Music, Art and Imagery: Pathways to Psychological and Spiritual Growth

"The human psyche is the womb of all the arts… and creative art has its roots in the immensity of the unconscious.”
—C.G. Jung, CW 15, Par 134

Contact hours: 6 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

C.G. Jung’s confrontation with his unconscious led him to enter the presence of a living encounter with the unconscious. Jung developed his theories through the drawing of individual mandalas and sketches and believed the drawing and dialogue was a tool for one’s individuation process. The result was his monumental achievement in art demonstrated in The Red Book. While Jung had a keen appreciation for art and drawing he had a complexed relationship to music. His lack of exploration with music was due to the intense projections that arose when he listened to music. An exploration of Jung’s symbolic process as it applies to art, music and image making will be discussed through Jungian Psychological Theory. This workshop is didactic and experiential and will teach participants how to integrate art, music and image making into their personal and clinical work. Participants will learn how to integrate the unconscious with the conscious through the use of the creative arts and will realize the potential pathway for psychological and spiritual growth.

Learning Objectives

Describe the importance of the objective nature of psyche’s images according to C. G. Jung.
Discuss the significance of the unconscious language of images and symbols as therapeutic and spiritual guides.
Summarize Jung’s Map of the Psyche as the basis for understanding an individual’s psychological struggle for consciousness.
Describe the different pathways to psychological and spiritual growth such as:
Active Imagination
Amplification
Personal Associations to dreams and symbols
Dreams/Images
Music/Art
Describe how to engage the psyche through imaginal techniques using music, art and images.
Apply music listening and art expression experiences to reinforce the Jungian theoretical clinical learning.
Apply C.G. Jung’s theoretical insights to personal and clinical examples.

Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, LP, MT-BC, is a Jungian analyst, a practitioner of Mandala Assessment and a Board Certified Music Therapist. She is a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Foundation, the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and the Institute for Expressive Analysis of New York and also serves as President of the Jung Foundation.

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, November 23, 2019: 9:30 am–4:30 p.m.
at the C.G. Jung Foundation, 28 East 39th Street, New York City