January Audiotape Acquisitions

Some of the best resources are audio-visual materials.  Browse the library's new audio acquisitions:  if you see something you like, be sure to check the item's availability via our online catalog, or call Circulation Services at ext. 115 ! 

(Item descriptions courtesy of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago.)

Bosnak, Robert.  Dream environments, uncounscious emotion, and the body.

Emotions that do not reach consciousness have a clear tendency to take up residence in the body where they generate physical sensation and stress, and hamper the vital balance of psyche and soma. The dream, as an intermediary between body and mind, offers an environment that can introduce the dreamer to an experience of these unconscious emotions and enable a therapeutic realization to take place. Mind and body can then become a more collaborative, interactive and unified system. This presentation, featuring examples from work with HIV+ persons and organ transplant recipients, demonstrates dreamwork techniques that help in the discovery and exploration of unconscious emotions and their impact on the body and the psyche.

Chinen, Allan.  Once upon a noon time:  fairy tales and the psychology of men and women at midlife.

San Francisco analyst Allan Chinen leads a workshop exploring the archetypal tasks of midlife through the telling of stories from Germany, Persia, Italy and other countries.

Corbett, Lionel.   The religious function of the psyche:  a new myth of God.

Traditional Concepts of God are no longer tenable for many people who nevertheless experience a strong sense of the sacred in their lives. This workshop describes the new, emerging, psychology-based model of God, and a new form of spiritual practice.

      --Religous functions of the psyche:  manifestations of the self.

Corbett explores Jung's view of the innate capacity of the human psyche to have religious experience and to produce religious imagery

Dougherty, Nancy.  Goldilocks, grandiosity, and the power complex.

Just as the story Psyche and Eros was a late comer to classical Greek mythology, Goldilocks and the Three Bears did not appear in European folklore until the Late 19th century. Both tales reflect a new development in consciousness. While the travails of Psyche and her redemption by love illuminate the earthly process of a human soul, Goldilocks' adventure illustrates the process of a soul's reconnection to the instinctual psyche and the body. Through an exploration of the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears, this lecture explores the dynamics of the unconscious power complex and speculates about it's potential transformation and integration.

   --Shamanic journeying and active imagination.

Shamanic journeying is an ancient human process which may be considered as the archetypal ground for what Jung describes as active imagination. In journeying, the shaman travels into the upper or lower world to interact with whom or what is found there. The journey is undertaken with the intentionality to seek healing for the shaman's patient, and the shaman is strengthened and healed by the process itself. In active imagination, we face into our inner world and take an active stance toward it. In the encounter with the unconscious, we interact with the images and respect the psychic reality from which those images emerge. We engage in this process to become more deeply related to our inner life, with the hope that the energy evoked in the interaction will result in the constellation of the transcendent function.

Farrer, Claire.  Centering:  lessons from Mescalero Apaches.

Hubback, Judith.  The self and symbols of the self.

Kalsched, Donald.  Dream imagery constellated by the analytic process.

Kapacinskas, T.J.  The technique and practice of dream interpretation.

Jungian analyst Thomas Kapacinskas presents a course designed for practitioners and advanced students of Jungian psychology, emphasizing the theoretical development and groundings of Jung's method of dream interpretation, as well as delineating its practical content and applications in therapeutic work.

Khan, Lois.  Typical dream imagery:  figures, settings, situations.

Martin, Diane.  The human work of transforming the primitive.

Centered on the psyche in everyday life and human relationships, this workshop considers subjects especially strong in transformative quality, such as the shamanistic ideal of metabolizing reality, encountering alchemical elements, the journey of returning to origin, the archetype of the trickster, and the nature of unconscious processes themselves.

    --Alchemical consciousness as the modern paradigm.

Jung considered alchemy the most complete and instructive system by which to represent the individuation process. A revival of interest in this esoteric practice is due to its ability to hold both highly differentiated and highly oppositional sets. Diane Martin leads a seminar which focuses on decoding key alchemical images and processes so that the numinous and the everday can attain their natural reciprocity.

    --Multiple and opposing theories of the self as seen through analytical psychology:  toward a unified field theory.

Recent years in psychoanalysis have been characterized by emerging, and often conflicting, theories of self psychology and object relations. This seminar explores ways in which analytical psychology, with its notions of typology, differing archetypal groundings, compensating rhythms in the dynamics of opposites and the transcendent function, provides the possibility of reconciling these seemingly disparate systems.

Meade, Michael.  Dreams and visions:  myths of restoration and revelation.

At the end of each day, the promise of rest and the realm of dreams wait for us to fall away from the things of this world and restore our lease on life. Without this respite, we can go mad or die. At the core of the deepest rest is the restorative house.

Moore, Robert.  Angels, demons and spirit possession:  new perspectives on the Collective Unconscious and the daimonic.

This workshop seeks to help in understanding the nature and dynamics of the collective unconscious in our personal and spiritual lives. At the turn of the nineteenth century, most European intellectuals were smugly declaring the end of belief in spirits.

    --The Collective Unconscious and the shape of psychopathology:  a perspective from Jungian structural psychoanalysis.

In this workshop Dr. Moore outlines his findings on the relationship between the structures of the collective unconscious and the patterns which we find in psychopathology. Moore takes as his text for this dialogical project the leading empirical research on psychopathology, that of Theodore Millon. Millon's understanding of the shape of psychopathology is interpreted and evaluated from the perspective of Moore's approach to a Jungian structural psychoanalysis and integrative psychotherapy.

Pasic, Josip.  Why no hero:  exploration into the true feminine.

Through an examination of the nature of Japanese fairy tales and the ways in which they contrast with typical Western tales, this seminar explores the boundless space of the true feminine and provides a sense of its crucial importance in the life of the psyche.

    --Anima figures in dreams.

Payne, Charles.  African-American males and initiation:  hopes, dreams, and frustrations.

In this lecture, Charles Payne shares the inner workings of his commitment to develop and preserve Chicago's Hales Franciscan High School (where he serves as president) not just as a high-quality secondary educational institution for young African-American men, but also as a place of passage into full and mature adulthood and community responsibility. Through discussing the creation of programs concerned with initiatory experience and rites of passage, he provides an important look into the issues and insights unique to an African-American cultural setting and the crucial relevance that the understandings of analytical psychology have in contemporary life.

Rosen, David.  Transforming depression through symbolic death and new life:  a Jungian approach to using the creative arts.

While working extensively with patients suffering from depression, Jungian analyst and psychiatrist David Rosen uncovered helpful clues to understanding this widespread malady.