Psychogeotherapy

Martyna Chrześcijańska is a lecturer at London Metropolitan University, School of Social Professions. She completed her PhD in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies.

• Chapter 1: Introduction Beginning of the flâneur’s journey Depth psychology and space Depth psychology and identity, memory, experience Containment Psychogeography Research questions Structure Summary Chapter 2: Revisiting the foundations: Freud and Jung Introduction Topographic and archaeological model of the psyche: S. Freud. Origins of the topographic model Theatre of memory Self-regulatory system Body-map orientation Power relations Archetypal manifestation Euclidean model of space Summary: Freud The well-sealed vessel and dwelling: C.G. Jung Dwelling and de-structuring Sacred geometry and maternal space Building as a process Summary Chapter 3: The container as a concept of space Introduction Playing within boundaries: sandplay The nature or beyond boundaries: ecopsychology Holding and transitional spaces: Donald Winnicott Between id and ego spaces: Paul Schilder Manifestation of inside: Adrian Stokes Chapters 2 and 3: Summary Chapter 4: The container as a concept of space Introduction Containing space – introduction Thought as meaning Idealisation Biological model Uterine container The general concept of containing space in depth psychology Chapter 5: Containing space in depth psychology: moving beyond the fixed image Introduction Boundaries and borders Categories of thinking Geometrisation and perspective Feminine space and colonisation Self-contained and autonomous identity Uncontained states of mind and defensiveness Shadow: Claustrum and Panopticon Summary Chapter 6: Between containing spaces and new spaces: a critical comparison Introduction Experience: between Erlebnis and Erfahrung Memory: Between Theatre and Mnemosyne Meanings: between connections and structures Emergence: between connections and patterns Space: Between designed space and lived space Walking as a method: between praxis and theoria. Chapter 7: Psychogeography as a therapeutic space: features and a case study Introduction Psychogeotherapeutic space: features Recording experiences Dérive as a new reverie Transitions and non-bounded space Without a map, centre or destination Aesthetical dimension: transformation of perception Détournement Creating situations & moments Playfulness Sensual and embodied Discovering the Uncanny The co-existing unconscious Interconnectedness Relationality: the encounter The socio-political dimension: inside out/ outside in Case study – ‘The analytic third. Working with intersubjective clinical facts’ Chapter 8: Discussions, limitations and conclusions Introduction Discussions and limitations Conclusions How can psychogeography change depth psychology? Memory Identity Experience References