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Web Pages with Various Accumulated Articles (Scoop-It), curated for the Depth community by Bonnie Bright

Depth Psych 

Ecopsychology

Depth Psychology Book Reviews 

Depth Psychology, Soul, and the Unconscious

On Depth Psychology: It’s Meaning and Magic by Bonnie Bright

What exactly is Depth Psychology? by Diane Hancox

What is Depth Psychology? by Bonnie Bright

 

The Bones in the Cave: Phylogenetic Foundations of Analytical Psychology– Meredith Sabini 

The Power of Coincidence by Jill Neimark (Psychology Today)

Soul Talk by Stephen T. Asma

Depth Psychology and Colonialism: Individuation, Seeing Through, and Liberation by Helen Lorenz and Mary Watkins

The Loss of the World Soul and its Return by Anne Baring

"The Wounded Researcher: Research With Soul in Mind" | Robert Romanyshyn> Book Review by Dennis Slattery

Selected passages from "Psyche and Matter" by Marie-Louise von Franz

Are We Possessed? by Paul Levy (on archetypes and the unconscious)

Jung-Related

Throwing Light on the Shadow: Carl Jung's Answer to Evil

Images from The Red Book: Not only was Carl Jung a brilliant psychologist, he also painted

Psyche and Soma: A Jungian Inquiry into the Symbolic Landscape of Ancient Egypt by Bonnie Bright

Dreaming with Open Eyes: On Jung's process of Active Imagination

Following is 8-Part Series on Jung's life and work published in The Guardian in 2011 around the time of the 50-year anniversary of Jung's death (June 6, 1961)

The Guardian: Carl Jung, part 1: Taking inner life seriously

30 May 2011: Mark Vernon: Achieving the right balance between what Jung called the ego and self is key to his theory of personality development

The Guardian:  Carl Jung, part 2: A troubled relationship with Freud – and the Nazis

6 Jun 2011: Mark Vernon: On the 50th anniversary of Jung's death it is time to put accusations of him collaborating with the Nazis to rest

The Guardian: Carl Jung, part 3: Encountering the unconscious

13 Jun 2011: Mark Vernon: Jung's Red Book reveals his belief in the painful, personal process of discovering how the unconscious manifests itself in conscious life


The Guardian: Carl Jung, part 4: Do archetypes exist?

20 Jun 2011: Mark Vernon: Jung's theory of structuring principles remains controversial – but provides a language to talk about shared experience

The Guardian: Carl Jung, part 5: Psychological types

27 Jun 2011: Mark Vernon: The Myers-Briggs test is but one offshoot of Jung's attempt to show how radically people's perceptions and instincts can differ

The Guardian: Carl Jung, part 6: Synchronicity

4 Jul 2011: Mark Vernon: With physicist Wolfgang Pauli, Jung explored the link between the disparate realities of matter and mind

The Guardian: Carl Jung, part 7: The power of acceptance

11 Jul 2011: Mark Vernon: Like the AA movement, Jung believed that acceptance and spiritual interconnectedness were crucial to a person's

The Guardian: Carl Jung, part 8: Religion and the search for meaning

11 Jul 2011: Mark Vernon: Like the AA movement, Jung believed that acceptance and spiritual interconnectedness were crucial to a person's

 

Archetypal Psychology and James Hillman

The Depth of the Soul: James Hillman's Vision of Psychology - Sanford L. Drob

Archetypal Theory and the Construction of Self - Marc Fonda

Imagination and Aesthetics: The Language of the Soul - Marc Fonda

The Feminist Critique of the Separated Self - Marc Fonda

Archetypes and Symbols

On Carl Jung's "Approaching the Unconscious" in Man and His Symbols 
Symbols and the Transformation of the Psyche - Murray Stein, Ph.D.

Archetype of the Apocalypse A Jungian Study of the Book of Revelation

The Archetype of Salt

The Archetype of Vampire

Sarah Palin, "Mama Grizzlies," Carl Jung, and the Power of Archetypes

The Symbolism of Rabbits and Hares by Terri Windling

Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious: Ingredients for a New Mythology by Sean Abreu

Some Jungian Archetypes Defined

 

Dreams 

Introduction to Jungian Dream Analysis

Self-organization and the Dreaming Brain by Stanley Krippner PhD

The Four Parts Of A Dream by Michael Conforti PhD

Review of "The Way of the Dream" Film Series with Marie Louise von Franz, by Lisa J. Ravitz in the Journal of Sandplay Therapy

Nature Dreaming: Depth Psychology & Ecology by Stephen Aizenstat PhD

Carl Jung's Dream Theories Jung proved dreams follow a sequence: by Christina Sponias

 

Film Reviews and Recommendations

An Alchemical Take on "Black Swan" (2010)

Inception Art, Dream and Reality: A cinematic meditation on the elusive nature of reality.

