kalsched - Blogs - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-28T19:51:16Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/kalschedThe Core Complex of a Traumatized Psyche—Article & Free Audio of a Keynote by Jungian Donald Kalschedhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/the-core-complex-of-a-traumatized-psyche-article-free-audio-of-a-2017-07-11T00:30:00.000Z2017-07-11T00:30:00.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><a href="http://www.pacificapost.com/the-core-complex-of-a-traumatized-psyche" target="_blank"><img width="300" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9142465301,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-right" alt="9142465301?profile=original" /></a></p><p>Trauma is an injury to our capacity to feel. When our capacity to feel is injured, we cease to be able to imagine, because imagination depends on emotional literacy, says Dr. Donald Kalsched, who for 20 years has been crafting a model of the dissociating psyche.</p><p>This model describes various unconscious archetypal powers arranged in a dynamic system of defense that attempts to protect a sacred, innocent psyche from further violation. In order to leave this enclave, we need to become emotionally literate, Kalsched suggests, one of the major goals of the work depth psychologists take on. This includes working through grief and despair.</p><p>This self-care system and all its constituents is invisible, Kalsched points out. The only way we can engage is by looking for the “tracks” they leave in dreams, in the imagination, or in the practice of active imagination advocated by Jung. The constituents may show up in opposing forms: as a “devil” related to violence, adversary, accuser, critic, or tyrant which can lead to innate distress such as hatred, loathing, or shame; or as a “bright angel,” which suggests essential goodness, safety, bliss, hope, and love…</p><p></p><p>READ the summary article or LISTEN to the full recording of Kalsched’s keynote address at the June 2017 “Response at the Radical Edge” conference, courtesy of Pacifica Graduate Institute: <a href="http://www.pacificapost.com/the-core-complex-of-a-traumatized-psyche" target="_blank">http://www.pacificapost.com/the-core-complex-of-a-traumatized-psyche</a></p></div>Shared Realities: Participation Mystique and Beyond - Now Shipping!https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/shared-realities-participation-mystique-and-beyond-now-shipping2014-06-01T19:38:59.000Z2014-06-01T19:38:59.000ZFisher King Presshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/FisherKingPress<div><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=30&products_id=211" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.fisherkingpress.com/images/9781771690096.jpg" height="320" width="260" alt="9781771690096.jpg" /></a></div><p><a href="http://fisherkingpress.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=30&products_id=211"><b><i>Shared Realities: Participation Mystique and Beyond</i></b></a>, edited by Mark Winborn, brings together Jungian analysts and psychoanalysts from across the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. Jung’s concept of participation mystique is used as a starting point for an in depth exploration of ‘shared realities’ in the analytic setting and beyond. The clinical, narrative, and theoretical discussions move through such related areas as: projective identification, negative coniunctio, reverie, intersubjectivity, the interactive field, phenomenology, neuroscience, the transferential chimera, shamanism, shared reality of place, borderland consciousness, and mystical participation. This unique collection of essays bridges theoretical orientations and includes some of the most original analytic writers of our time.</p><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Jung's use of the concept participation mystique has always struck me as among his most original ideas and I could vaguely intuit its relevance to many contemporary developments in psychoanalysis, from projective identification to intersubjectivity to the mysteries of transitional space. Now, thanks to the extraordinary essays in this book, one no longer has to "intuit" this relevance. It is spelled out in beautiful detail by writers with expertise in many facets of our field. The breadth of these essays is truly extraordinary. Reading them has enriched both my personal and professional life. I highly recommend this book." -- Donald Kalsched, Ph.D. author of <i>The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit</i> (Routledge, 1996) and <i>Trauma and the Soul: A Psycho-spiritual Approach to Human Development and its Interruption</i> (Routledge, 2013).</blockquote><div style="text-align:center;">* * * * *</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">"The concept of 'participation mystique' is one that is often considered a somewhat arcane notion disparagingly equated with an unconscious, undifferentiated or 'primitive' dynamic. This collection of outstanding articles from Jungian analysts of different theoretical perspectives and analysts from different schools of depth psychology redeems this concept and locates it as central to depth work, regardless of one’s theoretical orientation. What may seem like an ethereal notion becomes grounded when explored from the perspective of the clinical, the experiential and the theoretical. Linking participation mystique to the more clinical concepts of projective identification, unitary reality, empathy, the intersubjective field and the neurosciences and locating this dynamic in the field of the transference and counter-transference, brings this concept to life in a refreshingly clear and related manner. In addition, each author does so in a very personal manner. "This book provides the reader with a wonderful example of amplification of participation mystique, linking many diverse threads and fibers to form an image, which, while it reveals its depth and usefulness, nevertheless maintains its sense of mystery. This book is a true delight for anyone intrigued by those “moments of meeting”, moments of awe, when the ineffable becomes manifest, when we feel the shiver down our spine, be it in our work or in a moment of grace as we sit quietly in nature. Shared Realities offers nourishment for the clinician, for the intellect and, most importantly, for the soul. 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