This book offers a collection of many new ideas: connection with the psychoid processes of the unconscious is a source of healing, especially in relation to trauma; fresh interpretation of the bedevilling flashbacks of trauma; addition of an alternative interpenetrating matrix to the container model of healing; sum of the insights of Nicholas of Cusa and their implications for Jungs complex around freedom and relation to the Divine.

Contents 1. The Psychoid, Psyche and Soul: Piercing Space-Time Barriers Psyche and Soul Inaugural Images Two Sources of Healing 2. Psychoid Quality of the Unconscious, A Third Source of Healing The Psychoid Quality of the Unconscious The Psychoid Field Other Theorists, Mystics Healing Potential of the Psychoid Field Blooming Scraps Meaning and Its Paradox The Ubiquity and the Aura of the Psychoid 3. Examples of Psychoid Quality of Unconscious Example 1: Murder Example 2: Violence Example 3: Psychoid Experience in Social Life Example 4: Psychoid Experience in Everyday Life Example 5: A Man’s Experience 4. Mending Trauma Mending Flashbacks The First Witness The Second Witness Meaning Matters Healing 5. Dread of Transition, and an Additional Matrix Another Transition Matrix as Container An Additional Matrix Benefits and Limits of the Container Image, and of the Interpenetrating Matrix The Unconscious Psyche, and the Soul, as Additional Matrices Back to Murder The Psychoid and the Matrix The Uncontainable A Leap Perhaps? Something More Images of Something More, East and West Meaning Once Again Example 6. Spiritual Elements in Clinical Work Something More (Again) Tracking the Tiger Dead Parts Individual/Collective The Really Bad Scraps Again Modes of Consciousness Inaugural Images (Again), Psychoanalytic Theories and God-Images The Psychoid 7. Excursus: Coincidence of Opposites – Nicholas of Cusa and C. G. Jung Jung’s Style God-Image Coincidence of Opposites Five Parallels Between Jung and Nicholas of Cusa Implications of Nicholas’ Notion of Godself in Us for Jung’s Notion of Self Implications of Nicholas’ God-Image for Jung’s Complex References