Elven Psychology: Understanding the Elfin Psyche and the Evolutionary and Esoteric Purpose of Mental Disorders

by The Silver Elves

ELVEN PSYCHOLOGY: Understanding the Elfin Psyche and the Evolutionary and Esoteric Purpose of Mental Disorders expands the realms of modern psychology, which has never before included the elves and otherkin population as being real. If one says that they are an elf, most psychologists today will still hold you in suspect of having a delusionary disorder and try to evaluate you further. We explain in Elven Psychology why from a standard psychological point of view that believing you are an elf does not in itself constitute a disorder even in traditional psychology, and then we go much further and explore the disorders and psychological struggles that we observe in our modern society in both normal folk and elves/otherkin. This book is written from a unique elven perspective about the present day human condition, which includes an exploration of the psyche of both normal folk and elfae. We elves are elven by spirit, so our entrance into humanity is the addition of a new spiritual race, not a new physical race, and elves have been born in these modern times into all physical races, as well as most cultures and religions throughout the world. In fact, there are many who are following esoteric Ancient Wisdom Traditions, as well as some Tolkienists, who through the process of benevolent evolution, see 'elf as the new normal' or majority of humankind in the not so distant future. So, it is important to update many areas of academia that explore, express, and explain human life; psychology being one of these.

In modern times, we Elves and otherkin have reincarnated in human form and thus the human population today has become even more diverse due to our presence. And since elves and otherkin are constantly growing in our own diversity and variations (we are an ever diversifying people), the human populous of which we are now a part is also becoming more varied by the day. This may sound like fiction to the 'normal folk,' but just ask thousands around the world who understand thems'elves to be elves or otherkin, including all manner of faerie folk, and they will tell you with certainty that it is real. We look toward the future of humankind with our elven souls and know that we must all learn to unite, normal folk and elfae alike, to accept each other for all our uniqueness and beautiful variations.

Both authors, Zardoa and Silver Flame, who write under the pen name The Silver Elves, have advanced graduate degrees in Depth Psychology and Art Therapy. We have used our academic and clinical backgrounds as well as life experiences living and sharing the Elven Way for over 40 years to identify a new way of perceiving the struggles of elves and otherkin living in the stressful modern world that sometimes results in psychological discomforts, as well as identifying the disorders of normal folk that have yet to be written about in modern psychology. While these are not the disorders you would find in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) that is published by the American Psychiatric Association as a standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders, in our opinion they need to be included to begin updating clinical psychology to include the existence of elven and faerie folk and our perspective. While we do not really support the use of categories like in the DSM to describe mental discomfort (people are far more complex than to limit our understanding of them by psychological classifications), we are adding the elven perspective and new classifications as a way of updating this important discipline. Since both of us had a number of graduate classes in the study of the DSM required for various clinical psychology degrees, we have long had many discussions together on how the elven perspective has been left out of the DSM. So here in Elven Psychology we share them with you in an often tongue in cheek fashion. If the elves were to write their own DSM, this book would be a good start!

