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Early Artistic Expression of Life’s Transitions – Adolescence and Midlife

January 31, 2020January 31, 2020Webmaster

Psychologists have long examined life’s transitions, but is it possible that the artist has been examining these events as well, and for much longer?

This presentation will look first at the cave art discovered in The Caves du Volp in the French Pyrenees and the possible relationship with the transformation in adolescence. In the second half of the presentation, we will examine the Transition of Odysseus through midlife--from The Iliad to his homecoming in The Odyssey.

We will see how these works are small stops on life’s journey and the self-creation of the artist. Both Nietzsche and Jung see art as a forum for self-transformation and healing. In and through art we can deal with our problems and suffering and turn negative emotions into positive, uplifting ones. As he presents it in “The Healing Function of Art,” Jung sees great potential in art’s capacity to heal.

Harmar Brereton, MD, is a medical and radiation oncologist trained at the National Cancer Institute and Johns Hopkins. He has an undergraduate degree in History from Yale. He is on the faculty of Weill Cornell Medical School and is a clinical professor of Medicine at Geisinger Commonwealth Medical College. He worked for 10 years with a Jungian analyst and Jesuit priest in the development of his medical practice, and he is now developing a curriculum for medical students that includes the humanities and arts.

Dr. Brereton taught a course on Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey in 2018 and on Palaeolithic Cave Painting 2019 at the Schemel Forum for adult education at the University of Scranton. In 1999 he visited and studied the caves of France and Spain and in 2018 was invited to join the archeological excavation team of “Odysseus Unbound,” which is currently excavating what may be Odysseus’ true home on the Paliki peninsula of the island of Kefalonia.

No reservations required, suggested contribution fee of $2.00. All are welcome.

Journeys through Underworlds: The Psyche Keeps Score

January 28, 2020March 19, 2020Webmaster

A daylong seminar led by Mark Napack, MA, STL, MS

The "underworld" is a symbol that holds many meanings relevant to psychology and psychotherapy--the unconscious, the dream, as well as myths and stories of the underworld. The underworld is not alien to this world. It is not even under. As C.G. Jung pointed out, the underworld of the unconscious exerts its effects in the world in which we live, personal and collective. This workshop will explore underworld journeys as archetypally expressed in classic underworld tales and myths. Aeneas, Odysseus, and Dante, as well as Orpheus and Persephone, will be joined with psychological insights. In addition to psychotherapeutic applications, our goal will be to learn from these journeys in order to come through to a belonging in this world with greater wholeness.

In our exploration of the underworld, we will look at the contribution of Jungian analyst Donald Kalsched to trauma theory and psychotherapy and analysis. We will also look at ways in which Kalsched's theory and framework may be further developed. The psyche keeps score and, when exile and trauma hit, they register symbolically and create a distinctive psychological underworld. The journey out of this type of dissociative underworld involves a unique interplay of relational and symbolic processes, which will be elucidated.

Not all underworlds are expressive of trauma bonds. The mytho-poetic dimension of the psyche has revealed other types of underworlds that serve and symbolize other purposes. It can hold the dead, disowned and exiled parts of self, and even the soul (anima/animus, in Jungian terms). We will take a look at some of these, since there are many, in order order to get a sense of the underworld's continuing relevance for human existence and the practice of psychotherapy. While the psyche keeps score, the journey through the underworld contains the possibility of true redemptions, healing recoveries and new life.

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

Learning Objectives

Describe psychological meanings and therapeutic relevance of myths and stories of the underworld.
Explain the symbolization specific to trauma in the underworld.
Analyze the resolution of trauma as presented in the underworld.
Disclose the role of Jung's "transcendent function" in underworld journeys.
Identify what "underworlds" look like in this world through various video examples.
Describe the therapeutic role of relationship and symbol in the journey out of the underworld.

Mark Napack, MA, STL, MS, studied archetypal patterns in comparative literature at Columbia University, after which he applied Jungian theory to the redemption motif in medieval theology for his thesis at Fordham University. He further studied Jung, psychology, and the history of religion at Loyola and Catholic Universities. A long-time graduate and college instructor, Mark has presented at international conferences and his work has appeared in scholarly journals and books in English and French. Mark Napack, LCPC, is also a Jungian informed psychotherapist in North Bethesda, MD.

