Discover + Heal + Grow🔭❤️🩹🌱 : A Taproot Therapy Collective Podcast
We felt the world had enough whispery mental wellness podcasts asking you to eat healthy and breathe deeply. We aim to be more honest and sometimes irreverent and funny about the forces that affect us all. Some episodes feel like hanging out with professional therapists at the bar after work, while others might feel like you’re listening in on a university class with professional thought leaders.
We discuss creativity, intuition, trauma, and the overlap between the three in the spectrum of consciousness and the psyche. Approaching topics from a depth psychology and brain-based medicine perspective, we explore the archetypes inherent in arts, design, and mass media. We delve into neuroscience, cutting-edge trauma neurobiology, Jungian psychology, relationships, political psychology, and feature interviews with both amateurs and experts.
Discover + Heal + Grow is the podcast of Taproot Therapy Collective, a complex PTSD and trauma-focused therapy practice in Birmingham, Alabama. Hosted by Joel Blackstock and the other therapists at Taproot, it focuses on consciousness and all the cool and messy parts of being human.
Subscribe for new episodes where we unpack topics like:
The neurobiology behind new age and eastern medicine concepts
Psychology of artists and design
Cutting-edge trauma therapy approaches
Brain-based medicine
Archetypes in culture and media
Psychology of true crime
Therapy representation in entertainment
Burnout in helping professions
And much more!
Whether you’re a fellow trauma therapist or just a fellow seeker, we offer authentic conversations that challenge conventional thinking and explore the depths of consciousness and healing.
Based in Birmingham, Alabama, Taproot Therapy Collective is the premier provider of therapy for severe and complex trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and depression. We provide EMDR, Brainspotting, ETT, somatic and Jungian therapy, as well as QEEG brain mapping and neurostimulation.
Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/
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The resources, videos, and podcasts on our site and social media are no substitute for mental health treatment. Please find a qualified mental health provider and contact emergency services in your area in the event of an emergency. Our number and email at Taproot Therapy Collective are only for scheduling, are not monitored consistently, and are not a reliable resource for emergency services.
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Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Subscribe to the podcast: https://GetTherapyBirmingham.podbean.com/e/astrophobia-why-are-so-many-trauma-patients-afraid-of-space/ Join Andres Duany, acclaimed author and urban planner, as he delves into the psychology of architecture and urban planning in the second part of our series: 📚🌇 #PsychologyOfArchitecture Discover the transformative power of well-planned towns and the archetypal elements of design on the human psyche: 🌳🧠 #UrbanPlanning #DesignPsychology Learn from the expertise of Mr. Duany, renowned for his work in Seaside, Florida; Kentlands, Maryland; and Alys Beach, Florida: 🏙️🏡 #AndresDuany #NewUrbanism Don't miss this insightful discussion on the psychological forces shaping our built environment: 🗣️🏗️ #PsychologyOfUrbanPlanning For more information, visit Taproot Therapy Collective: 🌿🤝 #TaprootTherapyCollective Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/ Address: 2025 Shady Crest Dr Suite 203 Hoover, AL 35216 Email: Admin@GetTherapyBirmingham.com Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/cnverPNUPuxiPkbc8 Podcast: https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/ Phone: (205) 598-6471 Fax: 205-634-3647 Uncover the intersection of psychology, architecture, and urbanism with Andres Duany: 🌇📚 #PsychologyOfArchitecture #UrbanDesign #Architecture #Architect #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #NewUrbanism #CongressForTheNewUrbanism #DesignPsychology #SeasideFL #AlysBeach
Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/Check out the youtube: https://youtube.com/@GetTherapyBirminghamPodcast Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/Podcast Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/GetTherapyBirmingham/feed.xmlTaproot Therapy Collective2025 Shady Crest Drive | Hoover, Alabama 35216Phone: (205) 598-6471Fax: (205) 634-3647 Email: Admin@GetTherapyBirmingham.comThe resources, videos and podcasts on our site and social media are no substitute for mental health treatment. Please find a qualified mental health provider and contact emergency services in your area in the event of an emergency to a provider in your area. Our number and email are only for scheduling at Taproot Therapy Collective are not monitored consistently and not a reliable resource for emergency services. More @ https://gettherapybirmingham.com/
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Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
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In my house, like in most houses in America there is a fireplace. My wife and I do not often use our fireplace. In fact, I am not even sure if it works. Now that there are more efficient forms of heating installed in most homes there is really no need for fireplaces, but they continue to be built all the same. Any interior decorator or homemaker worth their salt will tell you that whether or not a fireplace works it cannot be blocked, and furniture must be placed so that people can gather around it. The style of houses that we build today are still based on the same basic floor plan of the ancient Roman style of architecture. In Rome, houses were built around a lares, or hearth fires, where penates, ancestral gods of the family, were revered and guarded the home.
