| The Western culture's heavy emphasis on empirical, rational therapy has left little room for tending the soul in mainstream mental health clinics; yet the rational mind and the poetic soul are both important avenues of treating the totality of clients. Using hermeneutical and alchemical hermetical methodology, this study explores how an integration of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and archetypal psychology might impact the therapeutic environment. The research suggests that these two approaches are not opposed and that image might serve as a primary pathway to integration; both CBT and archetypal approaches rely on the use of image, although in different ways. The ability to pull from both CBT and archetypal psychology may provide a breadth of tools that are diverse in language, thus allowing both the mind and soul of clients to be heard and embraced. Clinical implication for integration lies in the therapist's experience and comfort with the language of both approaches. |
