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Some Articles by Amy Mindell

(video) In and Out of Wonderland: Exploring the Flow Between our Linear and Dreaming Minds in Life, Facilitation, Science, and our World. An online talk, February 7, 2026. This is a video recording. Click: https://tinyurl.com/3p4wntc6 (scroll to the bottom of the page to see the video) A written transcript which will include more stories and discussion will be forthcoming.

The Evolution And Three Branches Of Process Theory, 3rd Edition, August 2016. Click here to download the article.  

Bringing Deep Democracy to Life: An Awareness Paradigm for Deepening Political Dialogue, Personal Relationships, and Community Interactions. Psychotherapy and Politics International, Volume 6, Issue 3, October, 2008, pp. 212-225. To locate the article to download, look/click here

World Work and the Politics of Dreaming, or Why Dreaming: is Crucial for World Process,  Nov 2007.  Download the article 2.6MB PDF file

721 Feedback: Text and Pictures elucidating Process oriented Feedback, Supervision, and the Learning Process, 2005   Download the article 4MB Word file

Discovering the World in the Individual; The World Channel in Psychotherapy, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 36 No. 3, Summer 1996, 67-84. To see the article, click here.

Moving the Dreaming Body: Movement in Process Oriented Psychology. Contact Quarterly, 1995.  Download the article. (.pdf file 6.49MB). You’ll need Acrobat Reader if you don’t have this already.

Working with Movement in Process Oriented Psychology. Internationale Zeistschrift fuer Musik-Tanz-und Kunz Therapie, 1989

Die Entdeckung der Welt im Individuum: Der Weltkanal in der Psychotherapie, Transpersonale Psychologie and Psychotherapie Journal, 3. Jahrgang, Heft 2, 1997 pp. 38-52

Also see Amy's articles on Creativity on this website at: http://www.aamindell.net/writing/

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Some Articles by, and Interviews with, Arnold Mindell

New Developments in Jungian Psychology: Jungian Psychology has a Daughter. Journal of Process Oriented Psychology, Issue 1, Winter 1988. Download the article.

Dreambody : notes on the history and theory of Process Oriented Psychology This article was composed (in German) by the creative spirit of Frau Dr. Annelen Kranefuss from Arny’s various references to the Dreaming Body. This article will appear in the Jung Journal, part of the C. G. Jung Gessellschaft of Colone Germany (http://www.cgjung.org/jung_zeit.htm).  Download the article (47Kb Word file) Also published in English at: https://medcraveonline.com/JPCPY/JPCPY-09-00490 ( Mindell A (2018) Dream Body/Dreambody on the History and Theory of Processor-Oriented Psychology. J Psychol Clin Psychiatry 9(1): 00490. DOI: 10.15406/jpcpy.2018.09.00490)

Jung and Process Work : A Letter to C. G. Jung on his 125th Birthday   Download the letter (Word file)

Yoga Journal, Psychological Perspectives 97, Psychology Today, 1996

“Dream Processes, Body Work and Politics” (in the German language) at the 1996 Basel Psychotherapy Congress. This 1996 lecture attempted to bring together under the one roof of psychotherapy and process oriented psychology, various dimensions of inner and outer life that are normally split off from one another.  Download article (.pdf file; 64Kb).

“Physics, Dreaming, and Extreme States: Arnold Mindell” an Interview with Will Hall, 2011. Listen to this interview here.

Process Work with Addictions, Altered States, and Social Change a lecture given at the 11th International Transpersonal Conference on Spiritual Quest, Attachment and Addiction, September 1990.

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Life is But a Dream: An Interview with Arnold Mindell. Psychological Perspectives, 1986. (To see a Russian translation of this article, click here. Thanks to Kiril Melamud for his translation.)

Somatic Consciousness. Quadrant, Spring 1981.   Download the article. (.pdf file 22MB). You’ll need Acrobat Reader if you don’t have this already.

Widerstand und Koerper : Uberlegungen aus Jungianischer Sicht. Integrative therapie, 2-3,1981.

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All Dreams Come True: Interview with Arnold Mindell . A short interview with Arny that took place in Moscow, Russia about dreams, the dreaming body, body symptoms and more. Источник: https://www.psyh.ru/vse-sny-sbyvayutsya/ © Наша Психология

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One of the many Interviews with Amy and Arny

“THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR A PSYCHOTHERAPIST IS TO BE YOURSELF.” Interview with Amy and Arny Mindell with The Moscow Psychotherapy Journal 2008 in Russian: «САМОЕ ВАЖНОЕ ДЛЯ ПСИХОТЕРАПЕВТА – БЫТЬ САМИМ СОБОЙ»s

ИНТЕРВЬЮ ЭМИ И АРНИ МИНДЕЛЛОВ МОСКОВСКОМУ ПСИХОТЕРАПЕВТИЧЕСКОМУ ЖУРНАЛУ
Москва, апрель 2008 г. Click here.

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Some of ARNY’S RESEARCH, ARTICLES, AND REVIEWS as a JUNGIAN Analyst and Training Analyst; 1971-1981

Synchronicity: An Investigation Of The Unitary Background Patterning Synchronous Phenomena. (A Psychoid Approach To The Unconscious). By Arnold Mindell. Doctoral Dissertation, 1972.

