The Passion of the Western Mind: A Brief History of Western Thought in the Light of Depth Psychology

Sundays, March 20; April 3, 17; May 1, 15

2 PM - 5 PM

Location: At the Institute

Faculty: Richard Tarnas, Ph.D.

Tuition (Includes CEUs): $425

Institute Members (Includes CEUs): $325

Graduate Students and Institute Candidates: $250

15 Possible Continuing Education Credits Approved for MD, PhD, LCSW, MFT & RN

This 5-part course will explore the history of Western thought through a depth psychology perspective while simultaneously seeking to better understand depth psychology’s historical context and cultural foundations.

Participants will read The Passion of the Western Mind, a book that was often recommended to Jungians by Institute elders such as Joseph Henderson and Elizabeth Osterman as a history of Western thought that had integrated depth psychology into its narrative and perspective.

The course will explore the evolution of the Western world view, beginning with its roots in ancient Greece and Israel. Tracing its development through the classical era and High Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Reformation, and Scientific Revolution, we will examine the gradual transformation of the modern world view, established during the Enlightenment and counterbalanced by Romanticism, into the radically pluralistic postmodern sensibility that influences the increasingly global civilization of the present age. Lectures will address key dimensions in each epoch’s world view such as the nature of the cosmos, the divine, the human, and the mythic metanarrative with which each age sought to understand itself.

Familiarity with the grand lines of Western intellectual and spiritual history is no longer simply the mark of an educated person in the West; such knowledge has become necessary to engage our own critical moment in history, which has been fundamentally shaped, for better and for worse, by the powerfully dynamic character of the Western mind and psyche and its complex evolution. The depth psychology tradition initiated by Freud and Jung provides an enormously fruitful perspective for exploring that history, while in turn that history can illuminate the crucial intellectual foundations and cultural significance of depth psychology itself.

Richard Tarnas, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology and cultural history at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He has also taught at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and served on the SF Jung Institute Board of Governors for six years. He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche.

The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco is accredited by the Institute of Medical Quality/California Medical Association (IMQ/CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Jung Institute of San Francisco takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity. 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are offered for this event.

Date: Mar 20, 2016 02:00 AM - May 15, 2016 05:00 AM

Fee

$425.00

CE Hours

15.00

Registration closes on Apr 09, 2016 12:00 AM

Activity Type

Extended Education

Target Audience(s)

Clinical Social Workers

Marriage and Family Therapists

Physicians

Psychologists

Requirements for CE Credit

Credit issued after class is attended and online evaluation and post-test have been completed.

Support

This presentation was NOT underwritten or supported by commercial entities. The faculty who selected, planned, and made this presentation confirm that they have received no payments within the past year from for-profit companies that produce health care goods or services.

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