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The dark side of the light chasers : reclaiming your power, creativity, brilliance, and dreams
Details how to confront and release darker, selfish impulses and feelings in order to live more fully and authentically, and move closer to others.
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Psychotherapy training and practice
An exploration of the extensive intra-personal, interpersonal and group dynamic landscape of human experience pertinent to the understanding of the human shadow in the training of psychotherapists. Using phenomenological enquiry this book invites unique in-depth experiences, provides new insights, and addresses the complexities and diversities inherent in the emergence and containment of shadow experience in psychotherapy training. The book demonstrates a process of qualitative research and invites the reader to explore his or her own relationships to the love of others, through the exploration of all the things that love is not. It argues that without hate we cannot truly love. Interspersed throughout the book are suggestions for personal exploration and it is hoped that reading this book will both stimulate practitioners to a process of self-reflection and questioning, and also support practitioner researchers in their own journey to self-understanding.
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Re-visioning the Feminine: Unveiling the Cultural Shadow of Female Sexual Objectification
Concerned with the unconscious, embodied experience of heterosexual women affected by female sexual objectification (FSO), this research takes a depth psychological, somatic approach to addressing the Western cultural split between mind and body. This study explores the archetypal, thematic material constellating in the dynamics of FSO, its traumatogenic effects, and women’s internalization of FSO as a psychosocial survival strategy. It asks the question: How can FSO be ameliorated, bringing the rejected body and sacred feminine sexuality out of the shadow and back into consciousness? Using a co-operative inquiry methodology six women explored the inquiry questions using Open Floor movement to access the somatic unconscious followed by journaling, group dialogue, and art production. Findings validated women’s ways of knowing; revealed ways that FSO shapes women’s relationship with their bodies, sexuality, and subjectivity; substantiated FSO as a cultural complex; advanced the critique surrounding the normalization and personal burden associated with FSO as a cultural trauma; and illuminated the archetypal plurality of psyche, evidenced in women’s embodied experience with the transpersonal feminine, the self, others, and world. Findings also illustrated the strength, efficacy, and importance of using a body-oriented approach to inquiry and discovered archetypal energies of the feminine that emerged from the unconscious in and through the women’s bodies, bringing forward previously split-off potential for self-efficacy and agency.
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The Black Sun
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The Shadow and the Counsellor
The Shadow and the Counsellor introduces the concept of shadow, the darker side to ourselves that we do not wish to acknowledge, or do not even recognise. It examines how it comes into being and explores its impact within counselling. The Shadow and the Counsellor is structured around a six stage model which is designed to help the counsellor recognise, confront and deal with their 'shadow' side. This can then be a framework for reflection and practical action. With case studies including short clinical examples to longer examples running through the book, this will give counsellors a new way of approaching their practice.
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Digital Martyrs and Shadowless Assailants: The Projective Shadow's Emergence in Cyberspace
This hermeneutic intuitive inquiry with heuristic elements illuminates psychological factors involved in a cultural trend toward covert aggression on the Internet and in digital social media. This analysis is grounded in historical perspectives on crime, punishment, victimology, and scapegoating, as well as depth psychological constructs. It focuses on the archetypal, cultural, and individual shadow and its projection in interpersonal and intergroup relationships, highlighting the psychological influences of personal, social, institutional, religious, and technological externalities. As the digital world renders responsibility for Internet and social media bullying and scapegoating more elusive and the effects potentially more devastating to its victims, this exploration strives, through the application of psychoanalytic language, to make less elusive the projection of shadow onto others in its tendency to simplify moral rightness into a binary of good and evil. It finds depth psychological approaches in clinical practice particularly relevant to addressing issues of cyberbullying and scapegoating
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Spiritual Bypass: A Defense Against Wholeness
This thesis explores the spiritual-bypass phenomenon identified by John Welwood and how it can be a defense against wholeness as defined in Jungian psychology. Using hermeneutic and heuristic methodologies, and drawing on depth psychological theories, the author discusses the various forms of spiritual bypass and the underlying shadow dynamics, such as emotional repression. The author examines the nature of psychological and spiritual development through states and stages of consciousness development, healthy transcendence versus unhealthy transcendence, and the Jungian process of individuation toward wholeness. The research also explores contributing factors to spiritual bypass including the effect of early childhood attachment style and demonstrates the significance of integrating psychological development in a spiritual path. Finally, the author provides suggestions for therapists working with clients who may be in spiritual bypass.
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Seeing through to the Organizational Psyche: An Archetypal Analysis
A case study conducted under the rubric of integral inquiry, this research explores the application of Jungian and archetypal psychology to the growth process of an organization. Drawing upon analysis of public documents using Corlett and Pearson’s Archetype of Organization model, it identifies the Hero, Ruler, and Sage as the archetypes most active within the organizational psyche of the Oregon Public Health Division and the Jester, Explorer, Creator, and Caregiver as archetypes in the organizational shadow. Focus group discussion data characterizes these archetypes and contributes to specific recommendations for how this archetypal analysis could inform the agency’s development and modernization. Guided by Hillman’s process of “seeing through,” further analysis provides alchemical and mythological perspectives on the agency’s organizational psyche informed by metaphorical analysis of documents and focus group data, the somatic and emotional responses of researcher and participants, and the researcher’s dream and self-generated mandala images. This inquiry demonstrates that archetypal analysis can provide a valuable and unusual perspective on an agency, a nuanced opportunity for an organization to “know thyself” not available by means of conventional public health program evaluations or organizational assessments.
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Adversity in Social Evolution: Correlating Wolves in Ecosystems With Shadow in the Human Psyche
This thesis examines literal and metaphorical correlations between suppression of grey wolves in ecological systems and suppression of emotions related to trauma in the landscape of the human psyche. Similar interconnected cascading patterns arise subsequent to repression of perceived adverse conditions. Hermeneutic research methodology was employed to contrast studies of predator extirpation/reintroduction with emotional suppression/resiliency in humans. Evidence points toward value in allowing the shadow in the form of adversity to function dynamically within ecological and psychological systems. Creativity, resiliency, and altruism are possible resulting factors that surface in the human psyche. These characteristics are believed to promote increased adaptability and communal cooperation toward greater probability of group survival and social evolution. Alternative approaches to accepting imperfection and the shadow are examined through the lens of Eastern philosophy, illustrating how integration of dual polarities may help achieve a more vital state in ecology and in the human psyche.
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Bringing the Money Out of the Shadows: Money and Therapy
There is a limited amount of research in psychology regarding the impact of money on the therapeutic relationship. Although some research regarding clients’ transference vis-à- vis money exists, clinicians’ countertransference concerning money has been largely ignored. As money and discussion of fees often generate negative countertransference for clinicians, it is likely that this material will not be addressed in the clinicians’ personal work, and therefore it risks being harmful to the therapy process. The author’s goal is to demystify the subject of money in the clinical setting and make it easier for clinicians to discuss money, fees, and the financial aspects of therapy with their clients, while minimizing the harmful impacts of therapists’ countertransference on the therapeutic frame. Using heuristic and hermeneutic methodologies, the author uses his own experiences as a nascent therapist to illustrate some ways for clinicians to address and minimize the negative impact of their money issues on their work.
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