This research inquiry is an autobiographical exploration and elucidation of the lived-experience of Self-Transformation; Self-transformation connoting a comprehensive framework that comprises personal, professional, social and spiritual renewal. The study emphasizes a mind-body-spirit holism as the whole experiential reality of the person is considered. Thus, transformation is viewed as a psycho-spiritual process. An integral aspect of the transformation process is listening to the inner voice, “the voice of a fuller life, of a wider more comprehensive consciousness” (Jung, 1954. p. 184). The degree to which the transformation process ripens and the integration of the personality realized, seems directly contingent on the conscious listening to and actual follow through on the guidance of the inner voice (Assagioli, 1965; Jung, 1954; Sinetar, 1986; Luke, 1984). As an autobiographical inquiry, lived-experience refers to the actual living-ness of experience: becoming, indwelling, the heuristics of experience. It is about floundering in the flux, living the paradox of knowing that one does not know yet yielding into the flux and the ambiguity inherent in experiencing the phenomenon and conducting the inquiry. The analytical psychology of C.G. Jung (Collected Works, 1953–1979) is used as the main theoretical framework in which to ground a psychology of transformation. The phenomenon of Self-transformation is termed the process of individuation (Jung, 1959), spiritual psychosynthesis or Self-realization (Assagioli, 1965), and spiritual emergence (Grof and Grof, 1989). Individuation is viewed as an evolutionary growth process. As a lifelong existential project, it entails undergoing several rounds on the transformation spiral—ongoing, punctuated episodes of personal transition and psychological shifts in consciousness, in which we go through the process of passage between one life phase and the next in a cyclical pattern of death and rebirth (Bridges, 1980). Sharp (1991) says that individuation is a process of psychological differentiation informed by the archetypal ideal of wholeness, the Self, which relies on an vital relationship between the ego and the unconscious; the goal being the development of the in-dividual personality. Jung (1966) viewed individuation as an internal, subjective process of integration and a process of self-and-collective synergy. The synthesis of both these processes constitutes wholeness. How this process manifests as lived-experience is the focus of this inquiry. The phenomenon is elucidated by employing and blending two modes of inquiry, heuristics (Moustakas, 1990) and autobiography as in Allport's (1942) idiographic research, both components of a qualitative (interpretive) methodology. The six phases of heuristic research, (initial engagement, immersion, incubation, illumination, explication and creative synthesis), are naturally operative within the transformation process and are used to describe the unfolding of the inquiry process and the lived-experience, and as the means for data collection and analysis. Analysis of the autobiographic data revealed the following salient features of the transformation process—a renaissance call to wholeness (premonition phase), light bows to darkness (holistic disintegration), the unformed silence (excursion into the abyss), awakening of the heart (illumination and initiation into rebirth), and return to innocence (a second dark night of the soul and a deeper integrative synthesis). These stages entail overlapping and divergent psychological processes that illuminate a unique pattern inherent in the renewal process. Implications for professional practice, education and research are discussed, including a call for a broader conceptual framework that encompasses the spiritual as integral to the healing and educating of lives. / Graduate

This exploratory study investigated the expansion of an established systematized group dreamwork method (Shuttleworth-Jordan, 1995) to incorporate artwork. The rationale for the addition of artwork was situated firstly, in a poetic Jungian understanding of the image as a holistic "place" of gnosis or transformative healing and, secondly, in an argument that in order to carry the gnostic potential of the image into the lived world, a dreamwork method should involve all four styles of consciousness (thinking, intuition, sensation and feeling). It was considered that the verbal interpretive Shuttleworth-Jordan method would be enhanced by the incorporation of a visual artwork process in order more fully to open the potential of the method for incorporating the nonverbal intuitive, sensation and feeling styles of consciousness. In order to compare the established method (dreamwork Without Art) and the proposed method (dreamwork With Art), two dreamwork workshops were conducted in which all participants experienced all four conditions of the study: Dream Presenter Without Art, Dream Presenter With Art, Group Member Without Art, Group Member With Art. Two levels of assessment were utilized: a quantitative analysis (involving rating scales completed after each dreamwork session), supported by a qualitative analysis (involving written questionnaires completed at the end of the workshops and follow-up interviews conducted a week after completion of the workshops). The results suggested that the incorporation of artwork in the Shuttleworth-Jordan (1995) group dreamwork method enhanced the established method in that a consistent trend of increased involvement in the dreamwork process and increased dreamwork effectiveness was reflected, while no deleterious effects were noted which might detract from the effectiveness of the existing model which had been established in previous research studies. Finally, a refined step-by-step group dreamwork method incorporating artwork was proposed, which included qualitative feedback from the present study.

