Before you go further, please be sure you are applying for membership with YOUR REAL NAME, FIRST AND LAST, or if you are signing up as an organization, publisher, or project, list the organization name here; then list the name of the contact person in the next question.
Sydney, Australia
What are your main areas of interest?
Jungian Psychology, Archetypal Psychology, Transpersonal Psych, Other
If you are signing up as an Individual Member, do you have a degree in Depth Psychology?
Other type of Psychology
If so, from what institution?
The University of Sydney
Are you a licensed or clinical therapist?
Peter B. Todd has been a research psychologist at the University of New South Wales department of surgery in a psychoanalytic study of breast cancer, then at the Neuropsychiatric Institute Sydney in psychophysical studies. He became a a member of the Biopsychosocial AIDS Project at the University of California, a consultant in the department of immunology at St. Vincent's Hospital, and a research coordinator at the Albion Street AIDS Clinic Sydney. His papers have appeared in the British Journal of Medical Psychology, the Griffith Review, and the interdisciplinary journal Mind and Matter. He is currently a registered psychoanalytic psychologist in private practice in Sydney, Australia.
Please share a little about yourself by way of introduction. What draws you to Depth Psychology and what are you looking for from this community?
Many years of research and scholarship into psychosomatic phenomena and mind-matter anomalies using insights derived from Jung, Freud, Kohut, Winnicott and other psychoanalytic theorists. In particular, I have a profound interest in the human experience of the numinous and transpersonal dimensions of mind in its conscious and unconscious aspects and in the relationship of complementarity between mind and matter, psychology and religion.
Do you belong to any other online Psychology-related communities or orgs? If so, which?
No
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Comments
Hello Peter, and welcome to the online depth psychology community. I'm so glad you've joined us. Please be sure to join the "Published Authors" group and share info about your book. It sounds great!
Meanwhile, as you may know, we currently have nearly 1800 members from all over the world and we're growing. I hope as you explore the community a bit you find a dynamic group of like-minded people who are all deeply drawn by the field of depth psychology. While there are many Jungian analysts and clinical psychologists here, our members come from various walks of life including artists, writers, doctors, scientists, healing professionals, counselors, students, business people, etc--so there is much cross-disciplinary knowledge and experience here to be shared.
On that note, there are many opportunities to engage as you browse the site. When you're ready to jump in, please feel free to post a topic for discussion in the forum, respond to someone else's post, or share a link to an article or web site you like.
Also you may want to consider joining the discussion in the online book club In December we're featuring "Madness at the Gates of the City: The Myth Of American Innocence,” a mythological and cultural look at our current belief systems with Barry Spector. In January we begin "The War of the Gods in Addiction" with David E. Schoen. Since the Book Club is all done via writing in an open forum, you can participate at your own level and schedule--and you can join the discussion anytime, even if you don't have the book. Upcoming in January is "The War of the Gods in Addiction" with David Schoen, as well as a special study group on the Red Book with Robert Bosnak starting January 19.
In case you need detailed help getting started and navigating the site, you can use the following link----http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/page/navigating-the-site----and please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions at all! I look forward to seeing you around the community. ~Bonnie Bright, Founder