Depth Psychology News--December 2012
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Depth Psychology News
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Witnessing and Mourning in a Time of Despair
What Role Does the Depth Community Play?...
 Dear Depth Community, I could not launch this newsletter without taking a moment to acknowledge and witness the tragedies that have unfolded in recent days--in particular with the Newtown, CT school shooting and the Clackamas, OR mall shooting just 3 days before. In fact, the web site for ThinkProgress has posted a timeline of shootings since Columbine and the CT shooting was the eighth in the U.S. in 2012. I don't have answers about what's going on in our culture. True to the spirit of depth psychology, I do have a million questions. There are clearly dark shadows at play--and the archetypes and gods showing up in these scenarios are demanding attention--something only those who are paying attention can probably begin to address right now. I am reminded of that Martin Prechtel, author and initiated shaman among the Maya people in Guatemala, suggests that if a culture is not willing to make offerings, there will be arbitrary sacrifices. It makes me wonder: What are we, as a culture--and as a community, even-- missing here? What is being neglected, bypassed, or buried that we can individually and collectively address? An how do we begin? If you're interested in joining together around this critical topic, read my post in the Alliance forum here.... and I know you join me in sending love and peace to all those affected. In soul, Bonnie Bright, Founder |
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A century ago, around Christmas 1913, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung lost his way and surrendered on purpose to the tumultuous embodied intelligence of the autonomous creative imagination. The outcome is a journey as perilous as The Lord of the Rings and as enlightening as the Divine Comedy.
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Jungian Robert Bosnak
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Robert Bosnak is a Dutch Jungian psychoanalyst, and diplomate of the C.G.Jung Institute, who trained in Zurich, Switzerland from 1971 to 1977.
In the late 1970s he pioneered a radically new method of dreamwork, based loosely on the work of C.G.Jung, especially on Jung's technique of active imagination and his studies of Alchemy.
From the point of view of the dreaming state of mind, dreams are real events in real environments. Based on this notion, Robert Bosnak developed methods to re-enter dreams by inducing a hypnagogic state-a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping-through a process of careful questioning.
His techniques are now applied worldwide, by therapists, artists, actors, and others interested in the creative imagination. His first book, A Little Course in Dreams was translated into 12 languages.
He is past president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams IASD, and was visiting professor of clinical psychology at Kyoto University in Japan. After having been in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts for 26 years, he is currently based in California at the Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary.
LISTEN to this exciting interview with Robert Bosnak and Dr. Dave Van Nuys
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UPCOMING EVENT
Ancestral Influence in Psychological Healing
and Transformation with
Daniel Foor, Ph.D. MFT
Bay Area Alliance Meetup
& Speaker Evening
Friday, February 1, 2013
from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
In this introductory talk Daniel Foor, Ph.D., MFT will discuss ways to increase awareness of ancestral influence and acquire ancestor-related skills to help with family and personal healing and transformation.
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Daniel Foor
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Daniel leads trainings, rituals, and community circles focusing on honoring ancestors, tending our relations with the natural world, and remembering our unique destiny and calling.
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JANUARY 2013 Free
Online Book Club on
Depth Alliance
War of the Gods in Addiction: C.G. Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous, & Archetypal Evil
By David E. Schoen
The War of the Gods in Addiction, based on the correspondence between Bill W., one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous and C.G. Jung, proposes an original, groundbreaking, psychodynamic view of addiction which explains both the creation and successful treatment of alcoholism and other addictions.
Using insights from Jungian psychology, it demonstrates why the 12 steps of AA really work. It emphasizes the crucial process of neutralizing the Archetypal Shadow / Archetypal Evil, an aspect of all true addictions, and explores this concept extensively through theoretical and clinical material, modern and ancient myths, and fairy tales.
The significance of using dreams for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of addiction is also explained. This book bridges the longstanding gap between the mental health community and 12-step recovering communities and translates concepts necessary to understanding the addictive process in ways that encourage mutual understanding and benefit.
LEARN MORE about the January 2013 Online Book Club selection
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What's HOT on the Alliance: A Sampling
Get Engaged! Come read and comment on posts from your peers.
Check out the Bulletin Board section where members can post requests for connection, research, desire for collaboration, etc. See how you can get involved or find a collaborator for your own project! UPCOMING EVENTS POSTS
- Blog posts from Silvia Behrend (on DepthList)
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