Books on Spiritual Depth Psychology | Psychological Astrology Books

Books on spiritual depth psychology, psychological astrology, and Jungian dream work, by Greg Bogart PhD. Greg’s writings explore the wisdom of astrology, Jungian depth psychology and dream interpretation, and the power of deep meditation in self-care, and new pathways in the practice of psychotherapy. These books have been developed in the course of 40 years of work as a psychotherapist, astrological counselor, and university educator. This website features book descriptions and reviews, brief articles and book excerpts, and information about astrological counseling and how to schedule an appointment. For information about Greg’s holistic psychotherapy services, visit gregbogart.net

“Greg Bogart’s inspirational approach to spiritual depth psychology is potent medicine indeed.”
Linda Leonard, PhD, author of The Wounded Woman

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This book illustrates the union of astrology and psychotherapeutic methods, interpreting planetary symbolism in the light of attachment and personality theories, family systems, existential therapy, and Jungian dreamwork.

Greg Bogart describes how he practices astrology therapeutically in a way that’s emotionally centered, process-oriented, and strategic. It is focused on tasks, intentions, and positive behavioural change. Abundant examples show how astrological insights can help resolve emotional and interpersonal conflicts related to past traumas, depression, alcohol abuse, affairs, compulsive media immersion, workplace stress, and marital disagreements. Seen and experienced through a celestial lens, relationships become a path to wholeness, and this book shows in practical terms how astrological insights open paths to greater harmony and synergy with our friends, family, and spouses.

Through the case studies in this lovely book we gain appreciation for our common human predicaments and derive insights that we can apply to our own lives. All astrologers will find its insights rewarding. For more, go here.

“Straight up, I believe Greg Bogart’s book should be on the reading list of every practicing astrologer.” • Review from AstroBookClub.com

This book illustrates the power of astrology to facilitate emotional healing, to aid the life of couples and families, to guide the development of careers, to promote focus and purpose in daily life. It combines therapeutic astrology, the astrological study of relationships, vocational astrology, archetypal psychology, dream work, and the synthesis of astrology and music. Through detailed examples, readers learn to refine their interpretive skills and to practice astrology as a vital catalyst for both inner work and outer works, a way to achieve integration.

Influenced by Jung’s interests in astrology and dream analysis, the author presents a potent technique combining astrology and dreams, where awareness of parallels and synchronicities between dream imagery and planetary symbolism amplifies the truthful messages both convey, showing clear steps forward for transformations at crucial transitions. He illustrates how vocational astrology, informed by career counseling theory, helps us choose optimal occupational paths and fosters strategic timing and steady accomplishment in the realm of work.

Readers also learn the method of diurnal astrology, which enhances the enjoyment of daily tasks and activities, sharpens our sense of purpose, and aids effective time management.

Reviews of this book

There’s no finer teacher than years of experience helping flesh-and-blood human beings navigate their tangled lives. Greg Bogart’s latest book is steeped in the wisdom he has gained working day-to-day in the astrological trenches. To my ears, there is not a false note in these pages, and readers will find many fresh ideas and perspectives capable of passing the fierce tests of the counseling room. Once again, Greg Bogart has given working astrologers a treasure.
Steven Forrest, Author of The Inner Sky

I want to make sure you all know about Greg Bogart’s new and brilliant book. Greg, in his accessible authentic way, weaves his years of experience as an astrologer, psychotherapist and spiritual practitioner into this jewel of a book. Demonstrating many tools we can apply, he is practical, philosophical, expansive and grounded. As he has in other books, but brought to an even higher level here, Greg integrates case studies, autobiographical material and astrological and psychological technique, emphasizing work with different astrological cycles. A master dreamworker, he melds this with his clinical and astrological work; a musician, he ends with a wonderful chapter on musical principles and astrology-how both astrology and music are connected in our journeys of self-transformation. This book truly takes us on a microcosmic and macrocosmic journey. Thanks, Greg!
Claudia Bader, M.A., Astrologer and Psychotherapist

Greg Bogart’s wonderful new book gracefully opens the door to an understanding of higher frequency astrology. I have high praise and deep respect for this book, so mindfully written and beautifully communicated, and I recommend it to anyone interested in the fine art and genuine craft of astrology.
Kathy Rose, Roseastrology.com

Through sharing personal experiences as well as many examples from his client work, Greg eloquently illustrates how astrology is an invaluable tool in emotional healing, vocational guidance, and a method of enriching all areas of daily life. The breadth, depth, and originality of Greg’s insights in Astrology’s Higher Octaves will be valuable to both seasoned professionals as well as beginners interested in a very grounded, yet deeply spiritual approach to astrology.
Stephanie Austin, M.A., Ecoastrology.com