The Union Institute. (Union Graduate School PhD., 1972 Dissertation for Doctorate in Psychology) Dissertation Abstracts International 37, no. 2 (1976).

Somatic Consciousness by A. Mindell. (Quadrant, Volume 14, No. 1, Spring 1981).

Psychological discoveries may be as bad as they are good. Freud, for example, discovered the so-called subconscious. He said that dreams were the “royal road” to the mysterious thing which we today call the unconscious. His followers focused on dreams and discovered a great deal about symbol channels; however, they also inadvertently neglected other channels of the unconscious such as parapsychological phenomena, divinatorial systems, and body phenomena. Every discovery about the unconscious focuses on some new thing and neglects other important phenomena. That may be one reason why we know a great deal about images and symbols today, but very little about body life. See the full article Somatic Consciousness. Subscription needed.

Time: Rhythm And Repose Marie-Louise von Franz. London: Thames and Hudson. 1978. Reviewed by A. Mindell. (Quadrant, Volume 13, No. 1, Spring 1980). See the full article and review of Time: Rhythm and Repose. Subscription needed.

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some ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS WITH ARNY ABOUT JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY

ARNY MINDELL HONOURS CARL JUNG AND JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY

Arny was interviewed in December 2020 by Harvest Magazine editor, Chris Olsen, from the C.G. Jung Club London . (Arny and Amy had given a workshop in London for the Jung Club in the Spring of 2019). The article was published in Harvest, 2020, C.G. Jung Club London, pp.98-104. https://www.jungclub-london.org/jung-club-london-harvest-journal.htm

DREAMBODY: NOTES ON THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF PROCESS ORIENTED PSYCHOLOGY

This article was composed (in German) by the creative spirit of Frau Dr. Annelen Kranefuss from Arny’s various references to the Dreaming Body. This article was published in the Jung Journal, part of the C. G. Jung Gesellschaft of Cologne Germany (http://www.cgjung.org/jung_zeit.htm ). Download the article (German language) 

JUNGIAN AND PROCESS ORIENTED PSYCHOLOGY: INTERVIEW BY JUNE SINGER

Singer, J. (1995). Arny and Amy Mindell on Process Oriented Psychology (Interview). The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, 13(4), 25–40.  Download the article Singer interview (English language).

From the Afterword by June Singer: 'It seems to me, after half a lifetime as a Jungian analyst, that yes, at its very core it is Jungian analysis, or, let me say, it springs from the seed of Jungian analysis. The work they do, and call "Process Oriented Psychology," embodies Jung's basic concepts, but carries these into spaces within the psyche and also into the world, beyond what Jung and most Jungians have imagined. And more than conceptualizing, more than understanding, more than interpreting phenomenena, the Mindells enter actively into the processes through which phenomena transform themselves. Their methods differ from that of most analysts in that, in addition to one-to-one personal analysis, they do intimate personal work in groups. This is not the same as conventional group process, because for the Mindells the individuation of the person becomes the theme of the group.' (p.39)

'Tracing the development of the Mindells' work from its beginnings, it seems to me that it extends in a spiral fashion, emanating from the personal self of the individual and, turning in ever widening gyres, it includes small groups, larger groups, communities and beyond. The Worldwork crosses boundaries of gender, language, religion, race and nation. Ambitious? Yes. Grandiose? No. Their work expands the scope of Jung's psychology to include not only the psyche but also the body, relationships and the total environment. Like many scientists and philosophers who are consciously looking toward the twenty-first century, the Mindells are working with the human organism in its wider context. In this way they help make manifest Jung's late, brilliant intuition of the unus mundus (italics), one world in which differing opposites seek reconciliation.' (p.40)

WE MUST ALL BREATHE : ARNOLD MINDELL, PH.D. AT 61, BY ROBERT S. HENDERSON (UPDATED JULY 2007)

From Quadrant, Volume XXXV:2, Summer 2005, C. G. Jung Foundation, New York . Rev Dr. Robert S. Henderson is a Pastoral Psychotherapist in Glastonbury, Connecticut. This interview will be in “Living With Jung: Enterviews with Jungian Analysts” which will be published by Spring Journal and Books. Robert and his wife, Janis, are the authors. Download the article We must all Breathe (English language). 

LETTER TO JUNG ON HIS 125TH BIRTHDAY, ARNY MINDELL, (1999)

First published in German, in Marianne Schiess’s collection of essays: “LIEBER C.G. JUNG; Was Ich Ihnen Schon Immer Sagen Wolte”, Walter Verlag. Download the article Letter to Jung (English language)

JUNG, PROCESSWORK AND COLLECTIVE CHANGE: ARNY INTERVIEWED BY LUISETTA MUDIE

This interview occurred in connection with an International Association of Analytical Psychologists Jungian conference in Barcelona entitled, “The Edges of Experience.” Arny enjoyed speaking about his transitions at the edges of Jungian psychology. Mudie, L. (2004). Edges of experience: Jung , process work and collective change (Interview with Arnold Mindell). Link to the article free online

See the world wide web for numerous other articles and interviews.