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. 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 #SW-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, April 18, 2020: 9:30 am–4:30 p.m.
at the C.G. Jung Foundation, 28 East 39th Street, New York City

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Tuition

$100 for members/students,

$110 for the general public

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Aging: The Penultimate Transition

January 28, 2020December 4, 2020Webmaster

Contact hours: 4 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

Aging held a special significance for Jung and he wrote extensively about it as a crowning of a life struggle with individuation. In “The Stages of Life” he writes that an aging person has a duty and responsibility to devote serious attention to himself/herself. Jung called this period the “Afternoon of Life,” a time to explore what we have neglected or repressed during our lifetime. This session will explore both the losses and opportunities for transformation using life examples, dreams, myths and fairy tales. We will name and describe three losses that occur as people age, explain the importance of life review in the aging process, describe the final stage of Erik Erikson’s developmental process and give examples of how this works, explore the meaning of a “second childhood” from both a negative and positive point of view and examine from a Jungian point of view the role of the soul and death.

Learning Objectives

Identify and describe three losses that occur as people age.
Explain the importance of life review in the aging process.
Describe the final stage of Erik Erikson’s developmental process and give examples of how this works.
Explore the meaning of a “second childhood” from both a negative and positive point of view.
Examine from a Jungian perspective the role of the soul and death.

Julie Bondanza, PhD, s a Jungian analyst and licensed psychologist with a practice in the Metropolitan Washington DC area. She is a member of the Jungian Analysts of Washington Association, where she is Director of Education and President.
She is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, where she was member of the teaching faculty and past Curriculum chair. She was also on the faculty of The Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts, where she has frequently taught, and former director of training at the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts.

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

Saturday, December 5, 2020: 10:00am –3 :00p.m.
This is an online program using the Zoom platform. Please be sure to download the Zoom program at Zoom.us if you have not already done so.

When you register, you must send us your email address and daytime phone number at cgjungny@aol.com.

Complexes and Complexity: The Multiplicity of the Psyche

January 24, 2020March 10, 2021Webmaster

A daylong Zoom Seminar led by Katherine Olivetti, MA, MSSW

Contact hours: 4 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

“Complexes are in truth the living units of the unconscious psyche…”C.G. Jung, (CW 8 ¶210)

Jung’s theory of complexes was prescient. His ideas about the structure of the psyche prefigured today’s breakthroughs in neuroscience in that early in the twentieth century he proposed the human psyche as a non-unitary entity essentially composed of a multitude of smaller components that he called complexes.

Jung theorized that the complexes are multi layered, and that an individual begins life with the archetypes existing a priori. Early experience, both personal and cultural, begins to shape the complexes in an individual way. In that the core layer of the complex is the archetype, it has a bivalent expression, both a positive and negative. Most adults are aware of aspects of themselves, or aspects of their complexes, that they try to suppress or avoid. Ultimately these are the parts of the self that become the “trouble-makers” of the psyche. Special attention will be paid to developing therapeutic processes that invite all aspects of psyche into the development of wholeness and individuation.

In this workshop, Katherine Olivetti will discuss Jung’s complex theory, and connect it to more recent depth psychological literature. Through lecture, discussion, and experience participants will have the opportunity to learn how to work with a complex, their own or a client’s, how to understand the part the complex plays in the overall defensive structure, how the movement of complexes is related to dissociation and trauma, and how healing occurs. Participants are asked to bring a notebook for written exercises.

Tuition
Members/Students, $90
General Public, $100

Learning Objectives

Explain the basics of a Jungian theory of complexes.
Discuss how complexes compose the defensive structure of the psyche.
Explain the relationship between the formation of the complex, trauma, and dissociation.
Identify the activation of a complex personally and in others.
Apply techniques to help professionals and clients hold a space from which to understand more deeply the complex that is activated.
Demonstrate how to work with dream material that sheds insight on complexes and the way they interfere with individuation.

Katherine Olivetti, MA, MSSW, is a Jungian analyst who maintains a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. Originally from New York, she received her professional degrees from Columbia University and completed her analytic training at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, later becoming its president. In addition to training as a Jungian analyst, Olivetti trained at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center in family therapy. She has taught at many Jungian centers and training institutes, both in the United States and Europe, and also was on the clinical faculty of the Yale School of Medicine, at their Child Study Center. After relocating to California, she became a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and became the Editor-in-Chief of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. In addition to her clinical work, Olivetti conducts an ongoing international editing group, writes, and edits professional/psychological works. Her book Dream Work: 10 Lessons for Understanding Dreams (2016) is available on Amazon. Olivetti maintains a website and blog at www.katherineolivetti.com

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

CLOSED—Saturday, February 13, 2021: 11:00am–4:00pm

Dreams: Their Meaning and Uses from an Orientational Jungian Approach

January 24, 2020February 25, 2020Webmaster

A daylong seminar led by David Rottman, MA

Is there a way of knowing the definite meaning of a dream? What kind of change can we expect after we grasp the meaning of a dream? Is there a healing dimension to dreams, a warning dimension, a wisdom dimension, a dimension that reveals elements of our fate?

