Aging: The Penultimate Transition

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.

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, 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.