Applied Metapsychology Dictionary E-Book

Frank A. Gerbode

• Herausgeber: Modern History Press
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 94

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

The term "metapsychology" (small m) means, briefly: The science that unifies mental and physical experience. Its purpose is to discover the rules that apply to both. It is a study of the person, their abilities and experience, as seen from their own point of view. Applied Metapsychology (AMP) is the subject that puts the principles of metapsychology to work for the purpose of relieving traumatic stress, promoting personal growth and development, and empowering people to improve the quality of their lives.
This dictionary includes most of the terms used in Applied Metapsychology. Working out a proper and consistent vocabulary for metapsychology has been a continual compromise between what sounds graceful in ordinary English and what conveys a precise meaning. Many of our terms also occur in normal speech in a sense similar to, but usually not exactly the same as, that given here, just as physics uses terms like "mass", "density", and "energy" in a specialized and more precise way. Natural language is preferred instead of inventing new terms, because their meaning is similar enough to normal usage to give the reader an intuitive idea of what is meant, while the metapsychological definition provides the needed precision for the subject.
The terminology has evolved over time. This dictionary gives the current lexicon, but some changes will likely occur in the future, and no doubt this dictionary will have to be modified and expanded. An appendix of this dictionary contains some commonly used abbreviations and acronyms in the subject of Applied Metapsychology
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Applied Metapsychology Dictionary

Compiled by Frank A. Gerbode, MD

AMI Press

Applied Metapsychology Dictionary

Compiled by Frank A. Gerbode, MD

Copyright © 2019 by Applied Metapsychology International. All Rights Reserved

First Printing: September 2019

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Contents

Introduction

Glossary

Commonly Used Abbreviations in Applied Metapsychology

About Applied Metapsychology International

Introduction

The term “metapsychology” (small m) means, briefly: The science that unifies mental and physical experience. Its purpose is to discover the rules that apply to both. It is a study of the person, their abilities and experience, as seen from their own point of view. Applied Metapsychology (AMP) is the subject that puts the principles of metapsychology to work for the purpose of relieving traumatic stress, promoting personal growth and development, and empowering people to improve the quality of their lives.

This dictionary includes most of the terms used in Applied Metapsychology. Working out a proper and consistent vocabulary for metapsychology has been a continual compromise between what sounds graceful in ordinary English and what conveys a precise meaning. Many of our terms also occur in normal speech in a sense similar to, but usually not exactly the same as, that given here, just as physics uses terms like “mass”, “density”, and “energy” in a specialized and more precise way. Natural language is preferred instead of inventing new terms, because their meaning is similar enough to normal usage to give the reader an intuitive idea of what is meant, while the metapsychological definition provides the needed precision for the subject. However, a few terms have required a stretch in meaning, as it is clumsy at times to use a phrase when a single unusual or stretched word would be easier to fit into sentences. Two words are especially stretched in this dictionary and in our materials, because they are commonly used in both a specialized and non-specialized sense. These are “having“ in its various forms and “thing“ (formerly “entity”). These are put in italics when they are being used in the specialized AMP sense.

The terminology has evolved over time. This dictionary gives the current lexicon, but some changes will likely occur in the future, and no doubt this dictionary will have to be modified and expanded.

Words defined are given in boldface. In the PDF and the electronic version of this dictionary, an italicized word or phrase within a definition denotes a hyperlink to the definition of that word or phrase elsewhere in the dictionary. In the printed version, only “having” and “thing” are italicized.

See the appendix of this dictionary for some commonly used abbreviations and acronyms in the subject of Applied Metapsychology

Glossary

Aberration: Distortion of thought, perception, intention, identity, and behavior, caused by the traumatic incident network.

Ability: A combination of control and understanding. Control is what corresponds, on the person side of the person-world polarity, to order on the world side. Understanding corresponds to heuristics. “An ability” is the potential for performing a specific action or type of action, whereas “ability” (used without an article) means a more general capability or potentiality. Thus “an ability” could be regarded as the exercise of ability in a specific area.

Ability Enhancement: The activity of employing AMP techniques after Life Stress Reduction to enhance a viewer’s abilities.

Ability Enhancement Workshop: One of several workshops that teach the techniques of the different sections of the Ability Enhancement Viewing Curriculum.

Ability Enhancement Viewing Curriculum: See Curriculum.

Acceptance: A form of assent that completes an activity cycle. Compare commitment.

Access: The ability to receive something causatively. Also (as a verb) to exercise causation in a receptive mode. Compare influence.

Acknowledgment: An indication given by the receiver of a communication to the originator of the communication that is intended to convey the datum that the communication was received and comprehended. It is also an indication, given by the issuer of a request to the person who complies, that the issuer is aware of the compliance.

Acting Out:Behavior that is caused by the reactivation of one or more traumatic incidents. It is an unconscious re-enactment of the behavior that occurred at the time of the traumatic incident or incidents as (usually rationalized) behavior directed toward present-time objects or people. It may also be behavior influenced by the traumatic incident that has been reactivated. The behavior may be appropriate to the past incident or incidents, but it is usually not appropriate to the present situation. Therefore it often has destructive consequences.

Action: An instance of causation by a person. The exercise of an ability.

Action Plan: In consultation mode, a series of actual steps to be taken in life by the client. The plan is devised by the client with the practitioner acting as consultant.

