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Papers by Roger Brooke
The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, May 1, 2008
Richard Alapack's book takes one on a journey through what are probably the four "pivota... more Richard Alapack's book takes one on a journey through what are probably the four "pivotal love relationships". His focus is nevertheless only on heterosexual relationships. The book is at different times thoughtful, delightful, funny, moving, and tragic. At all times it seduces the reader into his or her own memories, complete with their warmth, tenderness, regrets, unresolved griefs, defenses and anxieties. Alapack's calling to join him in entering, descriptively and thoughtfully, the phenomenon of transformative love is one that this reader, at least, will never forget. There were times I was moved to tears.
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Apr 1, 1997
The Humanistic Psychologist, 1993
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Routledge eBooks, Sep 2, 2003
In Pathways into the Jungian World contributors from the disciplines of medicine, psychology and ... more In Pathways into the Jungian World contributors from the disciplines of medicine, psychology and philosophy look at the central issues of commonality and difference between phenomenology and analytical psychology. The major theme of the book is how existential phenomenology and analytical psychology have been involved in the same fundamental cultural and therapeutic project - both legitimize the subtlety, complexity and depth of experience in an age when the meaning of experience has been abandoned to the dictates of pharmaceutical technology, economics and medical psychiatry. The contributors reveal how Jung's relationship to the phenomenological tradition can be, and is being, developed, and rigorously show that the psychological resonance of the world is immediately available for phenomenological description.
Psychology in Society, 2010
In D. Downing & J. Mills (Eds.). Outpatient treatment of psychosis: psychodynamic approaches to evidence-based practice. London: Karnac, 2017
An archetypal model for understanding and treating the psychological wounds of war is described w... more An archetypal model for understanding and treating the psychological wounds of war is described with a number of clinical vignettes. This model has the benefit of drawing from traditional warrior cultures around the world, in which what we now call PTSD (framed as a psychiatric condition) has been named and ritually addressed. Shared archetypal themes are outlined and their therapeutic significance is illustrated.
South African Journal of Psychology, Dec 1, 1986
In an attempt to fill the gap left by the widespread rejection of Freud's quasi-physiolog... more In an attempt to fill the gap left by the widespread rejection of Freud's quasi-physiological metapsychology, the unconsciousness which Freud encountered is rearticulated in existential-phenomenological terms. It is argued that psychoanalysis and phenomenology converge in their attempt to understand the latent but operative meanings that structure human life. The unconscious is situated as an ambiguous, lived consciousness within the structure of perception, founded on the forgotten body's world-relations. Repression is discussed in terms of temporality and ambivalence. An incident in psychotherapy is presented in order to highlight these themes. Implications are drawn regarding the ambiguity of psychotherapy, transference, interpretation, and the language of psychology.
Routledge eBooks, Dec 5, 2022
Taylor & Francis eBooks, Feb 16, 2010
Routledge eBooks, Feb 11, 2015
Chapter One Introduction Summary Outline of the book Chapter Two Overview of Jung's Psyhcolog... more Chapter One Introduction Summary Outline of the book Chapter Two Overview of Jung's Psyhcology Chapter Three Jung's Method in the Light of Phenomenology Chapter Four A Critical Discussion of Jung's Experience in Africa Chapter Five Psyche, and the Structure of Experience Chapter Six The Self and Individuation Chapter Seven Conscious and Unconscious Chapter Eight Archetypes Chapter Nine A Clinical Study Chapter Ten An Integraiton of Themes Notes
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Oct 13, 2009
This paper takes as its starting point Jung&a... more This paper takes as its starting point Jung's definition of the self as the totality of the psyche. However, because the term psyche remains conceptually unclear the concept of the self as totality, origin and goal, even centre, remains vague. With reference to Heidegger's analysis of human being as Dasein, as well as Jung's writings, it is argued that Jung's concept of psyche is not a synonym for mind but is the world in which we live psychologically. An understanding of the psyche as existentially situated requires us to rethink some features of the self. For instance, the self as origin is thus not a pre-existential integrate of pure potentiality but the original gathering of existence in which, and out of which, personal identity is constituted. The ego emerges out of the self as the development and ownership of aspects of an existence that is already situated and gathered. Relations between the ego and the self are about what is known, or admitted, and its relation with what is already being lived within the gathering that is existence. The self as psyche, origin, and centre are discussed, as well as the meaning of interiority. Epistemological assumptions of object relations theory are critically discussed. The paper also includes critical discussions of recent papers on the self.