This book is bound to become a classic in our field. Some astrology books are instructive, some fun to read; “Astrology’s Higher Octaves” is both. I recommend it without reservation. It will be on my reading list for my correspondence school. This is one of those very few astrology books worth more than a single reading.
Bob Mulligan, Author of Between Astrologers and Clients

Written by one of the most experienced astrologers, authors, and psychotherapists today, The Astrology’s High Octaves is a masterful and much needed compendium of the therapeutic uses of astrology. For the psychotherapist and astrological counselor alike, it describes how astrological archetypes can open up paths for healing. Dr. Bogart illustrates how clients can participate with their charts by yielding to the meanings that arise synchronistically in planetary symbols and in life. Clients can then attune to the presiding energies and make choices for their own betterment. The psyche of the client and the astrological symbols collaborate in the healing process and attain a kind of Dao of astrology.
Gisele Terry, Marriage and Family Therapist, former President of International Society for Astrological Research

With grace and wisdom, Greg Bogart passes on his knowledge of how to use astrology with clients and for self-growth. This is a manual for the next generation of astrologers, but even the most experienced practitioners will find new ideas as the text builds to a crescendo with the chapter on music and astrology.
Arlan Wise, Vice President, The Organization for Professional Astrology

With the reemergence of technique-driven, formulaic systems in our field, it is more important than ever that we consultant astrologers have a person-centered, therapeutic approach to horoscope interpretation. In order to help others, we must know how to articulate the birth chart and be in dialogue with clients. In this masterful, illuminating book, Greg Bogart guides the reader with compassion, authority and wisdom towards these important goals. In particular, his work synthesising astrology with career counseling theory demonstrates how we can use astrology to navigate career cycles and professional crises, and to express our talents while accomplishing our inner calling in the outer world.
Frank Clifford, Principal of the London School of Astrology

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Dreams and Depression

Greg is also the author of Dreamwork in Holistic Psychotherapy of Depression: An Underground Stream that Guides and Heals (Routledge, 2017). This book describes how dreamwork can help alleviate depression, in both long-term and time-limited psychotherapy, and in self-treatment. The text explores how dreams shed light on issues contributing to depression—including drug and alcohol abuse, divorce, death and bereavement, conflicts about sex, health and body image, parenting, workplace stress and burnout, and ancestral, inter-generational trauma.

Combining Jungian and existential psychotherapy, Greg describes how attention to archetypal symbolism brings into focus new responses to pressing life challenges; and how allowing oneself to be affected by dream images and narratives promotes emotional, relational, and spiritual rejuvenation. This book will interest those who experience depression, as well as their therapists and loved ones. It details a method that can be practiced by couples and family members and adapted to group work in a variety of clinical, educational, and occupational settings—any place where people feel safe and free to explore, reveal, and discover themselves.

Reviews

“The book you hold is a distillation of the wisdom, knowledge, and clinical technique of an inspired interpreter of dreams. Greg Bogart shows us how messages from the deep psyche illuminate psychodynamics, current life situations, and directions for healing in our patients and ourselves. He shows that even what appear to be negative dreams orient us toward wholeness. Although this book concerns the treatment of many different kinds of depression, it is far more. I regard it as a major contribution to the wider field of depth psychotherapy, one I warmly recommend.”
Bryan Wittine, Ph.D, LMFT, Jungian Psychoanalyst, C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco

“Based on years of clinical experience and a marriage of the wisdom of Jung with the practical strategies of existential psychotherapy, Dr. Greg Bogart makes the meaning of dreams come alive. He demonstrates how dream work can be a potent resource at key turning points in the life cycle—including early adulthood, marriage, midlife, retirement, and old age. His examples are extremely clear and show the impact of working with an evolving series of dreams. Dr. Bogart uses dreams to address practical dilemmas in love and work but always with an eye to a universal and spiritual dimension of dreaming. I highly recommend this insightful and uplifting book. It is relevant for psychotherapists, dream analysts, and the general public, especially for those who are depressed and want to experience a unique approach to healing.”
Alan Siegel, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley; Education Chair and past President, International Association for the Study of Dreams

“In this innovative book, Dr. Greg Bogart makes a convincing case that working with dreams can be an effective treatment for depression. Bogart’s holistic approach combines existential psychotherapy, Jungian psychology, and cultural mythology. Each case study is a novella, filled with penetrating insights, and a joy to read. Dreamwork In Holistic Psychotherapy Of Depression is truly a breakthrough work, one that entertains as well as instructs.”
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Saybrook University

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Visit Routledge.com for information and orders.

Read Greg’s interview in the April/May 2006 issue of The Mountain Astrologer.

Some of Greg’s work was recently translated into Russian

Books on spiritual depth psychology