PhD in Depth Psychology | Traditions of Depth Psychology Courses

The traditions of depth psychology are honored through courses exploring Freudian, Jungian, archetypal, and phenomenological schools and the frontiers of depth psychology as a field.

Freudian Psychology
DP 760........ 2 Units
This course situates some of the key themes of Freud's psychoanalysis within their cultural-historical contexts. The unconscious, transference, and the dream are examined for their original contributions to a way of knowing and being which honors the depth of soul.

Post-Freudian Traditions
DP 860........ 2 Units
Freud’s students, colleagues, and dissenters generated a body of work that extended psychoanalysis’ focus on the relation between psyche and culture. We will examine the legacies of theorists such as Otto Rank, Wilhelm Reich, Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, Erich Fromm and Harry Stack Sullivan. The work of key psychoanalysts from contemporary times such as Robert Jay Lifton will also be explored.

Jungian Psychology I
DP 761........ 2 Units
Concepts of Jungian psychology such as persona, anima, animus, shadow, and the ego-Self axis are studied. Attention is brought to the philosophical, psychological, and religious influences acting upon Jung’s psychology. We explore the usefulness of Jungian concepts for understanding psychic and intrapsychic processes, as well as seeing more deeply into the issues of our time.

Jungian Psychology II
DP 861........ 2 Units
This course focuses on those aspects of Jung’s psychology which are often neglected. For example, his studies in alchemy are part of a larger cultural-historical opus which situates psychology within those religious, philosophical, and mystery traditions of western culture concerned with the issue of spirit and matter and the disclosure of the numinous.

Jungian Psychology III: Jung and the Post-Jungians
DP 862........ 2 Units
The key ideas of second-generation Jungians such as Von Franz, Guggenbühl-Craig, Jacobi, and Jaffé are surveyed in historical perspective. Contemporary movements in Jungian thought are also explored, with an emphasis on their contributions to an understanding of psyche and culture.

Archetypal Psychology
DP 762........ 2 Units
Archetypal psychology, as envisioned by James Hillman, moves beyond clinical inquiry and locates its identity within the Western imagination, finding affiliation with the arts, culture, and history of ideas. Its central aim is the development of soul through the cultivation of imaginal life in personal, cultural, and transpersonal domains. We will investigate the history and central ideas of this rich psychological perspective, focusing on concepts such as archetype, image, the autonomous psyche, and the imaginal.

Dreamwork
DP 780........ 2 Units
Depth psychological approaches to the dream are studied in theory and practice. We learn and practice a variety of dreamwork methods which draw upon Freudian, Jungian, phenomenological, and archetypal theory. Focus is brought to the notion that dream images are alive, that they ar autonomous, embodied beings, engaged in their own activities. We practice ways of interacting with these living images as a way of tending personal, cultural, and archetypal realities.

Frontiers Of Depth Psychology
DP 963........ 2 Units
This course is designed to explore innovative contemporary ideas in depth psychology and at the interface between depth psychology and other disciplines.

Psychologies Of Liberation
DP 781........ 2 Units
This course place Euro-American depth psychology into conversation with psychologies of liberation arising from Asia, Africa, Central and South America. By focusing on dialogue as their common methodology, we will reflect on how we can integrate psychologies that have focused primarily on the individual and the intrapsychic with psychologies that look at the psychological through the lens of culture. How does this integration lead us to work with dream, symptom, image, and calling? How does it help us imagine depth psychological work with psychological suffering and well being through small group and community participatory fieldwork and research? We will examine the development of dialogical capacities across the intrapsychic, interpersonal, and group domains. This course lays the theoretical and practical foundation for depth psychologically oriented community fieldwork and research.

Frontiers Of Liberation Psychologies
DP 964........ 2 Units
This course will offer theoretical and experimental study of various participatory, dialogical, and restorative methodologies being developed throughout the world to develop critical consciousness, build community, reconcile decisive differences, heal community trauma, transform oppressive social conditions, and imagine utopic possibilities. Topics may include restorative justice, community arts, theatre of the oppressed, invisible theatre, public conversations, processes of reconciliation.