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Apr 1, 1985
Psychological perspectives, Jun 2, 2008
Taking a position informed by postcolonial thought, it is argued that Jung's concept of indi... more Taking a position informed by postcolonial thought, it is argued that Jung's concept of individuation, with its emphasis on separateness and the with-drawal of projections, is essentially modern and Western. Any group of people is regarded by Jung only as a regressive ...
International Journal of Jungian Studies, Sep 23, 2019
Jung’s dreams about Africa reveal the Whiteness and colonialist assumptions typical of the twenti... more Jung’s dreams about Africa reveal the Whiteness and colonialist assumptions typical of the twentieth century educated European. Jung’s visits to Africa and New Mexico, and his dreams are critically discussed, showing how, even decades later, Jung failed to use his own theory of dreaming with regard to his own dreams. The compensatory function of his dreams was never effected, and his transference fantasies of Africa and blackness were reinforced rather than analyzed. There were unfortunate consequences for the development of his thinking and his understanding of the individuation process, since his oppositional thinking in terms of White and Black remained as a concrete transference fantasy as well as a colonialist attitude towards his internal world. The Nguni term ubuntu, will be used to reimagine individuation in more explicitly ethical and socially embedded ways. With regard to the development of consciousness, a distinction is developed between the withdrawal of projections and as a helpful therapeutic issue and as an epistemological approach to the place of meaning. If Jung’s dreams of Africa had managed to “heal” him, Jungian psychology would look rather like it does today, because the way out of Jung’s Colonialism is to be found in Jung’s life and work, especially in his alchemical studies.
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Oct 1, 1991
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 1985
This summary is offered as a psychological definition of being-guilty. Guilt is lived pre-reflect... more This summary is offered as a psychological definition of being-guilty. Guilt is lived pre-reflectively in a context of real or imaginary accusatory others, and is constituted as a person accepts responsibility for damaged world-relationships whose meanings constitute shared and personally appropriated values. The contradiction between valued and damaged world-relationships is lived existentially as a rupture between revealed and hidden modalities, in which an appearance of harmony and integrity is maintained by concealing both the hidden, damaged world-relationships to which the person feels guiltily indebted, and the fact of the existential rupture. Guilt's mood is constituted as feelings, not necessarily clearly articulate, of lack of self-acceptance. Guilt is resolved as, and to the extent that, the existential rupture is closed, and the person is able to be fully and unambiguously present in his openness to the world.
The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, May 1, 2008
Richard Alapack's book takes one on a journey through what are probably the four "pivota... more Richard Alapack's book takes one on a journey through what are probably the four "pivotal love relationships". His focus is nevertheless only on heterosexual relationships. The book is at different times thoughtful, delightful, funny, moving, and tragic. At all times it seduces the reader into his or her own memories, complete with their warmth, tenderness, regrets, unresolved griefs, defenses and anxieties. Alapack's calling to join him in entering, descriptively and thoughtfully, the phenomenon of transformative love is one that this reader, at least, will never forget. There were times I was moved to tears.
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Apr 1, 1997
The Humanistic Psychologist, 1993
APA PsycNET Our Apologies! - The following features are not available with your current Browser c... more APA PsycNET Our Apologies! - The following features are not available with your current Browser configuration. - alerts user that their session is about to expire - display, print, save, export, and email selected records - get My ...
Routledge eBooks, Sep 2, 2003
In Pathways into the Jungian World contributors from the disciplines of medicine, psychology and ... more In Pathways into the Jungian World contributors from the disciplines of medicine, psychology and philosophy look at the central issues of commonality and difference between phenomenology and analytical psychology. The major theme of the book is how existential phenomenology and analytical psychology have been involved in the same fundamental cultural and therapeutic project - both legitimize the subtlety, complexity and depth of experience in an age when the meaning of experience has been abandoned to the dictates of pharmaceutical technology, economics and medical psychiatry. The contributors reveal how Jung's relationship to the phenomenological tradition can be, and is being, developed, and rigorously show that the psychological resonance of the world is immediately available for phenomenological description.
