Before you go further, please be sure you are applying for membership with YOUR REAL NAME, FIRST AND LAST, or if you are signing up as an organization, publisher, or project, list the organization name here; then list the name of the contact person in the next question.
New Bern, North Carolina
Which of the following best describes your proposed membership status? If you are signing up with your first and last name, please choose "Individual." Please do NOT choose one of the other options unless you are creating a profile page with a business or organization name
Individual
What are your main areas of interest?
Jungian Psychology, Archetypal Psychology, Mythology, Transpersonal Psychology, Art or Art Therapy, Dreamwork
If you are signing up as an Individual Member, do you have a degree in Depth Psychology?
M.A., Jungian
If so, from what institution?
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Are you a licensed or clinical therapist?
no
Please share a little about yourself by way of introduction. What draws you to Depth Psychology and what are you looking for from this community?
Narrative psychology combined with social systems on the "outside" and Jungian understanding of the interior "systems" make a nice pairing. Currently working on soul-related theoretical research establishing that soul is a misnomer. A proper understanding begins with seeing that souling as process is a better beginning to understanding the workings within the Psyche.
Do you belong to any other online Psychology-related communities or orgs? If so, which?
Many, but most are Jungian based.
What is your WEB SITE (IF you would like to promote it)?
https://ekoffenb22.wordpress.com/
Comments
Hi Ed, yes indeed...in the last century....I graduated in Psychology in Rome and intended at that time (very long ago...) to become a freudian analyst.... I did a 7 year Kleinian analysis and trained for 3 years to become a children therapist (Winnicott orientation)...
I then decided to change my carreer...and have been in business for many years...until I discovered one again Jung and Hillman ....And decided to return to my passion and also try to understand more deeply what is happening in the corporate world.... So What about you?
Hello Ed,
Well my dissertation is on how nature is healing. I am in sort of a slump writing my dissertation but I have found articles in Shamanism that seem to be helping put a historical piece to the whole thing. At first it was going to be on Ecopsychology...but I had problems with their claim the nature is Inherently healing. Because some people dont like the woods, or never have been there. So in further research I found some literature from the psychohynamic folks that say that one has to go through certain developmental levels before they would venture out in the woods...that made sense to me...but still seemed lacking. So since going more into depth psychological research I found and am finding stuff that fits. I guess my topic will cover the gammut of how nature can be healing/self-soothing...etc...
I hiked the Appalachian Trail and Vermont Long Trail. never been to Kentucky..but I heard its nice there.
glad to make a friend.
m
Belated Thanks for the welcome Ed.
Yes, movement in psychotherapy and active imagination is my core specialization and has brought amazing meaning in my clinical and teaching practice. There is something about tapping into the elder feminine wisdom of our body as personal earth - much needed at this time, coming from men and women. I'd be interested to hear about your experince with engaging body with dreams.
All the best for now,
Eleni
Hello Ed,
Thank you for the welcome I have trained with Robert Bosnaks Embodied Dreamwork method for the last 15 years. I really like his alchemical way of working with the dream and bringing the body into the work which I feel is necessary in order for transformation.
Thanks Ed... I am a born and bred California native and recently (1980) transplanted to the south. I now deeply appreciate my place here in the valley of the Shenandoah in the Shadow of the Massanutten and delight in walking between the worlds here on my home turf when I am not wandering the wild lands west of the Mississippi.
Grateful to be here!
Julie
Counseling psych, thanks for the welcome!
Hi Ed!
You're most welcome for the videos posted. They are all wonderful uses of time. And thanks for the nudge about Jung in the South. We emailed about it waaay back when I was brand new and I'm probably still in the same place except now my Pacifica program has just begun (the MA in Engaged Humanities, the Creative Life) and I'm a bit "anxious" about finding that balance between school/work/art/downtime that everyone on this site knows so well. Therefore, it's important to not take on too much new stuff, since just about everything in my life right now is new!
That said, I know we talked about Haden and I wonder if anyone here is coming up/down for their summer dream conference? I recall making a mental note long ago to try to attend some of the functions if it meshed with my cohort time in person. Maybe someone will post about that here when the date draws closer and we can have a meet up of some sort there/here?
Laura