Summer Study Online Program-2025

3.5 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists per day and 17.5 CE contact hours for the entire 5-session program.

Each session runs from 12:00 noon – 3:30 Eastern Daylight Time with breaks as needed.

These are all online sessions, given through the program Zoom. Please download the Zoom program in advance of the first session at Zoom.us. A Zoom invitation link will be sent to registered students shortly before the start date of each program day. If you don’t receive your link by the day before the program, please check your Spam folder, then email us at cgjungny@aol.com. These programs will not be recorded.

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. To receive credit, you must attend the full day program for each day registered and have a valid NYS license to practice as a social worker, psychoanalyst or creative arts therapist. Click here for Learning Objectives for these programs.
We welcome both professionals and the general public to this program.

The C.G. Jung Foundation of New York
Intensive Online Summer Study Program 2025

For over 63 years, the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York has been conducting educational programs for both professionals and the general public. It is the publisher of online Quadrant: The Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation and runs a book service offering a wide selection of books by and about C.G. Jung and the field of analytical psychology.

The Foundation’s Summer Study Program is a unique opportunity to meet people online from all over the United States and the world who share a common interest in Jung and his ideas. Past summer participants hailed from such diverse locations as Brazil, Iceland, Switzerland, The Czech Republic, Belgium, Puerto Rico, Japan, Australia, Ireland, Venezuela, and the Pacific Northwest. Our intensive program has been carefully designed to be informative and stimulating for professionals in the field and the general public. We encourage participants from a wide range of backgrounds to attend our summer program.

I look forward to meeting you online in July.

Julie Bondanza, PhD, Program Chair and Host

Intimacy: Development, Challenges, Individuation

Monday, July 14
12:00 noon – 3:30 pm ET

For two personalities to meet is like mixing two different chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed.
C.G. Jung, CW 16, Problems of Modern Psychology, ¶163

Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light or of apathy into movement without emotion.
C.G. Jung, Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype, CW 9i, ¶179

In this workshop, we will explore through a Jungian perspective how intimacy develops. We will discuss the role of projection, especially in the context of the influence of the contrasexual (the archetypes of anima and animus) and how projection, while a necessary component in psychological development, also creates challenges. Shadow also plays a significant role in the growth of intimacy, as does personal history and, ultimately, love.

Individuation is the desired outcome if the individuals explore the challenges that come from the unconscious and from each other.

We will also discuss the clinical model that Jung uses to describe the relationship between analyst and analysand, which is useful in working with intimate partners.

Participants will be able to:

Instructor:
Julie Bondanza, PhD

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Archetypal Imperatives:
Attachment, Mentalization, Relationship, and Individuation

Tuesday, July 15
12:00 noon – 3:30 pm ET

In this workshop we will explore the emergence of mentalization – the capacity to make meaning out of the ambiguities of our internal world and our experience of other – from infancy through adulthood. This core relational capacity develops or is derailed in the context of primary relational experience, and has profound relevance for adult relational life and disturbances of personality.

The core teachings of attachment theorists (John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, and Mary Main), infant observation psychologists (Donald Stern and Beatrice Beebe), and developmental psychoanalysis (Peter Fonagy) will be re-visioned in Jungian idiom with particular reference to the clinical and theoretical work of Mara Sidoli and Jean Knox.

Clinical examples will be given of effective mentalization and failure to mentalize, and ways of facilitating this capacity in adulthood. We will demonstrate that mentalizing is the necessary foundation for that symbolic understanding of psyche needed for individuation.

Participants will be able to:

Describe and define the four attachments styles identified by Bowlby, Ainsworth, and Main.
Identify metallization and three modes of failure to mentalize in psychotherapy narratives.
Describe how mentalization is essential for the symbolic understanding of psyche essential to individuation.

Instructor:
John Michael Hayes, PhD, ABPP

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An Archetypal Exploration of Love and Narcissism

Wednesday, July 16
12:00 noon – 3:30 pm ET

The narcissistic response to life propels the Jungian process of individuation. However, the internal splits and fractured selves set up distance between who one is and who one wants to be. Emphasized is the concept of the shadow, dissociation and the intimacy compromised in the singularity of narcissism. This person is characterized by feelings of fraudulence and vulnerability bounded by a wall of impenetrability, a form of self-deception, leaving feelings of being an imposter. Reality is fraught with anguish, panic, absence and void although the person exudes an appealing but always elusive facade. Life can no longer be avoided with compulsions, perfectionism and ego-drive.

A dream series and close look at the Narcissus and Echo myth clarify both the obstacles and pathways towards alignment with Self. The growth towards maturity involves exploring the reality of the psyche, something difficult for this personality type.

Participants will be able to:

Define narcissism from the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology.
Explore narcissistic relationships through the mythological portrayals of Narcissus and Echo.
Forge self-knowledge and emotional transformation with a narcissist in clinical treatment and their dreams.

Instructor:
Susan E. Schwartz, PhD

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Attachment Repair and Autonomy:
A Relational Approach to Trauma Work

Thursday, July 17
12:00 noon – 3:30 pm ET

“We suffer very much from the fact that we consist of mind and have lost the body.”
C.G. Jung, 1934

Years of experience working with clients who have suffered trauma have shown that a holistic approach addressing the connection between mind and body is highly beneficial. Trauma influences several facets of a person's life, including attachment, interpersonal relationships, and the capacity to function both intimately and autonomously. Several professionals have devised effective interventions, such as those by Mate (2022) and Tinnin and Gantt (2013). Trauma impacts psychological, physical, and emotional well-being (van der Kolk, 2014; Kalsched, 2013). Directly addressing trauma through methods like debriefing or exposure therapy may lead to re-experiencing the event. Alternatively, not addressing the trauma can result in persistent symptoms associated with the traumatic experience, often described as memory shrapnel (Howie, 2017).

