Educating Psyche: Imagination, Emotion and the Unconscious in Learning - Paperback

by Bernie Neville (Author)

Examines an extraordinary range of techniques and processes to facilitate learning in the classroom - indirect learning, suggestion, trance, psychodrama, relaxation, autogenic, biofeedback, visualisation, intuition, mind control, meditation. this are examined as proven approaches that can contribute to teaching and learning. It is a book about the psyche - the whole mind. It draws upon the great thinkers such as Jung, Freud, Rogers Ericsson and Whitehead. It is also about the goddess Psyche. It explores her myth and the myths of other gods as images of the other side of education.

Author Biography

Dr Bernie Neville is Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Higher Education at Swinburne University of Technology. He has researched and written extensively on the interpersonal aspects of teaching and learning and the application of counselling theory to the teaching-learning process. He has always had an interest in applying the thought of Carl Jung and Carl Rogers to the practicalities of teaching and counselling. He is also the author of The Life of Things (2013) and Olympus Inc (2004, 2011).