Psychogeotherapy

<p><em>Psychogeotherapy</em> offers a critical exploration of the roles played by ideas of space and containment in psychotherapy. Employing approaches from psychogeography with a focus on the praxis of ‘aimless walking’, it explores alternate models of therapeutic space and what the author terms ‘psychogeotherapy’.</p><p>The book gives a fresh and creative perspective on therapeutic work and its relationship to space, drawing on a range of existing approaches including Freudian, post-Freudian, Jungian and post-Jungian perspectives. With perspectives from various disciplines such as art, social studies, cultural studies and philosophy, the book interrogates the dominant models of containment in psychotherapy and discusses these models from different perspectives to shed new light on classical concepts of therapeutic space and containment in depth psychology and psychotherapy. </p><p>This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of analytical psychology, psychotherapy, psychogeography and mental health.</p> <p><strong>Chapter 1: Introduction</strong> </p><p><i>Beginning of the flâneur’s journey</i> </p><p><i>Depth psychology and space</i> </p><p><i>Depth psychology and identity, memory, experience</i> </p><p><i>Containment</i> </p><p><i>Psychogeography</i> </p><p><i>Research questions</i> </p><p><i>Structure</i> </p><p><i>Summary</i> </p><p><strong>Chapter 2: Revisiting the foundations: Freud and Jung</strong> </p><p><i>Introduction</i> </p><p><i>Topographic and archaeological model of the psyche: S. Freud.</i> </p><p><i>Origins of the topographic model</i> </p><p><i>Theatre of memory</i> </p><p><i>Self-regulatory system</i> </p><p><i>Body-map orientation</i> </p><p><i>Power relations</i> </p><p><i>Archetypal manifestation</i> </p><p><i>Euclidean model of space</i> </p><p><i>Summary: Freud</i> </p><p><i>The well-sealed vessel and dwelling: C.G. Jung</i> </p><p><i>Dwelling and de-structuring</i> </p><p><i>Sacred geometry and maternal space</i> </p><p><i>Building as a process</i> </p><p>Summary </p><p><strong>Chapter 3: The container as a concept of space</strong> </p><p><i>Introduction</i> </p><p><i>Playing within boundaries: sandplay</i> </p><p><i>The nature or beyond boundaries: ecopsychology</i> </p><p><i>Holding and transitional spaces: Donald Winnicott</i> </p><p><i>Between id and ego spaces: Paul Schilder</i> </p><p><i>Manifestation of inside: Adrian Stokes</i> </p><p><i>Chapters 2 and 3: Summary</i> </p><p><strong>Chapter 4: The container as a concept of space</strong> </p><p><i>Introduction</i> </p><p><i>Containing space – introduction</i> </p><p><i>Thought as meaning</i> </p><p><i>Idealisation</i> </p><p><i>Biological model</i> </p><p><i>Uterine container</i> </p><p><i>The general concept of containing space in depth psychology</i> </p><p><strong>Chapter 5: Containing space in depth psychology: moving beyond the fixed image</strong> </p><p><i>Introduction</i> </p><p><i>Boundaries and borders</i> </p><p><i>Categories of thinking</i> </p><p><i>Geometrisation and perspective</i> </p><p><i>Feminine space and colonisation</i> </p><p><i>Self-contained and autonomous identity</i> </p><p><i>Uncontained states of mind and defensiveness</i> </p><p><i>Shadow: Claustrum and Panopticon</i> </p><p><i>Summary</i> </p><p><strong>Chapter 6: Between containing spaces and new spaces: a critical comparison</strong> </p><p><i>Introduction</i> </p><p><i>Experience: between Erlebnis and Erfahrung</i> </p><p><i>Memory: Between Theatre and Mnemosyne</i> </p><p><i>Meanings: between connections and structures</i> </p><p><i>Emergence: between connections and patterns</i> </p><p><i>Space: Between designed space and lived space</i> </p><p><i>Walking as a method: between praxis and theoria.</i> </p><p><strong>Chapter 7: Psychogeography as a therapeutic space: features and a case study</strong> </p><p><i>Introduction</i> </p><p><i>Psychogeotherapeutic space: features</i> </p><p><i>Recording experiences</i> </p><p>Dérive <i>as a new</i> reverie </p><p><i>Transitions and non-bounded space</i> </p><p><i>Without a map, centre or destination</i> </p><p><i>Aesthetical dimension: transformation of perception</i> </p><p><i>Détournement</i> </p><p><i>Creating situations & moments</i> </p><p><i>Playfulness</i> </p><p><i>Sensual and embodied</i> </p><p><i>Discovering the Uncanny</i> </p><p><i>The co-existing unconscious</i> </p><p><i>Interconnectedness</i> </p><p><i>Relationality: the encounter</i> </p><p><i>The socio-political dimension: inside out/ outside in</i> </p><p><i>Case study – ‘The analytic third. Working with intersubjective clinical facts’</i> </p><p><strong>Chapter 8: Discussions, limitations and conclusions</strong> </p><p><i>Introduction</i> </p><p><i>Discussions and limitations</i> </p><p><i>Conclusions</i> </p><p><i>How can psychogeography change depth psychology?</i> </p><p><i>Memory</i> </p><p><i>Identity</i> </p><p><i>Experience</i> </p><p>References </p>