Even though most Americans could not tell you why the hearth is afforded such significance, it is still agreed upon in western design language that the hearth is significant. The origin of the hearth idea in western architecture is one example of the many ways that the religious impulse indirectly recognizes a connection to our ancestors. As humans we long for transpersonal and trans-generational connectedness. Jungian oriented therapists help clients cultivate the transcendental and reflective skills that a well-developed spiritual dimension brings into our lives.
Inhale, exhaleForward, backLiving, dying:Arrows, let flown each to eachMeet midway and sliceThe void in aimless flightThus I return to the source.
–Japanese Death PoemGesshu Soko, died January 10, 1696, at age 79:
Stephen Jenkins is a palliative care counselor and writer that I admire. In his writing, he makes the argument that western culture has an unhealthy avoidance of the reality of death. Jenkins writes that that the fear of death in our society has robbed us of a spiritual dimension and tools for everyday life that ancient civilizations have always had. Acceptance of one’s own mortality and acknowledging one’s ancestors are directly related concepts. Jenkins’ argument is that acceptance of death is what gives a culture the ability to make meaning and understand its own story. If we deny or disregard death as an important part of our human experience, then we can never make meaning of our own lives. We must embrace this important part of our humanity if we are to be able to make ourselves whole (Wilson, T 2009).
As a society we hide children from the dying, and often even from the elderly; not allowing young people to understand this important stage in the life journey. We do not value the wisdom of the aged; we simply treat their cultural experience as out of date. It is our general cultural practice to pretend that we are immortal. We hide from death and all the trappings of death until it is too late. We wait until we are at the end of our life journey and we have not developed any tools to help us understand how to die. This practice is to our own deficit and the deficit of our culture. Jenkins argues in his interviews that our culture needs to embrace death and the process of dying in order to reclaim the spirituality our culture has lost (Wilson, T 2009).
It’s your life. You don’t know how long it’s going to be but you know it’s got a bad ending.
–Don DraperMad Men; Season 2, Episode 9
Spirituality in most religions contains a meditative or contemplative component used to orient one’s priorities, clarify goals and values, and discover one’s own personal identity and agency within the world. Although spirituality is a vague concept that can mean many things to many people, most therapists agree on the importance of spirituality in the therapeutic process. One of the major benefits of spirituality in therapy is that spirituality assists clients in understanding their place in the world, and helps clients accept their own finitude and mortality. This is true whether a person’s spiritual tradition advocates belief in an afterlife, a multi-layered reality, or simply a scientific materialist understanding of the world. Regardless of an individual’s spiritual tradition, an active spiritual life will help a therapist engage an individual in important reflective personal questions.
Personal spirituality is different from organized religion. Developing one’s own personal spirituality distinct from the organized religion you participate in is important because it allows individuals to answer questions and face struggles unique to their own life. There is much diversity between different individuals’ life course trajectories. What works for one person may not work for another person. Developing one’s own personal spiritual dimension inside or outside of an organized religion increases an individual’s self-efficacy and individual human capacity for choice-making.
