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  • DPS 954: Behavioral Medicine/Health Psychology

    2.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    This course will review the field of Behavioral Medicine/Health Psychology and frame it within the context of depth psychology. Topics covered will include the biopsychosocial model, strategies of intervention, cross-cultural aspects of understanding health/illness, somatization, the worried well, models of change, and environment and health. Particular focus will be given to understanding and treating disorders that typically present themselves in medical contexts including smoking, eating disorders, insomnia, hypertension, chronic pain, headache, irritable bowel syndrome, and stress syndromes. Standard treatments will be explained combined with how depth psychology can both expand the understanding of these disorders as well as assist with their prevention and treatment.
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  • DPS 970: Imagery in Somatic Studies II

    2.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    Students will study and learn to practice a contemporary approach to the ancient practice of dream incubation, now called "Embodied Dreaming" by Robert Bosnak. Based upon the phenomenological perspectives of C. G. Jung, James Hillman, and Henry Corbin, the supposition in this practice is that all psychological events can be best understood as embodied phenomena.
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  • DPS 980: Dissertation Writing

    15.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    During this course, students assemble their dissertation committees, write their proposals, complete the dissertation process, and defend their dissertations in a public forum. This course may be taken concurrently with other courses. Additional fees are assessed for this course. Pass/No Pass.
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  • DPS 992: Integration Theory, Practice & Teaching

    2.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    Students develop and articulate individualized approaches to a practice of Depth Psychology with Emphasis in Somatic Studies, and prepare and deliver a presentation to faculty and students which will serve as the oral comprehensive examination.
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  • DPS 997: Depth Transformative Practices

    5.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    Various schools of depth psychology have created therapeutic contexts for personal transformation and/or healing. These practices are dynamically linked to transformative rituals and rites across cultures and through time. The provision of a witness, a guide, or teacher has been seen as essential to the containing vessel for such transformative experiences. During the first two years of the program, students are expected to engage in a minimum of 50 hours of depth transformative practice within a relational context. Latitude is given to students to choose the form of this practice in accordance with their needs and interests. Examples of such practice may include, but are not limited to, body work, breath work, individual depth psychotherapy, group dialogue work, facilitated vision questing, rites of passage, meditation, artistic engagement, or other psychospiritual practices.
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  • HM 503: Personal Styles of Learning

    2.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    Equity, fairness, and diversity are touchstones we encourage all learners to know, value, and respect within themselves and in relation to others in community settings. Methods for establishing caring, supportive, inclusive, challenging, democratic, and safe learning communities encourage individuals to take intellectual, social, and emotional risks as they work both independently and collaboratively. Students become proficient at using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator to create supportive environments, attitudes, and actions for learning.
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  • HM 504: Self-Assessment of Archetypal Patterns

    2.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    Students become familiar with a range of assessments and techniques designed to help capture and sustain interest in the learning process. Assessment extends to social interactions between students and mentors, individual and group progress, and the archetypes that inform these relationships. This introduction to a range of formal and informal assessment strategies helps to shape educational decisions, monitor progress, encourage self-assessment, and gather information about culturally-based archetypal patterns.
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  • HM 505: Portfolio Development I

    2.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    Spiritual, archetypal, and humanistic traditions converge as students begin their capstone project by collecting material to create personal or professional portfolios. Work grounded in the humanities inform, inspire, and engage the imagination. Students draw upon research skills and interdisciplinary perspectives to chronicle academic, personal, and professional development, in preparation for capstone projects as described in Portfolio Development II.
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  • HM 515: Interdisciplinary Research

    2.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    Humanities education cultivates the invaluable vocational and personal skills of interdisciplinary critical thinking, as well as clear academic and expressive writing and scholarly research. Students develop analytical writing skills and learn to research online databases, full text articles, and material in Pacifica's library and the OPUS Archives and Research Center.
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  • HM 520: Foundations of Mythology

    2.00 Credits
    Pacifica Graduate Institute

    Mythology reveals the complex metaphoric and symbolic nature of the human psyche in its search for meaning. Students explore the implications and evoked meanings of mythic narratives. Scholarly theories about myths' origins, content and function are applied to select narratives and lived experiences. Among the scholarly theories included are those accessed in the Joseph Campbell and Marija Gimbutas Archives.
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