LESSON-ROTTMAN
Spring I: Classes begin the weeks of February 23rd and March 2nd on Zoom
What is The Nature of Individual Psychological Change?
5 consecutive Mondays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm Eastern Time, USA, online via Zoom
Beginning March 2, 2026
Distinguished Senior Instructor: David Rottman, MA
This course is not offered for NYS CE contact hours
In this course we will explore a challenging but extremely important question: How does real psychological change actually occur in a particular person?
Jung describes the way he worked this way: “For me, as far as the individual is concerned there is only one understanding, namely an individual one. The requirement patients bring with them is infinitely variable. Even the language is different. For every patient a different language is needed.”
While many psychological traditions describe change in terms of insight, behavior modification, adaptation, or symptom reduction, Jungian psychology locates change and transformation in the encounter between consciousness and the psyche’s own living images.
From the power of our own unique images—not limited to dreams and fantasies but also our images of ourselves, of others, and of the world—we have the capacity to rearrange our inner and outer experience.
We will explore Jung’s way of working with a person’s “individual language” by discussing these topics:
- Why does a particular experience, image, or moment change one person profoundly, while leaving another untouched?
- What makes an image come alive with transformative potential?
- Why can years of effort leave us stuck—until a single experience suddenly opens something new?
- Is there a contradiction between our shared human commonality of collective archetypes and the radical individuality that Jung says he was focused on?
- What do people say about their experience of personal change when the change has been valuable and even healing?
- What kind of personal change is generated from within relationships, as opposed to when individuals “work on themselves?”
- How exactly can a therapist learn the language of another person’s psyche?
- Finally, can the personal images from the unconscious address our very specific individual purpose in life?
Readings will consist of excerpts in the form of handouts from Jung’s work as well as the work of Marie-Louise Von Franz, Edward Whitmont, David Hart, Frances Wickes, Barbara Hannah, Yoram Kaufmann and other Jungian authors.
LESSON-ROTTMAN
Spring I: Classes begin the weeks of February 23rd and March 2nd on Zoom
What is The Nature of Individual Psychological Change?
5 consecutive Mondays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm Eastern Time, USA, online via Zoom
Beginning March 2, 2026
Distinguished Senior Instructor: David Rottman, MA
This course is not offered for NYS CE contact hours
In this course we will explore a challenging but extremely important question: How does real psychological change actually occur in a particular person?
Jung describes the way he worked this way: “For me, as far as the individual is concerned there is only one understanding, namely an individual one. The requirement patients bring with them is infinitely variable. Even the language is different. For every patient a different language is needed.”
While many psychological traditions describe change in terms of insight, behavior modification, adaptation, or symptom reduction, Jungian psychology locates change and transformation in the encounter between consciousness and the psyche’s own living images.
From the power of our own unique images—not limited to dreams and fantasies but also our images of ourselves, of others, and of the world—we have the capacity to rearrange our inner and outer experience.
We will explore Jung’s way of working with a person’s “individual language” by discussing these topics:
- Why does a particular experience, image, or moment change one person profoundly, while leaving another untouched?
- What makes an image come alive with transformative potential?
- Why can years of effort leave us stuck—until a single experience suddenly opens something new?
- Is there a contradiction between our shared human commonality of collective archetypes and the radical individuality that Jung says he was focused on?
- What do people say about their experience of personal change when the change has been valuable and even healing?
- What kind of personal change is generated from within relationships, as opposed to when individuals “work on themselves?”
- How exactly can a therapist learn the language of another person’s psyche?
- Finally, can the personal images from the unconscious address our very specific individual purpose in life?
Readings will consist of excerpts in the form of handouts from Jung’s work as well as the work of Marie-Louise Von Franz, Edward Whitmont, David Hart, Frances Wickes, Barbara Hannah, Yoram Kaufmann and other Jungian authors.
These are online courses, given through the program Zoom. Please download the Zoom program in advance of the first class session at Zoom.us
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