A robust spiritual dimension allows individuals to solve problems that arise in the life course in the best way for them, according to their own strengths and weaknesses. This self-efficacy is an important protective factor for individuals as they develop throughout the life course. This protective factor can help individuals avoid many problems as they traverse the various stages of life.
In the book The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker puts forth a hypothesis that won him the Pulitzer Prize, and changed the way many cognitive theorists thought about therapy. Becker argued that human cognition is a defense mechanism against the knowledge that we must die. Many drives within humanity are attempts to make ourselves immortal and find ways of obtaining spiritual immortality. Becker put forward the idea that anxiety, depression, and even psychosis can be attributed to the breakdown in our immortality seeking processes. Becker argued that human beings long for secular and religious accomplishments because we believe that these will make us immortal. Becker argued that cognitive problems arise when our culture lacks the spiritual and numinous dimension that allows us to understand death and accept our finitude (Becker, E. 1973).
The part of Becker’s theory that is most applicable to therapy and social work practice is his idea of immortality. Becker’s idea of immortality is much more involved than simply an idea of an afterlife in popular culture and religion. In The Denial of Death immortality is the way that a person finds their significance, self-worth, and meaning in relation to the universe (Becker, E. 1973).
We attain spiritual immortality when we have a well-developed spiritual dimension that allows us to feel connected to the past, others in the present and to future generations. It is this connectedness that allows us to feel spiritually immortal and come to terms with our mortality. In the ancient world heroic deeds and religious traditions were an attempt to feel connectedness to a numinous reality larger than the time ancients lived within. Becker argues that nothing but spirituality of some kind can give humans the connectedness to the fabric of our world and provide us the spiritual immortality we long for.
One of the reasons that Becker’s theories were so successful is that they build on the basic assumption that all human beings know at a fundamental level that we will one day die. Because of this we are all in a sense already dead. This knowledge is an intrinsic part of our humanity that we must learn how to handle, or it will lead us to destroy ourselves. The reason that this is important to include in a discussion of spirituality in psychotherapy practice is that this theory of therapy makes spirituality an essential component in the therapeutic process. The problem of death in our own and in our clients’ lives must be solved in order to live a fulfilling life. This cannot be done without the transcendent quality of spiritual practice.
In my own life I find Becker’s spiritual immortality in what will be preserved of me in how I change the world for the better. I personally have no interest in the concept of the afterlife in my own religious tradition, but I do not need that to feel motivated and important. Sharing love that changes the lives of those around me and the lives of those they will touch is where I find immortality. What will be preserved of me is the impression that I leave on this world through how I live my life and affect the lives of others.
The presence of me will be preserved by people who likely do not recognize or understand what they are preserving. We are all released into the earth, and into the stuff of the heart, and the mind, the character of others, and the lives of everyone who antecedes us. A piece of the things that are part of me will become part of everyone whom I become a part of. The things that made me who I am did not come only from me; but also from those before me and how they shaped the world. The juice of ourselves was never ours, but something we borrowed from countless others. This is not something that would make sense to everyone, but it is what makes sense to me.
Life is chaotic and overwhelming to the best of us. To understand it we need a lens to view our world in a way that makes sense to us. When we develop our own spiritual dimension it can act as the lens that lets us understand our world. Our personal spirituality tells us why we are unique and special. It gives us the immortality that Becker describes in a way that we decide is important to us. A robust spiritual dimension can help us live life intentionally, mindfully and effectively.
Bibliography
Wilson, T., Clarke, A., Lorber HT Digital, Alive Mind Media, & National Film Board of Canada (2009). Griefwalker. United States: Alive Mind.
Becker, E. (1973). The denial of death. New York: Free Press.
