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Continuing Education Courses —Spring 2012
The C.G. Jung Foundation Continuing Education courses are five-week courses designed to be informative and stimulating both to the general public and to professionals. Our program offers you the opportunity to study and explore analytical psychology, the works of C.G. Jung, and fields of related interest. Listen here to one of our classes being taught.
Spring I: Classes begin the week of February 27, 2012
Jung's Word Association Test and Complex Theory
5 consecutive Mondays, 7.10–8:50 pm
Beginning February 27
Instructor: Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, LP
As seen in the film A Dangerous Method, Jung's Word Association Test was an experimental method that determined personal complexes. Complexes were detected through the investigation of words that had associations and psychological connections. The test was invented by psychologists prior to Jung; however, he perfected the test, which later led to the development of the lie detector test and his complex theory. In this course, participants will have the experience of taking and giving Jung's Word Association Test and will learn how this test led to complex theory. A fairy tale will also be written using key words from each participant's Word Association Test, which will underscore the value of Jung's work.
5 consecutive Tuesdays, 6:00 – 7:40 pm
Beginning February 28
Instructor: Fanny Brewster, PhD
Dreams contain imagery and words we sometimes recognize as expressions of spirituality. Jung spoke often about spiritual topics, as seen through his Collected Works. He also delved deeply into this important aspect of living in The Red Book. When we can recognize the essence of spirituality in our dreams, we are given a vision for creating a valued and depthful life. This class provides an exploration of spiritual themes in our dreams, and their influences and significance to our lives.
Archetypal Psychology: Foundations
5 consecutive Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8:10 pm
Beginning February 29
Instructor: Sylvester Wojtkowski, PhD
Note: This course will be held at 420 East 51st Street, Suite C. The deeper a psychology can go with its understanding, i.e., into universal inner meanings expressed by the archetypal speech of mythical 'tellings', the more scientifically accurate it is on the one hand and the more soul it has on the other.
James Hillman, Suicide and the Soul, p. 51, 1964. The gradual replacement of 'soul' by 'psyche' in [the last] century and the consequent professionalism in dealing with its troubles are beginning to do as much damage as did the ignorance and moralisms about the psyche in the [nineteenth] century. James Hillman, Insearch, p. 7, 1967. This course will examine images, ideas and stories that constitute the "healing fiction" of archetypal psychology. The late archetypal psychologist and Jungian analyst James Hillman brought a new mythopoeic perspective on the psyche and put the soul, its images and its logic at the center of psycho-logical investigations. By emphasizing imagination over "the unconscious," images over concepts, and multiplicity psychic persons over the self, Hillman developed Jung's notion of "sticking to the image'" into a richly imaginal phenomenological approach to psyche. Hillman let the "angelology of words," to enliven and re-vision psychological discourse with poetic sensibility, to speak of the soul and to the soul in her own language. We will study the origins of archetypal psychology in works Carl Gustav Jung, Henry Corbin and in Neoplatonic tradition of the Renaissance. Spring II: Classes begin the week of November 7, 2011 5 consecutive Mondays, 7.00–8:40 pm Instructor: David Rottman, MA Searching for Identity: Dismantling the Caretaker Complex 5 consecutive Wednesdays, 6:00 – 7:40 pm Instructor: Irina Doctoroff, LMFT, MS In this five-week course, we will focus on the Caretaker complex and its transformation. We will explore some ways our personalities are shaped by family and culture to identify with the caretaker archetype. We will also discuss ways to disidentify from such conditioning and connect to the true self. We will look at mythological material in the myths of the Hermaphrodite and Narcissus, as well as Jung's views on the Self and the individuation process. We will explore the formation, development and treatment of the "caretaker personality." We will also discuss differences between healthy and compulsive caretaking using Grimm's "Mother Holle" fairy tale. 5 consecutive Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8.10 pm Instructor: Sylvester Wojtkowski, PhD Note: This course will be held at 420 East 51st Street, Suite C. "Archetypal psychology is theophanic: personifying, pathologizing, psychologizing and dehumanizing are the modes of polytheizing, the means of revealing Gods in a pluralistic universe." Re-Visioning Psychology, p. 228
As James Hillman put it poetically "soul" is the "imaginative possibility in our nature which recognizes all realities as primarily symbolic, it makes meaning possible, turns and deepens events into experiences, is communicated in love, has a religious concern and special relation with death." In this course, we will explore Hillman's contributions to imaginative engagement with anima mundi in its multiple manifestations. We encounter Hillman the iconoclast, who in martial style crashes sacred cows of therapeutic industry, who deconstructs dominant narratives of family values, of personality, and social and political ideas. We will contemplate various themes that Hillman so beautifully, profoundly and poetically articulated: soul-making, therapy of ideas, thought of the heart, Senex and Puer, alchemical motives, war, psychological polytheism, dreams, myths and metaphors, acorn theory, etc. Beyond Words: Self-Discovery through Journaling in Images 5 consecutive Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:10 pm Instructor: Barbara Barry Materials fee: $35 5 consecutive Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:40 pm Instructor: Harry W. Fogarty, PhD Note: this course will be held at 7 West 96th St, #1E, New York, NY 10025. FACULTY
