“Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises. There is no birth of consciousness without pain.”
—C. G. Jung
Therapists and analysts, regardless of their training and orientation, continually seek generative ways to address the intense and often long-standing strife endemic to couples therapy. They know that working with couples places tremendous demands on their knowledge, their skill, and their own complicated feelings about the mysteries of relationship.
Jungian Couples Therapy is an 8-week course that offers participants fresh ways of thinking about what happens in the consulting room. The course re-imagines the room as a temenos guiding partners toward psychological wholeness, or what Jung termed the Self. The course’s central premise—emotionally-committed relationships are difficult, profound, meaningful, and full of soul—means that couples who bravely begin therapy and the therapists who guide them are working on behalf of soul regardless of the outcome.
This unique course teaches key concepts in Jung’s psychology as it applies to therapeutic work, offering participants more nuanced ways of working with the complex energies that arise between suffering partners. Through recorded lectures, written course materials, and live webinars with the instructors, participants will reimagine the couple’s plight—as well as their personal experience of relationship—as an unfolding creative process and a mystery to be lived.