“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
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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…
Program Description
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 …
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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 …
Based in Rev. Dr. Hancock’s groundbreaking dissertation, Mythic Mapping starts you on the journey to self-discovery utilizing the Jungian Psychology concept of Archetypes. Combining art therapy, active imagination, Journeywork and the investigation of your own favorite myth—this unique program offers a lifetime of opportunities to explore the Self. Conceived as a system for self-analysis for those who have experienced trauma, Mythic Mapping provides an opportu…
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 …
According to Dr. Jan Collins and Dr. Marc Hamer, “the phenomenology of romantic love involves the full spectrum of human behavioral determinants, incorporating our biological endowment; the inner world of psyche, spirit, soul, and Self; as well as the outer world of our society, others, and the sociocultural chronicles of romantic love that are expressed in myth, art, literature, philosophy, and religion.”
Please join the authors as they discuss their article:…