The C.G. Jung Foundation Continuing Education courses are five-week courses designed to be informative and stimulating both to the general public and to professionals. Our program offers you the opportunity to study and explore analytical psychology, the works of C.G. Jung, and fields of related interest.

These courses will be offered through the online program Zoom. After you enroll in a course and before the first class session, you will be emailed instructions and a Zoom invitation. Please be sure to download the Zoom program on your device before the first class session at Zoom.us. It is a free program. Also please send us your email address and daytime telephone number. These programs will not be recorded.

Note: 7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for the Jungian Dream Interpretation course and the Art of Psyche course.

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, and 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.

For licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts or Creative Arts Therapists applying for CE credit to receive accreditation, students must attend all sessions. Please be sure to send us your NYS profession and license number.

Spring I

Jung through the LifeSpan:
Special Topics in Psychological Development

5 consecutive Mondays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm Eastern Time, USA, online only via Zoom.
Beginning February 26, 2024
Instructor: David Rottman, MA

This course is not offered for NYS CE contact hours.

“The highest joy of man should be the growth of personality.”

C.G. Jung quoting Goethe in C.G. Jung Collected Works Vol. 8, ¶ 731

In this course we will make a survey—a broad overview-—of Jung’s ideas about psychological development over the course of a lifetime.
Our five topics will be 1. Pregnancy, Conception and Birth 2. Childhood, Adolescence and Initiation into Adulthood. 3. Work and Relationships 4. Renewal and Rebirth and Coming to Self-Awareness, and 5. Death, Dying and the Afterlife.

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Spring I

Jungian Dream Interpretation

5 consecutive Fridays,
6:00-7:30 pm Eastern Time, USA, online only via Zoom.
Beginning March 1, 2024
Instructor: Maxson J. McDowell, PhD, LMSW, LP

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

A dream uses an imagistic language we can decipher. This language is universal, the same as used in myths from stone-age cultures. A dream shows us the next possible step in our developing personality. It warns us if we are going astray, encourages us if we need it, or offers penetrating insights into our confusion. We work together as a team and have fun.

We confirm or disconfirm each interpretation with experimental evidence. We will not work with class members’ dreams. Please bring a dream, with permission, from a family member or friend.

You may want to read this paper (in press) about this class:
 https://philpapers.org/rec/MCDTDO-19 

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Spring II: Classes begin the week of April 8, 2024, on Zoom

Spring IIThe Art of Psyche: Active Imagination and Art

5 consecutive Wednesdays, 6:00 – 7:30 pm Eastern Time, USA via Zoom.
Beginning April 10, 2024
Instructor: Maria Taveras, LCSW

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

We will explore the intimate relation between the art of psyche, active imagination and art. Our main focus will be on the role of active imagination in the psychic origin of artistic creation. Jung defines active imagination as a technique for evoking images from the unconscious and then actively engaging those images. By creating a series of dreams, visions, and spontaneous images during course we will have the opportunity to observe the creative process in motion, in visual forms of the collective unconscious psychologically speaking in terms of the symbolic, compensatory, amplification, and unconscious complexes.

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Spring IIFairy Tales as Cultural Discourse, part 2:

Stories about Nationalism, Loss of Empathy and Aging
5 consecutive Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm, Eastern Time, USA via Zoom
Beginning April 11, 2024
Instructor: Mary Apikos

This course is not offered for NYS CE contact hours.

 Over the course of five weeks students will be given an in-depth overview of some of the most essential genres and story motifs in the oral to written story telling tradition. By understanding the historical and cultural context that a story is told in, we will see how stories evolve to interact with other forces that impact our lives. Whether you are an artist, writer or a person who wants to experience story and art in a more informed way, you will learn how your story is connected to multi-cultural folklore and literary fairytales.

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FACULTY

Mary Apikos taught at Parsons School of Design NYC for 17 years. She taught inter-disciplinary courses about aspects of design culture that fell through the cracks to people who fell through the cracks. She is ABD in Cultural Anthropology from CUNY Graduate Center and has worked as an ethnographic textile conservator at the Museum of the American Indian, George Heye Foundation NYC and in private practice where she specialized in the care of sacred materials. In 2022 Mary completed a one-year remote applied arts program at the Centre for Applied Jungian Studies in South Africa and is on staff at The London Arts Based Research Centre. She is a working artist and currently resides in Chicago. Her work can be seen on her website maryapikos.com

Maxson J. McDowell, PhD, LMSW, LP, is a senior Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. Former President of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, he is also a longtime faculty member. He has taught courses in dream interpretation online and in person for over 25 years. He has published numerous papers on dream interpretation, Jungian psychology, narcissistic injury, systems theory and autism.

David Rottman, MA, is past President of the C.G. Jung Foundation and is a member of the Jung Foundation’s Continuing Education Faculty. He 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.

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.

 

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These are online courses, given through the program Zoom. Please download the Zoom program in advance of the first class session at Zoom.us

TUITION

All 5-week courses are $175 for the general public and $150 for members.

REGISTRATION

The full fee must be paid at the time of registration. Please register through the payment buttons on this website.

IMPORTANT NOTES

When you pay you must also email your current email address and telephone number to the Foundation at cgjungny@aol.com. The Foundation will send you an email message and you must reply to confirm receipt. If you are taking this course for 7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists, please specify which license you hold and give your NYS license number.
Class size is limited. Early registration is strongly recommended. Refunds for continuing education courses, less $15 for administrative services, will be made up to seven days before the first session. There will be no refunds issued after classes have begun. No exceptions will be made. Programs are subject to change without notice.

For more information, call or write:

Office of the Executive Director
The C.G. Jung Foundation of New York
28 East 39th Street
New York, New York 10016
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