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The rates of depression, anxiety, addiction, and suicide have all been increasing for the last hundred years, and it appears that the causes of this are related to cultural changes. In this seminar, we will explore what these cultural changes are and why Western society is becoming more toxic, despite the many gains we have made in medicine, human rights, and material wealth. Foremost among the causes are our starving social instincts which orient us to…

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Join us for this exciting new series showcasing the innovative applications of depth psychology that Pacifica Graduates are bringing in response to real world challenges.  Featuring thought-provoking conversations, inspiring stories and a deeper understanding of how depth psychologies can make a meaningful difference in today’s complex world, this series will offer valuable insights as well as practical career advice.

Whether you’re a …

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This course is designed for all those who are committed to ameliorating the spiritual, mental, emotional, psychological, and physical imbalances. We as medical doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, social workers, alternative healers, and ministers are constantly giving, giving, giving; yet, who gives to us. This course will help you overcome compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, as a preventive measure to encountering burno…

Youth and young adults are struggling with depression, anxiety, self-harming tendencies, eating disorders, substance misuse, and death by suicide at staggering rates. This is a global health crisis, one that requires the unearthing of the conscious, unconscious, and intergenerational trauma that contributes to the cyclical demise of self; when one’s mind unintentionally turns against the body as a way of coping with the here and now. The body and the mind are not separ…

with Susan E. Schwartz, Ph.D.

This on-line series explores the fragility of self in the ‘As-If’ Personality, the popularly termed imposter syndrome and the illusions about themselves and others. The ‘as-if’ person is both the mirror and the mask, presenting a self in artifice, often associated with narcissism. Known for a slickly contrived persona/ego image, behind it the ‘as-if’ person withdraws into fantasy and illusionary worlds. The self-isolation, loneliness…

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Turn back to the most subjective part of yourself, to the source of your being, to that point where you are making world history without being aware of it…(C.G. Jung, 1933).

The on-going mental health crisis cannot be viewed independent of a world that is more fragmented and polarized than ever. In the clinical psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, we recognize the interwoven and dynamic nature of psyche and culture; the ways in which the in…