Institute in Psychology & Spirituality

Institute in Psychology & Spirituality: Post Freudian Conversation and Convergence
September 22 - 26, 2008

Faculty Tutor: Dr. Donald Schwab, Professor of Counseling Psychology

Course Fees: $1,200 for two Units of Study

Registration deadline: August 11, 2008 - $300 deposit with final payment of $900 due September 12, 2007. Registration Form

Description: This Institute will explore convergences in Jungian Psychology with several classical perspectives on maturity in both Human Development and the dynamics of Spiritual Growth throughout the life cycle. There will also be discussion of more contemporary theorists whose work evidences an appreciation for both psychology and spirituality in the healing arts and sciences.

A.M. Seminar -Post Freudian Perspectives on Depth Psychology – Beginning with a basic understanding of Jung’s departure from both Freudian and other psychological theories of his day, this course will anchor the student in early, post-Freudian perspective on the human capacity for what spiritual writers have called mystery. Staying with these psychological and anthropological starting points, attention will be paid to a gradual lessening of tension between the empirical and social sciences in the area of religious ideation. This will be demonstrated in a survey look at some of the more recent transpersonal psychological perspectives. Presentations and discussion during the week will consider how a renewed openness to spirituality in psychological frameworks gives room to that which is both human and humanizing in a broader, overall perspective on Human Development.

P.M. Seminar –Mystery, Myth, Ritual & Symbol: Perspectives on Spirituality - Erik H. Erikson’s work on the humanizing role of ritual will assist us in beginning to understand that much of religious language, properly understood, is at the foundation of philosophical anthropology – what it means to be human. Throughout the Institute, attention will be paid to the ubiquitous, contemporary search for spirituality, and it will be argued that current expressions found in today’s spiritual searches evidence humankind’s hunger for imagination, myth and a sense of mystery necessary for full humanity. This portion of the Institute will highlight aspects of classical contemplative and mystical approaches to The Holy and Sacred as still viable, perhaps urgent, ways to rediscover humankind’s common spiritual roots.

Required Reading Prior to the Institute:

Carl G. Jung, Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Carl G. Jung, Modern Man In Search of a Soul [ISBN 0-15-661206-2][Read Prior]
C. Michael Thompson, The Congruent Life [Purchase book and bring for assigned reading and discussion.]
Suggested: Schwab, Donald F., Therapist As Priest

Institute in Psychology & Spirituality: Post Freudian Conversation and Convergence September 22 - 26, 2008

Institute in Psychology & Spirituality: Post Freudian Conversation and Convergence
September 22 - 26, 2008