Weil, A. (2005). Healthy aging: A lifelong guide to your physical and spiritual well-being. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/Check out the youtube: https://youtube.com/@GetTherapyBirminghamPodcast Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/Podcast Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/GetTherapyBirmingham/feed.xmlTaproot Therapy Collective2025 Shady Crest Drive | Hoover, Alabama 35216Phone: (205) 598-6471Fax: (205) 634-3647 Email: Admin@GetTherapyBirmingham.comThe resources, videos and podcasts on our site and social media are no substitute for mental health treatment. Please find a qualified mental health provider and contact emergency services in your area in the event of an emergency to a provider in your area. Our number and email are only for scheduling at Taproot Therapy Collective are not monitored consistently and not a reliable resource for emergency services. More @ https://gettherapybirmingham.com/
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Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
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One of the available resources on the website is a meditation designed to help you connect with the shadow part of yourself, which may have been repressed due to trauma or negative experiences. This meditation aims to bring awareness to the aspects of yourself that you may avoid.
Please note that the resources, videos, and podcasts provided on the site and social media platforms are not a substitute for mental health treatment. If you require professional assistance, it is important to seek help from a qualified mental health provider. In case of an emergency, please contact emergency services or a local mental health provider. The provided phone number and email address are for scheduling purposes at Taproot Therapy Collective and may not be regularly monitored for emergencies.
For more information and to explore additional content, you can visit the Taproot Therapy Collective website:
Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/Check out the youtube: https://youtube.com/@GetTherapyBirminghamPodcast Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/Podcast Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/GetTherapyBirmingham/feed.xmlTaproot Therapy Collective2025 Shady Crest Drive | Hoover, Alabama 35216Phone: (205) 598-6471Fax: (205) 634-3647 Email: Admin@GetTherapyBirmingham.comThe resources, videos and podcasts on our site and social media are no substitute for mental health treatment. Please find a qualified mental health provider and contact emergency services in your area in the event of an emergency to a provider in your area. Our number and email are only for scheduling at Taproot Therapy Collective are not monitored consistently and not a reliable resource for emergency services.
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Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
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Leon Krier is uncompromising in his philosophy of design and philosophy of architecture. His vision of the past and future make him a controversial figure. He is one of the key figures in the founding of the new urbanism movement. Krier's architectural theory is fixated on designing permanent construction that will endure both physically and stylistically. His theoretical orientation is highly informed by the peak oil movement of the 1970's, but the implications are important for an urban and architectural future that is sustainable.
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Monday Jun 20, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
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Friday May 27, 2022
Friday May 27, 2022
Peak Neuroscience has clinics in Dallas Texas and Birmingham Alabama. Their Neuro stimulation and brain mapping treatment pairs neurofeedback EEG with a neurostimulation device that targets specific parts of the brain. Neurostimulation has been proven to reduce the symptoms of PTSD, Autism, Dissociation and many other disorders.
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Taproot Therapy Collective2025 Shady Crest Drive | Hoover, Alabama 35216Phone: (205) 598-6471Fax: (205) 634-3647 Email: Admin@GetTherapyBirmingham.com
The resources, videos and podcasts on our site and social media are no substitute for mental health treatment. Please find a qualified mental health provider and contact emergency services in your area in the event of an emergency to a provider in your area. Our number and email are only for scheduling at Taproot Therapy Collective are not monitored consistently and not a reliable resource for emergency services.
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Sunday May 22, 2022
Sunday May 22, 2022
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Taproot Therapy Collective2025 Shady Crest Drive | Hoover, Alabama 35216Phone: (205) 598-6471Fax: (205) 634-3647 Email: Admin@GetTherapyBirmingham.com
The resources, videos and podcasts on our site and social media are no substitute for mental health treatment. Please find a qualified mental health provider and contact emergency services in your area in the event of an emergency to a provider in your area. Our number and email are only for scheduling at Taproot Therapy Collective are not monitored consistently and not a reliable resource for emergency services.
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Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
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Taproot Therapy Collective2025 Shady Crest Drive | Hoover, Alabama 35216Phone: (205) 598-6471Fax: (205) 634-3647 Email: Admin@GetTherapyBirmingham.com
The resources, videos and podcasts on our site and social media are no substitute for mental health treatment. Please find a qualified mental health provider and contact emergency services in your area in the event of an emergency to a provider in your area. Our number and email are only for scheduling at Taproot Therapy Collective are not monitored consistently and not a reliable resource for emergency services.
