Depth Psychology Alliance - Book Club March 2012

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Book: Field Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature and Psyche (Spring Publications)
Order the book	"Matter is Spirit Moving Slowly Enough to be Seen"~Teilhard di Chardin The inspiration and thread which Chardin followed to arrive at this profound understanding of the inexorable relationship between matter and psyche serves as the muse for the work and writing of the author of Field, Form, and Fate, Dr. Michael Conforti Field, Form, and Fate walks the reader through Jung's encounter with the numinous, Von Franz's work on archetypal patterns and the discoveries in the New Sciences, to show how it is that matter truly is the face of the transcendence. In it we come to better understand the relationship between field and form and the realization that "Field Preceeds Form". It is the primacy of the archetypal that captured Dr. Conforti's attention, and with these discoveries he discusses experiences within many different areas, including the clinical domain, where one begins to see the workings of a pre-figured archetypal field that draws and entrains both client and therapist into the spin of an activated and highly specific archetypal field, whereby the behavior of each is determined by the workings of the field. Though an in-depth discussion of the generation of form within the psyche and the natural world, of Jung's work on the nature of the archetype, and of Jung's later discoveries on the nature of the psychoidal, coupled with discoveries from the New Sciences, Dr. Conforti takes us into the workings of psyche as it is manifested in the indivudal andcollective experience. In many respects this work is an important addition to Jung's study of the alchemicial process where he sought to release psyche and spirit from matter, in that this book approaches matter not so much as an epiphenomenon of psyche but rather, as the face of Self, psyche, and spirit.

Author: Michael Conforti Ph.D.

Michael Conforti, Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst, and is the founder and director of the AssisiInstitute. Dr. Conforti's work has resulted not only in a training institute based on his discoveries, but also the development of a new discipline, Archetypal Pattern Analysis. He has been a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute - Boston, the C.G Jung Foundation of New York, and for many years served as a Senior Associate faculty member in the Doctoral and Master's Programs in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England.

A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, Dr. Conforti is actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences. He has presented his work to a wide range of national and international audiences, including the C.G. Jung Institute - Zurich and Jungian organizations in Venezuela, Denmark, Italy and Canada. He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings (2007) as well as Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature and Psyche. His articles have appeared in Psychological Perspectives, San Francisco Jung Library Journal, Roundtable Press, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, and Spring.

Dr. Conforti maintains a private practice in Vermont, where he also serves as a state-appointed advisor to the Board of Psychoanalysts. He provides his insights as a sought-after consultant to businesses, government institutions, and the film industry. He has served as script consultant on the recently released film, Pride and Glory. He has also been asked to consult on the application of field theory to the understanding and resolution of international border disputes. He was selected by The Club of Budapest and the University of Potsdam to be part of a 20 member international team of physicists, biologists, and dynamical systems theorists to examine the role and influence of informational fields. He is a recipient of the Vision Award presented by the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Conforti is a Senior Fellow of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland. He is currently working on a new book, Hidden Presence: Archetypes, Spells, Possessions and the Complex.

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