ON-DEMAND COURSE

Alchemy Course: Salt, Black and Blue

Jungian Psychology
TEACHERS
Robert Bosnak, Patricia Berry 
TOPIC
Jungian Psychology
Format
10 class audio course
DURATION
15 hours 

Payment options: Credit Card or PayPal.

This course follows the teachings of James Hillman in his final and most profound book, Alchemical Psychology, and focuses specifically on the chapters Salt, Black and Blue. These alchemical states or processes describe ways to understand and work with suffering, depression and feeling blue.

Course Description

James Hillman was a past master of alchemical psychology. This field uses metaphors derived from ancient alchemy to elucidate deep structures in the creative imagination. We tend to forget that creative processes are not random. Imagination embodies along lines that become apparent when we ponder the frequently incomprehensible images of alchemy.

The book, Alchemical Psychology, covers a lifetime of studies and is quite difficult to read by someone who is not deeply steeped in alchemy, the work of C.G. Jung or James Hillman. Robert Bosnak and Patricia Berry have studied these thinkers for well over 40 years.

James Hillman was the primary training analyst of Robert Bosnak, who developed the field of embodied imagination: the way in which images can be felt in the body and shape our embodied condition. Patricia Berry was among the early founders of Archetypal Psychology beginning in the mid-1960s in Zurich, Switzerland. She was companion and spouse of James Hillman for 20 years.

This course goes through Alchemical Psychology and engages with the chapters Salt, Black and Blue page by page – and frequently line by line – sometimes dropping even between the lines into the great mystery itself. For those who have tasted these mysteries, there is no way back. One is haunted by them for life. It was so with Jung, Hillman, and with Bosnak and Berry as well. It will happen to you if you’re open to it.

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

  • Have a guide to reading the chapters Salt, Black and Blue from James Hillman’s book Alchemical Psychology. 
  • Come up with a solution to feeling down or feeling blue.
  • Deepen your understanding of depression in all its forms.
  • Explore any form of pain or suffering related to loss, heartbreak or grief from the perspective of Alchemical Psychology.
  • Have a more empathic understanding of - and some practical tools to work with - your own as well as other people’s ‘blues’, depression and different forms of suffering.

Course overview

What you will receive

*You will receive a certificate of completion, but it’s not from an official accrediting body. Please check if it will be accepted by the organization you wish to use it with.
10 audio recordings
Handout
Subtitles
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teachers

Robert Bosnak

Robert Bosnak, PsyA, is a Jungian psychoanalyst who graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1977. He pioneered the Embodied Imagination® method, that is being applied by practitioners worldwide. Robert Bosnak is a Core Faculty Member at Jung Platform. 

Patricia Berry

Patricia Berry, Ph.D., is one of Depth Psychology’s best known and most innovative practioners. A founder of Archetypal Psychology with James Hillman, her career spans over fifty years during which she has taught extensively, written numerous articles, worked in private practice, led supervision groups, and lectured internationally. Read more

Scholarships

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