Spotlight on Jungian Psychology
The following is a list of courses in Jungian and Analytical perspectives which have been offered in the past at ITP. Courses are offered based upon the interests of the current student body and faculty availability. Please consult the academic course schedule for each program of interest for classes offered at this time.
Introduction to Jungian Psychology
The course integrates classical, modern, and postmodern contributions to analytical psychology, and provides an overview of Jungian theory, methods, and application in philosophical, cultural, and historical contexts. The course emphasizes a phenomenological approach to metaphysical processes, functions, structures, and dynamics of the psyche. The course describes archetypal constellation and the process of individuation and transpersonal consciousness.
Introduction to Jungian Psychology II
The goal of this class is to explore the life and work of Carl Gustav Jung in such a way that students feel confident in using his theoretical ideas and clinical insights in their future professional work, when and where they feel it is useful and appropriate. Students will be asked to compare and contrast the classic theoretical appraisals of his work by others, as well as keep regular dream journals in order to assess whether Jung's formulations seem useful to them in examining their own dreams and the other products of their unconscious lives. Students will also be asked to compare and contrast the classic theoretical formulations of unconscious dynamics and mechanisms with the meanings and emotional experiences encountered in their own dreams. This will require both familiarizing themselves with the classic theories regarding dream formation, and a substantial introspective effort to become more conscious of their own hidden unconscious interior dramas and dynamics.
Methods of Inquiry in Analytical Psychology: Jungian Clinical and Research Applications
The course emphasizes an intrinsic approach to empirical research and the outcomes measures and documentation required for evidence-based psychotherapy in empirically-validated clinical practice. The course develops the dissertation research process and methods of inquiry based in Jung¹s four stages of healing and renewal. The course elucidates the stages in the process and methods in depth research and clinical practice as natural symbolic processes of psychological development. The course emphasizes a holistic focus for both research and clinical skills within inherent processes of the deep psyche as a form of non-intrusive research inquiry and clinical outcomes validation.
Archetypes, Myths, and Symbols
This course explores archetypes, myths, and symbols as living energies that transcend time and culture. Students will reflect both personally and conceptually on themes from several different cultures, and express one's insights in writing and symbolic art. We are all immersed in a world of myth and symbol, whether we realize it or not. If we can tap consciously into the images and themes that are guiding our personal and cultural lives, we can exercise choice in changing our "programming" and "dream the human dream onward."
The goal of the course is to enable students to better understand the mythic level of consciousness though experiencing and reacting to stories and images as well as studying and exploring their multifaceted meanings conceptually. Students will be encouraged to express in intuitive images and verbal reflection aspects of the archetypal essences of mythological images as they speak to them though time and across cultural barriers. In experiencing these perennial symbols used by human beings throughout the ages to make meaning of our lives, we come to realize that when all the externals are stripped away, we are all on the same journey. Although we don't talk the same talk, we all walk the same walk on basically the same ground.
