The curriculum focuses on a spectrum of ideas and methods of therapeutic action based upon the view that Jungian analysis and theories of psychological process are applicable throughout development and are relevant to the entire spectrum of psychopathology and psychological experience. Clinical and archetypal disciplines are understood from an integrated perspective, which assumes and explicates the resonance among models of personality structures, transference paradigms, symbolization, and constructivist narratives. This approach brings the interactive alchemical model of the transformation available through analysis into conscious focus. The curriculum is compatible with, and informed by, the contemporary understanding of depth psychological process as unfolding with this interactive field, which reflects the psyche in both its multiplicity and unity.
As with all professional training curricula, the JPA program integrates theory and practice, with readings, courses and seminars organized around major themes and areas of proficiency which in turn form the basis of a mid-program examination (see below). Courses are designed to reach across the demarcations of areas of proficiency; any given course may cover several areas. A sample of courses is provided below. The elements of the curriculum – focused Case Seminars, content courses, colloquia for the entire training community, and with visiting analysts and scholars – encourages the culture of a learning community. A shared sensibility emerges that allows for a deep appreciation of the multiple layers of the life narrative, both historical and symbolic, literal and metaphoric, existential and mythopoeic, as these emerge in the unique experience of each participant.
Areas of Proficiency
1. Symptom and Symbol Formation
- Psychopathology: Causation and Telos
- Teleology in Jungian Analysis and Psychic Process: Source Works in Contemporary Literature
- Numinosity and Creativity in Analytic and Developmental Traditions: Relative Uses of Illusion, Fiction, and Image
2. Fields of Psychological Process
a. Intrapsychic: Complexes, Dreams, Defenses, Character Structures
b. Interpersonal
c. Transferential
d. Community/Group/Culture
e. Transpersonal:
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- Jung’s Clinical Vignettes: From the Collected and Uncollected Works
- Dissolve and Coagulate: Complexes, Dissociability, Organization, and Dissociation
- The Archetype: Historical, Classical, Dynamic, and Contemporary Interpretations
- The Cultural Unconscious
- Jungian Hermeneutics and Semiotics
- Four years of Dream Practicum, which covers dream theory, applications of various approaches to dreams, hermeneutics, active imagination and other imaginal techniques, field theory, symbol formation, mythopoesis, as well as aspects of relevant neuroscientific and psychological literature.
3. Transformational Systems: Images and Applications
- Alchemy and Mysterium
- Gnosticism
- Creation and Dissolution of Consciousness
- From Africa to Alchemy: Egyptian States of Mind
- Contemporary Jungian Discourse
- Psychic Reality and States of Mind: Interpretive Modes of Imagination
4. Mythopoesis and Mythologems
- Mythologems and Their Psychodynamic Applications
- Creation of Consciousness: Personality Structures and Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theories as Modern Mythologems
5. Psyche-Soma Conjunctions
- Neuroscientific Literature on the Nature of Mind and Psyche
- Individuation and Its Manifestation: The Various Relationships to Psyche’s Objectivity
- Symbol/Psyche/Body
6. Analytic Attitude and Techniques
- The Depth Dimension of Analytic Ethics
- Amplification and Active Imagination
- The Question of Technique in Jungian Psychoanalysis
- Amplification, Interpretation, and the Transferential Field
- Survey of Techniques in Jung’s Collected Works
- Clinical Supervision: The Current Literature
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