Psychology in Society, 2010
In D. Downing & J. Mills (Eds.). Outpatient treatment of psychosis: psychodynamic approaches to evidence-based practice. London: Karnac, 2017
An archetypal model for understanding and treating the psychological wounds of war is described w... more An archetypal model for understanding and treating the psychological wounds of war is described with a number of clinical vignettes. This model has the benefit of drawing from traditional warrior cultures around the world, in which what we now call PTSD (framed as a psychiatric condition) has been named and ritually addressed. Shared archetypal themes are outlined and their therapeutic significance is illustrated.
South African Journal of Psychology, Dec 1, 1986
In an attempt to fill the gap left by the widespread rejection of Freud's quasi-physiolog... more In an attempt to fill the gap left by the widespread rejection of Freud's quasi-physiological metapsychology, the unconsciousness which Freud encountered is rearticulated in existential-phenomenological terms. It is argued that psychoanalysis and phenomenology converge in their attempt to understand the latent but operative meanings that structure human life. The unconscious is situated as an ambiguous, lived consciousness within the structure of perception, founded on the forgotten body's world-relations. Repression is discussed in terms of temporality and ambivalence. An incident in psychotherapy is presented in order to highlight these themes. Implications are drawn regarding the ambiguity of psychotherapy, transference, interpretation, and the language of psychology.
Routledge eBooks, Dec 5, 2022
Taylor & Francis eBooks, Feb 16, 2010
Routledge eBooks, Feb 11, 2015
Chapter One Introduction Summary Outline of the book Chapter Two Overview of Jung's Psyhcolog... more Chapter One Introduction Summary Outline of the book Chapter Two Overview of Jung's Psyhcology Chapter Three Jung's Method in the Light of Phenomenology Chapter Four A Critical Discussion of Jung's Experience in Africa Chapter Five Psyche, and the Structure of Experience Chapter Six The Self and Individuation Chapter Seven Conscious and Unconscious Chapter Eight Archetypes Chapter Nine A Clinical Study Chapter Ten An Integraiton of Themes Notes
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Oct 13, 2009
This paper takes as its starting point Jung&a... more This paper takes as its starting point Jung's definition of the self as the totality of the psyche. However, because the term psyche remains conceptually unclear the concept of the self as totality, origin and goal, even centre, remains vague. With reference to Heidegger's analysis of human being as Dasein, as well as Jung's writings, it is argued that Jung's concept of psyche is not a synonym for mind but is the world in which we live psychologically. An understanding of the psyche as existentially situated requires us to rethink some features of the self. For instance, the self as origin is thus not a pre-existential integrate of pure potentiality but the original gathering of existence in which, and out of which, personal identity is constituted. The ego emerges out of the self as the development and ownership of aspects of an existence that is already situated and gathered. Relations between the ego and the self are about what is known, or admitted, and its relation with what is already being lived within the gathering that is existence. The self as psyche, origin, and centre are discussed, as well as the meaning of interiority. Epistemological assumptions of object relations theory are critically discussed. The paper also includes critical discussions of recent papers on the self.
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Apr 1, 1985
Psychological perspectives, Jun 2, 2008
Taking a position informed by postcolonial thought, it is argued that Jung's concept of indi... more Taking a position informed by postcolonial thought, it is argued that Jung's concept of individuation, with its emphasis on separateness and the with-drawal of projections, is essentially modern and Western. Any group of people is regarded by Jung only as a regressive ...
International Journal of Jungian Studies, Sep 23, 2019
Jung’s dreams about Africa reveal the Whiteness and colonialist assumptions typical of the twenti... more Jung’s dreams about Africa reveal the Whiteness and colonialist assumptions typical of the twentieth century educated European. Jung’s visits to Africa and New Mexico, and his dreams are critically discussed, showing how, even decades later, Jung failed to use his own theory of dreaming with regard to his own dreams. The compensatory function of his dreams was never effected, and his transference fantasies of Africa and blackness were reinforced rather than analyzed. There were unfortunate consequences for the development of his thinking and his understanding of the individuation process, since his oppositional thinking in terms of White and Black remained as a concrete transference fantasy as well as a colonialist attitude towards his internal world. The Nguni term ubuntu, will be used to reimagine individuation in more explicitly ethical and socially embedded ways. With regard to the development of consciousness, a distinction is developed between the withdrawal of projections and as a helpful therapeutic issue and as an epistemological approach to the place of meaning. If Jung’s dreams of Africa had managed to “heal” him, Jungian psychology would look rather like it does today, because the way out of Jung’s Colonialism is to be found in Jung’s life and work, especially in his alchemical studies.
