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