Imaginal Psychology: A Distinct Orientation
Imaginal Psychology is a distinct orientation to the discipline of psychology. This orientation reclaims soul as psychology’s primary concern. The soul expresses itself in images. Care of the soul asks that we pay close attention to the images we inhabit. This orientation to psychology has its roots in the earliest transformative practices that are at the core of many spiritual traditions and the creative arts.

Imaginal Psychology rediscovers and retraces this vein of gold through its ancient and modern manifestations in ways relevant to our contemporary lives, enabling a distinctly post-modern psychology to emerge. Such a post modern psychology helps to re-sacralize and re-enchant human experience after the traumatic secularization of the modern period.

The Institute's curriculum on Imaginal Psychology draws on the following knowledge domains: Spiritual Traditions, Somatic Practices, Creative Arts, Mythology, Indigenous Wisdom, Literary and Poetic Imagination, Deep Ecology, and Social Critique. Each of these knowledge domains is described further on the webpages noted above.