Dreams, Mythology, and Fairy Tales in Theory and Clinical Practice   [Archived Catalog]
2023-2024 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Summer Addendum
   

PSY 8806 - Dreams, Mythology, and Fairy Tales in Theory and Clinical Practice


The course will examine Jung's theory on dreams and the method of dream interpretation and analysis in the context of depth psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. The role of mythology is considered in analytical theory, in relation to the collective unconscious and the archetypal dimension of dreams, in transference and counter transference phenomena in psychotherapy and in psychopathology. Lastly, the study of "fairy tales" reveals elemental psychological processes, the blocking and unblocking of libido, and the compensatory and healing activities of the Self in relationship to imbalances of ego operations. 3.0 credit(s)