Avatar Psychology and Religion in the film Avatar. “What eyes do not see" by Salvador Harguinde

The Brain in Film A look at what these contemporary films say about the mind today

15 Excellent Movies for Psychology Fans

Synchronicity

Synchronicity in the 21st Century -- Helene Shulman Lorenz, Ph.D., published in the Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2006

Culture, Society, Psyche, Religion

A Copernican Revolution in Science and Religion Towards a Third Millennium Spirituality:The Entangled State of God and HumanityPeter B. Todd, presented to the C.G. Jung Society of Melbourne on May 21, 2016

Jung and the Recall of the Gods by John Dourley

The Experience of Death and Dying: Psychological, Philosophical, and Spiritual Aspects by Stanislav Grof

Reflections on Women, Depression, and the Soul-image by Karen Hodges

Michael Conforti on the Subject of Angels: An Interview with Paco Mitchell

Miss Violet Brown: The silent tragedy of elder neglect - Robin Gates

Dionysus Revenge and the Woman Behind the Burkha by Barry Spector (Jung Journal, Fall 2005) 

Myth, Memory and the National Mall by Barry Spector by Barry Spector (Jung Journal, Summer 2008)

Sacrifice of the Children in Pan's Labyrinth by Barry Spector (Jung Journal, Summer 2009)

Trauma: How We've Created a Nation Addicted to Shopping, Work, Drugs and Sex 

The Americanization of Mental Illness by Ethan Watters, NY Times, Jan 2010

Abstract: Destruction of the Image and the Worship of Transiency by Erel Shalit, Jung Journal, Winter 2010
Abstract: Will Fishes Fly in Aquarius–Or Will They Drown in the Bucket?by Erel Shalit, Jung Journal, Nov. 2004
Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease by Gary Greenberg

The Finer Forge: Work and the Fires of Transformation by Jason E. Smith

Living a Three-Dimensional Life: Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Integrated Personality by Jennifer Selig PhD

The Content of Their Complexes: The Wounded Leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barack Obama by Jennifer Selig

Echoes of the Suicide Girls by Jennifer Selig

Racism and Genocide: Ignorance and Intolerance by Ginger Swanson

Haiti's Earthquake: Seeing Through That Which We Deny by Annie Jordan

A Mythoimaginal_Take on the_Haiti_EarthQuake by Bonnie Bright

Goddess, Sacred Feminine, Bees

The Wisdom of Women by Thomas Berry

The Eleusinian Mysteries and the Bee by Julie Sanchez Parodi

Taming Patriarchy: The Emergence of the Black Goddess - An Interview with Marion Woodman

Sophia: Gnostic Archetype of Feminine Wisdom by Stephan A. Hoeller

Confronting Death Mother: An Interview with Marion Woodman - Spring Journal 81

Erich Neumann: Theorist of the Great Mother- Camille Paglia


Ecopsychology

A Psyche the Size of the Sea by Craig Chalquist

Storytelling and Harmonious Dwelling: The Role of Fairy Tales in Environmental Education by Joanna Coleman

The Spiritual Aspect of Nature: A Perspective from Depth Psychology by Herbert W. Schroeder

Sophia and Sustainability: Jung said the archetype of Sophia represents our relationship to the earth and is the archetype of greatest universality…  

Excerpt from “The Forsaken Garden” by Nancy Ryley with Sir Laurens van der Post about loss of soul & devastation of the planet.

Mapping the Soul of the Land by Christopher Castle: The Ecopsychology of Place

Ecopsychology: Eight Principles by author of The Voice of the Earth Theodore Roszak

The Ecozoic: Reflections on Life in an Ecological Age – Digital publication featuring Thomas Berry, Herman F. Greene, more...

Forecast: Dry and Brutal - Warming climate, exploding population, dwindling resources in Mali

Is There an Ecological Unconscious? - New York Times, January 27, 2010

Nature and Self—An Ambivalent Attachment? by Martin Jordan in "EcoPsychology" magazine

Cohabitating With the Wild - by Peter H. Kahn, Jr.

