History of Psychology Through Symbols Author Spotlight with Jim Broderick

Volume 1

Through symbols and active engagement, Volume One provides the Historic Roots of modern Psychology through the Axial Age (800 BCE -200 BCE) which includes Greek thought, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Judaism. The Volume explores the influence of the Christian and Islamic eras which resulted in the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and Enlightenme…

The astounding omnipresence of the virtual in contemporary consciousness is radically restructuring our psychology, changing our societies and culture, and having profound effects on who we are, how we behave with one another, and on the kind of world we are inhabiting. The speed and instantaneousness of digital communication radically unsettles both time and space. “Real time” and “virtual space” are new categories in our existence that introduce dramatic transfor…

What you will receive

• 4 Live Webinar Sessions with Q & A
• 4 Links to the Recordings

This course is designed to awaken creative desire and expand the imagination of the clinician and in turn, her patient. It could also appeal to anyone looking for creative ways to solve every day problems. Many varieties of imagination will be explored — the spiritual, the relational, the dreamworld, the aesthetic, and the adaptive.

Expanding the imagination allows for greater flexibilit…

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…

INSIGHTS – Unlock the Depths of Your Imagination

Dive into a world of transformative knowledge with INSIGHTS, Pacifica Extension’s new quarterly magazine. This isn’t just another publication—it’s a portal to profound personal discovery. INSIGHTS offers:

• Thought-provoking articles that challenge conventional thinking
• Exclusive interviews with globally recognized depth psychology scholars
• Creative i

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Glen Slater’s recent publication Jung vs Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age contends that the industrial disruption of the outer world is being followed by a post-industrial disruption of the inner world. The shadow side of the online world as well as the impact of algorithms and AI on the society and culture exemplify this disruption. Prominent plans to merge humans and machines, focused on the joining of minds and computers, are shown to …

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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…

“I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.”

–Sue Monk Kidd

“What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out. A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.”

–C.G. Jung

Overview

Do you have a st…

with Betty P. Teng, LCSW, MFA and Thomas Singer, M.D.

In the preface of their newly released book, Mind of State, based on the popular podcast by the same name ,co-authors Betty Teng and Thomas Singer write this: “so much of what is called political is, in fact, psychological, and so much of what is psychological has become political. The boundaries between the two are porous, and yet when you try to talk to politicians about psychology, they tend to go dumb—and when you try to tal…

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What you will receive:

• 6 Live Webinar Sessions with Q & A
• 6 Links to the Recordings
• 6 CECs

“Mind of State: Politics, Psyche and Soul in Turbulent Times” is a six-week course based the recent book, MIND OF STATE: Conversations on the Psychological Conflicts Stirring U.S. Politics and Society. Timed to run through the heart of the 2024 presidential election season, this course is aimed to help participa…

The story of psychoanalysis began with men trying to understand women through the study of hysteria and more significantly through the lens of male experience, with male experience being seen as the “norm.” In the hundred years since the inception of psychoanalysis, many of Freud’s theories have been challenged, re-described, abandoned and indeed defended in bitter battles.

With a striking consistency, there is a remarkable disappearing act that takes place for the wo…

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Susan Rowland’s fictional detective Mary Wandwalker is back. Murder on Family Grounds: A Mary Wandwalker Mystery, goes back to the origin story of the triple goddess detective. ‘She’ arises in a mystery that examines the element of earth, which C. G. believed means family ground in the deep psyche. Indeed the novel not only digs into the traumatized earth of Mary, Caroline and Anna, it also mines the complex architecture of their families. Families are …