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Map of the Heart: An East-West Understanding of Heart Intelligence and its Application in Counseling Psychology |
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Whitney, Alexandra (著)
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| Date | 2017.07.01 |
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| Pages | 305 |
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| Publisher | ProQuest LLC |
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https://www.proquest.com/
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| Location | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Degree | doctor |
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| Institution | California Institute of Integral Studies |
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| Department | East–West Psychology |
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| Advisor | Daniel Deslauriers |
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| Publication year | 2017 |
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| Keyword | Philosophy, religion and theology; Psychology; Core heart feelings; Four immeasurable truths; Heart; Heart based psychology; Heart intelligence; Sacred emotions |
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| Abstract | This qualitative study involved the creation and assessment of a seven-week heart-focused psycho-spiritual inquiry program, Map of the Heart. The program’s curriculum was comprised of heart-based practices and theories designed to develop heart-centered awareness. The purpose of this investigation was to reveal and understand the personal experience and expression of heart intelligence and to define it and its personal meaning while illuminating the clinical relevance of Map of the Heart curriculum in the field of counseling psychology.
The curriculum was organized into six weekly themes based upon core heart feelings associated with the Four Immeasurable Truths, Buddhist virtues, and practices for cultivating the heart. Informed by East-West psychology, the curriculum highlighted perennial philosophy from both Eastern and Western religions and indigenous and psychological traditions, integrating spiritual discipline with Western neuroscience research and psychotherapy practices.
The research design used heuristic phenomenology and co-operative inquiry to explicate the individual and group experience of heart intelligence. Data analysis was primarily derived from a series of one-on-one semi-structured interviews and group dialogue sessions with nine state-registered psychotherapists.
Research findings indicated that Map of the Heart may support psycho-spiritual and clinical skills development and may encourage personal and interpersonal conflict resolution. Co-researchers reported increased experiential awareness of their own heart center and a defined ability to connect internally, reinforcing therapeutic intuition, perception, and sensitivity, subsequently strengthening the therapeutic alliance. Increases in therapeutic presence, empathic listening, attunement, and accurate mirroring were also reported. Co-researchers reported a greater ability to work more effectively with difficult clients and complex mental health issues. As a result, transformative changes in the client were observed. Co-researchers indicated that they were able to effectively use aspects of the curriculum for therapeutic intervention and clinical directives, where the heart became a focal point of the session. For example, the client focused on their own heart center by implementing heart breathing and other heart-related exercises to facilitate self-inquiry and emotional self-regulation.
Map of the Heart offers the beginnings of a theoretical template and experiential basis upon which psychotherapists, psychologists, and mental health care and other professionals can access and integrate the spiritual, psychological, and physiological terrain of the heart for therapeutic process and intervention. Further investigation is necessary to determine a more comprehensive psychology and theoretical orientation of the heart. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract iv
Acknowledgments vi
Dedication of Merit ix
List of Tables and Figures xix
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
Key Concepts and Terms 6
Purpose and Significance of the Study 7
Research Questions 7
Relevance to East–West Psychology 8
Autobiographical Relevance 9
Researcher Assumptions 11
Chapter 2: Review of the Literature 12
Defining Intelligence and Heart Intelligence 13
The Physical Heart 26
The Spiritual Heart 31
Map of the Heart Curriculum 40
Love 41
Compassion 48
Gratitude 53
Forgiveness 60
Equanimity 70
Chapter 3: Method and Procedures 79
Research Participants 85
Procedures 85
Curriculum 87
Propositional Knowing 87
Practical Knowing 87
Presentational Knowing 88
Experiential Knowing 88
Data Collection 88
One-on-One interviews 89
Indwelling and Cooperative Inquiry Sessions 89
Self-Rating Psychograph 90
Journals 90
Artwork 91
Data Analysis 91
Validity and Limitations 93
Validity 93
Limitations 94
Research Delimitations 95
Chapter 4: Findings 97
One-on-One Interview 1 97
HB 1 97
HB 2 98
HB 3 99
HB 4 101
HB 5 102
HB 6 103
HB 7 104
HB 8 106
HB 9 107
Essential Themes: A Composite of Questions 1 and 2 from Interview 1 108
Heart Intelligence Was Experienced in the Absence of It 108
As a Sense of Wellbeing 108
As a Feeling of Openness and Spaciousness 108
Experienced in the Body as Physical Sensations 108
Heart Intelligence Is Associated with Listening to the Heart and Being Guided by the Heart when Making
Decisions 109
Heart Intelligence Is Related to Spiritual Experience or Practice 109
Heart Intelligence Is Experienced as a Relational Phenomenon That Promotes a Sense of Connection 110
Heart Intelligence Is Experienced through Making a Distinction Between the Heart and the Head 110
Heart Intelligence Is Experienced through Professional Therapeutic Work with Others 110
Heart Intelligence Is Difficult to Describe in Words, It Is Beyond Words and Thought 110
Heart Intelligence Is Experienced as an Intuition or a Kind of Knowing 111
Heart Intelligence Is Experienced as One of the Core Heart Feelings (Love, Compassion, Gratitude) 111
Heart Intelligence Is Experienced as a Sense of Safety 111
Interview Two: Question One 111
HB 1 112
HB 2 112
HB 3 113
HB 4 113
HB 5 113
HB 9 114
HB 8 114
Essential Themes and Supporting Statements from Interview Two, Question One 115
Definition Did Not Change 115
MOH Expanded One’s Definition and Awareness of Heart Intelligence 115
Heart Intelligence Is a Non-Conceptual Knowing 116
Heart Intelligence Is Innate, Associated with One’s "Essence" 116
Heart Intelligence Is Relational; It Enhances Communication and Connection 117
MOH Increased the Ability to Access Heart Intelligence and to Trust It 117
Heart Intelligence Is Associated with a Sense of Warmth and Openness 117
Heart Intelligence Is Holistic 117
Heart Intelligence Increases One’s Ability to Tolerate and Work with Difficult Emotions and Situations 118
Heart Intelligence Is Healing and Transformative 118
Heart Intelligence Is the Ability and a Tool to Respond to Life 118
Indwelling Analysis 120
Week Two: Love 121
Alexandra’s Introduction 124
Week Two – Love: Themes and Supporting Statements 1 |
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| Created date | 2023.05.08 |
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| Modified date | 2024.07.05 |
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