Congratulations to the following Depth Psychology Alliance members for publishing essays in the book, A Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump, Chiron, 2016. Co-edited by Steve Buser and Len Cruz:
Susan Rowland: “The Demonic
Read more…I dreamed last night that I was explaining why we still study Freud. Decided to write it down this morning: http://www.chalquist.com/freudrelevant.html.
Read more…As democracy is weakened by the growing primacy of capitalism, where does depth psychology stand? How are we either complacent or even colluding with the powers of capitalism by practicing therapeutic approaches that focus upon an individual's adapta
Read more…Sharing what I think is a really important post from Michael Meade as we head into the US presidential inauguration this week. This really is a "must-read": Originally, the word inauguration meant: “to install and consecrate under good omens.” The
Read more…Pacifica Graduate Institute has put together a collection of election-oriented posts:
Browse a collection of depth psychology-oriented election blogposts aggregated by Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association, including posts from Michael Mead
Read more…Passing along some news posted by PGIAA-Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association, with many thanks for making it available.
On October 14-15, the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco gave a program entitled “Politics, Culture, Soul: A National
Check out the latest Depth Insights interview with Barry Spector, featured author for the November online Book Club on Depth Alliance, about how America became a culture of exile, and the ever-greater need for mythology, archetypal thinking, ritual a
In honor of living in a culture that increasingly may be losing it's way--but still has the freedom to take a stand, read these excellent posts by Pythia Peay:
Part 1: Jungian Analyst Explains the Psychology of Political Polarization by Pythia Peay w
Read more…Now you can read my interview with Tom Elsner!
Thomas Elsner, J.D., M.A., Jungian analyst, is a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California where he also has a private practice. A former attorney, he trained at th
Read more…Len Cruz of Asheville Jung Center has written an excellent summary and review of the recent Depth Insights interview on "Exile and Myth in American Culture" I recently did with Barry Spector. Read Len's blogpost and summary HERE
Barry Spector is fe
Read more…Archiving this audio interview--Hope you'll check it out if you haven't already! Also, Barry's special "Day of the Dead" Ritual happens Nov 5, 2011, near Berkeley, CA.
10-24-11 Listen: "The Myth of American Innocence and the Call for Grieving": Bon
Read more…While most ever one criticizes the debate debacle in Washington as everything from a clash of ideologies to political posturing to a game of party brinksmanship, the underlying psychic condition is a conflict between opposites. If we can put aside thRead more…
I just noted that on this day in 1940, the Nazis imprisoned 380,000 people in the Warsaw ghetto (see a photo here: http://chronita.com/images/Warsaw_Ghetto_Josef_Bloesche.jpg). It was still the beginning of what we now know were much worse horrors to
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