The Italian Association of Analytical Psychology (AIPA) has been running its ambitious Master programme on dream theory and clinical practice, Sogni: Un Percorso tra Clinica e Ricerca, throughout 2026. The fifth module takes place on June 13 and addresses a theme that often goes underexplored in the dreamwork literature: dreams in children and adolescents. Led by S. Baldassari, C. Capri, and G. Di Cesare, the session will present and discuss clinical vignettes from work with patients across the preschool, school-age, and late adolescent years. Where Freud saw children’s dreams as simple figurative transpositions of waking desires, Jung argued that children’s dreams are closer to the primitive core of the Self, and may carry meanings that will only reveal their full significance in the dreamer’s later development. It is a session that will be of particular interest to anyone working analytically or therapeutically with young people.

The year opened in February with Christian Roesler, S. Hall, and L. Kissling on empirical research into dreams in analysis, introducing the Structural Dream Analysis (SDA) method and its applications, including the Dreamcovery pathway for working with patients in addiction recovery. May’s module, with C. Albini Bravo and F. Strumia, explored dreams, symbols, and how amplification of dream content in the analytic setting opens the patient to archetypal meanings and supports the individuation process.

The programme’s remaining modules promise to be equally rich. September brings a session on dreams in couples and group work. October addresses the neurobiology and physics of dreams. The programme closes in November with a session on dreams and artificial intelligence, featuring Stephen Garratt, P. Jenni, and Christian Roesler – examining both the collective and clinical implications of AI’s capacity to analyse dreams, and the irreducible role of subjectivity in the analytic encounter.

Individual modules can be attended separately at €50 per session. Registration and further information are available here

AIPA Open Day — June 13

Also on June 13, AIPA’s Naples section hosts an Open Day presenting its Jungian Psychotherapy Graduate School and training programme for analyst psychologists. Running from 10am to noon, the event will be led by Maria Gloria Gleijeses, head of the AIPA Naples section, alongside teaching analysts Alessandra De Coro and Paola Russo, and other members of the Naples faculty. It is open both in person at AIPA’s Naples headquarters and online via Zoom. For those considering training as a Jungian analyst in Italy, this is a valuable opportunity to meet the faculty and learn about the programme directly. The Zoom link are available here.