DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY
RECOMMENDED READING LIST
DREAMS
(Please note: this list contains three suggested readings in most of the major thematic strands of our program. Some may be assigned in our courses, but most are chosen to represent basic background reading to inform the neophyte depth psychologist. We recommend you begin by reading one from each of the strands, but suspect you won’t be able to stop at just one!)
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SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVES
Psyche and the Sacred:
Spirituality Beyond Religion
Lionel Corbett
The Idea of the Numinous: Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Ann Casement and David Tacey
Jung and Shamanism
in Dialogue
C. Michael Smith
Dream Tending
Stephen Aizenstat
Inner Work
Robert A. Johnson
Understanding Dreams
MaryAnn Mattoon
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Jung: A Biograpy
Deidre Bair
Boundaries of the Soul
June Singer
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
C. G. Jung
THE POST-JUNGIANS
The Handbook of Jungian
Psychology: Theory, Practice, and Applications
R. K. Papadopoulos
Ego and Archetype
Edward Edinger
Jung and the Post-Jungians
Andrew Samuels
SIGMUND FREUD
The Freud/Jung Letters
Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung
The Freud Reader
Peter Gay
Freud and Man's Soul
Bruno Bettleheim
THE POST-FREUDIANS
Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva
Michael Payne
The Essential Fromm
Erich Fromm and Fainier Funk
Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought
Steven Mitchell and M. Black
ECOPSYCHOLOGY
Radical Ecopsychology: Psychology in the Service of LIfe
Andy Fisher and David Abram
Soulcraft: Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche
Bill Plotkin
World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal
Joanna Macy
ART
Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul
Shaun Mcniff
On Creativity and the Unconscious: The Psychology of Art, Literature, Love, and Religion
Sigmund Freud
Psyche and the Arts: Jungian Approaches to Music, Architecture, Literature, Painting and Film
Susan Rowland
WRITING
Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
bell hooks
The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation
Into the Writing Life
Julia Cameron
Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Stories Transforms Our Lives
Louise DeSalvo
LIBERATION PSYCHOLOGY
Toward Psychologies of Liberation
Mary Watkins and Helene Shulman
The Psychopolitics of Liberation: Political Consciousness From a Jungian Perspective
Lawrence Alschuler
Writings for a Liberation Psychology
Ignacio Martin-Baro
TRAUMA AND HEALING
The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit
Donald Kalsched
When the Body Speaks:
The Archetypes in the Body
Mara Sidoli
The Jewel in the Wound: How the Body Expresses the Needs of the Psyche and Offers a Path to Transformation
Rose-Emily Rothenberg
EDUCATION
Inside Education: Depth Psychology in Teaching and Learning
Clifford Mayes
Transformative Teaching: Promoting Transformation Through Literature, the Arts, and Jungian Psychology
Darrell Dobson
Reimagining Education: Essays on Reviving the Soul of Learning
Dennis Patrick Slattery and Jennifer Leigh Selig
PSYCHOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World's Getting Worse
James Hillman and Michael Ventura
The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche and Society
Thomas Singer
The Political Psyche
Andrew Samuels
ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY
The Archetypal Imagination
James Hollis and David H. Rosen
Archetypal Psychology:
A Brief Account
James Hillman
Archetypal Psychologies: Reflections in Honor of James Hillman
Stanton Marlan
RESEARCH
Researching
Lived Experience
Max van Manen
The Art of Inquiry
Joseph Coppin and Elizabeth Nelson
The Wounded Researcher: Research With Soul in Mind
Robert Romanyshyn
MYTHOLOGY
The Cry for Myth
Rollo May
Jung on Mythology
Rollo May
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
SOMATICS
Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel
Robert Bosnak
Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology After Neuroscience
Ginette Paris
Imagination and Medicine
Edited by Stephen Aizenstat and Robert Bosnak
CRITICAL COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY
A Tradition that Has No Name: Nurturing the Development of People, Families, and Communities
Mary Belenky, et. al.
Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-Being
Geoffrey Nelson and Isaac Prilleltensky
Critical Psychology:
Voices for Change
Tod Sloan, Ed.
