Jungian art therapy : a guide to dreams, images, and analytical psychology

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Jungian Art Therapy aims to provide a clear, introductory manual for art therapists on how to navigate Jung's model of working with the psyche. This exciting new text circumambulates Jung's map of the mind so as to reinforce the theoretical foundations of analytical psychology while simultaneously defining key concepts to help orient practitioners, students, and teachers alike. The book provides several methods, which illustrate how to work with the numerous images originating from the unconscious and glean understanding from them. Throughout the text readers will enjoy clinical vignettes to support each chapter and illuminate important lessons.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Illustrations (p. xiii)
• Acknowledgments (p. xvii)
• 1 Introduction (p. 1)
• My journey into Jungian Psychology (p. 3)
• Why This Book? (p. 11)
• Navigation: Two Centuries, Two Paradigms (p. 13)
• Circumambulating the Stages (p. 15)
• Gateway (p. 16)
• Attending (p. 16)
• Passage (p. 16)
• The Map of the Book (p. 17)
• Terms (p. 17)
• Jungian Art Therapy (p. 17)
• Images and the Interpretation of Images (p. 18)
• Affect, Emotion, and Feeling (p. 19)
• Client/Patient/Analysand (p. 19)
• Ego (p. 19)
• He/She (p. 20)
• Masculine and Feminine Principles (p. 20)
• Genius Loci: Sacred Space (p. 21)
• Endnotes (p. 22)
• Part I Gateway: Preparing to Engage (p. 23)
• 2 A Jungian Landscape for Theory and Practice (p. 25)
• Landmarks: Conscious, Unconscious, and the Symbolic (p. 25)
• Jung, Signs, and Symbols (p. 27)
• Circumambulation: An Attitude for the Inner Journey (p. 28)
• Mandalas (p. 29)
• Jung's Structure of the Psyche (p. 31)
• The Psyche as Circle (p. 33)
• Consciousness (p. 34)
• Ego (p. 34)
• Persona (p. 36)
• Unconscious (p. 38)
• Shadow (p. 41)
• Complex (p. 42)
• Archetype (p. 43)
• Animal/Animus (p. 44)
• The Self: The Numinous Psyche (p. 47)
• Psychoid (p. 49)
• Psychic Energy (p. 49)
• Individuation (p. 50)
• Endnotes (p. 50)
• 3 Jungian Art Psychotherapy: Creating Bridges to the Past (p. 52)
• Jung's Contributions: Analytical Psychology as a Framework for Jungian Art Therapy (p. 52)
• Origins of Analytical Psychology: 1900-1912 (p. 54)
• Jung's Separation from Freud (p. 58)
• Jung's Creative Descent and the Liber Novus: The Red Book, 1913-1930 (p. 60)
• A Personal Journey into Art Therapy (p. 62)
• Jung's Influence on Art Therapy: American and British (p. 64)
• American Art Therapy (p. 64)
• Margaret Naumburg: The Mother of Art Therapy (p. 65)
• Naumburg's Academic Accomplishments (p. 66)
• Florence Cane (p. 68)
• British Jungian Art Therapy and Withymead (p. 70)
• Champernowne's Early Days (p. 70)
• Endnotes (p. 73)
• 4 Psychic Energy: The Psyche's Life Force (p. 74)
• Two Kinds of Thinking and Psychic Energy (p. 74)
• Psychic Energy (p. 75)
• Tension of Opposites (p. 77)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Dana's Story (p. 79)
• Body and the Opposites (p. 81)
• Movement of Psychic Energy (p. 82)
• Progressive and Regressive Energy (p. 82)
• Adaptation and Individuation (p. 84)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Gail's Story (p. 84)
• Principles of Constancy and Equivalence (p. 85)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Meg's Story (p. 86)
• Intensity (p. 89)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Jill's Story (p. 90)
• Transference/Counter transference (p. 91)
• Psychic Energy and Teleology (p. 94)
• Endnotes (p. 94)
• 5 Synthetic Method and Transcendent Function and Art Therapy (p. 96)
• Jung's Synthetic Method (p. 96)
• Subjective (p. 97)
• Objective (p. 98)
• Amplifications (p. 98)
• Art Therapy and the Synthetic Method (p. 99)
• Transcendent Function (p. 100)
• The Role of the Transcendent Function (p. 100)
• Constellation of the Transcendent Function (p. 101)
• Transcendent Function and Restoration of the Persona (p. 102)
• Florence Cane: Transcendent Function, Opposites (p. 102)
• Transcendent Function, Symbols, and Art Therapy (p. 104)
• The Transcendent Function in Action (p. 105)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Julie's Story (p. 105)
• Jungian An Therapy: Students' Stories (p. 108)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Claire's Story (p. 109)
• Art and Individuation (p. 109)
• Jung's Two Approaches Towards Images: Creative Formulation and Meaning (p. 110)
• Facilitating the Transcendent Function (p. 111)
• Endnote (p. 112)
• Part II Attending: Engaging with the Unconscious (p. 113)
• 6 Imagination: Creating Imaginal Space (p. 115)
• The Imagination (p. 115)
• History of Imagination (p. 118)
• Imagination and Symbolic Thinking (p. 119)
• Symbolic Thinking: A Developmental Process (p. 120)
• Productive Imagination (p. 121)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Ellen's Story (p. 122)