Ship of Fools is a novel excerpt. The title comes from Plato’s Republic as well as the book Stultifera Navis by Sebastian Brant, published in 1494. There is also a painting by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1490–1500) with the same name. Influences include Jungian psychology, Joseph Campbell’s “The Masks of God” series, and anthropological studies of Amazonian shamanism.

M.A. / None

Thesis (Honors)--College of William and Mary, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-54). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.)(Hons)--University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 1995. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (PhD(Psychotherapy))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between personality type and leadership focus. Personality type is studied from the perspective of Jungian Theory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instrument, and leadership focus is explored through the development and application of a Leadership Focus Questionnaire. South African executives form the target population for this research. The overall research problem concerns how best to address the challenges of optimising focus and managing risk that is inherent in strategic leadership. Both functionalist and interpretive approaches were applied to produce a rounded understanding of what constitutes leadership focus. The application of a functionalist approach resulted in three primary theoretical hypotheses being derived from the literature, namely, that leadership focus is a function of (1) optimising the balance of focus between external and internal priorities, (2) the fit between the leadership personality type and the organisation type, and (3) the capacity to manage a multiple focus. The interpretation of the responses from the sample of executives participating in the research study yielded a related set of first and second order factors relating to leadership focus that revolve around the level of comfort experienced by executives in managing focus in the leadership role. The approach to this research was one of methodological triangulation. A survey-based methodology was employed, containing both quantitative and qualitative questions. The results of the quantitative analysis of the relationship between personality type and leadership focus were contrasted and extended by a qualitative content analysis of the qualitative survey responses. The propositions were tested on a sample of South African executives attending management development programmes run by Wits Business School, University of Witwatersrand, in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. The findings show that Extraverted personality types are more comfortable with the challenges of focus in the leadership role than are Introverted types. In addition, Extraverted, Sensing, Thinking and Judging types experience a greater degree of fit with their organisations than do Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling and Perceiving types. The implications are that in a business environment of ongoing change, market innovation and increasing stakeholder expectations, organisation leaders of all personality types need to develop a greater consciousness of their preferred and less preferred behaviours, and a greater ability to complement their preferred leadership behaviours with less preferred behaviours when necessary, to optimise their leadership focus over time. / Dr. Loius Carstens

