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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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- 2 Live Interactive Workshop Sessions with Q & A, small groups and spontaneous drawing exercises
- 2 Links to the Recordings
Spontaneous drawing brings one to the prelogical level of the psyche, beyond the conscious mind, where the unconscious expresses itself freely in surprising revelations. This practice illuminates an oft-forgotten aspect of C.G. Jung’s personal practice and psychology; the power of spontaneity for accessing unconscious …
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This event is part of the free Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration.
The celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month is a wonderful opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the cultural diversity of the Pacific Islands and the contributions of Pacific Islander mythology to the emerging models of more diverse and globally representative narratives that shape not only our w…
We live in an era when the abundance of psychologically informed material has never before been so prevalent and accessible, yet this reality exists side by side with the statistically documented profile of a mental health crisis that reaches across national borders and socio-economic divides. In a recent CNN poll, 9 out of 10 US adults said they believed there is a mental health crisis in the US today, with over half of those respondents saying they were experiencing a sever…
The field of ancestry, although universal, is profoundly personal. Therefore, it requires a map and compass, the first to deepen into it and the second in order to get lost within it. Delving into the field of ancestry is, at first, a personal journey, where one looks for answers that are waiting to be found. However, it is also a way to find answers to unresolved and unattended and unredeemed issues in the familial and social sphere, and even within the territorial, cultural, a…
with Sulagna Sengupta
Animus, Psyche and Culture is a Post Jungian reading of the animus and its lived experience in culture. This course presents the contra-sexual animus as not just an inner archetypal figure, but also one that is in dynamic relation with the environment. In close ties with culture, the animus occupies a liminal realm – a subjective world inner world as well as an outer, social. Inner and outer are conceived as not two separate realms, but fluid, interactiv…
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- 4 Live Webinar Sessions with Q & A
- 4 Links to the Recordings
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Music is everywhere in our lives, both waking and sleeping, inside and out. It is a dynamic, living domain that is an expression of nature itself, which is capable of reflecting back our own phases of growth and development in a myriad of ways. The objective psyche is continuously offering communication through sound-based symbols, but like an unopened letter or a lone tre…
with Cassandra Light, Cynthia Winton-Henry, Jacqueline Low, Lily Yeh, and Kim Hermanson, Ph.D.
“There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It was in this hope that the arts were invented.”
~Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
When one has been moved by Spirit, one never forgets it. We never forget experiences of touching Somet…
A Pacifica Online Author Interview with Stefano Carpani and Monica Luci
In their soon-to-be-released book, Lockdown Therapy, analysts and authors, Stefano Carpani and Monica Luci, offer Jungian perspectives from world recognized analysts and their patients regarding how the Covid-19 pandemic profoundly changed the way psychoanalysis not only is practiced, but the ways in which psychoanalysts think about how and why they practice. Based on a se…
Join Stefano Carpani in conversation with Joseph Cambray, Susan Rowland, Fanny Brewster, Mary Watkins, Patricia Berry, and Lionel Corbett as they discuss some of the themes included in this newly released anthology edited by Stefano.
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This 2 volume anthology of contemporary classics in Analytical Psychology brings together academic, scholarly and clinical writings by contributors who constitute the ‘Post-Jungian’ generation. Carpani brings t…
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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 …
At no other point in the history of humanity has ecological survival been so imminently threatened by climate crises. Join three leading scholars and environmental activists for an emerging and inspired vision of a possible path forward as we shift from crisis to consciousness and chaos to cosmos.
Climate Chaos and the Soul of the World
Jeffrey T. Kiehl
“Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the …