Analytical or complex psychology, more than sixty years after the death of its founder Carl Gustav Jung, is enjoying growing interest from scholars and clinicians. Jung began his career as an academic psychiatrist and always maintained the mentality of the researcher, even pointing out large areas to be explored to his pupils. His suggestions were followed up very late: only in the last few decades have specific researches been carried out with quantitative and qualitative methods on some aspects of analytical psychology and – in German–speaking countries – Jungian psychotherapy and its effectiveness have been studied. However, the persistent reluctance to scientific methods comes from multiple causes, including the belonging of Jungian thought to a holistic tradition that does not reconcile with the reductionist approach that dominates the academic world and also clinical psychology. This tradition is mainly followed implicitly, without a precise reference to its origins. Hence the need to recover the genesis of Jungian psychology in the German Philosophy of Nature of the late nineteenth century, rather than considering it a heretical derivation of Freudian orthodoxy – as instead is still affirmed in what already in 1970 Henri Ellenberger defined as a legend.
Jung himself attributed a fundamental value to nature throughout his life, so much so as to induce him to build the Bollingen Tower, which was chosen as the representative image of this conference. Analytical psychology therefore demonstrates a specific modernity in being ready to implement current ecological needs, which translate into the need of the contemporary human being to find an inner balance between technology and nature. In general, the new course of Jungian historiography – with scholars such as Thomas Arzt, Paul Bishop, Sonu Shamdasani and Eugene Taylor – has demonstrated the independence of Jung’s ideas since before he came into contact with psychoanalysis. This conference aims to address the issue of the specificity of analytical psychology with respect to other psychodynamic theories and different therapeutic orientations. It was divided into three sessions: the first will outline theoretical aspects; the second intends to highlight the characteristics of the therapeutic method that derives from Jungian thought; the third will discuss what are the training needs to prepare future analysts for the aforementioned method of psychotherapy.
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SATURDAY, MAY 13th
8.30–9.15 | Registration
9.15–9.30 | Greetings from the Tuscany Section Coordinator and the AIPA President
FIRST SESSION: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Chairman: Filippo Strumia
9.30– 10.15 | Lectio magistralis by Christian Roesler: Empirical research in analytical
psychology
10.15–10.45 | Stefano Carrara: Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and researcher
Coffee break
11.15–11.45 | Riccardo Bernardini: From Goethe to Eranos: On the problem of the
archetypal in complex psychology
11.45–12.15 | Marco Balenci: The philosophy of nature as the foundation of Jungian
method of analysis
12.15–13.00 | Discussion
SECOND SESSION: CHARACTERISTICS OF JUNGIAN ANALYSIS
Chairwoman: Elena Caramazza
14.30–15.15 | Lectio magistralis by Francesco De Bei: Research on the use of the couch in
the analytical setting
15.15–15.45 | Antonio de Rienzo: The analytic relationship from a Jungian perspective
Coffee break
16.15–16.45 | Luisa Zoppi: From the feeling–toned complex to the clinical effects of
trauma
16.45–17.15 | Gianluigi Di Cesare: Jung and psychotherapy of schizophrenia
17.15–18.15 | Panel discussion
SUNDAY, MAY 14th
9.00 | Introduction
THIRD SESSION: TRAINING IN THE ANALYTICAL METHODOLOGY
Chairman: Paolo Francesco Pieri
9.15–10.00 | Lectio magistralis by Renate Daniel: Reflections on the courses in the C. G.
Jung Institute of Zurich
10.00–10.30 | Concetto Gullotta: The centrality of the analytical path in the training of
analytical psychologists
10.30–11.00 | Anna Maria Sassone: “I want to be an analyst”. The personality of the
analyst as a healing factor
Coffee break
11.30–12.30 | Panel discussion
12.30–12.45 | Final conclusion
