A Selection For Further Reading and Background for Process Approach
1. Carl Gustav Jung and Jungian Analytical Psychology
CG Jung, Seminar on Dream Analysis 1928-30, (Zurich 1938); ed. by William McGuire, London, 1984.
An early seminar lead by Jung in Switzerland, reconstructed from participants’ notes and published privately in 1938. Among the many aspects of dream interpretation discussed, Jung presents his concept of religious development through analysis of dream symbols.
CG Jung, On the Nature of the Psyche, trans. RFC Hull, Princeton, NJ, (1946, rev. 1948), 1960
A late publication, which deals in the latter sections with “Spirit and Matter”, and sets the stage for Arnold Mindell’s work.
2. Arnold Mindell, Process-Oriented Psychology and Processwork
This is a focused selection dealing with issues of Process Methodology.
A. Mindell, Working with the Dreaming Body, (1985) 2nd ed. Portland, OR, 2014
An early work presenting first-generation methods of working on dreams and body symptoms with somatic methods.
A. Mindell, Dreaming While Awake: Techniques for 24-Hour Lucid Dreaming, Charlottesville, VA, 2000
A breakthrough development for Mindell’s approach to working with dreams, body symptoms, physical and psychological process as an integrated practice. A practical pendant for the large theoretical work that appeared at the same time, Quantum Mind.
A. Mindell, Conflict: Phases, Forum and Solutions: For Our Dreams and Body, Organizations, Governments and Planet, North Carolina, 2017
Resolving conflict in the world and with ourselves is a major part of Mindell’s contribution to many applications such as consulting, diplomacy and urban development as well as therapeutic and health work for individuals, couples and families.
Amy Mindell, Worldwork: A lighthearted approach in 40 Lessons, YouTube video, 2016.
According to the author, this 40-part animated series available on Amy’s channel on YouTube is ”a lighthearted approach” to the subject matter, yet the full series is the most extensive presentation of Arnold Mindell’s concepts of Worldwork and Deep Democracy that I know of. Worldwork and Deep Democracy have therapeutic applications as well. Amy made this series by herself, and it abounds in her creativity. Highly recommended as an introduction to the numerous applications of Processwork.
Amy Mindell, The Dreaming Source of Creativity. 30 Creative and Magical Ways to Work on Yourself, Portland, 2005, 2018. Ebook and printed formats are available.
More than just a “how to” book, Amy opens up a new perspective on the creative impulse for production, reception and communicative sharing of creative and aesthetic experience.
3. Couples and Family Work
Arnold. Mindell, The Dreambody in Relationships, (1987), 2nd ed. Portland, OR, 2002
A classic, early work presenting ways of using movement to deal with relationship issues.
Jan Dworkin, Make Love Better: How to Own Your Own Story, Connect with Your Partner and Deepen Your Relationship Practice, Santa Fe, 2019.
Highly recommended as a forerunner of a new approach to working with relationships and couples.
4. Healthwork
Pierre Morin, Big Medicine: Transforming Your Relationship with Your Body, Health and Community, Santa Fe, 2019.
Pierre is an MD and PhD. He and his wife Kara Wilde present Dreambody Medicine seminars at the Process Work Center in Portland, OR. This book is a presentation of some of their preliminary results.
Arnold Mindell, Quantum Mind and Healing: How to Listen and Respond to Your Body’s Symptoms, Charlottesville, VA, 2004
An essential contribution to working with physical symptoms, chronic problems and daily health balance.
5. Jürgen Habermas and Critical Social Theory
This is a particularly focused selection on the issue of communicative practice in the Life-World, earlier termed the Public Sphere by the author. It is by no means representative of his prolific writings.
J. Habermas, “The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity”, in: Reappraisals, Ithaca, NY, 1991. Available as a separate PDF on the internet.
Programmatic speech given on the occasion of receiving the Adorno Prize from the City of Frankfurt am Main (1980) in which Habermas announces his future focus, beginning with the book published 1987 under the same title, and prepares the ground for his Discourse Theory which he will apply in his later work to ethics and political theory in the late 1990s.
J. Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, trans. F. Lawrence, Cambridge, MA, 1987
A major publication based on a series of lectures that Habermas made in the 1980s in which he identifies and discusses the principle tendencies of the modern period of history in the West by examining the social, historical, cultural and philosophical components. I attended the lectures he gave at the Collège de France in Paris. The French translation was made by Rainer Rochlitz and Christian Bouchindhomme, the leaders of the Habermas seminar that I attended in Paris during those years.
J. Habermas, Application and Justification: Remarks on Discourse Ethics, trans. Ciaran Cronin, Cambridge, MA, 1994, 3rd ed. 2001
Habermas creates a space for the communicative practice of the life world in determining issues of the practical, the just and the good that depend as much on daily interaction as administrative decisions. In this translation, we also benefit from the excellent introduction by the translator.
J. Habermas, The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory, edited by Ciaran Cronin and Pablo De Greiff , Cambridge, MA, 2000
This volume investigates Discourse Theory in relation to political theory. Again, we benefit from the contributions by the editor and translators for this edition. Habermas took an active part in the translation.