Barbara Barry, is a visual artist, teacher, and the creator of Art for Self-Discovery studio programs in Manhattan. She has presented at William Patterson University and the Innovation Masters Symposium at Lucent Technologies. She is currently on the teaching staff at the South Street Seaport Museum and Symphony Space at 95th. [Class description]
Fanny Brewster, PhD, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York. She holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, and is a New York State Certified School Psychologist. [Class description]
Irina Doctoroff, LMFT, MS,, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Manhattan. She is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and has a graduate degree in Couples and Family Therapy from the University of Maryland in College Park. She also has a part time job in a counseling center providing family therapy. [Class description]
Harry W. Fogarty, PhD, is a Lecturer in Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary and a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. [Class description]
David Rottman, MA, is President and Chairman of the Board of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, a member of the Foundation's Continuing Education faculty, and Senior Faculty Member of the Archetypal Pattern Analyst Training Program at the Assisi Institute.[Class Description]
Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, LP, MT-BC, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Montclair, NJ, and New York City, a practitioner of Mandala Assessment, and a Board Certified Music Therapist. She is on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, the Institute for Expressive Analysis in New York and the Jung Foundation, where she is serves on the Board. [Class description]
Sylvester Wojtkowski, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City. He received his doctorate from the New School for Social Research.[Class description: archetypal] [Class description: Hillmaniana] General Information Location
All programs are held at the C.G. Jung Center at 28 East 39th Street, New York City, unless otherwise indicated above. Tuition
All 5-week courses are $125 for the general public and $110 for members, unless otherwise specified. Note that there is an additional $35 materials fee for the "Beyond Words" course. Registration
The full fee must be paid at time of registration.
You may register online using Google Checkout (above), or by mail or telephone or fax with your MasterCard or Visa, or in person at the C.G. Jung Foundation, Monday–Thursday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.
FAX # 212-953-3989. Seating is limited and early purchase of tickets is strongly recommended. Refunds
Refunds for continuing education courses, less $15 for administrative services, will be made up to seven days before the first session.
There will be no refunds issued after classes have begun. No exceptions will be made. Programs are subject to change without notice. First Tuesday Lunch Forum Tuesdays: January 3, February 7, March 6, April 3, May 1: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Informal gatherings are scheduled the first Tuesday of each month. An analyst or other specialist guides discussion on issues that touch our lives. Bring a brown bag lunch - coffee, tea and cookies will be provided.
No reservations required, suggested contribution fee of $2.00. All are welcome. ›› Registration Form for Continuing Education (PDF format) ‹‹ Recent Continuing Education Courses We invite you to see the courses we have offered in recent years and we look forward to welcoming you to the 2012 courses. Recent Continuing Education course descriptions with faculty bios:
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Beginning April 16
In this class, we will read aloud from selected "famous" passages of Jung's work, and discuss the meaning of his ideas in depth. In some cases, we will give ourselves the pleasure of exploring Jung's ideas word by word, and sentence by sentence. The topics will include fate, relationships, the nature of complexes, approaches to healing, the search for meaning on an individual path, the meaning of dreams, synchronicity, and last but not least, what is going on in America life now at an archetypal level. We will have a special focus on grounding Jung's ideas in daily living.
Beginning Beginning April 18
When identifying with the Caretaker complex, people perceive themselves as objects needed only to serve, take care of, and accommodate other people, often at their own expense. As one client put it, "If I don't try to be good and serve others, I am just a waste of space." What brings caretaker-identified people to therapy is their inability to experience happiness and pleasure. Often they don't have full access to their creativity.
Beginning April 18
"Psychology is its own worst enemy, for it is easily caught in its tools, its psychological methods and insights. Psychology's task therefore has to start in home ground: seeing through its own tools." Re-Visioning Psychology, p. 145
Beginning April 19
Many individuals who strive for a greater self-knowledge keep journals, which are most often recorded in written language. However, Jung was particularly attuned to the place images play in the life of the psyche, telling us that "the psyche consists essentially of images . . . full of meaning and purpose." This class is instructive and experiential. Participants will learn techniques for eliciting images and how to give them visual expression using a simple painting approach in journal form. They will also learn ways to break through creative blocks and work in a spontaneous manner. No art experience or skill is necessary, only the desire to explore how a journal beyond words can enrich one's life.
Beginning April 19
Drawing upon examples from the literature as well as clinical material, we shall review Jung's approach to dream work as well as expansions on that work by contemporary Jungians. In general, we shall endeavor to place the dream within an actual context so that our focus will be on how dreams form part of a larger dialogue between our ordinary sense of ourselves and the aspects of ourselves of which we are unaware and which are emerging.
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