-time and also ongoing traumatic events, and also including those who have undergone torture, both in various politically powerful contexts from around the world, as well as in more domestic contexts that we would wish did not exist at all.

This book is not crusading for anything in particular. It is being offered to give interested readers an occasion to reflect upon these experiences, to understand them more clearly, and to consider with an open mind various approaches to being of help, of self-transformation to calm, clarity, and a loving frame of mind.



This book, in final preparation, includes at this time the following, written in 2008-2009 unless otherwise indicated:


"The Passionate RCS Memorial Conference"

"Foreword by Kathleen Higgins" (see also Wiki)

"Foreword by Claudio Naranjo" (see also Wiki)

"Foreword by Chloe Alana Ashby"

"The Concept of Love and its Logic" (on the logic and structure of love, 1964)

"Action and Communication & Schizophrenogenesis" (a discussion of the double-bind theory of schizophrenia and of psychiatric staff-patient interactions and misunderstandings, published in London in 1974)

"Nietzschean Psychiatry Revisited" (2009 update of a chapter in Robert C. Solomon, editor, Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, 1973)

"Individual Therapy and Family Therapy (à la française)" rendering into English an article published in Paris in 1983 (This title may perhaps be read more clearly using View, Character Encoding, User Defined; or Western Windows 1252, Western ISO Latin 1, or Western Mac OS Roman.)

"Pierre Janet: Misleading Concepts and Integration"

"Commentary on Nietzsche's HAH 379: Survival of the Parents"

"Psychotherapy versus Psychospirituality"

"The Pivot of the Dao"

"The Transmission of Mind"

"After The Death of Mahāmāyā" (This title may perhaps be read more clearly using View, Character Encoding, User Defined; or Western Windows 1252, Western ISO Latin 1, or Western Mac OS Roman.)

"Remorse"

"Forgive and Remember"

"Life, Death, and Survival"

"Pathologizing Distress"

"Inter-Personal Mindfulness Practice (IPMP)"

"The Liberating Power of Mindfulness"

"Can't I Do Anything Right, Daddy?"

"Options When Overwhelmed"

"An Enigma No More"

"Full Circle Transformation"

among various contemplated chapters.

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There is some more on this book presented at this time at my Home Page.


Those interested in The Far Shore (1980, 1996, 2001, with an updated edition published in 2009) and The Inner Palace (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008) may find more on these (including some selections) at the Books index listing these.




Please come back soon and visit my Home Page and linked pages, as I will updating and adding to them as time permits.

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