This seminar examines serpent imagery as a clinically observable symbolic pattern in dreams, artwork, and analytic process, drawing on archival material from the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich and contemporary perspectives on self-regulation and embodiment. Participants will learn to identify and clinically assess serpent imagery as it relates to affect regulation, symbolic integration, and psychosomatic processes. Through a documented case example, participants will learn to apply evidence-informed imaginal and creative interventions to support psychological integration within depth-oriented psychotherapy.
Learning Objectives:
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Identify how materials from the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich Picture Archive can be used as a research source for understanding symbolic imagery, creative processes, and imaginal practices in clinical contexts.
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Describe key psychological and symbolic features of the serpent motif—drawing on Jung’s engagement with Kundalini yoga—and explain how this motif can be applied in clinical work to support self-regulation, integration of opposites, and psychosomatic balance.
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Analyze a clinical case example to recognize symbolic and transformative processes emerging through dreams, active imagination, and artistic expression, and discuss how such processes may be worked with therapeutically in depth psychotherapy.