This workshop introduces theories of attachment, body autonomy, and the innovative Body Narrative approach. Designed to address trauma-related issues, this method explores how attachment styles form during development and trauma. According to Peter Levine (2015), vital memories are often stored in the body beyond conscious access. Surrounded by stories that shape our communication, thinking, and memories, psychotherapy helps clients understand and heal their life stories and bodily expressions. Vignettes reinforce and shape these stories, which are stored in our bodies until released (Marr, 2020; Gendlin, 1996).

During this session, we will investigate elements of relational narratives and utilize art interventions to delve deeper into our personal and embodied vignettes.

Participants will be able to:

Describe three effects of trauma on the individual’s psyche.
Describe the importance of early attachment in the persons’ life cycle.
Describe two aspects of a relational attachment-informed approach to trauma treatment.

Instructor:
Paula Howie, ATR-BC, LPC, LCPAT, HLM

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Dream Interpretation:
Deepening Relationship by Listening to the Inner Other

Friday July 18
12:00 noon – 3:30 pm ET

"The unconscious is the unknown at any given moment, so it is not surprising that dreams add to the conscious psychological situation of the moment all those aspects which are essential for a totally different point of view. It is evident that this function of dreams amounts to a psychological adjustment, a compensation absolutely necessary for properly balanced action." C.G. Jung, CW 8, ¶469

When you form a deeper relationship to the unconscious, this also helps you to relate better to other people, since you become less compelled to project your own assumptions onto them. If you can withdraw your projections, you can see other people more realistically and perhaps appreciate them more for who they actually are. When you listen deeply to a dream you are listening to an inner "other" who, knowing you better than you know yourself, is trying to tell you something that is important and also is unknown to you, either in content or as to its degree.

Together we will listen deeply to several dreams, each time testing our interpretation with an experiment. This technique will help you to learn significant aspects of dream interpretation which, in turn, may help you to listen and relate more consciously to the people in your life, both personally and professionally.

Participants will be able to:

Distinguish between associations, explanations, and amplifications to a dream image.
Recognize the dream's setting and its importance.
Describe the relationship between a dream and the dreamer's psychological progress.
Practice using both logic and imagination in dream analysis.
Describe the value of ‘tolerating the anxiety’ of not interpreting prematurely.
Recognize the need to attend to the details of each image, because each detail is meaningful.
Recognize that active listening includes allowing the dream to tell us what it chooses, not what we want to hear.

Instructor:
Maxson J. McDowell, PhD, LMSW, LP

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2025 Summer Study Faculty

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.

John Michael Hayes, PhD, ABPP, graduate from the Catholic University of America. He has had a long career as a psychologist and psychoanalyst in the Baltimore-Washington area. Currently he is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine; faculty and training and supervising analyst, Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute. He also holds degrees in theology and is a priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. He teaches pastoral psychology and spirituality at the Ecumenical Institute, St. Mary’s Seminary and University. He has a private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Baltimore.

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.

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 28 years. He has published papers on virology, dream interpretation, Jungian psychology, self-organization. narcissistic injury and autism.

Susan E. Schwartz, PhD, trained in Zurich, Switzerland as a Jungian analyst. She appears on many podcasts and presents at Jungian analytical conferences and teaching programs in the USA and worldwide. Susan has numerous articles in journals and book chapters on Jungian analytical psychology. Her books are: The Absent Father Effect on Daughters, Father Desire, Father Wounds (2020) translated into several languages; Imposter Syndrome and the ‘As-If’ Personality: The Fragility of Self (2023); A Jungian Exploration of the Puella Archetype: Girl Unfolding (2024) and An Analytical Exploration of Love and Narcissism; The Tragedy of Isolation and Intimacy (2025), Missing Fathers; Yearning Sons (2026) all published by Routledge. Her website is www.susanschwartzphd.com

Program Information
Program Costs

Price per person: $395 to register for all 5 sessions.
$90 per single-day program registration.

There are no scholarships available for this program.

Program is subject to change without notice.

Certificate of Completion for NYS licensed social workers, psychoanalysts, and creative arts therapists is included in the tuition. A non-credit letter of completion can be issued upon request.

Tax Deductions
Seminars of this type usually meet the requirements for IRS tax deduction, but each individual must consult with a professional tax advisor prior to registration to ascertain eligibility.

Program Registration
Class size is limited. Early registration is strongly recommended. Programs are subject to change without notice.

The full fee must be paid at the time of registration. Please register through the payment buttons on this website. Mail in registration is available through the Registration Form, which can be downloaded by clicking here. Register by telephone at 212-697-6430 with Visa or MasterCard.

When you pay you must also email your current email address and telephone number to the Foundation at cgjungny@aol.com. If you are taking this course for 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. Also indicate the name under which the license is filed.

Cancellation of Registration
There will be a cancellation fee of $15 per person per day registered on all cancellations received on or before July 11, 2025. The C.G. Jung Foundation is not responsible for technical difficulties on the part of the seminar member during the course of the program. No refunds after July 11, 2025. No exceptions will be made. Only cancellations made in writing via email or letter will be deemed valid.

Disclaimer of Responsibility
By registering for this program, the seminar member specifically waives any and all claims of action against the C.G. Jung Foundation and its staff for damages, loss, injury, accident, or death due to negligence on the part of any organization or employee providing services included in this Summer Study Program. These programs are for educational purposes only. They are not therapy.

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