Evolution and Consciousness, Revised Edition: From a Barren Rocky Earth to Artists, Philosophers, Meditators and Psychotherapists(31 Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies)

This volume is a newly revised and updated edition of Evolution and Consciousness (Brill, 2019) and provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the emerging concept of the evolution of consciousness. The simple, but dynamic, theory of evolving consciousness blends the powerful insights of modern science with the deep wisdom of age-old cultures, synthesising the traditions of East and West, of the head and heart, of male and female and of science and spirituality. To borrow a phrase from American philosopher Ken Wilber, it is a concept that “transcends and includes” all that has gone before. By integrating diverse multi-disciplinary approaches, it provides an overarching and transcending model that moves us to a new level of meaning and understanding of our place in the world, and in so doing deepens our work as psychotherapists.

About the Author :
Michael (Michelo) DelMonte, Ph.D. (1982), Trinity College Dublin. Michael was Principal Clinical Psychologist at St. Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College. He co-founded “The Transnational Network for Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Well-Being” (1990) in Tokyo. Maeve Halpin is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist (PSI), clinical supervisor and founder-manager of the Appletree Health and Wellness Therapy Centre in Dublin. She is a co-founder of the Theravadan Irish Sangha Trust (IST, 2011). She compiled and published How to be Happy and Healthy: the Seven Natural Elements of Mental Health in 2014.

Review :
"This book is absolutely breathtaking in the extent of its exploration of concepts and theories, ranging from the Western psychotherapies to Eastern traditions of mindfulness and meditative practice. But even more amazing and exciting is that it weaves interconnections with a range of other disciplines, including physics, cosmology, genetics, neuroscience and philosophy. In so doing, it questions much of currently accepted wisdom. These ideas are presented clearly and coherently, accessible to the general reader as well as to clinicians, therapists and scientists." - Ray Fuller, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin, Author of Life of Brain and Six Confessions of the Self-serving Brain (2021).