Active: An active sequence or traumatic incident is one of which a person is recently or easily reminded. Compare inactive.

Activity: The action or actions (creative or receptive) that a person takes in order to fulfill an intention.

Activity Cycle (Cycle): The entire history of an activity, from beginning to end. A cycle has a point of creation or starting, a period during which it is persisting, continuing, and changing; and a point of ending. For any given person, different periods of time are defined by the cycles that exist for that person. Some cycles are brought into being by the intentions that rule the various creative actions, others by intentions associated with the various receptive actions. Formulating an intention gives a person something to do, an activity in which to engage. The activity, the cycle, and the period of time so created last as long as the intention lasts and no longer.

Addictions Program: An AMPprogram for addressing addictions.

Adverse Childhood Experience Studies (ACEs): The studies by Felitti and Anda commencing in 1994 that amply demonstrate the need for the effectiveness of TIR and TIR for children.

Aesthetics: The appreciation of beauty. A “positive” kind of pleasure, not pleasure derived from relief of pain or discomfort.

Affection: Affinity directed toward a person, not a thing. The wish to be close to another person, to share a common space and viewpoint. An impulse toward communion. A high degree of affection is referred to as “love”. Compare desire, disaffection.

Affinity: A willingness to be close to, or to assume the viewpoint of, something or someone, to reach for or share space with that person or thing. It is a willingness to have something, or to be close to someone. When directed toward a person, affinity is affection; when directed towards a thing, it is desire. Compare aversion.

After the Fact Item: In TIR, an item that places the viewer in a part of an incident or incidents that occur after the main trauma. “A feeling of repression”, for instance, is probably an after-the-fact item. “Depression about relationships” might be an after-the-fact item as well. A descriptive item can equally well be after-the-fact. If the viewer provides the item “The time I was in the hospital with a wounded leg”, they may be placing themself in the part of the incident that comes after the real trauma. “The time my leg got wounded” would be safer.

Agenda: See Session Agenda.

Alienation: A low degree of communication, comprehension, and affection which, together, form a descending triad: less communication leads to less comprehension and less affection, less comprehension leads to less affection and less communication, and less affection leads to less communication and less comprehension. The easiest way out of this descending triad is by communicating. The opposite of communion.

Alignment: The tendency of different parts of a person’s world to fit together properly or to work together harmoniously to further the intentions of the person. The opposite of incongruity.

Ambivalence: A level of the Emotional Scale between Antagonism and Complacency. When one is ambivalent, one is on the borderline between liking or disliking a certain identity, activity, or experience. This is the emotional level at which one has “mixed feelings”. The likelihood of succeeding in the activity is viewed as about equal to the likelihood of failing. The condition in the world that corresponds to Ambivalence is Drudgery.

Anesthetic Idea: An idea introduced and adhered to in an attempt to avoid confronting something painful. Anesthetic ideas tend to be delusions or fixed ideas.

Applied Metapsychology (AMP): The methods and techniques for applying the principles of metapsychology to improving the human condition.

Applied Metapsychology International (AMI): The organization that owns the copyrighted materials of the subject. AMI maintains a central communication point for people using the subject to stay in touch throughout the world, oversees the quality of training worldwide, and maintains the certification program for facilitators and trainers.

Assent: The action of agreeing, of saying “Yes!” to a concept. It is one possible outcome of considering, the other possibilities being dissent and assignment of a probability. Assent can take two forms: acceptance and commitment.

Assertion: A statement or declaration that affirms the existence of a particular element of reality and invites agreement. Assertions include interpretations and judgments. A facilitator does not make assertions about the viewer’s world or their case, except by way of agreeing with something the viewer already knows consciously (an indication).

Assessing: The action of finding areas of the viewer’s life (items) to which one or more viewing techniques can fruitfully be applied, i.e., areas that lie just below the awareness threshold. It is always done with a viewer during a viewing session.

Assessment list: A method of addressing unwanted conditions or charge. It is designed to enable a viewer to identify specific items or issues that are currently triggered and of interest and to deactivate them. The method consists of starting with a predetermined list of questions reflecting different possible areas of charge, addressed to a particular subject or to life in general. The questions are asked, one after another, until the viewer feels interested in, or feels their attention drawn to, one of the questions. The viewer then answers this question to their own satisfaction.

If there is still interest and attention on the question, the facilitator follows up using retrospection by asking if there is an earlier similar __(whatever it is)__. If so, the viewer talks about that. The “earlier similar” question is asked as many times as needed until that question is handled to the viewer’s satisfaction, usually to a flat point or small end point. On some assessment lists, questions on the list may specify a particular way of dealing with that question, in which case you would follow the prescribed handling instead of using retrospection. Having completed work on one question, the facilitator continues down the list until the viewer finds another question that arouses their interest, etc., until the viewer has an end point on the subject of the list or feels there is no more available charge on it.

Assumption (An Assumption): A fact that refers to, indicates, or implies a conclusion. A fact that has meaning. A premise.

Assumption (of Identity): Particularization and extension of identity through the incorporation of previously external elements (such as skills, tools, and concepts) as part of the self. The opposite of shedding.

Attention: The intention to receive. Compare volition.

Authority: A person or group that is regarded as a source of knowledge or order