Spiritualism as a Significant Influence in Jungian Psychology

A daylong seminar led by
Jane Selinske, Ed.D., LCSW, LP

Contact hours: Six CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers and Psychoanalysts for this program.

In C.G. Jung’s early life he participated in family séances, wrote his doctoral dissertation in search of a medical answer to mediumistic behavior, kept aware of parapsychological research during his career and attended séances well into his fifties. His maternal Spiritualistic influences and his paternal Christian history were a constant struggle for Jung during his life time. Additionally, his religious experiences mediated through the collective unconscious were factors that contributed to Jung’s ongoing search to understand the intersection of spirituality and science. In his quest to unite the spiritual and the scientific, Jung leaned on his experiences with Spiritualism and his mythic life with the dead. This workshop will discuss how the origin of Jungian psychology was influenced by Jung’s exposure to Spiritualism, his descent into the psyche and his mythic life with the dead.

Tuition
Members/Students, $100;
General Public, $110.

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Learning Objectives

To learn the history and influences of C.G. Jung’s religious family background that contributed to his search for a religious function in the psyche.
To learn how the origin of Jungian Psychology was influenced by C.G. Jung’s exposure to Spiritualism, his descent into the unconscious and his mythic life with the dead.
To discuss how C.G. Jung’s doctoral dissertation was an attempt to find a medical answer to mediumistic behavior.
To understand C.G. Jung’s shift in perspective from a metaphysical to a psychological understanding of Spiritualism.
To understand the conflict over Spiritualistic phenomena between Jung and Freud.
To distribute a bibliography to participants that can enhance their further study and research.

Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, LP, MT-BC, is a Jungian analyst, a practitioner of Mandala Assessment and a Board Certified Music Therapist. She is President of the Board of the Jung Foundation and a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and the Institute for Expressive Analysis of New York.

Contact hours: 6 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., 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.

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 8, 2018: 9:30 am–4:30 p.m.
at the C.G. Jung Foundation, 28 East 39th Street, New York City