Hallie Beth Durchslag, PhD
“There is a saying cultura cura, culture cures. If the culture is a healer, the families learn how to heal; they will struggle less, be more reparative, far less wounding, far more graceful and loving.””
Thank you for visiting my site to learn more about my therapeutic practice, my academic pursuits, and the workshops I host through The Anima Mundi Project. I am driven by a desire to explore the ever-shifting interrelationship between our individual experiences and the environment and culture in which we are embedded.
My therapeutic work, research, and writing are all heavily influenced by the work of Carl Jung. Jung’s legacy provides a precious model of inquiry into this mysterious and often invisible connection between self and world. His work provides a model in which to understand that our souls are actually a piece of a larger fabric – a collective or world soul – anima mundi.
A Psychological Life
retrieved from ARAS.org
“Psychological life is devoted to continual inquiry, relishing the pursuit of wisdom more than the possession of it .... It is the ability to be deeply moved by what one sees, hears, and feels, accepting the full impact of living in complex emotional bodies. It is tolerating periods of personal doubt and confusion created by meaningful engagement with other perspectives. It is looking past the surface of things to their interior depths and their transcendent source. ”
Jungian Theory
The Complexity of Psyche
Carl Jung pioneered a model of understanding psychological and communal experience through the lush world of archetypal stories, myths, traditions, and images. He realized that the personal ego is only the tip of an iceberg within an ocean of a shared legacy and an emergent future. We have access to these realms through partnership with Self, which holds the totality of our potential.
Paths to Transformation
The human experience is multi-dimensional, and personal growth can demand different modes of attention and attunement.
Go Deep
The human psyche is a unique blend of mind and soul that is connected to a repository of wisdom. Reverie, active imagination, dream work, and inquiry into aspects of our life’s history are all tools on a journey toward psychological wholeness.
Stay Present
Sometimes epiphany unfolds within the flow of the true present. We come to know the world through our senses: what we see, taste, touch, smell, hear. When we attune to these ways of knowing without the interruptions of our "psychological clutter," we can find peace and clarity. This is often called mindfulness.
Transcend
How do we understand time, space, and unity within a world that preexists our birth and extends beyond our death? A connection to the unknowable and ineffable — sometimes referred to as religious, spiritual or divine — can offer its own paths to insight and peace.
The Shared Matrix
The Anima Mundi Project
“We can evolve, as individuals and as communities, through the soul-filled connection to anima mundi, to world soul.”
The dynamic relationship between our personal experience and Self gets magnified within the matrix of an Objective Psyche. This level of Psyche moves us as a collective being. Our psychological experiences, our physical wellness, and the environment we inhabit are all interconnected.The health and balance of one adds to the health and balance of the totality. This totality is captured in the project's name-- Anima Mundi-- which is Greek for world soul.
Professional Background
I earned my Master of Science in Social Administration (MSSA) from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University in 1999. After graduating, I worked for the next 8 years in non-profit management. My commitment was to the macro side of change, the culture of the culture, as Estés described above.
In 2009, I chose to shift gears and move more deeply into the complexity of the individual experience. I earned my Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Clinical Psychology with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2015. My practicum and internship training was with University Hospitals Department of Psychiatry and Mood Disorders Program, Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) in Cleveland, OH and The Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland (Nka Circle Health). I have been in private practice since 2010.
I am honored to have been involved with the Jung Educational Center of Cleveland (aka Jung Cleveland) for the past 15 years, including the honor of acting as a past President for the Board of Trustees. The Jung Educational Center of Cleveland was founded in 1989 to provide a forum for educational programs based on the work of C.G. Jung. We believe that through the study of Jung’s legacy we can support individuals in the pursuit of meaning in life, and contribute to an evolution of consciousness in our communities.
I am also honored to be an Affiliate Member of the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA); and a member of the International Association of Jungian Studies (IAJS) and The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS).
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