Workshops and Seminars

The C.G. Jung Foundation presents

Dismantling the Caretaker Complex: Personal and Clinical Implications

Saturday, February 24, 2018
9:30 am– 4:30 pm

A daylong seminar led by
Irina Doctoroff, LMFT, LP

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

The Caretaker Complex is a complex of identity which is formed early in childhood when a parent sees her child as an object she owns for her own needs and forces the child to incarnate precariously into the mold of her expectations. Primarily the mother expects the child to take care of her. As an adult, such a child continues to serve, take care of, and accommodate other people, often at her own expense. We often meet caretaker-identified people in healing and teaching professions. What brings them to therapy is their inability to have full access to their creativity, and to experience true happiness and pleasure.

In this workshop, we will explore the formation, development, and treatment of the “caretaker personality.” The nature of caretakers’ original wound suggests that a crucial task for them is to allow themselves to be taken care of and be able to own and express their needs and wants. We will also discuss the caretaker personality from a historical and cultural perspective and relate it to the state of the Feminine in our patriarchal society.

Methodology will include lecture, large group sharing, and question and answer periods.

Tuition

Members/Students, $100;

General Public, $110.

You can pay online using your amazon account.

If you pay online, please also email us your name, address, email, and the name of the workshop for which you have paid.

Doctoroff workshop: non member ($110)

Doctoroff workshop: member ($100)

Registration and Payment Form for mail-in and phone payments

›› Doctoroff workshop registration (PDF format) ‹‹

 

Learning Objectives

  1. Define the Caretaker complex in terms of its nature and structure.
  2. Discuss mechanisms through which the Caretaker complex is formed from a Jungian and psychoanalytic perspective.
  3. Engage in several practices for the transformation of the negative aspects of the Caretaker complex through creative drawing and active imagination.
  4. Demonstrate how the formation of the Caretaker complex is connected to broader social and cultural structures and how it challenges traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity.
  5. Utilize myths and fairy tales to further analyze the Caretaker complex.
  6. Apply theoretical knowledge to clinical cases.

Irina Doctoroff, LMFT, LP, was originally trained as a Marriage and Family Therapist at the University of Maryland. She is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Manhattan, who received her training at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. She is a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and the C.G. Jung Foundation. The current presentation is based on her long-term work in a county clinic with children and families, as well as with individuals in private practice.

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

Saturday, February 24: 9:30 am–4:30 p.m.
at the C.G. Jung Foundation, 28 East 39th Street, New York City


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Kabbalah, Archetypal Psychology and the Practice of Psychotherapy

Saturday, March 10, 2018
9:30 am– 4:30 pm

A daylong seminar led by
Sanford L. Drob, PhD

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

This seminar will provide an introduction to Kabbalah, its symbolism, its worldview, and its relevance to archetypal psychology and the practice of psychotherapy. Topics to be explored include: the role and relevance of the Kabbalah to Jung’s thinking, Jung’s 1944 “Kabbalistic Visions,” and the application of Kabbalistic principles, symbols and archetypes to the development of an archetypal, humanistic and integrative approach to psychotherapy. Kabbalistic dream interpretation in the Zohar and its anticipation of Jungian dream analysis will be explored.

Tuition

Members/Students, $100;

General Public, $110.

You can pay online using your amazon account.

If you pay online, please also email us your name, address, email, and the name of the workshop for which you have paid

Drob workshop: non member ($109.99)

 

Drob workshop: member ($99.99)

Registration and Payment Form for mail-in and phone payments

›› Drob workshop registration (PDF format) ‹‹

Learning Objectives

  1. To understand the relevance of Kabbalistic thought and symbols to the psychology of C.G. Jung and to understand why Jung once stated that a Kabbalist, the Maggid of Mezirich, anticipated his entire psychology.
  2. To understand the relevance of such Kabbalistic symbols as Ein-sof (the Infinite), the Tzimtzum (contraction/concealment, the Sefirot (archetypes of mind and value), Shevirah (“the breaking of the vessels”), and Tikkun (restoration, emendation) to Jungian thought and the practice of psychotherapy
  3. To understand that the Kabbalah, far from advocating a dogmatic religious world-view, paves the way for an “open economy of thought and experience” that is critical for psychotherapetic practice.
  4. To examine how the Kabbalistic notion that archetypal values (the Sefirot) are the elements of both the cosmos and the human psyche paves the way for a model of psychotherapy integration.

Sanford L. Drob, PhD is a Core Faculty Member in the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at Fielding University and is on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute and Jung Foundation in New York. In his books (Symbols of the Kabbalah, 2000, Kabbalistic Metaphors, 2000, Kabbalah and Postmodernism, 2009, Kabbalistic Visions: C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism, 2010, and Archetype of the Absolute, 2017) as well as on his website, www.newkabbalah.com, Drob shows how the symbols of the Lurianic Kabbalah articulate a “basic metaphor” that is reprised in a philosophical idiom in the writings of such later thinkers as Hegel, Freud, Jung and Derrida, and which serves as a compelling model for understanding the world and the place of humanity within it. His Reading the Red Book: An Interpretive Guide to C. G. Jung’s Liber Novus (2012) approach Jung from a philosophical, theological and psychological point of view. As a painter, he works in a traditional representational idiom in order update and resignify theological, mystical and archetypal themes, and addresses basic philosophical and theological questions through the medium of narrative painting. His paintings can be seen at www.sanforddrobart.com.

