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Post by Admin on Aug 3, 2020 18:19:03 GMT
John Weir Perry for one wrote extensively on 'Apotheosis' - alessandrosecci.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/john-weir-perry-interview.pdfHis books are brilliant & well worth a read by anyone that has experienced psychosis; or who work with people who have - John Weir Perry - Trails of the Visionary Mind The Far Side of Madness Lord of the Four Quarters Self in Psychotic Process Roots of Renewal Heart of History – Individuality in Evolution
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Post by Admin on Oct 5, 2020 22:25:12 GMT
"The thesis here presented is that in many cases the first acute psychotic episode should not be considered one of the schizophrenias. If properly received in relationship this experience may even be seen as carrying the capacity to further the growth of the personality. Indeed, in this light the episode appears as nature's way of healing a restricted emotional development and of liberating certain vitally needed functions—in short, a spiritual awakening.
It is natural for the psyche to undergo periods of turmoil, since in order to outgrow a phase of insufficient development and enter a revitalized one, the deep psyche is roused into highly dynamic activity. To remain on an even course, always unshaken by such disruptions, may hold one within the bounds of the statistically normal but it is sure to hold one back from achieving one's full potential, and thus for certain persons is not normal. Some individuals are, by their innate endowment, called upon to escape the bounds of the average and to venture free. If they hold back, the psyche may become so activated as to overwhelm consciousness.
When it does so, the state is pronounced abnormal by our culture and moves are made to correct this "decompensation." The psyche, however, has its own aims to pursue in order to fashion a new orientation. The process should not be arrested but allowed to fulfill its own requirements. Such a cooperation with nature's needs, though, requires a new array of attitudes and procedures more nearly aligned with the nature of the psyche's own processes."
~John Weir Perry, Trials of the Visionary Mind: Spiritual Emergency and the Renewal Process
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Post by Admin on May 9, 2021 12:34:53 GMT
John Weir Perry (1914-1998)
John Perry was a Jungian psychiatrist and analyst who was internationally known for his theoretical work on formulating ′′ brief psychotic disorder ′′ and his clinical work with adults who cross psychotic states. Much of his career, however, he was dedicated to private outpatient patients. Born on March 12, 1914, the son of an Anglican bishop, John Perry grew up in New England and attended Harvard University during Both his undergraduate and graduate studies. In 1936, Carl Gustav Jung delivered the tricentennial speech at Harvard University. During that visit, Jung stayed at the Perry s' house, and at age 22, John Perry was privileged to listen to Jung's psychological theory presented by Jung himself in private talk.
John's bachelor's degree was in history and literature. He received his medical degree in 1941. He was a conscientious conscientious objector during World War II and served as a war surgeon at the Friends Ambulance Unit inside China. His experience in China began a lifetime interest in history, culture, and religion. From 1947 to 1949 he studied in the first class at C. G. Jung High School in Zurich. It was analyzed by Toni Wolff and C. A. Meier and was monitored by Jung.
In 1950, he moved to Larkspur, California in Marin County, north of San Francisco, where he would live for the rest of his life. He published six books and numerous articles. The published books are: ′′ The self in the psychotic process: its symbolization in Schizophrenia ′′ (with prologue by C. G. Jung) in 1953; ′′ Lord of the Four Quarters: Myths of the Royal Father (with a prologue by Alan Watts) in 1966, ′′ The Far Side of Madness ′′ in 1974 ; ′′ Renewal Roots in Myth and Madness: The Meaning of Psychotic Episodes ′′ in 1976; ′′ Heart of History: Evolutionary Individuality ′′ in 1987, and ′′ Trials of the Visionary Mind: Spiritual Emergency and The Renewal Process ′′ in 1998. Much of his jungian formulation of the psychotic episode was the basis of his innovative work on Project Agnews (at Agnew's) State Hospital), Diabasis and Diabasis II, where he and his collaborators established alternative residential treatment programs for young adults suffering from brief psychotic disorders. It was in these scenarios that the significance of patient delusions and hallucinations were considered visionary states. The psychopathological process was regarded as a renewal effort, and patients received warm, supportive and supportive treatment encourage staff and a home environment to work through their conflicts.
In the wake of Freud, Jung and Erich Neumann's research in the relationship between culture's evolution and the evolution of individual psyche, Perry tracked the recurring images and themes of his patients who go through brief psychotic disorders, and found extraordinary correlation with the images and themes found in the myths of sacred royalty and the ritual of the old New Year's parties.
This correlates between a psychopathological process and a myth and the ritual was based on many successful therapies and probably the most erudite examination of myth and ritual performed by any jungian scholar so far. Freud had correlated the myth of Narcissus to infant's narcissism and Oedipus myth to the toddler's oedipal conflict. Jung had posited a notion of collective unconscious. Erich Neumann charted the parallel lines of correspondence between the development of the individual and the evolution of culture in ′′ Origins and History of consciousness ". John Perry followed his tracks and then went deeper, enlightening the myths, rituals, politics and history of culture at the patriarchy thresholds in an academic way. The 10 images and recurring themes common to the sacred royal myths, New Years party rituals and the visions of their patients suffering brief psychotic disorders are as follows: center, death, return to cosmic principle, conflict, threat otherwise, apotheosis, sacred marriage , new birth, new society and a quadriculated world.
First recognizing that the sacred royalty myth and its correlate New Year's spontaneous festival seems to emerge spontaneously in culture around the world as they transform from matriarchal to patriarchal societies, Perry then observed the rise of psychopathological states as an attempt spontaneous psychological of renewal directed by self, based on archetypes (or ′′ affective images ′′ as he called them) of the collective unconscious to address personal conflicts that typically included lack of Eros, or relationship, in the patient's life. As a consequence, he devised a treatment strategy that considered the psychopathological process as an attempted renewal, one that required receptivity, therapeutic support and a permissive stance in relation to much of the perceived madness. His approach worked. He is the one found that patients in these environments reconstituted their psyche faster and was able to do so without medication and without the stigmatizing effects of institutionalization. His research also led to a discovery that many of the world's great visionaries had what we would call brief psychotic disorders at some point in their lives, and that these were the springs of their renewing visions of the world. John Perry was one of the first members (1950) of the Society of Northern California Jungian analysts and a major teacher at his high school for many years. But, there was a farewell of ways in the early 1980 s that resulted in Perry leaving high school and Society. However, your theoretical work is still appreciated. by many as one of the most creative and academic works of any of Jung's students.
He was a popular lecturer and a leader in the movement of transpersonal psychology. His conference took him across the United States and Europe, in South Africa, and even back inside China where the war had passed years ago. In addition to their close associations with the first and second Jung generation shared the stage in many conferences with people like Rollo May, Joseph Campbell, Robert Bly, Stanley Keleman, James Hillman, Stan Grof, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, shamans in South Africa, the Grateful Dead and the Dalai Lama. Throughout the 1990 s, he continued to lecture, wrote about the clinical treatment of schizophrenia, and completed his autobiography entitled ′′ Life of a Liminar ′′
#fundaciondepsicologiaanaliticajunguiana #psicologiaanalitica #analyticalpsychology #cgjung #research #biography #biografia #cgjung #carlgustavjung #usa #China #california #pioneer #firstgeneration By D. Benveniste.
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