O objetivo desta pesquisa é, a partir do referencial junguiano, ampliar a compreensão de como está se dando a experiência de paternidade atualmente, com foco na subjetividade masculina: qual o impacto que a experiência de se tornar pai vem causando no processo de desenvolvimento psicológico do homem - seu processo de individuação. Em busca de maior compreensão do significado atual da paternidade para os próprios homens na condição de pais, procura-se observar como o arquétipo paterno está se constelando na sociedade atual, de acordo com os novos modos de sentir e de se comportar, tendo em vista uma atitude mais favorável à alteridade e às relações democráticas. A partir de uma contextualização histórico-social, reconstitui-se um cenário marcado pelas reformulações nas concepções de masculino e feminino que vêm ocorrendo nas últimas décadas, e que interferem coletivamente nas identidades de gênero, portanto na subjetividade masculina, com desdobramentos nas expectativas que recaem sobre a figura do pai. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa que tem como principal instrumento a entrevista individual, com base em um roteiro de temas e questões abordados de forma semi-dirigida. A partir dos depoimentos, observa-se a representação e a vivência de paternidade em transformação através de manifestações da paternidade distintas do padrão patriarcal dominante, caracterizado pelo afastamento afetivo no comportamento masculino. Verifica-se uma crescente expectativa por parte dos homens de maior participação na gravidez, parto e cuidados junto ao filho, acompanhada de envolvimento emocional expresso. Destacam-se na análise os temas do \'desejo de ser pai\' e \'modelos de pai\', que se articulam em torno da afetividade masculina e paterna em transformação. Constata-se a coexistência de múltiplas referências e a valorização dessa pluralidade expressa em comportamentos e valores, o que contrasta com antigos modelos até então tidos como hegemônicos. Trabalha-se com a hipótese de que a crise vivenciada nesse âmbito, em função da instabilidade gerada pelo período de transição que desorganiza tanto a estrutura emocional quanto as estruturas familiares, promove, a médio e longo prazo, crescimento tanto para o indivíduo como para a sociedade. / The purpose of this research is to broaden the understanding of how the experience of fatherhood is taking place at the present time, using a Jungian perspective: to find out what the impact of the experience of becoming a father is causing on men\'s developmental process and process of individuation. As a better understanding about the meaning of fatherhood nowadays for men themselves as fathers is searched, we analyse how the paternal archetype is being constellated in contemporary society, according to new modes of feeling and behaviour, aiming at a more favorable approach towards alterity and democratic relationships. After a sociohistoric contextualization, emerges a scenario marked by reformulation in the conceptions of masculine and feminine over the last decades, which interferes on the aggregate level in gender identities and, therefore, on male subjectivity as well, with consequences for the expectations towards the father figure. This is a qualitative research based on individual interviews supported by a semi-directed script of issues and questions. Based on these statements, we observe the representation and the experience of fatherhood in transformation throughout manifestations of fatherhood that differ from the dominant pattern (patriarchal) and characterized by emotional aloofness as a common male trait. Men\'s growing expectation towards greater participation over pregnancy, childbirth and day-to-day care has been identified, as well as explicit emotional involvement. \'Willingness to be a father\' and \'models of father\' were emphasized issues, involving male and paternal affection in transformation. The coexistence of multiple frames of reference along with such diversity, as expressed in behaviours and values, have been demonstrated. This contrasts with old models considered, until now, to be hegemonic. We worked with the hypothesis that the crisis in this area, due to instability generated by this transitory period that disorganizes both emotional and family structures, generates, over medium and long range, development for the individual as well as for society.

No presente trabalho buscamos tecer um panorama, como uma grande colcha de retalhos, apontando possíveis sentidos para a costura, o bordado e a tecelagem, a partir do pano de fundo da psicologia analítica de Carl G. Jung. São comentadas pesquisas acadêmicas sobre tais atividades em diferentes épocas e contextos, alguns mitos e contos, materiais relativos a grupos de mulheres, fatos com caráter sociopolítico e dados de uma página virtual com o tema da costura. Buscamos destacar as diferentes possibilidades de atitude simbólica presentes nessas atividades, sobretudo considerando uma sociedade excessivamente patriarcal, que emudece e desvaloriza o trabalho manual, as mulheres e o princípio do feminino. Identificamos uma relação, pelo fio norteador estabelecido pelo símbolo e a função transcendente, entre tecido e texto, e nos interrogamos sobre peculiaridades da vida contemporânea, tão marcada por abstrações e virtualidades. Refletimos sobre os aspectos criativos das experiências com a costura em diferentes contextos e do que podemos considerar a sua reinvenção nos dias de hoje, incluindo simbolicamente uma dimensão regida por Eros sem que se perca a possibilidade de reflexão também sobre a realidade sem fio do homem virtual / In this study, we aim to weave a perspective, like a big patchwork quilt, to indicate possible meanings for sewing, embroidery and weaving, using, of the analytical psychology of Carl G. Jung as our fabric background. We comment some academic research on such activities in different times and contexts, some myths and tales, materials related to groups of women, facts with social-political content and data from a webpage with the theme of sewing. We seek to highlight different possibilities by which the symbolic attitude can be present in these activities, especially considering a society which is extremely patriarchal, which silences and diminishes handcraft, women and the feminine principle. We connect, by the thread established by the symbol and the transcendent function, textile and text and questioned ourselves about the peculiarities of contemporary life, strongly marked by abstractions and virtualities. We think over the creative aspects of the experiences of sewing in different contexts and on what can be considered its reinvention nowadays, including a symbolically dimension ruled by the thread of Eros without losing the possibility of reflection on the wireless reality of the virtual man