Species Extinction: Causes, Statistics

Colony Collapse Disorder: Mass global vanishing of bees

Shamanism, Ancestors

The Shamanic Perspective: Jung_and_Shamanism-by BBright.pdf

Shamanism, Alchemy and Yoga: Traditional Technologies of Transformation - Ralph Metzner

The Ecology of Magic: An Interview with David Abram by Scott London

Interview w/ Daniel C. Noel, author of The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imaginal Realities

The Shamanic Perspective: Where Jungian Thought and Shamanism Converge by Bonnie Bright

Re-Visioning Soul Retrieval: The Spectrum of Active and Passive Healing in Shamanism and Jungian Psychotherapy by Maureen B. Roberts, Ph.D.

Flashbacks: When We Least Expect it Our Ancestors Reach Out to Embrace Us (Psychology Today)

Stories That Light Up The Dark: The experiences of our ancestors offer us wisdom for surviving today's crises

 

Mythology

Why Fate? by Judith Harte, PhD

Joseph Cambell: A Scholar’s Life For Joseph Campbell, the study of mythology was the exploration of the possibilities of consciousness 

Ariadne and the Minotaur: Love, Trauma & Abandonment - A Jungian Perspective 

Facing Medusa: Alchemical Transformation Through the Power of Surrender by Bonnie Bright ("Aesthetic Nature of Change" conference/Institute for Cultural Change, May 21-23, 2010, Ojai, CA)

The Loss of the World Soul and its Return by Anne Baring, December 2005

 

Psychotherapy, Trauma, Disorders

The Destiny Concept in Psychotherapy by Edward Whitmont

Psychotherapy and the healing power of narrating a life

Divine Madness: Shamanic Dreaming, Dionysus & Pathologizing Soul by Maureen B. Roberts, PhD (Working shamanically with debilitated schizophrenia sufferers)

 

Biology, Brain, Neuroscience, Mind, Memory

The Interpretation of Dreams and the Neurosciences by Mark Solms (Freudian focus)

Writing heals: Brain research confirms relationship between words and neurological underpinnings of emotional trauma

Method to erase traumatic memories may be on the horizon (The Baltimore Sun, Nov. 2010)

Deep DNA memory theories: Can we remember our ancestors’ lives? by Steve Hammons

Faith in the Brain: Are Some People Hard-Wired to Believe in God?

 

Astrology, Alchemy, Tarot, Astrology, I-Ching, Synchronicity, & Esoteric subjects

An Introduction to Archetypal Astrology by Rick Tarnas

C.G.Jung and the Alchemical Renewal: The history of Carl Jung and Alchemy 

Chaos & the Psychological Symbolism of the Tarot: The Tarot deck contains archetypal symbols that can be related to the analytical psychology of the Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung

Carl Jung and the Paranormal

The Occult World of CG Jung: How a near-death experience transformed the psychologist's attitude to the world of mysticism and magic

Abstracts/Info:
Abstract: Destruction of the Image and the Worship of Transiency - by Erel Shalit, published in Jung Journal, Winter 2010, Volume 4, Number 1, pp.85-98
Taking its starting point in Jung’s statement “Everything of which we are conscious is an image, and that image is psyche … [which] is a world in which the ego is contained,” this presentation will compare the fundamentalist’s collective consciousness of the One Truth, with the postmodern imagination of a multitude of perspectives. The identity of the fundamentalist is shaped by archetypal identification, whereby the shadow is projected on the “Evil Other,” against whom acts of evil may, as if, be “justifiably” perpetrated. Postmodern deconstruction of identity, on the other hand, tends toward a condition of transiency and “as-if.” Images and ideas become detached from “ground and reality.” The image becomes its own simulacrum, detached from the images of interiority. Finally, features of transiency and the transient personality are compared to and contrasted with the survivor syndrome.

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Abstract: “Will Fishes Fly in Aquarius–Or Will They Drown in the Bucket?” by Erel Shalit, published in Jung Journal, November 2004, Vol. 23, No. 4, Pages 7–33
Jung’s book Aion serves as point of departure for this paper. The transition of the aeons from Pisces to Aquarius reflects decisive changes in the relationship between man and image – the image which is at the center of what Jung calls psychization, the process of reflection whereby consciousness is enhanced. At the daybreak of history, man extracted the image from the divine waters. Then, the craftsman whom God warned should not make graven images, came to replicate the divine on earth. By means of image and reflection, dream and dreaming, man becomes human, in the sense of not only partaking in events, but able to relate to experience. In Aquarius, images have been rounded up, and man now holds the bucket. “God’s powers have passed into our hands,” says Jung, which forces man to consider the shadow of unreflective progress, such as the transient as-if personality and soullessness. The legend of the golem serves to illustrate the condition of man, who has become master of the images that may either create or destroy our future.

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