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.
Southern Illinois
What are your main areas of interest?
Jungian Psychology, Other
If you are signing up as an Individual Member, do you have a degree in Depth Psychology?
No
Are you a licensed or clinical therapist?
LCSW
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?
Dialogues and insight
Comments
Parenting as an experience of self. Is that "self" with a little "s" or a capital "S" or both?
Ed
Welcome Laura,
Glad you found and decided to join the Alliance. There are many topics within the blogs, forums, and groups so I believe you will find much of interest there. Are you interested in depth psychology for yourself, professionally, or both? I look forward to your posts.
Ed
Hi Laura. Greetings, and how nice to have you in the Alliance. Where is "Southern Illicit"? That term is creating all kinds of images for me, and I'm trying to imagine if its a real place, a typo, or encoded meaning :)
I believe, once you have a chance to explore the online community a bit, you'll find a dynamic group of likeminded people who are all deeply drawn to the field of depth psychology. While there are many Jungian analysts and clinical psychologists here, our members come from many walks of life--artists, writers, doctors, healing professionals, counselors, students, business people, etc--so there is much cross-disciplinary knowledge and experience here to be shared.
On that note, there are many opportunities to engage as you browse the site. Some simple ideas to get your feet wet are to introduce yourself in the forum; asking a question, or responding to someone else's post; or sharing a link to an article or web site you like.
You may want to consider joining the online book club if you haven’t already—There's a new author each month, and you can jump in at anytime and participate at whatever level you wish. Even if you don't have the book for this month, it's all done via writing in an open forum, so you can read all the comments that have gone on so far and get a feel for what's happening. In February, we are featuring a wonderful new book from Jungian Analyst Erel Shalit," The Cycle of Life", as well as a special online study group on Astrology with longtime astrologer Kathleen Burt. March will bring a new book from Dr. Michael Conforti, a specialist in archetypes and new sciences, "Field, Form, And Fate".
In case you need detailed help getting started and navigating the site, you can use the following link--and please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions at all! I look forward to seeing you around the community~Bonnie Bright, Founder