Learning Modules

 

1 Reading Jung
A general introduction to Carl Jung, the psychiatrist and psychologist (1875-1961). Good biographical accounts. Linked references and PDF copies of most books etc. Explanation of basic ideas.
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2 Map of the Psyche, conscious and unconscious
An exploration of Jung’s basic formulations. Understanding how the psyche operates and how the unconscious affects our daily behaviour.  
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3 History of the Unconscious
This section aims to examine and reflect on the manner in which individuals and whole groups viewed the unconscious throughout the ages. Examined through a Jungian perspective, it brings many useful and insightful ways of dealing (or not dealing) with the unconscious. It is also important to see and recognise the prevailing psychological views that preceded Freud and Jung. Buy

4  Collective Unconscious, archetypes, spirit and the psychoid archetype
A brief introduction to some of the core psychological formulations in Jung’s psychology. A clear focus on these formulations is important for understanding Jung.        Buy

5  Personal Myth and the Individuation Process 
Find your personal myth, how to understand and live it. Buy

6  The Interface between Jungian Psychology and Religion.  These guides and notes, spread over a span of 40 years, explore the interest in the interface.  Jung’s explorations make religion more meaningful and point to the shortcomings in contemporary religion. Buy

The topics below are further possibilities for Learning Modules. Most will be activated/

  • 7  Psychology of Dreams
  • 8  Jung’s theory of the opposites   Further Notes
  • 9  Stages of development: theories of the personality and its development (Freud, Jung, Adler, Erickson etc)
  • 10 Psychology of emergence and interpretation of neurosis and psychosis
  • 10A  Active Imagination
  • 11 Ego and Self
    • 12 The Shadow
    • 13 Animus and anima
    • 14 The Persona
    • 15 Freud and Jung     Further Notes
    • 16 Symbols and symbolic process   Further Notes
    • 17 Interpretation of Myth and Fairy Tales   Further Notes
    • 18 Archetypes and Symbols of the Unconscious: Further Notes
    • 19 Psychology of the Transference/Countertransference
    • 20 Complexes and Word Association Experiment   Further Notes
    • 21 The Experience of God in the psyche   Further Notes
    • 22 Jung’s Concept of God and the Self: Further Notes
    • 23 The Numinous and transcendent function
    • 24 Psychology of Alchemy
    • 25 Comparative Religion
      • 26 The Hero motif   Further Notes
      • 27 Mother and Father   Further Notes
      • 28 The Child and Trauma Further Notes
      • 29 Wise Old Man/Woman, Puer and Puella
      • 30 Transference neurosis: Further Notes
  • 31 Structure and application of dreams
  • 32 Reductive and constructive approaches     Further Notes
  • 33 Projection and containment in therapy
  • 34 Therapist’s shadow   Further Notes
  • 35 Narcissism   Further Notes
  • 36 Psychopathology   Further Notes
  • 37 Depression
  • 38 Schizophrenia, psychosis and religious experience
  • 39 Psychiatry
  • 40 The effect of psychological and psychophysical disorders on consciousness
  • 41 Professional and Ethical Practice   Further Notes
  • 42 The Therapy Setting
  • 43 Different models in Jungian psychology
  • 44 Case studies and their treatment   Further Notes
  • 45 Success and failure in analysis: beginnings and ends   Further Notes
  • 46 Differential diagnosis
  • 47 Synchronicity
  • 48 Initiation Rites
  • 49 Individuation
  • 50 Psychological Types
  • 51 Pharmacology and other forms of physical treatment
  • 52 Other psychologies
  • 59 Symbols of the unconscious: mysterium conjunctionis, inner marriage, divine child
  • 53 Other psychologies