Donald Kalsched – Can running our minds like a democracy save us?
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Don Kalsched is a Jungian Analyst, an expert on treating trauma, author of two books, The Inner World of Trauma and Trauma and the Soul.
Jung discovered our inner world is populated by various imaginal figures representing powerful psychological forces. If we treat our minds as democratic spaces, it can safeguard us from internal and external authoritarian influences.
Prepare to discover the parallels between a balanced mind and a healthy society, whether viewing internal conflicts through a democratic lens is healing, which insights foster harmony, why democratic philosophy is transformative, how to build resilience against absolutism and extremism, how trauma and power-seeking are related, and even more…
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 0:03.0 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Martiano, |
| 0:07.0 | Debra Stewart and Joseph Lee invite you to join them |
| 0:10.0 | for an intimate and honest conversation that brings |
| 0:13.0 | a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Lisa Martiano and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Debra Stewart, a Jungian analyst and Cape Cod. |
| 0:37.0 | Today we have a wonderful guest that will be joining us for the second time, |
| 0:42.0 | Don Kowshad. |
| 0:44.0 | He's going to be talking about inner and outer democracy |
| 0:48.0 | and the threat of authoritarianism, |
| 0:51.0 | which are his reflections on the psychological factors that play |
| 0:56.0 | in this polarized world. |
| 1:00.0 | You can learn more about these ideas in a book called Cultural Complexes |
| 1:05.0 | and the Soul of America. |
| 1:07.0 | Don has a more fulsome essay on this called Wrestling with Angels |
| 1:11.0 | and he's also put this forward in a wonderful webinar |
| 1:15.0 | and you can find that at aros.org slash wj webinars |
| 1:22.0 | and we'll have those links in the show notes. |
| 1:26.0 | So for those of you that may just be meeting Don for the first time, |
| 1:31.0 | we know Don through our wonderful training process, |
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