PT535 – Jungian Psychology, Psychedelics, and the Multiplicity of Self, with Maria Papaspyrou & Dr. Ido Cohen
Psychedelics Today
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Jungian psychology takes a fascinating look at the relationship between the conscious and unconscious parts of our minds. How is this framework brought more to the forefront through psychedelics and an understanding of our many parts?
In this episode of Vital Psychedelic Conversations, Johanna interviews Jung experts and Vital instructors: Maria Papaspyrou, psychotherapist and co-founder and director of the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy (IPT); and Dr. Ido Cohen, clinical psychologist and founder of The Integration Circle.
They talk about the experiences that helped them first understand the concept of multiple different parts making up their being, and dive into what it is about psychedelics that allows us to discover and work with these different parts: how the protector parts of our psyche work overtime to keep parts away from us, and how psychedelics can dissolve them, leading to a better understanding of ourselves. How much of our persona is based on who we feel we're supposed to be? What shadow parts are stopping us from being our true selves? And what amazing parts of ourselves have yet to be discovered?
They discuss:
- The idea of self as a unified entity: Does this concept make sense anymore?
- Risks in understanding how different parts work together, from justifying behaviors to inflating defensive structures
- The need to move away from solution-based to more process-focused frameworks, and the power in treating healing and growth as an ongoing process
- The rejection of the shadow and the archetypal (and impossible) wish to extinguish all suffering
- The large discrepancy between what people think being a psychedelic facilitator is vs. the reality
and more!
If you really want to dig into Jungian ideas, Jungian psychology is one of the new specialization tracks featured in the next cohort of Vital, beginning September 16. If you want to know more, send us an email or attend one of the next Vital Q+As.
For links, head to the show notes page.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Vital Psychedelics Conversations. My name is Johanna Hilla and I'm the |
| 0:17.9 | Coordinator of Education and Training at Vital Psychetics today. In this episode I had the opportunity to speak with two Jungian |
| 0:26.5 | experts, Ido Cohen and Maria Papi Spiro. We spoke about the multiplicity of the |
| 0:33.0 | self, the soul, how psychedelics impact our view of ourselves, how healing and transformation happens, |
| 0:41.1 | and about their work, and also about our new upcoming cohort, which will be kicking off |
| 0:48.7 | in September, in 16th of September, to be exact. So applications for our fourth cohort are now open. If you would |
| 0:58.4 | like to learn more about our course, please go check out phytalcyclic training.com. If you have any |
| 1:04.1 | questions, send us an email. And I hope you enjoy this episode. Also for those who are really |
| 1:10.6 | interested in Jungian psychology |
| 1:12.1 | specifically, we would like to let you know that we have these five new specialization tracks, |
| 1:17.4 | Jungian psychology being one of them. So we would love it if you would let us know what you |
| 1:23.0 | thought about this episode. If the topic resonates with you, if you would like to hear something more |
| 1:28.0 | along these lines, I hope you enjoy. And once again, go check us out at vitalpsychadic |
| 1:34.3 | training.com. The applications close on the 23rd of August. |
| 1:42.5 | Hello and welcome to Vital Psychedelic Conversations. |
| 1:47.4 | My name is Johanna Hilla and I'm the coordinator of education and training and I'm here with two wonderful guests to talk about something very interesting. |
| 1:57.2 | I will introduce the topic in a moment. |
| 1:59.9 | I just wanted to let you know that the applications |
| 2:02.3 | for our fourth round of Vital are now open. We are launching our next cohort on the 16th of September. |
| 2:10.3 | And this year we are also introducing five different specialization tracks. So if you would like to learn more about the program, |
| 2:19.1 | please go to our website. The link is in the bio. And the reason why I'm doing this podcast today |
| 2:25.1 | with this particular guest is to deepen our understanding of Jungian psychology. So Dr. Ido |
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