دانلود کتاب ستاره عبور کرد – طالع بینی، نظریه شخصیت و ملاقات مخالفان

This book explores a question which has been alive for me throughout my astrological and psychotherapeutic career. To what extent can the discoveries of contemporary psychological research be usefully integrated with, and even enhance, astrological practice? From the earliest times, astrology has interpreted the eternal truths of the human condition as written in the cosmos. It has provided an elegant and inclusive cosmology in which universal and individual patterns are equally reflected. Astrology has an extremely rich historical, philosophical and cultural background. Its categories and forms are archetypal and its language is mythic, symbolic and imaginative. Current mainstream psychological and psychiatric approaches, on the other hand, emerged out of the medical model originally pioneered by Freud, with its intellectual roots firmly planted in the ‘will to science’. The scientific approach is secular, rational, linear and causal, and its language is analytical.i Generally speaking, the focus of contemporary psychotherapy and psychoanalysis is on personal development and growth, wellbeing, self-actualisation, increased self-reliance, and the achievement of independence and autonomy. This approach generally concerns the development and strengthening of the ego, of consciousness and reason, commitment, responsibility, problem solving, reality testing, controlling and progressing. Since the end of the 19th century, a vast and powerful new language of psychology has emerged, much of which has been incorporated into mainstream modern thinking and language. It is not unusual these days for people to refer to complexes, neuroses, phobias and personality disorders, such as obsessive compulsion, attention deficit, post-traumatic stress, and any number of other psychological categorisations. Clinicians who work in private practice and in community mentalhealth agencies are generally expected to assess client problems within the framework of the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) – the ‘bible’ for making diagnostic assessments. In cases of severe psychopathology, it is used as a guide for medication and other medical treatments. And yet, both Freud and Jung, the founders of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology respectively, viewed psychopathology mythically, as a valid form of psychological expression, one of the ways the psyche legitimately and spontaneously presents itself.ii They believed that each pathology has a valid archetypal perspective, and a mythical approach gives expression to, and validates, the great passions, truths and dramas which reside in the human psyche. Indeed, James Hillman believed that psychopathology is the primary vehicle through which soulfulness is achieved. “Peculiarities are fundamental to soul, as are the hurts, disorders and psychic events which are considered to be abnormal and cannot be altogether repressed, transformed or accepted.”iii Neither academic psychology nor medical treatment have so far succeeded in eliminating them.