• Destructive Imagination (p. 124)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Carol's Story (p. 126)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Luanda's Story (p. 128)
• Endnotes (p. 132)
• 7 Complex Theory: The Material for Transformation (p. 133)
• The Basic Nature of a Complex (p. 133)
• Image (p. 133)
• Autonomous (p. 134)
• Multiplicity and Splitting (p. 134)
• The Structure of the Complex (p. 136)
• Cluster of Complexes (p. 137)
• Complexes as Expression of Energy (p. 138)
• Complexes, Emotions, and Images (p. 139)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Tina's Story (p. 139)
• Complexes, Emotions, and the Body (p. 140)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Gia's Story (p. 141)
• The Purpose of Complexes (p. 142)
• Progressive and Regressive Complexes (p. 142)
• Complexes and Multiplicity (p. 145)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Olivia's Story (p. 145)
• Complexes and Trauma (p. 146)
• Complexes and Transference/Countertransference (p. 149)
• Complexes and Art Materials (p. 150)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Dahlia's Story (p. 153)
• Endnotes (p. 157)
• 8 Archetypes: Anchors of the Mythic Pattern (p. 159)
• Definition of Archetypes (p. 160)
• The Structure of Archetypes (p. 160)
• Jung and Archetypes (p. 161)
• History (p. 161)
• Jung's Three Developments of the Archetype (p. 162)
• The Psychological Development of the Archetype (p. 164)
• How Archetypes Influence Consciousness (p. 164)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Rebecca's Story (p. 165)
• The Bipolar Archetype: Instinctual and Spiritual Poles (p. 166)
• Myth of Psyche: Instinctual and Spiritual (p. 166)
• Instinctual (p. 167)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Faye's Story (p. 170)
• Spirit (p. 172)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Claire's Story (p. 172)
• Self: Archetype as the Spiritual Pole (p. 173)
• The Relationship between Ego, Complexes, and Archetypes (p. 175)
• How Do We Recognize an Archetype? (p. 176)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Ellen's Story (p. 177)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Janet's Story (p. 179)
• The Archetype of Individuation (p. 181)
• Jungian Art Therapy: John's Story (p. 181)
• Important Summary Points about Archetypes (p. 185)
• Endnotes (p. 185)
• Part III Passage: Engaging with Images (p. 187)
• 9 Dreams and Art Therapy (p. 189)
• The Importance of Dreams (p. 189)
• Freud and Dreams (p. 190)
• Jung's Approach to Dreams (p. 191)
• How to Catch a Dream (p. 194)
• The Structure of a Dream (p. 194)
• Types of Dreams (p. 195)
• Basic Notes on Dreams (p. 196)
• Dreams and Jungian Art Therapy (p. 197)
• Dreams Carry Energy, Memory, and Emotion (p. 198)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Anna's Story (p. 198)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Dawn's Story (p. 198)
• The Bridge Dream (p. 200)
• Alternative Approaches to the Bridge Dream (p. 203)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Louisa's Story (p. 203)
• Dreams that Dance and Sing (p. 204)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Naomi's Story (p. 205)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Ellen's Story (p. 206)
• Endnotes (p. 208)
• 10 Active Imagination and Art Therapy (p. 209)
• Active Imagination and the Pregnant Symbol (p. 210)
• Active Imagination: Experiencing the Psyche (p. 211)
• Jung's Red Book: The Discovery of Active Imagination (p. 212)
• Jung's Method of Active Imagination (p. 214)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Lisa's Story (p. 215)
• Von Franz's Method of Active Imagination (p. 217)
• Post-Jungian Reflections and Methods (p. 218)
• Active Imagination and Transitional Space (p. 218)
• Active Imagination and Transference/Countertransference (p. 219)
• Creating a Personal "Red Book" (p. 220)
• Jungian Art Therapy: Alyssa's Story (p. 222)
• Conclusion (p. 227)
• Endnote (p. 229)
• Appendix: Jung's Four Stages of Therapy (p. 230)
• References (p. 234)
• Index (p. 240)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Nora Swan-Foster, MA, LPC, ATR-BC, NCPsyA is a Jungian Analyst and Jungian Art Therapist in private practice in Boulder, Colorado. She is a Board Certified and Registered Art Therapist and a senior training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA). Nora teaches at Naropa University, where she was on the faculty for several years. Her art therapy research and publications opened the door for using art therapy as early intervention with childbearing-related issues related to medical trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and depression. Nora is on the editorial board for the Journal of Analytical Psychology her chapter "Jungian Art Therapy" was included in Judith Rubin's Approaches to Art Therapy. She continues to investigate the Jungian path of creativity through teaching, painting, dreams, and active imagination.