
Dreams in the Analytic Process:
Patients’ dreams as an objective commentary about the treatment
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Note the change in date!
10:00 am – 3:00 pm EST
a Zoom seminar led by Michael Conforti, PhD
Contact hours: 4 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.
It is the way of dreams to give us more than we ask...They not only allowed us an insight
into the causes of the neurosis but afforded a prognosis as well. What is more, they showed us at what point the treatment should begin.
(Modern Man in Search of Soul, p. 5, C.G. Jung)
As Jung has taught us about the profound meaning of dreams and their ability to provide a deeply meaningful perspective about our life, this seminar builds on these insights while looking to the dream as offering an objective perspective on treatment. We will see how our clients’ dreams allow us to understand the nature, trajectory, and meaning of the treatment, and how the analyst may have become entrained and entwined within the patient’s personal and archetypal drama. Through illustrations of both patients’ and analysts’ dreams that occur from the beginning of treatment and throughout the analysis, we will come to an even greater appreciation of the dream’s capacity to provide an accurate commentary and needed corrective to the therapeutic process.
Mythic Path to Healing
Saturday, December 6, 2025
10:00 am – 3:00 pm EST
a Zoom seminar led by
a Zoom seminar led by Julie Bondanza, PhD
Contact hours: 4 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.
“Myths and fairytales give expression to unconscious processes, and their retelling causes these processes to come alive again and be recollected, thereby re-establishing the connection between conscious and unconscious.”
— C.G. Jung, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, CW 9ii: 280
In this workshop, we will explore several myths and fairy tales to discover the healing that occurs in the story and to learn to apply the method suggested by the healing either to our ourselves or to our practice of psychotherapy. We will look at the myth of Medusa to work with the victim complex, and the story of Oedipus to work with the problem of a too one-sided personality. We will also look at the Homeric Hymn to Demeter to explore the mother complex in women. The Red Shoes presents the problem of unmourned grief and the effect on the psyche.
The program will also be opened up to stories the participants may want to work with and we can explore together how the myth or fairy tale shows the trajectory of healing.
FACULTY
Paula Howie, MA, ATR-BC, LPC, LCPAT, HLM, spent 25 years treating trauma at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and now practices privately in Takoma Park, MD, helping many traumatized individuals. She is a Past President and Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association, and has edited books including Art Therapy with Military and Veteran Populations: History, Innovation, and Applications (2017). Paula is also an avid watercolor painter.
Julie Bondanza, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and licensed psychologist in private practice in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. She trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, where she was on the teaching faculty for many years. She has been the director of training for both the New York Institute and the Philadelphia branch of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She is the program director for the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, where she had served for many years on its board of trustees, and she teaches in many Jungian venues across the country, both to the public and to analysts-in-training
Susan E. Schwartz, PhD, was trained in Zurich, Switzerland, as a Jungian analyst and is a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. Her Jungian analytical practice is in Paradise Valley, Arizona. She is also an author and her books include The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds and The Imposter Syndrome and The ‘As-If’ Personality in Analytical Psychology: The Fragility of Self. This workshop is based on her newest book, An Analytic Exploration of Love and Narcissism: The Tragedy of Isolation and Intimacy. This workshop was first presented in July as part of the Summer Study Intensive program.
Michael Conforti, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and the Founder and Director of the Assisi Institute. He is a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute – Boston and the C.G Jung Foundation of New York. A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, Dr. Conforti is actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences. He has presented his work at The C.G. Jung Institute - Zurich and Jungian organizations in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Indonesia, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, and Venezuela. He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings and Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature & Psyche, which have been translated into Italian, Russian and Spanish.
These are online courses, given through the program Zoom. Please download the Zoom program in advance of the first class session at Zoom.us
SATURDAY FALL 2025 WORKSHOPS 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 $100 for the general public and $90 for members.![]()
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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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