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Oct 1, 1991
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 1985
This summary is offered as a psychological definition of being-guilty. Guilt is lived pre-reflect... more This summary is offered as a psychological definition of being-guilty. Guilt is lived pre-reflectively in a context of real or imaginary accusatory others, and is constituted as a person accepts responsibility for damaged world-relationships whose meanings constitute shared and personally appropriated values. The contradiction between valued and damaged world-relationships is lived existentially as a rupture between revealed and hidden modalities, in which an appearance of harmony and integrity is maintained by concealing both the hidden, damaged world-relationships to which the person feels guiltily indebted, and the fact of the existential rupture. Guilt's mood is constituted as feelings, not necessarily clearly articulate, of lack of self-acceptance. Guilt is resolved as, and to the extent that, the existential rupture is closed, and the person is able to be fully and unambiguously present in his openness to the world.
Instructor: Roger Brooke, Ph.D., ABPP Thursdays 3.05-5.40 pm Aims and objectives When psychoanaly... more Instructor: Roger Brooke, Ph.D., ABPP Thursdays 3.05-5.40 pm Aims and objectives When psychoanalytic theory is presented in undergraduate teaching it is often presented in a highly abstract, schematized way, cut off from the experiential and lived ground which is its soil. Freud offered a discourse for a world of primitive experience, a language for the unspeakable, and it is this world rather than abstract theory, which will be our concern. Theory may help us organize our thoughts, but it should also help us see what might otherwise remain obscured in darkness or noise. Contemporary psychoanalysis has come a long way since Freud. This is due to a better understanding of the complexities of identity formation, of its failure in borderline and psychotic states, of the interpersonal structure of psychological life, and of the cultural-historical contexts in which issues such as gender identity and sexual orientation, as well as theory itself, are constituted. The field has also come to be written in a language closer to our human experience. As I have said elsewhere, terms such as attachment, self-cohesion, splitting, and fragmentation do not only help us organize our thoughts as therapists; they speak to our experience as patients as well. It is with these thoughts in mind that I am inviting you into the contemporary field.
Instructor: Roger Brooke, Ph.D., ABPP Thursdays 3. 05-5.40 in the Psychology Department conferenc... more Instructor: Roger Brooke, Ph.D., ABPP Thursdays 3. 05-5.40 in the Psychology Department conference room
Psychology understood as a human science has become a broad field of several traditions. They inc... more Psychology understood as a human science has become a broad field of several traditions. They include 1) phenomenology and hermeneutics, 2) psychoanalysis, 3) humanistic psychology, and 4) the critical movements of feminism, critical theory, post structuralism, etc. Instead of trying to be comprehensive in this introduction, we shall instead focus on the core human science tradition since it has founded our approach at Duquesne. Duquesne University's Department of Psychology was established in the early 1960s on the philosophical foundations of existential phenomenology and philosophical anthropology, sometimes also referred to as phenomenological anthropology. Philosophical anthropology was an attempt to develop a philosophically rigorous logos of anthropos, or articulate understanding of the structure of being human. One might think of it as the philosophical dimension of the existential phenomenological movement that swept Europe and the western world through much of the twentieth century. Existential phenomenology remains an approach to studying psychological phenomena with assumptions and methods that remain true to human experience and action as they are concretely lived and constituted. Philosophical anthropology used the phenomenological approach to understanding and describing human existence. For psychologists this tradition provides a conceptual foundation within which it becomes intelligible to think critically and creatively about the diverse field of psychology. Without being unthinkingly eclectic, we can ask what psychology's various approaches and empirical findings contribute to our understanding of psychological life. The various disciplines in psychology (e.g., the various branches of psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, social psychology, psychophysiology) can be critically evaluated in terms consistent with existential foundations (van Kaam, 1966). Existential phenomenology is thus not one approach among several but the conceptual possibility of a rigorous integrative ground to the development and practice of psychology as an indigenously human science. It thus continues to provide a conceptual ground for integrating feminist and post structural critical theory as well. The focus on existential phenomenology in this course honors the tradition of this department. More importantly, I think that a grounding in this tradition helps us maintain our conceptual and ethical bearings in the field of (clinical) psychology. First, our habits of language are so rooted in Descartes' ontology that they have come to be taken for granted as merely labels for what is real: mind-body, inner-outer, subjective-objective, experience-behavior, illusion-fact, meaningful-measurable, psychological-medical. No-one ever told us that such terms are impositions on the structure of existence or that they tend to violate the primacy of experience as it is given in the ordinary conduct of our lives. It seems obvious (to me) that, if we want to understand the experience of others, and be able to help them speak about their experiences with increasing complexity, depth, and differentiation, or if we want to understand the phenomena with which others are engaged or confronted, then the discipline of phenomenology is particularly helpful. That is because it offers a body of literature and a methodology that repeatedly and systematically sees through the above linguistic oppositions so that the other's experience—as well as our experience of the other—can be more accurately described. It also pays attention to the horizons of meaning and significance in which human life and experience are constituted.
