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CD #	Name of CD	Description of Individual Tracks on Each CD	Price
P1	The nature of the mind, emotions, soul, and spirit (audio from 2000). Booklet text updated in 2004 and is more psychological than religious / spiritual. The two are different presentations.	Introduction; Psychological versus Spiritual Counseling – What's your understanding and treatment grid; Terminology – the visible (soul) and the hidden (heart) realms of the psyche; Review of heart, soul, might, and spirit; The nature and structure of the psyche – conscious psyche (soul and might); The nature and structure of the psyche – unconscious psyche (the hidden parts of the heart); The ego – definition, characteristics of fragmentation and complexes, and an explanation based upon the ex. of stage fright; The ego in psychiatric illness; Consciousness and the ego	$20 + S&H
P2	Introduction to mental illness (audio from 2000). Booklet text updated in 2004 and is more psychological than religious / spiritual. The two are different presentations.	Introduction and personal testimony; Historical Background – Freud, Jung, Adler, and Reductive (regressive) psychology as it relates to spiritual concepts of authority, idols, and procreation; Definition of neurosis, problems with reductive (regressive) psychologies, finding the cause doesn't necessarily bring a cure; My approach – constructive psychiatry, the problems of one-sidedness, and neurosis and the spiritual question; Neurosis and psychosis – similarities between the two, defining latent psychosis and how to recognize it before the psychotic break; Psychosis – definition, auditory v. visual hallucinations, and tips on when medical evaluation is required in psychiatric illness; Review of treatment for mental disorders – overview of medications, guilt over taking medications, treating the patient as a whole – considering organic, hereditary, emotional, and spiritual factors; Congregational leader, counselor, therapist, or consultant – the different "contracts" between patient and counselor depending on the setting, relationship, theology, and philosophy of ministry; Suggestion therapy – definition, sound advice, wisdom, and spiritual encouragement help in most cases, don't give people what they don't need; Biblical counsel v. consultation – definition, problems with giving good advice or sound counsel, collective versus individual solutions; Stalling in therapy – the key is to find a source of new life, the need for flexibility and maturity in the Lord.	$20 + S&H
P3	Understanding Temperament (audio from 2000). Booklet text updated in 2004 and is more psychological than religious / spiritual. The two are different presentations.	(Temperament is our inherited preferences of: outlook; emotional and cognitive processing; decision-making function; and factors leading toward our individual personality. Clinically, I use temperament tests that categorize people using a 4-letter type, sometimes called Myers-Briggs type.) Three aspects of the 4-letter type – preference of attitude toward the object, four functions that bring reality, preference of the perceiving mode; Understanding your four-letter typ; Extraverts and introverts; Temperament principles – preference rather than determine behavior, stress reverts us to our birth temperament, gives a grid to understand yourself and others; Opposite types – example of thinker and feelers mismatch, importance of the finding someone to complement your type, thoughts on dominant function and development, being caught by our inferior function; More on extraverts and introverts – emotional side of this preference, fear of the inside or outside reality, can one's temperament change, extraverts can introvert and introverts can extravert; Introduction to the four functions (letters 2 & 3) – brings reality to the person, what is thinking, what is feeling, feelings are more determinate than thinking, what is sensation, what is intuition; Judgers and perceivers – not a judgmental person, definition, relation to decision making, taking time to "smell the roses"; Questions: what about X's, a question on fantasy, science, and type, temperament and choice of profession, temperament is a creation gift from God.	$20 + S&H
P4	Introduction to Dream Interpretation (audio from 2000). Booklet text updated in 2004 and is more psychological than religious / spiritual. The two are different presentations.	Introduction – dreams given by God to reveal the deep things, dreams and biblical figures, do we undervalue dreams?; The purpose of dreams – for our benefit, taking your dreams seriously, interpretation, layers of application; Common-sense rules to approach dreams – record your dreams, practical tips, don't interpret too soon or force it; Dreams speak in symbols – symbols and imaginations are biblical and our capacity to generate and use them are God-given; Methods of interpretation – reductive v. constructive method, dreams reveal rather than disguise or veil, from God unless shown otherwise, dreams release life and encouragement to the dreamer; Dreamer's setting – their real-life context, situation, problems, and current emotional state; Action and people – is the dreamer seen fully or partially, movement in a dream, most dream-people are parts of the dreamer, movement and feelings, dream example; Fusion figures, gender-morphing figures, shadow figures, relation of shadow figures to inferior function in one's temperament, dream examples, how God uses gender in a dream; Sexuality in dreams – symbolism is easily misunderstood; Symbols – what a dream figure is wearing, naked or partially-clothed, clothes as our persona, over-identifying with our persona, some common symbols; Dates in dreams – an example; More on symbols – water, closed doors, actors, problems – anxiety dreams, example of fear and ambivalence.	$20 + S&H
P5	Understanding the Unconscious
P6	Dreams and Visions for Therapists
P7	Psychology and Faith
P8	Dreams and Visions: Psychological or Spiritual?
P9	Projection and Transference