Fall 2024 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 1: Fall 2024

9 Tuesdays: 6:00 – 8:00 pm ET – a 2-hour class
September 10th – November 19th (excluding October 8 and October 15)

Instructor: Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, LP, NCPsyA

Interpreting Unconscious Drawings from a Jungian Lens

“To the extent that I managed to translate
The emotions into images-
That is to say to find the images
Which were concealed in the emotions-
I was inwardly calmed and reassured.”
C.G. Jung, The Red Book

 

Image and symbol are the unconscious language of psyche. Understanding this unconscious language assists the therapist in deciphering what the client is attempting to communicate. This course will be based on the theoretical teachings of C.G. Jung, his map of the psyche and active imagination. Ways to interpret client drawings will be taught to assist the therapist with diagnosis and treatment possibilities. The significance of symbolic language, symbol meaning from an objective and personal association, will also be examined. Information on the significance of symbols, shape, color and color combinations, balanced and unbalanced designs, position of objects, family and relationship members on the drawing paper, will be presented. Projective art samples will be examined and analyzed and the ethical considerations of using projective art experiences in sessions will be discussed.

This class will be both didactic and experiential. The lectures and group participation in drawing and discussion will demonstrate for the participants the significance of active imagination and projective drawing as methodologies for diagnosis and treatment.

Please have available drawing paper, preferably large, 11 x 14 in, oil pastels or crayons, journal, pencil and pen.

 

Learning Objectives:

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

  1. Identify the life experiences and psychological components that contributed to the development of C.G. Jung’s Active imagination and use of drawing from the unconscious.
  2. Explain the significance of symbolic language and the meaning of objective and personal associations to symbols.
  3. Discuss ethical considerations such as privacy, confidentiality, displaying drawings and keeping drawings for documentation.
  4. Apply C.G. Jung’s map of the psyche to interpreting projective drawings.
  5. Apply Active Imagination to an unconscious drawing.
  6. Apply knowledge of interpretive drawing techniques to a client drawing for diagnostic information.
  7. Explain interpretive techniques for rectangular/family drawings.
  8. Discuss the significance of color, shapes, position within a drawing and balance for diagnosis.
  9. Acquire significant resources and bibliography in the area of C. G. Jung Theory and projective techniques.

FACULTY

Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, NCPsyA, 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 Fall 2024  9-week seminar is $540.

Interpreting Unconscious Drawings from a Jungian Lens

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The C.G. Jung Foundation
28 East 39th Street,
New York, NY 10016