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In this 2-minute trailer for the live video webinar series on the Healing Power of Language, Robert Romanyshyn, psychologist and Jungian psychotherapist, and poet Brian Michael Tracy, engage in an important conversation about where and how psychology and poetry converge.
Moderated by Bonnie Bright, founder of Depth Psychology Alliance and editor/host of Depth Insights.
In this series, Robert and Brian explore how in the company of the poet, a depth psychologist might cultivate a poetic sensibility as a style of discourse for psychology.
They address the characteristics of a poetic sensibility regarding language, imagery, and affect and how each of these elements are used and understood by both the psychologist and the poet to best achieve what each is seeking: the healing power of language through an informed translation of the speech of soul.
Each author will read a few poems from their latest work to illustrate their remarks.
PLUS - all registrants are invited to submit their work to a Poetry Contest! Winning poem gets published in Depth Insights scholarly eZine
More Details at depthinsights.com/events/webinar-series-psychologist-poet-Romanyshyn-Tracy.html
In this 2-minute trailer for the live video webinar series on the Healing Power of Language, Robert Romanyshyn, psychologist and Jungian psychotherapist, and poet Brian Michael Tracy, engage in an important conversation about where and how psychology and poetry converge.
Moderated by Bonnie Bright, founder of Depth Psychology Alliance and editor/host of Depth Insights.
In this series, Robert and Brian explore how in the company of the poet, a depth psychologist might cultivate a poetic sensibility as a style of discourse for psychology.
They address the characteristics of a poetic sensibility regarding language, imagery, and affect and how each of these elements are used and understood by both the psychologist and the poet to best achieve what each is seeking: the healing power of language through an informed translation of the speech of soul.
Each author will read a few poems from their latest work to illustrate their remarks.
PLUS - all registrants are invited to submit their work to a Poetry Contest! Winning poem gets published in Depth Insights scholarly eZine
More Details at depthinsights.com/events/webinar-series-psychologist-poet-Romanyshyn-Tracy.html

![Spiritual Implications of Psychosis: How a Spiritual Perspective Can Provide Health Benefits
Interview with Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Ph.D., Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department, by Bonnie Bright, Ph.D.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), schizophrenia is defined as “a severe mental disorder, characterized by profound disruptions in thinking, affecting language, perception, and the sense of self. It often includes psychotic experiences, such as hearing voices or delusions. It can impair functioning through the loss of an acquired capability to earn a livelihood, or the disruption of studies.” The condition affects more than 21 million people worldwide. [1]
This is an area of mental health that Dr. Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department and speaker at Pacifica’s sold out Trauma and Transcendence conference in June 2018, has devoted much of her research. Her work focuses on the edge of experience of voices, visions, the world of the supernatural, and the world of psychosis.
Tanya uses a combination of ethnographic and experimental methods to understand the phenomenology of unusual sensory experiences, the way they are shaped by ideas about the mind and person, and what we can learn from this social shaping that can help us to help those whose voices are distressing. She has done ethnography on the streets of Chicago with homeless and psychotic women and worked with people who hear voices in Chennai, India; Accra, Ghana; and in the San Francisco Bay area. She’s also done fieldwork with Evangelical Christians who seek to hear God speak back, with Zoroastrians who set out to create a more mystical space, and with people who practice magic.
How people interpret these experiences has differed significantly over time and in different cultures, Tanya says. Those who are very sick are often universally recognized as sick or schizophrenic regardless of culture or region, but people who are more on the healthy side of that continuum might have their experience interpreted in many different ways. “It’s quite possible that a clinician would say, well they have something like a story in the body, that looks like what I would call schizophrenia,” she says. “In the interpretive religious wing, another domain, they might be seen as if they were possessed by demons or might be seen as prophets.”
Only recently have mental health researchers and professionals looked at the content of these voices as something that should be studied and listened to, instead of insignificant side effects of the disorder, Tanya observes. “Psychiatric scientists used to think that these voices were just the side effects, the byproducts of the disorder, and you shouldn’t pay any attention to them. You know, they were unreal yet very painful to people, but they were just the byproducts of the disorder.”
These days, however, researchers and mental health professionals are seeing some benefits to paying attention to the content of these voices. Dr. Luhrmann has been studying how one modern faction in Europe has been approaching voices in this way. “There’s now a new movement in Europe called the Hearing Voices Movement (HVM), and what they do is that they teach people to respect their voices,” she says. “They teach people with schizophrenia, paradoxically, to treat their voices as persons, to respect them as persons, and they find that some people are able to, in effect, persuade their voices to become more reasonable persons.”
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![Navigating the Depths: How the Psychoid and Unus Mundus Can Help Us Transcend Trauma
An Interview with Ann Belford Ulanov, Ph.D., L.H.D., by Bonnie Bright, Ph.D.
Ann Belford Ulanov, Ph.D., L.H.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City, a member of the Jungian Analytic Association, and former Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary. An internationally known lecturer and prolific author, among her many articles and books are the highly acclaimed Cinderella and Her Sisters: The Envied and the Envying; Spiritual Aspects of Clinical Work; The Wisdom of the Psyche; The Unshuttered Heart: Opening to Aliveness/ Deadness in the Self; The Living God and Our Living Psyche; and Madness and Creativity.
Ann’s most recent book, The Psychoid, Soul and Psyche: Piercing Space-Time Barriers, explores Carl Gustav Jung’s concept of the psychoid. “Psychoid refers to unconscious processes that are unrepresentable in word or image,” Ann says. “We live them, but we don’t know about them. And they can make us feel mad, not angry, but crazy, and I believe they can also be a third source of healing.” She goes on to describe psychoid as “this unrepresentable level of the unconscious processes. [Jung] would say the archetype, for example, is of a psychoid nature, meaning by that, you don’t experience it directly. You experience it through derivatives. An emotion will grip you; a behavior will possess you or compel you. Images would arise or attract you.”
There is a connection between experiencing the psychoid and synchronicities, those “meaningful coincidences.” [1] Ann recalls that Jung defined a synchronistic experience as “non-causal elements coincide and bestow on us, or impact us with an experience of deep meaningfulness, and we aren’t clear whether the meaning exists external to us, so it feels it does, but somehow we participate in it.” Furthermore, Ann says, “the psychoid and synchronicity evoke each other, and both, for Jung, have moments of making you feel connected to what he called the unus mundus, the one world, the larger surround, not just in which we live, but in which life is.”
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