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Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Brainspotting: Exploring Processing and Aftercare ✨
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Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
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Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Trauma is stored in a part of the brain that lies beneath language, cognition, and the ego. To effectively heal the effects of trauma, it is necessary to explore the roots of trauma in the subcortical brain. Therapists must begin with the visible symptoms in the cognitive process and delve beneath the surface into the subcortical brain. The roots of trauma impact our emotional system, and the deepest aspects of trauma lie in the way our physical body reacts to stimuli and emotions. By letting go of the ego and tapping into the creative and intuitive aspects of the deep brain, we can heal trauma.
It's important to note that the resources, videos, and podcasts provided on the website and social media are not a substitute for mental health treatment. If you require assistance, please seek a qualified mental health provider, and in case of emergencies, contact the appropriate emergency services in your area. The contact information provided is for scheduling purposes at Taproot Therapy Collective and is not monitored consistently for emergency services.
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Anxiety and Trauma Therapist in Birmingham Alabama
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
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Hoover, AL 35216
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Anxiety and Trauma Therapist in Birmingham Alabama
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Subscribe to the podcast and delve into intriguing topics like astrophobia and its connection to trauma patients' fear of space: 🎧 https://GetTherapyBirmingham.podbean.com/e/astrophobia-why-are-so-many-trauma-patients-afraid-of-space/ Explore a wealth of free resources on our website to support your journey: 🌐 https://www.gettherapybirmingham.com/ Jung, a multifaceted figure, ventured into parapsychology and ESP, pushing the boundaries of psychology. While he didn't define the limits of his psychology, his legacy birthed "depth psychology," studying archetypal images within the collective unconscious in fields such as sociology, anthropology, creative writing, and comparative religion. Jungian psychology stands apart, focusing on growth and self-discovery throughout life. Instead of symptom reduction, it aims to help individuals explore their desires and express their true selves through creativity. Join us on this transformative path. For more information, visit
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Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
This is a free mindfulness meditation for relaxation and processing anxiety.Mindfulness works because in the present moment there is usually not that much to worry about. Maybe we are a little tired, or hungry, maybe it is cold, but there is not much to deeply upset us.
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To subscribe to the podcast, you can click on the following link: 🎧🌟 Podcast
For additional free resources, you can visit the Get Therapy Birmingham website: 💻 GetTherapyBirmingham.com
One of the available resources on the website is a meditation designed to help you connect with the shadow part of yourself, which may have been repressed due to trauma or negative experiences. This meditation aims to bring awareness to the aspects of yourself that you may avoid.
Please note that the resources, videos, and podcasts provided on the site and social media platforms are not a substitute for mental health treatment. If you require professional assistance, it is important to seek help from a qualified mental health provider. In case of an emergency, please contact emergency services or a local mental health provider. The provided phone number and email address are for scheduling purposes at Taproot Therapy Collective and may not be regularly monitored for emergencies.
For more information and to explore additional content, you can visit the Taproot Therapy Collective website:
Address:
2025 Shady Crest Dr
Suite 203
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“Truth of feature is related to truth of being”
- Frank Lloyd Wright
What does the building in the dream look like?
How does the space make you feel?
During dream work and active imagining, I often ask clients these questions. Many times clients lack any formal training in architectural style or the history of design. When I name the specific architectural styles or design traditions present in client’s dreams they often draw a blank on the names. When I ask them if the design elements of those styles are present then I get “Oh yeah! The stone had this blocky spiraly pattern.” or “The columns had this simple shape over and over like in [X] movie”. People remember how the spaces they were in made them feel first and the details about those same spaces second. In dreams buildings have a symbolic and metaphorical component.
