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 and The Inner World of Childhood courses.
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: Classes begin the weeks of February 23rd and March 2nd on Zoom

Spring I: Classes begin the weeks of February 23rd and March 2nd on Zoom

 

Jungian Dream Interpretation

5 consecutive Wednesdays, 6:00-7:30 pm Eastern Time, USA, online only via Zoom.
Beginning February 25, 2026
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.

This class should be fun. We will work together each week to interpret a dream knowing only the dream text, and the dreamer’s age and gender identity. Then we will test our interpretation against what else the bringer of the dream can tell us about the dreamer. Each week you will learn more about the technique of interpretation that began with Jung and von Franz, was brought to New York by Edward Whitmont, and that this instructor has further developed. We will not work with class members’ dreams. Please bring a dream, with permission, from a family member or friend.

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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.

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Spring II: Classes begin the week of April 6, 2026, on Zoom

 

 

Moving the Needle: Continuing Studies in Midlife and Elder Tales

5 consecutive Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm, Eastern Time, USA via Zoom
Beginning April 9, 2026
Instructor: Mary Apikos

This course is not offered for NYS CE contact hours.

Youth, as a stage of life, has been put front and center in literary fairy tales, often more so than the stages of midlife and older age. This course explores stories that give us glimpses into the lessons Elders are uniquely tasked to recognize and learn in their journey toward individuation. We will find motifs such as gender role reversal, inversion of fortune, memory, time travel, and the effectiveness of collective action in the stories, images, and music that are the foundation for each session. We will review Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development and Jung’s work on ageing. We will discuss selections from Lithuanian stories of "Laumas" (elderly female giants who rescue children) and the book Handsome Heroines: Women as Men in Folklore by Shahrukh Husain, as well as the "Graeae" of Greek mythology, among others.

The class also serves as an introduction to Jungian Arts-Based Research (JABR) methodology and students are encouraged to incorporate this approach into their own creative practices. Building upon the concept of trans-disciplinarity in physics, it applies Jung's work on the transcendent function to offer creatives a way to examine subjectivity and multiple meaning making without hierarchies. It is not a form of art therapy but can be therapeutic in the creative process.

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The Inner World of Childhood: A Jungian Approach to Working with Children

Wednesdays, 6:00 – 7:30 pm Eastern Time, USA, online via Zoom.
Beginning April 8, 2026
Instructor: Helaine Ciporen, MSW, MEd

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

Jung's approach to psychotherapy extends to work with children. Many adult psychological difficulties are rooted in early wounds of childhood, raising essential questions: How do we reach and heal children? How might this understanding inform our work with the wounded inner child in adulthood?
This course offers an introduction to the Jungian approach to working with children. Grounded in the work of C.G. Jung, Frances Wickes, and Marie-Louise von Franz, it emphasizes symbolic understanding, rather than intervention techniques or behavioral outcomes. Participants will explore how children express their inner lives through play, images, symptoms, and fantasy and how these expressions can be understood as meaningful communications of the psyche rather than problems to be corrected. These early symbolic expressions form the foundation upon which adult psychological life is built.

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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

Helaine Ciporen, MSW, MEd, has more than 35 years of experience in private practice, teaching and hospital social work. She has worked with children and their families in various settings, to address a variety of issues, including chronic illness and learning disabilities. As the mental health member of clinical teams, Ms. Ciporen contributed to public health initiatives, research studies and publications. She has taught at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College and Columbia University School of Social Work.

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, Distinguished Senior Instructor of the Jung Foundation’s Continuing Education Faculty, is past President of the C.G. Jung Foundation. 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 an international private practice.

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

REGISTRATION

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

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

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.

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