Christy Gardner, PhD on Clubhouse

Bio

🦋 Depth | Jungian & Archetypal Psychology
📝 Copyeditor
🎓 Scholar
💧 Float Therapy
📍 Long Beach, CA
👤 Dyslexic + ADHD
📆 Gen-X
📸 Instagram: @psychesbath
🕊 Twitter: @psychesbath

🔎 The tea:

🔱 I just completed the doctoral program in the depth psychology, Jungian and Archetypal Studies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California.

🔱 In my dissertation, I applied a Jungian-depth psychological lens to understand and interpret non-ordinary states of consciousness including numinous, perinatal, out-of-body, hypnagogic, and other transpersonal phenomena associated with flotation-REST (restricted environmental stimulation technique).

🔱 I explored archetypal, alchemical, and somatic themes, patterns, and motifs observable in the experience of flotation.

🔱 Flotation tank therapy, originally pioneered by John C. Lilly at the National Institute of Mental Health in 1954, is a holistic, water-based form of sensory deprivation and isolation therapy.

📖 DISSERTATION INFO:
🦋 TITLE | Psyche’s Bath: A Hermeneutic Inquiry into the Phenomenology of Flotation-REST
👥 COMMITTEE: Dr. Keiron Le Grice (chair); Dr. Jonathan Young (reader); Dr. Anette Kjellgren (external reader)
👉 AVAILABLE on https://www.proquest.com
🗝 KEYWORDS:
🔹 Jungian Psychology
🔹 Archetypal Psychology
🔹 Flotation-REST
🔹 Isolation Tank
🔹 Sensory Deprivation
🔹 Archetypes
🔹 Symbols
🔹 Psyche/Soul
🔹 Active Imagination
🔹 Individuation
🔹 Death-Rebirth
🔹 Trauma
🔹 Shadow
🔹 Alchemy
🔹 Mythology
🔹 Dreams / Visions
🔹 Altered States OC
🔹 Nonordinary States OC
🔹 Perinatal Psychology
🔹 Birth Trauma
🔹 Transpersonal Psychology
🔹 Somatic Psychology

🏫 I received my M.A. from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and my B.A. in Liberal Arts from Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, California.