You’re invited to a free, virtual depth psych reading and discussion group. Instead of reading books, which require a lot of time and money, we read freely available essays and interviews, then meet to reflect and discuss them. 

If you’re a therapist or a depth psych scholar and you’re interested in registering, please fill out the Google new event registration form. The Google Meet video link will be sent to the e-mail you provide when you register.

What to know:

• feel free to share this with your colleagues who may be interested
• if more than 20 people register I will turn off registration
• please e-mail me with any questions or feedback at kristen@kristenhornung.com

The next two meetings will focus on the below readings because they are more lengthy: Wednesday, April 17th from 9am-10:15am and Wednesday, May 15th from 9am-10:15am

Fear of Breakdown and the Unlived Life:

• Article by D. W. Winnicott, Fear of Breakdown. International Review of Psychoanalysis. (1974) 1, 103.
• Article by Thomas H. Ogden, Fear of breakdown and the unlived life, International Journal of Psychoanalysis. (2014) 95, 205-223.

Past Meetings

• Interview by Tami Simon, transcript published by Parabola: Mark Wolynn: Becoming Aware Of Inherited Family Trauma
  • https://www.resources.soundstrue.com/transcript/mark-wolynn-becoming-aware-of-inherited-family-trauma/
• reflection: how does this reading change your perspective on memory and presenting symptoms?
• activity: you’re invited to notice if there is a healing image that resonates with you as you consider intergenerational memory, then see how you could honor it (Draw it? Dance with it? Write about it?)

• Reading: “Earth as Goddess: A conversation with African healer and guide Baba Mandaza Augustine Kademwa,” authored by Thanissara, published by Parabola on October 28, 2019.
  • https://parabola.org/2019/10/28/earth-as-goddess-a-conversation-with-african-healer-and-guide-baba-mandaza-augustine-kademwa/
• Suggested activity: explore how you relate to and treat “Mama” Earth. Experiment with how you can honor her.
• Reflect on these parallels:
  • the relationship between loving yourself and loving Earth
  • the relationship between going into your own self (exploring inner world) and going into nature

Readings for the first meeting:

• The first meeting focused on Dr. Marion Woodman’s work on perfection, control, body, transformation, and becoming conscious
• Content note: she discusses anoerexia, cancer, aging, death, and other topics that may be triggering to some. Gendered language: she uses the terms masculine and feminine (as many Jungians do).
• The readings are three transcribed interviews, which I recommend reading in order:
  1. Interview published by Parabola, April 13, 2019, “Worshipping Illusions: An Interview with Marion Woodman”
  2. Interview published by Sounds True, recorded in 2000, “Listening To Our Deepest Wisdom, Part One: The Soul’s Vulnerability”
  3. Interview published by Sounds True, recorded in 2000, “Listening To Our Deepest Wisdom, Part Two: The Marriage Of Spirit And Matter”