Spring 2026 Contact hours: 18 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for each seminar. For licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists applying for CE credit, students must attend all 9 sessions.

Please note: This is an online seminar using the Zoom platform. A Zoom invitation will be emailed to enrolled participants shortly before the first class session.

This seminar is open to the general public as well as to professionals.

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, and licensed creative arts therapists, #CAT-0068.

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Seminar 2: Spring 2026

9 Tuesdays: 6:00 – 8:00 pm ET on Zoom
February 24 – May 5, 2026 (excluding March 17 and April 7)

Instructor: Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, NCPsyA-LP, MT-BC

Dreams in Clinical Practice: A Symbolic Approach

“One would do well to treat every dream as though it were a totally unknown object. Look at it from all sides, take it in your hand,
carry it about with you, let your imagination play around with it.” C.G. Jung, CW 10, 320

C.G. Jung’s break with Freud in 1912-1913 preceded his descent into the unconscious and the beginning of his exploration with Active Imagination and Symbolic Play. During this time of Symbolic Play, Jung developed an approach to the psyche which led to a Religious Attitude and the use of imagination to connect with the unconscious. Play, fantasy and the imagination will put us in touch with material that is ordinarily repressed (C.G. Jung, CW 6, 93).

One way to achieve a deeper connection with the unconscious is to understand personal and objective symbol meanings by playing with dream symbols. Jung considered symbols the best expression and description of yet an unknown connection with the unconscious brought into consciousness. The use of creative play with the symbol is a vehicle that helps to understand dreams.

Dreams and Active imagination will provide the materials for Symbolic Play in the class. We will begin by reviewing basic Jungian approaches to dream analysis. As the unconscious produces images, we will learn to explore and analyze the symbols in the dreams as they inform consciousness. We will also learn to connect the day residue and symbolic derivatives with the dream to gain therapeutic insights for clients. For some attendees the material may be a review and for others it may be new. However the newness for all will be the experience of discovering how unique and significant symbols are in understanding dreams. All are encouraged to attend. Please begin to gather dreams and symbols to use in the class.

 

Learning Objectives:

The course is designed so that participants will be able to:

1. Define symbol and understand the definition of symbol and its use in dreams.
2. Define derivatives and to recognize them while interpreting a dream.
3. Develop a journal with a minimum of 20 new symbolic definitions.
4. Engage in and define the process of Active Imagination.
5. Provide therapeutic insights from a dream interpretation.
6. Discuss the Dramatic Structure of a Dream.
7. Define and understand the technique of Amplification for a Dream.
8. Define Jung’s Map of the psyche in relation to Dream Interpretation.

FACULTY

Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, NCPsyA-LP, MT-BC, is a licensed Jungian analyst, a practitioner of Mandala Assessment and Board-Certified Music Therapist. She was trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and has taught psychology and Jungian theory at the Washington Jung Society, PAJA, the Institute of Expressive Analysis, the Creative Therapies Institute connected with New York University, the New York C.G. Jung Institute, Rutgers University and the New York C.G. Jung Foundation, where she is currently President of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Selinske has a practice where she unites music and imagery, art, spirituality and Jungian theory.

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TUITION
Tuition for the Spring 2026 9-week seminar is $540.

Dreams in Clinical Practice: A Symbolic Approach

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