Advanced Clinical Training in
Depth Psychology and Womancraft

PROGRAM STRUCTURE AND OUTLINE

The program, delivered over two years, is made up of four modules each concerning itself with an aspect of Depth Psychology. Each module provides a solid theoretical foundation and experiential and group processes that create a lived experience of the module’s themes – our biography, our body, our unconscious and our place in the world.

Reading materials will be wide ranging and eclectic drawing from the classical works of Carl Jung and contemporary Jungian scholars, philosophers, poets, artists and radicals. Written work is designed to allow you to plumb your own depths, to access your own archetypal world and to find your soul’s voice.

Podcasted lectures, online group tutorials, reading and research material and a three-day residential for practicums and personal growth work make up each module. Assessments include a written essay, personal inquiry as well as practical tasks and group engagement.

Each module builds on the one before, step by step building a body of knowledge, a new therapeutic perspective and a deeper engagement with health, illness and the human condition.

The course will take place over two semesters each year – Autumn (March - May) and Spring (August - October). It is due to commence in 2021.

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Module 1: Seasons of a Woman’s Life
Foundations of Developmental Psychology

In this module you will learn about the development of the psyche and the personality which unfolds over the course of a human life span.

Topics include:

  • Piaget’s stages of cognitive development
  • Jung’s stages of life
  • Individuation and telos – the ego and the shadow
  • The heroine’s journey – transitions and the underworld
  • The great triple goddess – maidenhood, maturity and eldership
  • The archetypes of the puer and the senex
  • The tale of the Handless Maiden
Module 2: The Body Poetic
Foundations of Somatic Psychology

This module focusses on the phenomenology of the bodymind. We deepen our understanding of childhood development (both psychological, neurological and cultural) and establish an awareness of how our physical structure reflects the quality of our lived experience.

Topics include:

  • Biology, the brain and consciousness
  • The bodymind – an integrated system
  • Body armouring. Body splits
  • Wilhelm Reich and the four character structures
  • The myth of Dionysus and the women of Thebes
  • The cultural body
Module 3: Ariadne’s Thread
Foundations of Jungian Psychology

Jung’s body of work is so vast and so epic that this module will focus on an introduction to his foundational concepts.

  • The structure and function of the psyche
  • Archetypes and the collective unconscious
  • Mythology and cultural psyche
  • Complexes – the psyche organises itself
  • Transference and countertransference
  • Jungian method – Active imagination, dreams and the creative process
  • The myth of Ariadne, Theseus and the minotaur’s labyrinth
Module 4: Medicine and Imagination
Foundations of Healing

In this module we turn our attention to the process of facilitating healing and change, bringing together all we have learned and relating it to our current therapeutic endeavours.

  • Hippocrates, Asclepius and the healing dream
  • Temenos as a metaphor for the therapeutic relationship
  • The person of the therapist – the myth of Chiron
  • The paradox of healing – defences to and motivations for change
  • A philosophy of suffering
  • Active listening – soulful communication
  • Mental health – soul making and falling apart
  • The myth of Innana – psychic death and rebirth
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