Two simulated clinical cases will be presented by actors in the format of shortened assessment sessions. Three senior clinicians will respond to the case material, talking about how they might go about working with each presentation. The three clinicians come from different theoretical standpoints across psychoanalytic and Jungian traditions and work in various clinical settings. […]
Talk 1: Alan Fatar: Waking Dreams: Imagination in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life A waking dream sometimes happens upon waking from sleep when a dream continues to feel present. Waking dream practice (also known as ‘active imagination’ and ‘guided imagery’) takes advantage of the spontaneously creative and therapeutic imagination found in this borderland consciousness in-between waking […]
Durante la segunda Guerra mundial, Jung descubrió que, ante los graves problemas colectivos que se reflejaban en la psique de sus pacientes, en ocasiones también aparecían símbolos de totalidad, es decir, mandalas, de los que afirmó cuán necesario es “tomarlos en cuenta y prestar atención a su mensaje porque representan un atisbo de esperanza, y […]
This lecture will discuss the sources of evil from the point of view of both individual and social factors. We will compare traditional religious views of evil with psychological approaches. In particular, we will look at the developmental factors that predispose someone to evil behavior from the point of view of Jungian theory and psychoanalytic […]
In this presentation we will look at how the unconscious erupts in our lives and sabotages our relationships in repetitive arguments, criticism, distancing, projections, addictions, and life transitions. It examines why the shadow forms in childhood, how to detect it when it emerges, and how to use this practice to make a conscious relationship with […]
Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious psychic processes…. They represent the archetypes in their simplest, barest, and most concise form [because] they are less overlaid with conscious material than myths and legends. In this pure form, the archetypal images afford us the best clues to the understanding of the processes […]
Join John Philson for a film night with Jonathan Miller as he explores the life and identity of musician Clive Wearing, whose severe amnesia leaves him with only a few seconds of memory, in this poignant documentary. The late Jonathan Miller, British neurologist (among other talents), steers this hourlong documentary on the renowned musician Clive […]
Join us as Dr. Judson Davis guides us through the Hero and the Goddess: A Contemporary Account of the Mythic Embodiment of Homer’s Odyssey and Its Correlation to the Cosmology of Earthly Incarnation, Jung’s Individuation Process, and the Resurrection of the Divine Feminine. This program will integrate many Jungian concepts that include the Hero’s Journey, the […]
Our goal in offering the Jung and Film series is to provide a container for depth psychological engagement with the films. In addition to the emotional conflicts of the characters, the impact of the images, the interplay of colour and light, the subtleties of sounds and music, and the aesthetic beauty of many of the […]
Sawyer previously wrote biographies of Aldous Huxley and Huston Smith, seminal writers of the perennial philosophy (along with Alan Watts, Frances Vaughan, Ken Wilber, Stanislav Grof, and Ram Dass), which is the theory that there is a particular spiritual experience common not only to the world’s religious traditions but all of human spirituality. Aldous Huxley […]
Sawyer previously wrote biographies of Aldous Huxley and Huston Smith, seminal writers of the perennial philosophy (along with Alan Watts, Frances Vaughan, Ken Wilber, Stanislav Grof, and Ram Dass), which is the theory that there is a particular spiritual experience common not only to the world’s religious traditions but all of human spirituality. Aldous Huxley […]
Presented via Zoom, this interactive presentation about shadow work explores how the unconscious erupts in our lives and sabotages our relationships in repetitive arguments, criticism, distancing, projections, addictions, and life transitions. It explains why the shadow forms in childhood, how to detect it when it emerges, and how to use this practice to make a […]