Unit

School Of Psychology

Notions of MadnessWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 100548.1

Discipline: PSYCHOLOGY

Student Contribution Band: 1

Level: 7

Credit Points: 10

Prerequisite
100543 Foundations of Analytical Psychology

About this Unit
In a frenetic society that has given up dreams and fantasy, that is characterised by people rushing vertiginously ahead, like guinea pigs continually bombarded with stimuli rushing madly around their cage, the depth psychology tradition sees as its task the recovery of the imaginary, the poetry of the soul. 'Psychological transformation' and 'spiritual emergence' are explored in relation to what is often experienced as a 'madness' when placed against the normalising practices of society.