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To: Huck
More on depth psychology:

http://www.pacifica.edu/dp_phd_humanities.html

So I click that link and get...

The term “depth psychology” evokes many associations and images yet is often difficult to define. In this course we formulate a definition of our field by investigating historical, cultural, and conceptual traditions that shape its identity. Topics include ancient approaches to healing, encounters with the unconscious, and soul-making through literature and mythology. Overviews of Freudian, Jungian, and archetypal psychology are provided, as well as ideas regarding depth psychology’s future in the new millennium.

...and so I STILL don't know what it is. What's the old adage? "To know is to define". They admit in the very first sentence that they can't even define it, and then proceed to link a bunch of convoluted touchy-feely concepts linked only by only the most tenuous and circular definition. This doesn't qualify as "depth" anything -- there's not even a surface for crying out loud. I suspect that if you actually investigate this field of study a better title might be "How to hate straight white males better because we are frothing at the mouth heterophobes".

314 posted on 01/14/2005 9:48:17 AM PST by Zhangliqun (What are intellectuals for but to complexify the obvious?)
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To: Zhangliqun

It's the first I've heard of the "field." That's why I looked it up. Looks like something that goes over pretty well in California. They been falling for swamis and snake oil out there for years and years.


364 posted on 01/14/2005 11:07:29 AM PST by Huck (I only type LOL when I'm really LOL.)
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To: Zhangliqun; Huck
...and so I STILL don't know what it is.

It looks to me as if it's a course of study in earning a "Doctorate of Touchy-Feelyness".

Or a way to waste $50,000 of your parent's money going to college to learn to be a Swami.

497 posted on 01/14/2005 5:17:57 PM PST by Ichneumon
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