In his revolutionary book The Way of the Image, Jungian analyst Yoram Kaufmann said he “crystallized Jung’s ideas” in formulating the Orientational Approach to the psyche.(See note below*) In this workshop we will use the Jungian Orientational approach to explore 10 dreams for their revelations about human psychology. Finally, we will apply this approach to understand outer life situations, in work and relationships, as we do a dream.
*Prior to the workshop, please read the title essay in The Way of the Image by Yoram Kaufmann, available in the C.G. Jung Bookstore, or on Amazon from Zahav Books.

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

Learning Objectives

Apply an Adult Development Lifespan Perspective to Complexes and Images.
Discuss the role of Cultural, Social and Personal Contexts in Generating Psychological Interpretations.
Assess the role of Endogamous and Exogamous impulses as manifested in Dreams.
Summarize the Orientational Method of translating Symbols and Images into Words and Concepts.

David Rottman, MA, is past President of the C.G. Jung Foundation and is a longtime member of the Jung Foundation’s Continuing Education faculty. He holds a Masters degree in Applied Psychology from New York University and is the author of The Career as a Path to the Soul. He was the editor and publisher for The Way of the Image by Yoram Kaufmann. He has a private practice in New York City.

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

Saturday, February 29, 2020: 9:30 am–4:30 p.m.
at the C.G. Jung Foundation, 28 East 39th Street, New York City

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Tuition

$100 for members/students,

$110 for the general public

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In Thrall or Debt to Circe? Jungianism and the Devouring Uroboros

January 23, 2020February 24, 2020Webmaster

Homer’s story of Odysseus and Circe provides a vital amplification for a dangerous paradox one might face in approaching the unconscious with Jung’s analytical psychology. Just as Circe becomes either an invaluable guide to the underworld or a seductive destroyer, depending on the attitude one takes in approaching her, Jungian psychology may be used to either genuinely and consciously engage the depths, or as an intoxicating shortcut to archetypal identification. “Anyone who identifies with the collective psyche—or, in mythological terms, lets himself be devoured by the monster—and vanishes in it, attains the treasure that the dragon guards, but he does so in spite of himself and to his own greatest harm” (CW 7 para. 477, 1916/1966). When any system of thought is embraced as an all-encompassing ideology, one is seduced and devoured by a sense of perfectionism in which shadow is dissociated and projected rather than honestly owned and integrated. In this course we will explore the psychology and mythology of fundamentalism, idolatry, and other seductive dead-ends off the path of individuation.

Location: 15 East 11^th Street, Apt 1L. Please note that this class has limited enrollment. need reg!

FACULTY

William Baker, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He is currently on the faculty at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University, the William Alanson White Institute, and the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts and serves as a member of the editorial staff at the Journal of Analytical Psychology.

Harry W. Fogarty, MDiv, PhD, LP, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in NYC. He is a faculty member of the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts and a former Lecturer in Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary.

Ilona Melker, LCSW, is a Jungian Psychoanalyst and Certified Sandplay Therapist. She has taught and lectured at the C.G. Jung Foundation and at national conferences. She has contributed to professional journals. She is in private practice in Manhattan and Princeton, New Jersey.

Maria Taveras, LCSW, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. She is also an award-winning creator of Dream Art. She creates art from images in her own dreams and is the recipient of two Gradiva Awards from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for her Dream Art. Her Dream Art has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Berkeley, London, Montreal, and Cape Town.

David Walczyk, EdD, LP, NCPsyA, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in NYC. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the C.G. Jung Institute of NY. He is an award-winning educator, award-winning designer, a writer, and public speaker. He has lectured both domestically and internationally and is on the faculty of New York University.

General Information

Location

Programs are held at the C.G. Jung Center at 28 East 39th Street, New York City, unless otherwise indicated on this announcement.

Registration

The full fee must be paid at time of registration. You may by mail or fax (use registration form, below), or by telephone: pay with your MasterCard or Visa. Or you can register in person at the C.G. Jung Foundation, Monday–Thursday 10:00 am–5:00 p.m. FAX # 212-953-3989. Seating is limited and early purchase of tickets is strongly recommended.