The course has five objectives: 1. To introduce you to the field of psychopathology as it is curr... more The course has five objectives: 1. To introduce you to the field of psychopathology as it is currently constructed, i.e., along DSM 5 lines, and to help you listen and think diagnostically; 2. To help you think critically about the construction of the DSM 5; 3. To introduce you to the main empirical and clinical issues in each broad area of psychopathology, with an extended focus on personality disorders; 4. To deepen this encyclopedic and psychiatric approach with readings and reflections on human science contributions to understanding psychopathology; 5. To understand central issues regarding appropriate interventions for each area of psychopathology.
This course is an introduction to what a clinical psychologist's expertise is: the ability to pul... more This course is an introduction to what a clinical psychologist's expertise is: the ability to pull together information from a wide range of sources into a coherent and holistic understanding of the patient and his or her difficulties, and to intervene accordingly.
An introduction to the foundations of psychology as a human science, with special attention to ph... more An introduction to the foundations of psychology as a human science, with special attention to philosophical anthropology.
This summer graduate course is focused on the contemporary Jungian field and the integration of t... more This summer graduate course is focused on the contemporary Jungian field and the integration of theory and practice.
Mostly focused on the so-called British tradition of psychoanalysis.
Syllabus, fall 2018. Significantly changed course from 2013.
Undergraduate: a senior level introduction to the contemporary field of psychoanalysis. The aim o... more Undergraduate: a senior level introduction to the contemporary field of psychoanalysis. The aim of this course is to debunk the nonsense taught in almost all undergraduate courses in which psychoanalysis is reduced to Freud and Freud is reduced to caricature.
Undergraduate: an advanced undergraduate introduction to existential phenomenological psychology.
Undergraduate and graduate course on the psychopathologies of old age and, for graduate students,... more Undergraduate and graduate course on the psychopathologies of old age and, for graduate students, some practicum experience of neuropsychological assessment of the elderly. The course was shared with Dr. Joseph Yenerall, a sociologist.
This eight seminar course has three objectives: To review one's knowledge of psychopathology and ... more This eight seminar course has three objectives: To review one's knowledge of psychopathology and diagnostics To review briefly some psychoanalytic insights into these conditions To understand the theory and application of Jungian theory in each area of psychopathology. This is slightly changed from several years ago.
An overview of the central themes in this post-Jungian psychology and introduction to some of the... more An overview of the central themes in this post-Jungian psychology and introduction to some of the seminal literature in the field. Candidates will read some work of authors such as Michael Fordham, Rosemary Gordon, Andrew Samuels, Mara Sidoli, and Joseph Redfearn.
This is a one day seminar on the developmental school which emerged in the United Kingdom startin... more This is a one day seminar on the developmental school which emerged in the United Kingdom starting the late 1950s.
This course of 8 seminars discusses seminal writings from the psychoanalytic and Jungian fields o... more This course of 8 seminars discusses seminal writings from the psychoanalytic and Jungian fields on the therapeutic relationship.
This course covers material based on my book, Jung and phenomenology, and other papers. The cours... more This course covers material based on my book, Jung and phenomenology, and other papers. The course deeply investigates Jungian terms from a phenomenological perspective.
A Jungian approach to psychopathology: overall, neuroses, personality disorders, and schizophrenia.
This one day seminar is partly an exercise helping participants find a stance towards their patie... more This one day seminar is partly an exercise helping participants find a stance towards their patients and the psyche that is steady, containing, and hospitable.
An introduction to the concepts and writings in the "Freudian" psychoanalytic field for those tra... more An introduction to the concepts and writings in the "Freudian" psychoanalytic field for those training as Jungian psychoanalysts.