by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 10, 2024 | History of Psychotherapy, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Psychology of Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The Matriarch of American Jungianism In the 1920s, a British doctor traveled to Zurich to meet Carl Jung. She was seeking a cure for her own depression, but what she found was a vocation. M. Esther Harding (1888–1971) became one of Jung’s most important students...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 10, 2024 | Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Psychology of Buildings and Architecture, Psychology of Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The Mythologist of the Broken World In a culture obsessed with facts and data, Michael Meade (b. 1944) reminds us that we are creatures of story. A renowned storyteller, mythologist, and author, Meade argues that when a society loses its myths, it loses its soul....
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 9, 2024 | Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Psychology of Buildings and Architecture, Psychology of Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The Historian of the Western Soul In 1991, Richard Tarnas published a book that became standard reading in universities worldwide: The Passion of the Western Mind. It was a brilliant, sweeping history of Western thought from Plato to Hegel to Jung. But in 2006, he...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 9, 2024 | Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Psychology of Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The Teacher of the Conscious Feminine Most psychologists analyze the mind. Marion Woodman (1928–2018) analyzed the body. A Canadian Jungian analyst, she revolutionized the treatment of addiction and eating disorders by recognizing them not as medical failures, but as...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 9, 2024 | Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology for Therapy, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The Psychologist of the Sacred In a secular age, many people feel spiritually homeless. They cannot return to the dogmas of traditional religion, yet they cannot live in the cold emptiness of materialism. Lionel Corbett (b. 1945) is the Jungian analyst who speaks most...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 9, 2024 | Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology for Therapy, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The Psychologist of the Pagan Heart In the landscape of depth psychology, Ginette Paris (b. 1945) stands as a fierce advocate for a “polytheistic psychology.” While classical psychoanalysis often seeks to unify the self under a single ego, Paris argues...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 9, 2024 | Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology for Therapy, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
Who is Allan Shore? Allan N. Schore, Ph.D. is a pioneering researcher and theoretician whose work has revolutionized our understanding of human development, the emergence of the self, and the process of therapeutic change. Drawing on cutting-edge research from...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 9, 2024 | Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology for Therapy, Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology, Ritual and Initiation
The Architect of Transitions Life is a series of crossings. We cross from childhood to adulthood, from single to married, from work to retirement, from life to death. But how do we cross safely? Arnold van Gennep (1873–1957) was the first anthropologist to recognize...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 9, 2024 | Psychology of Buildings and Architecture, Psychology of Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The Man Who Brought the Gods to the West Before Joseph Campbell taught us to “Follow Your Bliss,” there was Heinrich Zimmer. A German Indologist and linguistic genius, Zimmer was the intellectual father figure who introduced both Campbell and Carl Jung to...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 9, 2024 | Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology, Psychology of Mystics, Gurus, and Spiritual Philosophers, Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
The Midwife of the Symbolic Life In the 1970s, as the West was convulsing with cultural revolutions, June Singer (1920–2004) emerged as one of the most vital voices in Jungian psychology. She was not content to keep analysis in the ivory tower. Singer believed that...