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

Saturday, March 10, 2018: 9:30 am–4:30 p.m.
at the C.G. Jung Foundation, 28 East 39th Street, New York City


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Creativity and the Embodied Self

Saturday, April 14, 2018
9:30 am – 4:30 pm

A daylong seminar led by
David Walczyk, EdD, LP, NCPsyA

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

The importance Jung placed on creativity is unquestionable, “from the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse.” But what Jung couldn’t know, because the tools for understanding were not available during his lifetime, was the role that the body, in particular, neurobiology, contributes to helping or hindering the creative impulse. We can imagine that Jung, always the progressive, would be interested in how this new knowledge informs his psychology.

In this seminar, we will consider Jung’s understanding of the role and purpose of creativity to personal and collective individuation. We will then, with Jung’s thinking in mind, examine how the body, specifically neurobiology, contributes to creativity and the creative process. Taken together, Jung’s understanding and neurobiology’s findings provide us with a robust and enlarged contemporary image of creativity. It also informs our clinical work by providing a broader understanding of what it means to be a creative individual at the beginning of the twentieth-first century.

Tuition

Members/Students, $100;

General Public, $110.

You can pay online using your amazon account.

If you pay online, please also email us your name, address, email, and the name of the workshop for which you have paid.

Walczyk workshop: non member ($109.98)

Walczyk workshop: member ($99.98)

 

Walczyk workshop: member ($99.98)

Registration and Payment Form for mail-in and phone payments

 

›› Walczyk workshop registration (PDF format) ‹‹

Learning Objectives

  1. To discern Jung’s understanding of the purpose of personal and collective creativity to processes of individuation
  2. To develop the competency for comprehending how creativity affects and is affected by the body
  3. To learn and identify the regions of the brain that contribute to creativity
  4. To appraise the similarities and differences between Jung’s understanding of creativity and neurobiology’s understanding of it
  5. To comprehend and celebrate that creativity is not limited to the arts but instead pervades, informs, and structures much of contemporary life
  6. To understand how the neuroscience of creativity informs and assists clinical practice

David Walczyk, EdD, LP, NCPsyA, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. He is an award-winning educator, award-winning designer, a writer, and public speaker. He has lectured both domestically and internationally and is on the faculty of New York University.

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

Saturday, April 14, 2018: 9:30 am–4:30 p.m.
at the C.G. Jung Foundation, 28 East 39th Street, New York City


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Applying C.G. Jung’s Analytic Theory to Symbol Creation

Saturday, May 5, 2018
9:30 am – 4:30 pm

A daylong seminar led by
Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, LP

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

“At the dawn of history, the whole world-animate and inanimate, Natural and supernatural – was interpreted symbolically.”
C.G. Jung, Sacred Symbols

According to C.G. Jung, a symbol is an intuitive idea that cannot yet be formulated in any other or better way (CW 15, 105). Symbols enable us to conceive of something which is beyond our previous understanding. They are clues that move us closer to our issues or help us find the treasures in our psyches. Understanding the symbol brings the unconscious to consciousness and can ward off psychological and unhealthy one-sided thinking.

Jung was one of the first to explore the projection of personal and patient symbols through creative expression. He determined that the unconscious spoke symbolically through dreams, play, art, active imagination and the archetypes. He was particularly interested in the symbolic creative communication from the unconscious because he had learned from experience the healing properties of the symbol. Jung determined that the symbol was the bridge or middle ground that provided a new content where opposites could be identified and unified (CW 6, 825). Jungian analytic theory assists in the interpretation of symbolic meaning and demonstrates how Jung understood the function and value of symbolism in inner and outer life. Symbols are the language of the unconscious and lead us to what we as yet do not know or understand.

This workshop is didactic and experiential and will help the participant learn that within the psyche there is an innate symbol-forming propensity which, when attended to, can move the client toward health. We will look at the role of symbols in the therapeutic process and their psychological influence from a Jungian Theoretical Lens. In addition, images and symbols will be explored through Imaginal Techniques such as drawing, symbol amplification, personal associations to images and learning to apply Jung’s tenant of the significance of the objective nature of the psyche. The relevance of symbols in the therapeutic process will be discussed throughout.

Please come with a significant image or dream symbol that you feel comfortable sharing, a pencil and a box of crayons or oil pastels.

Tuition

Members/Students, $100;

General Public, $110.

You can pay online using your amazon account.

If you pay online, please also email us your name, address, email, and the name of the workshop for which you have paid.

Selinske workshop: non member ($109.97)

Selinske workshop: member ($99.97)

 

Selinske workshop: member ($99.97)

Registration and Payment Form for mail-in and phone payments

 

›› Selinske workshop registration (PDF format) ‹‹

Learning Objectives

  1. To describe the historical differences between Freud and Jung in regard to the role of symbols in the psyche.
  2. To identify the components of C. G. Jung’s Map of the Psyche.
  3. To summarize the role of symbols in the therapeutic process and their psychological influence from a Jungian lens.
  4. To discuss how people possess an innate symbol forming propensity for symbol creation.
  5. To describe what it means to live a symbolic life.
  6. To describe how the unconscious speaks symbolically through dreams, play, drawing, active imagination and through the archetypes.
  7. To explain Jung’s view of the objective nature of a symbol.
  8. To distribute a bibliography to participants that can enhance participant’s further study and research.
  9. To identify the dramatic structure of a dream.

Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, LP, MT-BC, is a licensed Jungian Analyst trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, a licensed clinical social worker, and a board certified music therapist. She holds certifications in therapeutic art techniques, imagery and music and spirituality. She is a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Foundation, the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and the Institute for Expressive Analysis of New York and also serves as President of the Jung Foundation. Dr. Selinske received her EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University and is a certified teacher and administrator. She has worked in numerous clinical settings: psychiatric, rehabilitation, geriatric, general hospital and hospice, has taught all levels of education and has facilitated workshops, retreats, staff trainings and groups.

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

Saturday, May 5, 2018: 9:30 am–4:30 p.m.
at the C.G. Jung Foundation, 28 East 39th Street, New York City


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