Architects and design professionals will tell you, people don’t always consciously notice the space they are in. Yet people unconsciously feel the interiors they inhabit in an intuitive way. “Clean up your house” is one of the early mandates that many cognitive therapists will prescribe to patients under the assumption that their space becoming more orderly in the exterior will reorder their interior cognition.
Jung began developing his theory of archetype when he was working with psychotic and impoverished persons that had no exposure to anthropology or mythological theory. Yet Jung observed these persons’ psychotic episodes and hallucinatory events often were exact descriptions of ancient Babylonian and Persian mythology. Jung’s conclusion was that the images and symbols of unconscious are often “collective” or universal amongst all humans due to their shared evolutionary history.
Are there archetypal elements of architecture, in the same way that their primal elements of consciousness?
As I said before, when I mention to clients during dream work specific architectural styles; Incan revival, Frank Lloyd Wright, Danish modern; they often draw a blank. Yet when I ask them for details about the structures they have experienced many of the specific details of these styles of design through the psyche in their dream world. Are there archetypal visual patterns that come from our unconscious? Carl Jung thought that the unconscious spoke in symbols through myth and dreams. He saw metaphor as a way that our psyche could tell us deeper truths than language and consciousness alone could contain. It would make sense that the unconscious also speaks through the houses and cities we build to contain our lives.
Design itself is a kind of symbol. In the same way that a poem or song can make us feel something that is not present in the literal meaning of its text. Just like a poem is more than a list or a story, architecture is more than creating a structure that won’t fall down. Like poetry, the arrangements of structural elements in architecture gesture towards a greater meaning than merely practical purpose. Architecture is meant to impart an emotional story, and sense of structural purpose. The point of a well designed building is to have an effect on our psyche.
The interpretation of dreams enriches consciousness to such an extent that it relearns the forgotten language of the instincts.
~Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols, Page 52.
The set designer of the 1982 film Bladerunner (Lawrence G. Paull) did an interview once that I found fascinating. Paull explained that the world in the script of Bladerunner lacked any exposition. Paul said he built three sets over each set. In the first set there was high technology overlaid over a previously mechanical world. In the second set people had overlaid the infrastructure for wireless technological revolution over this first tactile-technical world. On the third layer of the set that he built, Paul over lapped vandalism and security devices. The script doesn’t tell the audience the history of the world, but the audience intuits the history based on the design of the world. The audience feels the conflicting sense of an optimistic and hopeful world overlain with a cynical and hopeless future. Here the subconscious elements of design are used to tell a story.
Our sub-cortical body brains, that Jung described as our unconscious, evolved to feel our deep emotional and intuitive experiences at a level beneath cognition. Being aware of how our environment made us feel at an unconscious level kept us alive through prehistory. Our fight or flight system that helps us to “read the room or “know something in the gut” is the core of this system and the oldest evolutionary piece of our brain, with all other parts developing later. The latest neuroscience indicates that the first thing that our infant brain begins to recognize is the basic structure of the faces around us and then, later, the rooms and spaces those faces inhabit. What is it about these spaces that we are designed to recognize from an evolutionary standpoint? Are there deeply unconscious reactions that design and architecture invoke in us?
We have an instinctual reaction to shape and symbol. A dog will bark at a snake shaped stick because the dogs that didn’t bark at that shape died.
Jung’s idea of archetypal postulated that their were structures that underlay consciousness. These structures manifest as psychological patterns that can be observed repeating across history in mythology, politics, and culture. Could they also be found in design? Seldom are the implications of the visual part of archetypes discussed. But yet, aren’t the “element and principals of design” the first thing that a pupil learns in art school?” There is a tacit agreement among design professionals that certain forms of design are good or bad in a way that defies any cognitive or intellectual rule.
Leon Krier Painting in Post Modern Classicsm ArchitectureLeon Krier is one architect who has written about the archetypal elements of structures. Krier has written extensively about the patterns and forms in city planning and their effect on our psychology. Krier is an architect, design theorist, and urban planner. He became famous for his work on Seaside, Florida; Poundbury, England; and Ciudad Cayalá in Guatemala. He was influential to the new urbanism movement. Krier works in a postmodern classicist style. His work striped ornamentation, removed extraneous detail and assembled the oldest and most timeless architectural features. You will recognize many design elements in his drawings that have been a part of architecture since the bronze age.
