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Nancy Furlotti started her career in psychology in the mid-1980s, after completing a three-year Extension Program in Psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles. She then went on to pursue a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University in Los Angeles. Six years later, she began a three-year course at The Research and Training Centre in Depth Psychology according to Carl Gustave Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz. She also earned a Diploma in Analytical Psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. Today, Nancy Furlotti is studying for her Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology at Saybrook University.
To complement her work in the field of clinical psychotherapy, Nancy Furlotti belongs to a variety professional organizations such as the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. She also plays an active role in organizations such as the International Association of Analytical Psychology, the Council of North American Societies of Jungian Analysis, the Research and Training Center in Depth Psychology, and the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles.
Nancy Furlotti is a Jungian analyst and long-time member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, having previously served both as its president and a member of its board of directors. An accomplished writer, Nancy Furlotti is also an editor and contributor for The Dream and Its Amplification, a new collection of scholarly articles by some of the leading Jungian analysts in the world. But what exactly is “dream amplification?“
Carl Jung, protege and rival of Sigmund Freud, was one of the most important thinkers in early psychology and psychoanalysis. Like Freud, Jung believed that dreams are an important window into the unconscious human mind, and that developing methods of dream analysis could therefore be very useful in helping patients resolve their problems. Dream amplification is a Jungian method of dream analysis that examines the concrete images in dreams to unlock their hidden and deeper meanings.
Unlike Freudian dream analysis, Jungian amplification eschews free association of imagery in favor of searching for concrete parallels in human myths, legends, art, and other cultural archetypes. The task of the analyst is in locating the archetypal elements that are present in the dream and finding cultural parallels in myths, comparitive religions, fairy tales, and legends. By doing so, the analyst is able to gain a broader insight into what the dream image may mean. Dream amplification is only one part of a seasoned Jungian analyst’s toolbox for dream analysis, drawn upon to unveil the archetypal elements present, but it helps provide a solid, relatively objective framework, and as such is an indispensable part of his or her arsenal.
