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This course will explore dynamic matters at the intersection of music, research methodology, inclusivity, and depth psychology. The book Music in Arts-based Research and Depth Psychology: Listening for Shadow as Inclusive Inquiry (Brun, 2024) attends to the place of sonic imagination in inquiry. Because judgments involved in a listening experience are largely unconscious (Becker, 2004), the field of depth psychology is uniquely …
Fanny Brewster, PhD, is a Core Faculty member in the Depth Psychology Specialization in Integrative Therapy and Healing Practices at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her publications include, African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows, and, Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss, as well as selections from poetry, Journey—The Middle Passage, in Psychological Perspectives Journal. Dr. Brewster is additionally o…
with Kyrié Carpenter
The statistics are sobering: more than 6 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s with that number expected to rise to nearly 13 million by 2050. Alzheimer’s and other dementias disproportionately impact women, Hispanics and Black Americans. Over 11 million Americans provide unpaid care for people with Alzheimer’s or other dementias. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, an additional 1.2 million additional direct c…
Myths, fairytales and sacred texts are replete with stories of the amputated and sacrificed feminine. From Medusa to the Handless Maiden, from Iphegenia to Jepthah’s daughter, the feet, hands and heads of women and girls are routinely disposed of, often with narrative alacrity. In the fairytale of The Red Shoes, Karen, the orphaned girl, approaches the executioner and pleads with him to cut off her feet at the ankles. The lines that follow this horrific request are reveali…
Redreaming a World in Crisis: Soul, Science and Imagination at the Edge of the Abyss
“We can only make a future from the depth of the truth we face now.”
–Ben Okri
Perhaps never before has the world been engulfed in such a trifecta of crises: the pandemic crisis, the climate crisis, and the ongoing mental health crisis have converged on this moment in history. In a recent article in The Guardian, award-winning author, Ben Okri, writes:
“…we are on the edges of …
The figure of the cantaor is found within two great lines, the arc of the sky on the outside, and on the inside the zigzag that wanders like a snake through his heart.
Federico Garcia Lorca
The great Spanish writer of the 20th century, Federico Garcia Lorca, wrote extensively about this “mysterious power which everyone senses and no philosopher explains,” which is the Duende.
In this three-session workshop we will seek that Duende by tapping in to our soulful reservoir …
with Kim Bateman, Ph.D.
“Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle, everything I do is stitched with its colors.” -W.S. Merwin
A father records his dying son’s heartbeat with a stethoscope before the boy’s organs are donated and composes songs using the heartbeat as the bass. A woman smashes the colored bottles her daughter collected before she died by suicide and makes an owl out of the pieces. A man hangs his fiance’s wedding dress inside the Temple at Burn…
Love, Imagination, and the Journey of the Soul
Sufism, the mystical path within the Islamic tradition, and depth psychotherapy, each gravitate around issues central to healing and human being – love, transformation, imagination, and the soul. Join four leading scholars, teachers, and analysts, at the intersection of these rich and diverse imaginal realms.
Rumi and the Secret of Being Human
Kabir Helminski
For Rumi, and the Sufi tradition in general, the “self,” our “I-…
Superhero phenomena exploded into 20th- and 21st-century popular culture by way of the visual medium of comic books. In an increasingly secular (yet spiritual) culture that has largely renounced “the gods” (and even religion), what does the return of the superhero through our own pop cultural mythologies say to us—or even about us? This collection of essays from leading and up-and-coming scholars in the fields of comparative mythology and depth psychology considers th…
The Archetypal Artist: Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create
“It is generally the creative artist who creates the future. A civilization that has no creative people is doomed. So the person who is really in touch with the future, with the germs of the future, is the creative personality.”
~ Marie Louise von Franz
Depth Psychology has long maintained a paradoxical position to creativity and to the creative individual. On one hand, the artist is singled o…
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The Epigenetic Impact of Marianismo: Unburdening Myself and My Lineage
“My mother wounds are my mother’s wounds” –Cynthia Perez, LCSW
If you have done inner child healing, it may have led you down another stone unturned… mother wounds! This talk centers on the intersections of mother wounds that come from ancestral attachment wounds due to separation, colonization, and assimilation.
Marianismo is a term coined in Xicanx psychology as an ofte…
Join us for this Pacifica Online Author Spotlight with Dr. Susan Rowland as we talk about her newest JABR detective novel, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Chiron, 15th Feb 2023). In this novel, her newest addition in a series, Susan situates the psychological impact of the climate emergency within the framework of a murder mystery featuring a feminine hero.
Jungian arts-based research places creativity at the heart of knowing and being. In so doing it promotes a soci…