“The poet does not excel by inventing new words, but when by particular arrangements of otherwise familiar words, he makes us see ourselves in new ways,”
-Leon Krier
Krier’s architecture is interesting to me as a psychotherapist because his work is in conversation with Jung’s ideas and focuses on the psychological reactions that design evokes. Krier felt that the archetypal ideas in architecture were unchanging because they were inborn from the deep psyche. Krier believed that the usage of structure and space should be intuited from design. Much of Krier’s work was built around his study of the way that people think and function. Krier was molding the architecture to the person instead of attempting to mold people with architecture.
Krier and the new urbanist movement designed space that innately fused with the way that humans historically think, feel and live. This clashed with the modernist ideas present at the beginning of Krier’s career. The modernist architects practicing after the middle of the century sought to uproot the structures present in society and transform the way that humans lived through design. In Krier’s notes and doodles he expresses contempt for the hubris and revolutionary tendencies of the disciples of Mies van der Rohe and le Corbusier. The debate of tradition vs progress has been raging in architecture for nearly two centuries.
‘In traditional cultures invention, innovation and discovery are means to improve handed-down systems of communication, representation, thinking and building … in Modernist cultures, by contrast, invention, innovation, and discovery are ends in themselves’
-Leon Krier
Krier is not clinging to tradition and antiquity simple to be anachronistic. Instead Krier is reaching through all of the traditions to find the most fundamental pieces of architecture in their most pure form. Jung’s work in psychology was an attempt to find these same primal forms and the roots of what makes us human. Krier’s insistence on shaving design elements back to their most time honored and simplest forms make his buildings seem like they sprung from dreams or myth. Krier works in with structural archetypes. His buildings often feel like they exist in both all eras and none.
One of Krier’s early projects, Atlantis at Tenerife, was never built. However, elements of it informed thousands of projects that Krier and other architects did build over the next decades. Don’t these renderings look like the setting of a dream? Perhaps Krier did have an intuitive insight into the forms that lurk in our shared unconscious psyche.
In the Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison writes about architecture “Must we change our way of existing before we can change the way we build? Or would changing the way we build change the way we exist?”.
Jung observed that our brains are capable of processing information in both an introverted and extroverted way. Our brains are designed to search the world around us for information but also to have our inner and subjective experiences guide us. We are designed to learn about the world around us through the spaces we inhabit, but also through our own inward journeys. In other words, our thinking is a product of our environment while also our environment is a product of our thinking. Both projects must be undertaken simultaneously. We need creativity in our personal interior and cultural exterior worlds to be whole.
We need both internal and external creativity to be whole. We need to look for the soul of our collective hummanity dually in the patterns of our ancient history and our ability to transcend that history.
The search for the basic structure of the deepest parts of consciousness is something that the field of architecture, like all other creative disciplines, can help us with but not somethings that it can do for us. We can take inspiration from innovation while still recognizing that what makes a design good is how well it resonates with the deepest patterns inborn in our creative human spirit.
Humans make mythology in the same way they make architecture. Both The Odyssey and Star Wars are built on the same mythological framework and describe the same inborn heroic process within us. Both are one attempt to tell the same story with in our own ongoing human story. Both are using the same elements to tell the same story, yet both stories are different. We are driven to describe over and over again the patterns and voices, shapes and spaces that we sense from within our own soul.
The debate between modernism and traditionalism in design is a flawed one when it assumes only environment or self determines reality. We can neither completely control society through building nor can we find inner peace and natural order while living in a creatively devoid chaotic wasteland. The journey to find and know the self through creativity is both a collective and personal one. It is through discovering how to build that we can find ourselves and through finding ourselves that we discover how to build.
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