4 papers in the library · 3 citations · publishing 1991-2026
September 7, 2026 Karen Peoples
Karen Peoples, Ph.D., from the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) in San Francisco believes that telepathic dreams between patient and analyst are “surprisingly common” and can occur so frequently for some individuals as to seem “quite ordinary.” However, for Karen, the impact of shared similar dreams between her and her patient collided for her “with an electric shock,”...
Psychoanalytic Dialogues November 2, 2025 Karen Peoples, Megan Rundel
In this paper, we take up the question of what happens from a psychoanalytic perspective when a patient engages in psychedelic-assisted therapy. While some writers have suggested that psychedelic agents promote regression to an earlier point in development, we argue that such states may be better understood as expanding the mind beyond ordinary consciousness. We assert that traditional models...
May 9, 2023 Karen Peoples 1 citation
In this chapter, Karen Peoples weaves together CJ and psychoanalytic conceptualizations of the “infinite unconscious” to provide a framework for working therapeutically with mystical and NOSC. She offers the reader numerous considerations for the therapist’s access to and containment of unconscious energies, working with the subtle body to facilitate sensory-energetic transformations in...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology October 1, 1991 Karen Peoples, Bert Parlee 2 citations
The ego as a construct in humanistic and transpersonal psychology has a turbulent history. Early efforts to distinguish transpersonal theories from the reductionism of Freudian drive psychology tended to eschew psychoanalytic views altogether, including theories on the development of the ego as an intrapsychic structure. In the last decade, transpersonal theorists have began to recognize and...