Main description:

Presents relevant theory from other disciplines as needed.
Accessibly written.
Centers on two key texts, The Psychotic Core and Emotional Storm.
Rather than a comprehensive or systematic exegesis of Eigen's work, Bagai's commentary expands nodal aspects, illuminating and probing seminal themes and ideas.

Contents:

Foreword by Michael Eigen

Acknowledgments

Credits

Introduction

Part One: Commentaries on The Psychotic Core

Commentary #1: The Core of Psychosis

Commentary #2: Hallucination, Idealization, and Wish-Fulfillment

Commentary #3: Hallucination, Megalomania, and Emotional Pain

Commentary #4: Phenomenology, Evasion, and the Primacy of Experience

Commentary #5: Mindlessness

Commentary #6: Boundaries

Commentary #7: Hate, Fear, and Aggression

Commentary #8: Hate, Self-Hatred, and the Death Drive

Commentary #9: Epistemology and Reversal

Commentary #10: Schreber and Rena

Commentary #11: The Psychotic Self

Commentary #12: Unintegration, Madness, Suicide, and Epilogue

References, Part One

Part Two: Commentaries on Emotional Storm

Commentary #1: Inside the Storm

Commentary #2: Emotional Storms

Commentary #3: More Emotional Storms

Commentary #4: Smiles and Screams

Commentary #5: No Amount of Suffering

Commentary #6: Somatic Storms

Commentary #7: Dream Images

Commentary #8: Killers within Life and Psyche

Commentary #9: Killers in Dreams

Commentary #10: Training Wheels

Commentary #11: The Binding

Commentary #12: Guilt, Suffering, and Transformation

Commentary #13: Guilt, Care, and Afterword

References, Part Two