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First Tuesday Lunch Forums
Informal gatherings are scheduled the first Tuesday of each month. An analyst or other specialist guides discussion on issues that touch our lives — aging, homelessness, current movies, finding balance in our lives, journal writing, and others. Bring a brown bag lunch — coffee, tea and cookies will be provided. No reservations required, suggested contribution fee of $2.00. All are welcome.
Location:
C. G. Jung Center
28 East 39th Street
New York City
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm (unless otherwise noted).
For more information, call 212-697-6430, or email info@cgjungny.org
Upcoming Tuesday Lunch Forums
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Oh, Those New Year’s Resolutions: Everyday Mindfulness for Creating Change
Speaker: Joan Griffiths Vega
After the indulgences of the holidays, welcoming the New Year is often accompanied by recriminations and a new set of resolutions trying to fix everything. Membership at the gym goes up and by the third week in January, attendance traditionally drops off.
This year, establish your goals without striving. During this luncheon discussion, learn ways to recognize the patterns of the mind and in the body that might lead to frustration and postponed visits to the gym. Through the cultivation of mindfulness, kindness and appreciation new habits may be embraced with sense of curiosity and play. Welcome even the grumbling.
Learn a basic meditation that can be used wherever you go, ways of recognizing early signs of stress, and ways to cultivate a more relaxed, spacious and engaged way of living this life. Some current updates from neuroscience research supporting this paradigm will also be shared.
Joan Griffiths Vega currently teaches eight-week mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) workshops at Mt. Sinai to breast cancer survives and a model that she adapted to the special needs of caregivers at the Martha Stewart Center for Living. She has extensive experience facilitating support groups sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association as well as playgroups in which participants swim with wild dolphins, meditate and incubate dreams. This spring she completed the contemplative care foundations program at the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care.
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Who Was Sabina Spielrein? An exploration of her life and work
Speaker: Ilona Melker, LCSW
Since the release of the film A Dangerous Method, Sabina Spielrein’s name has become known to a wider public. Unfortunately the film does very little justice to the image of this exceptional individual. Spielrein was Jung’s first psychoanalytic patient at Burgholzli Hospital and the movie is based on the powerful transference and countertransference between Spielrein and Jung. Jung was troubled by the strong emotions his former patient stirred in him and sought out Freud’s advice on the matter, thus beginning their correspondence and relationship.
Sabina, once freed from her debilitating hysterical/sexual complex, enrolled in medical school, and went on to become a psychoanalyst. She also integrated her idealizing transference to Jung and her projection on him as she devoted herself to work as psychoanalyst first at Burgholzli, then in Geneva and in Moscow. She was one of the first female psychoanalysts in the early days of the Vienna and Zurich schools. Her interest in child psychoanalysis was contemporary with that of Melanie Klein. Unfortunately, most of her work has been either lost or unacknowledged.
Her contributions as a pioneer of psychoanalysis and her uncredited impact on both Jung and Freud will be the topic of this lecture, which will broaden the image we have of Sabina Spielrein.
Ilona Melker, LCSW, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City and Princeton, NJ. A graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, she is also a Certified Sandplay Therapist and member of the STA. She has done extensive work with Marion Woodman, whose emphasis on the psyche-soma connection brings the body as rejected feminine into focus.
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Getting Connected
Speaker: Gary Brown, LCSW, LP
The unabashed purpose of Analytical Psychology, whether in the consulting room or in the auditorium at the C.G. Jung Foundation, is to connect us, individually, culturally and socially, with spiritual meaning.
We will discuss the why and how of this project and its especial need now at this socially pivotal time.
Gary Brown, LCSW, LP, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. He is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and a supervising analyst there. He has taught at the C.G. Jung Foundation, the Analytical Psychology Club of New York and the Mid-Hudson Jung Society, among others and currently serves as Vice President of the New York Association for Analytical Psychology. He is also a long-time student and teacher of Buddhism.
Information about further upcoming forums will be posted when available.
Please check back soon.
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