Reclaiming the Fire

Depth Psychology in Teacher Renewal

Clifford Mayes, Mark Grandstaff, Alexandra Fidyk

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781475813715
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Professional Development

This book examines six psychological and spiritual giants that were working a half century ago whose insights are as powerful today as they were then—perhaps even more so given the current corporate agenda to standardize education and thereby take the soul out of it. Indeed, it is precisely because we are so aware of the impossible demands placed upon teachers these days, which overtax already valiantly devoted and terribly overworked teachers and which also continue to ignore the fact that the problems children face are not a product of our schools but of our society at large—that the authors have written this book. This book will help you renew your noble sense of mission so that, even in these trying times for teachers, you will feel more fulfilled in all that you accomplish, will discover ways to renew your vision of yourself as a teacher despite all the grossly and unjustly negative things that are said about teachers, and will find new ways of continue in your extremely important work.

Table of contents

• Introduction: Foundations of the Teacher’s Sense of Calling
• 1 Five Psychospiritual Thinkers of the Twentieth Century and What They Can Tell Us about the Teacher’s Sense of Calling
• 2 Jung: The Essentials
• 3 Individuation and Vocation in the Second Half of Life
• 4 Individuation, the “Vocatus,” and Teaching
• 5 Of Archetypes and Journeys: Case Studies
• 6 “The University of the Waves”: An Encounter for Archetypal Reflectivity
• Conclusion: Reclaiming the Fire
• Appendix A: Typology and Stress
• Appendix B: Jungian Types
• Appendix C: Characteristics Frequently Associated with Each of the Meyers-Briggs Psychological Types
• Index
• About the Authors