Jungian Art Therapy: Images, Dreams, and Analytical Psychology

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• My Journey into Jungian Psychology
• Why this book?
• Navigation: Two Centuries, Two Paradigms
• Circumambulating the Stages
• Gateway
• Attending
• Passage
• The Map of the Book
• Jungian Art Therapy
• Images and the Interpretation of Images
• Affect, Emotion, and Feeling
• Client/patient/analysand
• Ego
• He/She
• Masculine and Feminine Principles
• Genius Loci: Sacred Space
• Endnotes
• Section I: Gateway: Preparing to Engage
• Chapter 1: A Jungian Landscape for Theory and Practice
• Landmarks: Conscious, Unconscious, and the Symbolic
• Jung, Signs, and Symbols
• Circumambulation: An attitude for the Inner Journey
• Mandalas
• Jung's Structure of the Psyche
• The Psyche as Circle
• Consciousness
• Ego
• Persona
• Unconscious
• Shadow
• Complex
• Archetype
• Anima/Animus
• The Self: The Numinous Psyche
• Psychoid
• Psychic Energy
• Endnotes
• Chapter 2: Jungian Art Psychotherapy: Creating Bridges to the Past
• Jung's Contributions: Analytical Psychology as a Framework for Jungian Art Therapy
• Origins of Analytical Psychology
• Jung's Separation from Freud
• Jung's Creative Descent and the Liber Novus-The Red Book-1913-1930
• A Journey into Art Therapy
• Jung's Influence on Art Therapy-American and British
• American Art Therapy
• Margaret Naumburg: The Mother of Art Therapy
• Naumburg's Academic Accomplishments
• Florence Cane
• British Jungian Art Therapy and Withymead
• Champerowne's Early Days
• Endnotes
• Chapter 3: Psychic Energy: The Psyche's Life Force
• Two Kinds of Thinking and Psychic Energy
• Psychic Energy
• Tension of Opposites
• Body and the Opposites
• Movement of Psychic Energy
• Progressive and Regressive Energy
• Adaptation
• Principles of Constancy and Equivalence
• Intensity
• Jungian Art Therapy Example
• Transference/Countertransference
• Psychic Energy and Teleology
• Endnotes
• Chapter 4: Synthetic Method and Transcendent Function and Art Therapy
• Jung's Synthetic Method
• Subjective
• Objective
• Amplifications
• Art Therapy and the Synthetic Method
• Transcendent Function
• The Role of the Transcendent Function
• Constellation of the Transcendent Function
• Transcendent Function and Restoration of Persona
• Florence Cane: Transcendent Function, Opposites
• Transcendent Function, Symbols, and Art Therapy
• The Transcendent Function in Action: Jungian Art Therapy Examples
• Students
• Art and Individuation
• Jung's Two Approaches Towards Images: Creative Formulation and meaning
• Facilitating the Transcendent Function
• Endnotes
• Section II: Attending: Engaging with the unconscious
• Chapter 5: Imagination: Creating Imaginal Space
• The Imagination
• History of Imagination
• Imagination and Symbolic Thinking
• Symbolic Thinking-A Developmental Process
• Productive Imagination
• Destructive Forces and Imagination
• Clinical Example of Destructive Imagination
• Lucinda's Story: Imagination and Amor Fati
• Endnotes
• Chapter 6: Complex Theory: The Material for Transformation
• The Basic Nature of a Complex
• Image
• Autonomous
• Splitting
• The Structure of the Complex
• Cluster of Complexes
• Complexes as Expression of Energy
• Complexes, Emotions, and Images
• Tina's Story
• Complexes, Emotions, and the Body
• Carol's Story
• The Purpose of Complexes
• Progressive and Regressive Complexes
• Complexes and Multiplicity
• Complexes and Trauma
• Complexes and Transference/Countertransference
• Complexes and Art Materials
• Jungian Art Therapy Example
• Endnotes
• Chapter 7: Archetypes: Anchors of the Mythic Pattern
• Definition of Archetypes
• The Structure of Archetypes
• Jung and Archetypes
• History
• Jung's Three Developments of the Archetype
• Years 1912-1934
• Years 1935-1945
• Years 1945-1961
• The Psychological Development of the Archetype
• How Archetypes Influence Consciousness
• Rebecca's Image
• The Bipolar Archetype: Instinctual and Spiritual Poles
• Myth of Psyche: Instinctual and Spiritual
• Instinctual
• Spirit
• Claire's Story
• Self: Archetype as the Spiritual Pole
• The Relationship Between Ego, Complexes, and Archetypes
• How Do We Recognize an Archetype?
• The Archetype of Individuation
• Jungian Art Therapy: John and Emergence
• Important Summary Points About Archetypes
• Endnotes
• Section III: Passage: Engaging with Images
• Chapter 8: Dreams and Art Therapy
• The Importance of Dreams
• Freud and Dreams
• Jung's Approach to Dreams
• How to Catch a Dream
• The Structure of a Dream
• Types of Dreams
• Basic Notes on Dreams
• Dreams and Art
• Dreams Carry Energy and Emotion
• Anna's Dream: Instinctual and Spiritual
• The Story of Dawn: The Castle and The Bridge
• The Bridge Dream
• Alternative Approaches to the Bridge Dream
• Dreams of the Past
• Dreams that Sing
• Naomi and the Boy Animus
• Ellen and the Father
• Endnotes
• Chapter 9: Active Imagination and Art Therapy
• Active Imagination and the Pregnant Symbol
• Active Imagination-Experiencing the Psyche
• Jung's Red Book: The Discovery of Active Imagination
• Jung's Method of Active Imagination
• Example Dialogue with Art
• Von Franz's Method of Active Imagination
• Post-Jungian Reflections and Methods
• Active Imagination and Transitional Space
• Active Imagination and Transference/Countertransference
• Creating a Personal "Red Book" Process
• An Example of Creating a "Red Book"
• Conclusion
• Endnotes