Fall 2025 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 10 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 2025
10 Tuesdays: 6:00 – 7:50 pm ET
September 9th – November 25 (excluding September 23 and October 7)

Instructor: Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, NCPsyA-LP, MT-BC

C.G. Jung’s Application of Analytic Psychology
to Childhood Dreams

Between 1936 and 1940, C.G. Jung held a seminar focusing on childhood dreams with some of the prominent future psychological leaders of the twentieth century. His interest began in 1930 when he started to investigate the importance of childhood dreams. Jung’s summary of his dream analysis method is presented in the seminars and is a valuable introduction for those interested in the significance of childhood remembered dreams. The seminars also showed Jung as a teacher and supervisor along with a view of the spontaneity of his personal reactions.

The soul of a child revealed in early childhood dreams can point toward their teleological paths. Jung introduced his general schema for dream interpretation to follow the dramatic structure of Greek Mystery Drama. He considered the psyche and dreams as expressions of unconscious processes and discovered in addition to adults also gave insights into the psychology of childhood.

In this didactic and experiential class, participants will examine Jung’s monumental work entitled, Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936 - 1940, Princeton University Press: Princeton and Oxford 2008. Weekly reading assignments will be required to support and help explain the concepts presented by Jung and reinforced by the teacher. Participants will discuss the techniques presented and will also reflect and creatively engage childhood dreams brought to the class. This class will enable participants to analyze childhood dreams.

PLEASE NOTE:  The book Children's Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940, will be used as the reading material for this course.  Please have this book available for reading and discussion assignments.

Learning Objectives:

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

  1. Discuss C.G. Jung’s Map of the Psyche and how its components contribute to dream interpretation.
  2. Interpret dreams by applying the Dramatic Structure of the dream technique.
  3. Explain the significance of a Childhood dream for their teleological future.
  4. Explain the significance of symbols and symbolic language in dream analysis.
  5. Interpret a Childhood dream from a Jungian Psychological perspective.
  6. Discuss creative arts techniques to enhance dream analysis.
  7. Experience Jung’s teaching, supervision and personality during the seminar.
  8. Explain how understanding children’s dreams can assist in their psychological development.

FACULTY

 

Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, NCPsyA-LP, 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 2025  10-week seminar is $540

$540  C.G. Jung’s Application of Analytic Psychology to Childhood Dreams

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