Registration Form (required for mail-in or fax registrations only)

Gilgamesh, Akhnaten: The King Heroes and a Call for a New Ecological Consciousness

January 23, 2020March 14, 2020Webmaster

Gilgamesh and Akhnaten are two king heroes whose stories from the ancient world inform us about the development of the heroic ego successfully separating from Mother and becoming victorious over Mother Nature. They are both important stories for the development of human consciousness and spirituality. In this course we will discuss the Epic of Gilgamesh as well as Akhnaten’s contribution to individuation, consciousness and spirituality. We will also look at what happens in the process of individuation when the hero separates from Mother Nature and the ego becomes inflated while cutting down the cedar forest and rejecting, subduing the goddess. We will explore Akhnaten’s story of monotheism and why worshipping the Sun Ra was a one-sided exultation of solar consciousness. We will consider what Jung meant when he stated that, “Nature must not win but she must not lose either.” In this era of climate change, artificial intelligence, and automation, might we need to invite the Goddess back into our consciousness, uniting the masculine and feminine for the sake of a new consciousness in our collective development?

7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists.

FACULTY

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.

FACULTY

General Information

Location

Programs are held at the C.G. Jung Center at 28 East 39th Street, New York City, unless otherwise indicated on this announcement.

Registration

Registration Form (required for mail-in or fax registrations only)

Attachment in Relationships

January 23, 2020February 24, 2020Webmaster

Have you ever wondered how our earliest relationships influence, inform and even shape our later adult relationships? If so, then you’re interested in attachment. In this course, we will review the forms of attachment, examine how attachment style affects adult life, and delineate the biological basis, that is the neuroscience, of attachment. Participants who complete the course will gain a pragmatic understanding of attachment in their own lives and how it informs the lives of those they care about.

FACULTY

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.

General Information

Location

Programs are held at the C.G. Jung Center at 28 East 39th Street, New York City, unless otherwise indicated on this announcement.

Registration

Registration Form (required for mail-in or fax registrations only)

Attachment in Spirituality and Religion

January 22, 2020April 16, 2020Webmaster

The influence and connection between our childhood relationships and our adult relationship with spirituality and religion will be the focus of this course. Pragmatically, we will consider how attachment style informs and often unconsciously structures the forms of spirituality and religion we are drawn to and engage with, as well as the types we reject, as adults. Why we may feel connected or disconnected from the spirituality or religion, we were brought up with and what we can do about it will be an underlying theme of the course. No prior understanding of attachment is required to take this course.

7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists.

FACULTY

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.

Contemporary Jungian Dreamwork

January 22, 2020March 14, 2020Webmaster

FACULTY

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.

FIRST TUESDAY FORUM

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 12:30 – 1:30 pm

Speaker: Harmar D. Brereton, MD

Saturday Workshops

This Workshop is Cancelled

Learning Objectives

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Tuition

$100 for members/students,

$110 for the general public

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Saturday Workshop

Saturday, December 5, 2020

Learning Objectives

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Tuition

$90 for members/students,

$100 for the general public

Saturday, February 13, 2021 CLOSED 11:00am–4:00pm

A daylong Zoom Seminar led by Katherine Olivetti, MA, MSSW

Tuition Members/Students, $90 General Public, $100

Learning Objectives

CLOSED—Saturday, February 13, 2021: 11:00am–4:00pm

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Tuition

$90 for members/students,

$100 for the general public

Saturday Workshops

Saturday, February 29, 2020 9:30 am– 4:30 pm

Learning Objectives

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Tuition

$100 for members/students,

$110 for the general public

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Continuing Education: Spring 2020

5 consecutive Thursdays, 7:00–8:30pm Beginning March 5

Instructor: William Baker, PsyD

FACULTY

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Tuition

$150 (MEMBERS)

$175 (GENERAL PUBLIC)

General Information

Location

Registration

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Refunds

Continuing Education: Spring 2020

5 consecutive Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:00pm. Beginning March 3

Instructor: Ilona Melker, LCSW

FACULTY

FACULTY

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Tuition

$150 (MEMBERS)

$175 (GENERAL PUBLIC)

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Location

Registration

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Continuing Education: Spring 2020

4 Thursdays, 6:30–8:20pm Beginning March 5 (Note:4 sessions)

Instructor: David Walczyk, EdD, LP, NCPsyA

FACULTY

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Tuition

$150 (MEMBERS)

$175 (GENERAL PUBLIC)

General Information

Location

Registration

Registration Form (required for mail-in or fax registrations only)

Refunds

Continuing Education: Spring 2020

This Online Course is Sold Out.

5 consecutive Thursdays, 6:30-8:00pm Beginning April 16

Instructor: David Walczyk, EdD, LP, NCPsyA

FACULTY

Tuesday, March 3, 2020
12:30 – 1:30 pm

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Saturday, February 13, 2021
CLOSED
11:00am–4:00pm

Tuition
Members/Students, $90
General Public, $100

Saturday, February 29, 2020
9:30 am– 4:30 pm

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