The Family as a Crucible for Individuation

A daylong seminar led by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW, NCPsyA
Contact hours: 6 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

Please note that if you received credit for Lisa Marchiano’s July 10, 2019, program on the Family as Crucible for Individuation, you cannot receive credit for this workshop. It is the same program.

The intimacy of family relationships will inevitably mean that we encounter parts of ourselves that are unlikely to surface in other contexts. We may experience shadow aspects of our psyche that are usually split off, denied or disowned. In this session we will explore how intimate relationships such as parenting can introduce us to these shadow parts. Being part of a family will challenge us to claim our authority, reconcile ourselves to our dark emotions, embrace the wisdom of the instincts, and forge a new relationship with our creative daimon. Family is indeed a crucible in which individuation can be quickened. In circumambulating this topic, we will use clinical vignettes, fairy tales and dreams.

Learning Objectives

Describe how family relationships can bring us into contact with disallowed parts of ourselves.
Discuss the ways in which family relationships offer us opportunities to integrate previously split off parts of ourselves such as aggression.
Explain how family relationships and parenting in particular require us to reconnect with healthy instincts.
Demonstrate how family life can lead to restoring a connection with creativity.
Identify ways in which addressing conflict in family relationships can help us consolidate a sense of personal authority.

Lisa Marchiano, LCSW, NCPsyA, is a licensed clinical social worker and diplomate Jungian analyst in private practice in Philadelphia, PA. Her writings have appeared in Psychological Perspectives, Quillette, and Areo. Along with two colleagues, Lisa produces the weekly podcast This Jungian Life, which examines a range of issues from a depth psychological perspective. She is currently working on a book about motherhood as a depth initiation.

Contact hours: Six CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc., SW CPE, is recognized by New York State Education Department’s State Board of Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0350.

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0015.

C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists, #CAT-0068.

Saturday, October 26, 2019: 9:30 am–4:30 p.m.
at the C.G. Jung Foundation, 28 East 39th Street, New York City