Zürich-trained Jungian analyst and music-centered psychotherapist Joel Kroeker joins us from Victoria, British Columbia to discuss his new book, 'Jungian Music Psychotherapy: When Psyche Sings' (Affiliate Link: [ Ссылка ]), published by Routledge in 2019.
Joel Kroeker is a Jungian analyst and music-centered psychotherapist in private practice in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Mr. Kroeker began studying music composition and guitar performance at the University of Manitoba and then went on to complete the graduate program in music-centered psychotherapy at Wilfrid Laurier University near Toronto, earning a master’s degree in music therapy. He later received a second master’s degree in ethnomusicology from the University of Alberta.
An award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist, he spent ten years traveling the world as an international recording artist releasing albums on Universal/True North Records. He has won awards for Pop Album of the Year and Film Score of the Year, and was nominated for Songwriter of the Year along with Sarah McLachlan, Nelly Furtado, and Ian Tyson.
He studied Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with the pioneer of mindfulness-based CBT, Zindel Segal, through the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine, and later spent five years training as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich where he earned his Diploma in Analytical Psychology.
Mr. Kroeker has served as a board member of the C.G. Jung Society of Vancouver, and lectures regularly at the Jung societies of both Vancouver and Victoria. He is the founding international workshop facilitator of a new psychotherapeutic method called Archetypal Music Psychotherapy which integrates core Jungian principles within a clinical improvisation framework.
His new book, Jungian Music Psychotherapy: When Psyche Sings, published by Routledge in 2019, was 25 years in the making. It was the Shambhala Online Book of the Month for April 2020, and it is the subject of our talk today.
TOPICS: what music is, music vs. sound, sound as symbol, how the psyche metabolizes sound, Jung's grandson Dieter Baumann, the overgrowth of bone inside Jung’s own ear, the McGurk Effect, how music can both heal and harm, Jung's map of the psyche, perception as a creative act, the BTS song "Persona," Logos vs. Eros, lyrics in a foreign language, melodic automatism, grocery store music, dissonance, the iso-principle, music as an intrapsychic metaphor, intrapsychic deaf spots, and how music can be a metaphor for the map of the soul.
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