The Many Faces of Loneliness

Contact hours: 4 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
C.G. Jung

Do you fear the Mothers? Strange it is, Goddesses to men unknown, whom we are loathe to name or own. Deep must you dig to reach their dwelling ever, you are to blame that now we need their favor.
Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust

We live in a world of constant connection to technology and a virtual reality. Sophisticated algorithms and AI powered devices promise to provide answers and solutions for every situation in daily life. Yet this state of perpetual interconnection has led to a pandemic of loneliness and isolation and by extension to a mental health crisis of epic proportions.

In this seminar we will engage the individual experience of loneliness from a variety of theoretical angles, including attachment theory, a dissociative response to trauma, and societal pressure to adhere to an over the top extroverted culture.

We will trace Jung’s own, often paradoxical, relationship to loneliness and how the solitary path of bearing one’s own uniqueness is part and parcel of the Jungian notion of individuation. We will include examples from clinical practice and literature in our reflections. We will also look at the role of the body, the long neglected stepchild in psychoanalysis as a a starting point of actively engaging the subjective suffering of alienation and disconnect.

This workshop is both didactic and experiential. It is intended for anyone who wishes to develop a better understanding of how to make sense of this grand ailment of our times, including psychotherapists and other practitioners who encounter some of the many lonely people in their consultation rooms.

Include your credit card information or check, made payable to the C.G. Jung Foundation,
and a self-addressed stamped envelope to:

The C.G. Jung Foundation
28 East 39th Street,
New York, NY 10016

Contact hours: Four 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. 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.

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, May 6, 2023: 10:00 am–3:00 pm EST
This is an online program via Zoom. This program will not be recorded.

a Zoom seminar led by Heide M. Kolb, LCSW-R, NCPsyA