Reviews
Sollars writes profoundly about a deep core in personality and paths leading towards and away from it. In this, he links up with a great tradition of writing that affirms the depths of the human condition and attempts to delineate factors that enable sound development. The author contributes to a basic concern in literature and spirituality involving corruption one undergoes in order to survive, while an unblemeshed element of selfhood remains.
Michael Eigen
Author of Faith, The Psychotic Core, The Birth of Experience
Franklin Sollars has written a profound, important book that offers insight into the possibilities of a unified spiritually-oriented psychotherapy that addresses the essential Core self of a human being, a Core self that fulfills itself through unity. His model is alchemical transformation of the Core Self, and he draws inspiration from psychoanalysts such as Wilfred Bion, Michael Eigen, Gerald J. Gargiulo, and James Grotstein, and joins their ranks as a major contributor to writers who consider the relationship of the spiritual self and psychotherapy.
Merle Molofsky
Psychoanalyst, Faculty member of the Harlem Family Institute;
Faculty member of the Training Institute NPAP, Board of Directors of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, and the Advisory Board of Harlem Family Institute, author of Streets 1970.
Frank Sollars’s writing takes us beyond the important healing of early damages and resulting defenses. He shows us the exciting potential of our Core Self in unitive consciousness.
Eugene F. Humphrey, PhD, Senior Pathwork Helper
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Published: April 22, 2016
Pages: 204
ISBN (print): 978-1-939686-12-1
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-939686-34-3
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Core Self
Chapter 2 The Model
Chapter 3: Elements of Treatment
Chapter 4: Core Self Dialogues
Chapter 5: Self-Analysis and the Liberation of the Core Self
References
Glossary
Index
About the Author
Franklin Sollars PhD is a psychologist/psychoanalyst, professor of graduate studies, and the author of Love Outraged and the Liberation of the Core Self. He has also published many articles in psychoanalytic journals and is a writer and director for a soon-to-be-released film, “Pirates of the North Coast.” He is also Clinical Director of Sollars and Associates Integrative Counseling and Psychological Services across Michigan.
He has spent much of his life working with the intersection of psychoanalytic and mystical thought, which has brought him to the publication of his most recent book with co-author Jamie Sharpe—The Love Outraged Workbook. The Workbook provides exercises, examples, and meditations that help readers work with the concepts of trauma and healing of the human suffering that trauma causes. The Workbook also uses the injuries of our past as stepping stones to emotional and spiritual growth.
Michael Eigen, author of Faith, The Psychotic Core, and The Birth Experience, wrote about Sollars:
Sollars writes profoundly about a deep core in the personality and paths leading towards and away from it. In this, he lines up with a great tradition of writing that affirms the depths of the human condition and attempts to delineate factors that enable sound development.
Read more about Dr. Sollars at his author page.