Genres: Psychology, Spirituality, Counselling, Self Help, Nonfiction

260 pages, Paperback

Published July 25, 2018

About the author

The Silver Elves are a family of elves who have since 1975 been living and sharing the Elven Way or Elven spiritual path. We are the authors of 60+ books on elven magic, elven lore and enchantment, and the Elven Way including: The Book of Elven Runes: A Passage Into Faerie; The Magical Elven Love Letters, vol. I, 2, & 3; An Elfin Book of Spirits: Evoking the Beneficent Powers of Faerie; Caressed by an Elfin Breeze: The Poems of Zardoa Silverstar; Eldafaryn: True Tales of Magic from the Lives of the Silver Elves; Arvyndase (Silverspeech): A Short Course in the Magical Language of the Silver Elves; The Elven Book of Dreams: A Magical Oracle of Faerie; The Book of Elven Magick: The Philosophy and Enchantments of the Seelie Elves, Vol. 1 & 2; What An Elf Would Do: A Magical Guide to the Manners and Etiquette of the Faerie Folk; The Elven Tree of Life Eternal: A Magical Quest for One’s True S’Elf; Magic Talks: On Being a Correspondence Between the Silver Elves and the Elf Queen’s Daughters — along with three other books in this series: Sorcerers’ Dialogues, Discourses on High Sorcery, and Ruminations on Necromancy; The Elven Way: The Magical Path of the Shining Ones; The Book of Elf Names: 5,600 Elven Names to Use for Magic, Game Playing, Inspiration, Naming One’s Self and One’s Child, and as Words in the Elven Language of the Silver Elves; Elven Silver: The Irreverent Faery Tales of Zardoa Silverstar; An Elven Book of Ryhmes: Book Two of the Magical Poems of Zardoa Silverstar; The Voice of Faerie: Making Any Tarot Deck Into an Elven Oracle; Liber Aelph: Words of Guidance from the Silver Elves to our Magical Children; The Shining Ones: The Elfin Spirits That Guide You According to Your Birth Date and the Evolutionary Lessons They Offer; Living the Personal Myth: Making the Magic of Faerie Real in One’s Own Personal Life; Elf Magic Mail, Book 1 & 2; The Elves of Lyndarys: A Magical Tale of Modern Faerie Folk; The Elf Folk’s Book of Cookery: Recipes For a Delighted Tongue, a Healthy Body and a Magical Life; Faerie Unfolding: The Cosmic Expression of the Divine Magic; The Elements of Elven Magic: A New View of Calling the Elementals Based Upon the Periodic Table of Elements; The Keys to Elfin Enchantment: Mastery of the Faerie Light Through the Portals of Manifestation; Elf Quotes: A Collection of Over 1000 Ancient Elven Sayings and Wise Elfin Koans by The Silver Elves About Magic and The Elven Way; The United States of Elfin: Imagining a More Elven Style of Government; Elven Geomancy: An Ancient Oracle of the Elfin Peoples for Divination and Spell Casting; Creating Miracles In The Modern World: The Way Of the Elfin Thaumaturge; The Magical Realms of Elfin: Answers to Questions About Being an Elf and Following the Elven Path; Elven Psychology: Understanding the Elfin Psyche and the Evolutionary and Esoteric Purpose of Mental Disorders, The Complete Dictionary Of Arvyndase: The Elven Language of The Silver Elves (with over 30,000 words in our full magical elven language); Sticks and Stones, Feathers, Charms and Bones: An Original Oracle of the Elfin Peoples of the Ancient Future; Elven Hedgewitchery and Found Magic: Using Art-Making for Evoking Elfin Magic and Living the Elven Way; and An Elfin Book of Trees for the Elven Druid: The Ogham of the Elves Using Elvish Wizard Script.

Reviews

[Martha Love · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anyone struggling through this world and feeling different or eccentric in any way, would love this book! It is written for otherkin, elves, and elfae but also any normal person would get a lot out of it too and it is written in a tongue in cheek style that the Silver Elves are so good at! So you will definitely laugh and yet read so much that changes your perspective and life.

[The Elves · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hello Dear Readers! We have written ELVEN PSYCHOLOGY both for our elven and fae kin as well as normal folk. It is our hope that by extending modern clinical psychology so it will include elfae and the elfae perspective will bring some clarity to people to understand both the likenesses and differences of the elves/fae and normal folk, with tolerance and understanding of each other as one family, and some suggestions for healing. One thing we talk at length about in Elven Psychology are the spiritual reasons that people have the disorders that they have and what the soul is working on accomplishing in terms of wholeness and evolutionary adaptation by developing the characteristics and even abilities that go with each disorder. It is our hope in this book to throw some light on the healing of the person, both fae and ‘normal folk,’ experiencing these disorders by identifying a perspective that adds to the solution or cure of the imbalance within the personality and thus aids in the evolutionary progression of the soul.
Kyela,
The Silver Elves

[Gail Avrill · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book will leave you full of the determination to be yourself and stop worrying about being normal in the eyes of others. It is very informative about modern psychology and explains some very complicated psychological theories in an easy to understand manner, and with a lot of humor which keeps you wanting more.

[Chris Ambrose · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you feel unusual or not feeling like everyone else? What about feeling as though people are seeing you as different, and you are…don’t you think you have a right to choose your own destiny and march to your own drummer? Well, you do! This book is comical and intelligent and certainly makes you understand, while it entertains you. ELVEN PSYCHOLOGY, offers varied directions and suggestions so you can overcome your emotional distress and blocks that may hinder your spirituality, while building self confidence. Don’t you owe it to yourself to feel better about who you really are…different or not? This is a must read book for anyone with doubts or those that want answers while being entertained! Delightful, is what you will find inside the pages of this book.

[Brenda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book! Anyone studying or working in the field of Psychology needs to read ELVEN PSYCHOLOGY as it is truly revolutionary in its view on personality! You'll nod through it in agreement and then realize that you have based a lot of your practices on far less intelligent perspectives. I really do wish the DSM didn't exist at all, but I agree with the Silver Elves that if and since it does, it truly needs to be rewritten to include a view that is wider and serves a more varied population.

[Rosemary · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you have issues with not feeling normal or with others not seeing you as normal because you are just a little bit different and choose to follow your own way and trust yourself, read this book! It is so funny and wise. ELVEN PSYCHOLOGY is highly entertaining and interesting, with some very practical suggestions for how to overcome emotional blocks and develop your spiritually along a more self aware and harmonious path. 

[Alice Hopkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

What I really loved about this book the most was their ideas about the spiritual purposes of mental illness and disorders. One to keep as a reference. Definitely worth reading!

[Finley Vaughn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have studied some psychology in college and this book really explains the esoteric reasons for mental disorders. Wish I had read it a long time ago!