Out now in German
A Psychology
of Wholeness
SELF-Oriented Psychology & The Wholeness Work
The Wholeness Work® leads from the everyday experience of the ‘I’ into direct experiencing. This book shows where the young method belongs on the great maps of psychology: with Piaget, Erikson, Loevinger and Graves, and on Jung’s path of individuation.
The book has been published in German, under the title Eine Psychologie der Ganzheit. An English edition is in preparation. The editions, prices and order links on this page refer to the German edition.
What it is about
A bridge from your own school into new territory
The Wholeness Work® by Connirae Andreas leads from the everyday experience of the ‘I’ into direct experiencing, gently, precisely and surprisingly simply, into the wholeness that C. G. Jung called the Self. This book places the young method on the great maps of psychology: in the developmental models of Piaget, Erikson, Loevinger and Graves, and on Jung’s path of individuation.
Out of that comes a SELF-oriented psychology of wholeness, a psychology that takes its bearings from the Self: the Self is the way and at the same time the goal.
The backbone of the book
Eight levels, two movements
Clare W. Graves described the development of human values as a pendulum: every level that strengthens the I is followed by one that puts the We in the foreground, and the other way round. The book brings these eight levels together with Jane Loevinger’s ego development, with Piaget and Erikson, and with Connirae’s stages of transformation. The diagram shows this pendulum movement as a zigzag between individual and communal values.
About the book
“Ralph has worked directly with me in many trainings, which puts him in a uniquely good position to write about this work conceptually. For anyone interested in how The Wholeness Work® and Core Transformation® fit within the larger landscape of psychology, this book builds a bridge that has not been published anywhere else.”
The structure
Four parts
The first two parts map out what already exists. The last two are the bridge that has not been published anywhere else: The Wholeness Work in Jung’s map of the soul, and in the developmental models of Graves and Loevinger.
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Theoretical Foundations
The paradigm shift in psychology, the Self in Jung, Rogers, Maslow and in transpersonal psychology, and the developmental models of Piaget, Erikson, Kohlberg, Loevinger and Graves.
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The Methods of Connirae Andreas
The Wholeness Work: background and origin, the preliminary exercise, the Basic Process, the five basic principles, the Reclaiming Inner Authority process and the four Developmental Stages of Transformation. Core Transformation: the Outcome Chain, the five clusters of Core States and the maturing of our parts.
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C. G. Jung, Individuation and the Shadow Dynamics
Jung’s map of the soul: the I-system, the complexes, archetypes, persona, shadow, anima and animus, the psychological types and the ego-Self axis. Alongside them, eight shadow dynamics in the line of Reich, Lowen and Kurtz, each with its repressed opposite pole. And then the interweaving: Connirae’s parts as Jung’s complexes, the Outcome Chain as finality, the Core States as an experience of the Self, the I-system as a system of functional contractions, and every integration as the transcendent function.
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Individuation and the Integrative Models of Development
The two septaves. The first builds up the personality and brings the shadow into being as it does so, most strongly where, at Graves4, the rules migrate inward. The second brings the repressed home. Which format works on which layer of the onion, how the practice changes from the early to the middle phase, and where the septave points, there where the maps of psychology end.
Who it is for
Two ways into this book
For your own development
If you would like to deepen your personal and transpersonal development, you will find orientation here: a map that shows you where you stand and where the path leads.
For coaches and psychotherapists
If you come from Jungian analysis, person-centered therapy, Gestalt, bodywork, NLP or systemic work, you will find the bridge here from your own school into the new territory of The Wholeness Work®.
The author
Ralph Köbler
Ralph Köbler first met The Wholeness Work with Connirae Andreas in 2015, interpreted many of her trainings in the German-speaking world and edited “The Wholeness Work Book” in 2023. He is a Teaching Trainer and chairman of the board of the European Association for The Wholeness Work. For more than 40 years he has been engaged with yoga, meditation and transpersonal unfolding; he wrote his diploma thesis, “The Higher Self in Psychotherapy,” at the University of Hamburg in 1994. As the developer of the esc Potenzialanalyse he combines the Graves model with web-based personality diagnostics.
Editions
How to get the book
The book is out in German. Prices include VAT; in Austria the final price is slightly higher, because the VAT rate on books is higher there. An English edition is in preparation.
Paperback
German edition, black and white, 307 pages
24,90 €
25,60 € in Austria
Order at AmazonISBN 978-3-903371-06-4
Hardcover
German edition, in color, 307 pages
49,90 €
51,30 € in Austria
Order at AmazonISBN 978-3-903371-08-8
E-book
German edition, with the diagrams in color
In preparation
Coming soon
ISBN 978-3-903371-07-1
English edition
A Psychology of Wholeness – SELF-Oriented Psychology and The Wholeness Work
In preparation
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