The Love Outraged Workbook

Franklin Sollars · Jamie Sharpe

Aug 2020 · University Professors Press

About this ebook

The Love Outraged Workbook is a guidebook with instruction, meditations, and activities designed to help liberate the greater self in the personality from the shrouds of the character faults and shadow elements of the personality. It is not a simple positive psychology of believing in the good, suggesting you simply visualize a positive state and everything will be alright. It is not a way to bypass one's dark side to just be "happy." It engages one's shadow to transform it. The suggested exercises bring out the darkness so it can be worked with through self-acceptance, self-awareness, and self-confrontation. There is no suggestion to go around one's troubles, but encouragement and guidance to go through them.

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."

        You can learn more about Franklin Sollars by searching Franklin Sollars PhD, or Love Outraged from University Professors Press, or potnc.wordpress.com.

Jamie Sharpe, PsyD, is a limited licensed psychologist and graduate student pursuing her doctorate degree in clinical psychology. She is in the last year of her program and expects to graduate in 2020 after completing her internship and dissertation. Despite the innumerable hours Jamie has spent writing her dissertation, her love for writing has not wavered. Through her passion for psychology and the power of words, Jamie aspires to apply the art of writing in a way that helps others heal and grow.