Preface, Structure, and Table of Contents

Inside Out: Holding the Child Within — Volumes I and II

This page provides an overview of the structure and chapter organization of Inside Out: Holding the Child Within.

The book is published in two volumes: Volume I and Volume II.

Preface

This book is a true story, based on the diaries a woman kept over the course of twenty years, tracing her journey in pursuit of the child within.

I met her in my late teens and spent nearly twenty years with her, until the time of her passing. Her name was Nana Hinase. Through illness and loss, she had lost a part of herself, and spent her life searching for love and for something beyond the self.

After her death, I compiled this record of her journey on her behalf.

— From the book

Volume I: Structure and Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Child Within — 11

Part I

Emotion Is the Language of the Soul

Chapter One
Severed Emotions and the Other Half of the Soul — 25

Chapter Two
Meeting Aimi-chan and the Beginning of the Journey — 51

Chapter Three
Faust, or the Conceit of Becoming the Image of God — 83

Chapter Four
Michael, or Who Can Be Like God? — 133

Chapter Five
Thanatos and One’s Own God — 147

Chapter Six
How Is Everything Held Together? — 173

Part II

To Face Something Is to Love It

Chapter Seven
What André Gide Suggests — 221

Chapter Eight
Pandora’s Box and Flashbacks — 243

Chapter Nine
The Little Girl Trapped Behind Glass — 281

Chapter Ten
The Moon of the Dead and Prayer — 331

Chapter Eleven
The Heart Left Behind — 341

Chapter Twelve
Letters to Her Parents — 369

Notes

Volume II: Structure and Table of Contents

Part III

Perspective Shapes Perception, and Perception Shapes Experience

Chapter Thirteen
Felt Sense and Unconscious Memory

Chapter Fourteen
Inside Out

Chapter Fifteen
Nameless Faith

Chapter Sixteen
Directly Pointing to the Human Mind, or the Secret

Chapter Seventeen
Prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane

Epilogue
Finding the Child Within

Afterword

Notes

* Chapter titles follow the wording used in the published text.
* Additional notes attached to the table of contents, such as subtitles or subheadings, may be added as needed.