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An Archetypal Understanding of
Criminalized Drug Addicts

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From the back cover:
 
An interesting and socially-important psychological review of the criminal archetype, that views the phenomenon of criminalized drug addiction both from the inside, as well as from the academic perspective. Dr John Smethers takes us on a deeply personal journey, looking at the root causes and effects of a sub-culture populated by society's social outcasts. Drug addicts, alcoholics and petty criminals are studied from the unique perspective of someone who has not only 'been there', but one who has also successfully struggled against the social and psychological forces that have lead so many of our young men into hopelessness and despair. This is a keen and insightful look into a little-known underworld which we all, in one way or another, have helped to create.  (Stephen Manning, Ph.D., author of The Color of Truth)
 
Depth psychologist John Smethers' Scumbag Sewer Rats offers a unique, fascinating and heartfelt glimpse into the world of criminalized drug addicts, revealing both the self-indulgence and the outgong humanity of the puer and trickster images that is so prevalent in the social order of this shadowed underworld.  (Mike Denney, MD, PhD, author of Second Opinion)
 

Synopsis of Scumbag Sewer Rats (10:24)

My name is John E. Smethers, Ph.D., and though I'm not currently teaching, I am  an adjunct faculty member in the psychology department of Barstow College and the sociology department of Park University.

Click here for my Issues in Psychology course at Barstow College

Click here for my Intro to Psychology course at Barstow College

This site has been created to draw interest to my two books. The first one
 
SCUMBAG SEWER RATS:
An Archetypal Understanding of Criminalized Drug Addicts
 
is pictured above. The second one is
 
SCUMBAG TO Ph.D:
30 Years of Drug Addiction
(unpublished)
 
Scumbag Sewer Rats: Criminalized Male Drug Addicts and the Trickster Archetype is the title of my doctoral dissertation, which served as a
foundation for my book Scumbag Sewer Rats: An Archetypal Understanding of
Criminalized Drug Addicts.

Education:
 
(Ph.D. , Depth Psychology - 2004)
 

(Master of Human Services in Community Psychology  - 1998)

(BA, Psychology - 1994)

(AA, Psychology - 1992)

Take Carl Jung's
then read
a description of

at the bottom of the page to find the archetypes that are active in your life

to find your financial archetypes


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The classic puer aeternus
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Hermes, the classical trickster
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The real, Catch Me if You Can, trickster
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My principal interests are Addiction/Recovery, Depth Psychology
and the American Civil War

What is Depth Psychology?

The short answer: depth psychology is a tradition initiated by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and elaborated on by others, including James Hillman with his Archetypal Re-visioning of psychology as well as many of the phenomenological schools. The spirit of depth psychology is nourished by understanding literature, myth, spirituality, alchemy, and the mystery traditions. For the long answer, click on What is Depth Psychology?

Carl Gustav Jung wrote that:

"Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to put away his scholar’s gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world. There, in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells [sic], in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, Socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with real knowledge of the human soul" (Jung, 1945, 1953, p. 244 [CW 7, para. 409]).

Criminalized drug addicts (mostly male), who I also refer to as jointsters, personify two archetypes: the Puer Aeternus (eternal boy in Latin) and the Trickster


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