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This 10-week course (25.25 CPD hours) is designed for those curious about Jungian and psychoanalytic concepts and the practice of analytical psychotherapy today. In a small group setting, led by experienced psychotherapists, we will cover the key clinical ideas of analytical psychotherapy, including the analytic frame, transference, working with dreams and mother/infant research.
We welcome participants from all backgrounds. Previous attendees at our introductory courses have included counsellors, clinical psychologists, those working in pastoral care and spiritual direction, teachers, doctors and social workers.
This paper will discuss Dr. Davidson's experience that gender transition, in all its many forms, functions as an agent of individuation. In addition, the paper explores the contrast between our cultural attitudes of widespread acceptance of many kinds of medical transformation of our bodies and the shadow projection that seems to often be constellated by medical changes to bodies that impact gender. We will look at an appropriate analytic attitude toward analysands who are exploring gender. Finally, the paper will lay out the possibility that Jung's thesis -beginning with the Red Book - that we all have all the archetypes offers a uniquely Jungian lens into gender expansiveness.
Adina Davidson got her Ph.d from Case Western Reserve University in 1993. She was a family therapist in private practice and the Clinical Services Director at a social service agency in Cleveland, Ohio for 25 years. . She began analytic training in 2012 and became an analyst and member of the CSJA in 2019.
Richard Morgan explores the significance of Jung’s notion of the ‘uniting symbol’—not only in relation to the treatment of personal trauma, but also in healing the body politic. Drawing on Jung’s distinctive thinking, especially as expressed in The Red Book, it considers the conditions that enable such symbols to arise in the consulting room and in communities. Special emphasis will be given to the poetic and political imagination needed to support the emergence of the uniting symbol.
The talk will draw parallels between the long-standing conflict in Ireland and today’s landscape, where competing truth claims undermine social trust, limit our capacity to think and speak, and fuel cycles of violence. Jung warned us “not to be indifferent to the poets,” as they “create from the very depths of the collective unconscious, voicing aloud what others only dream” (CW VI, §323).
This paper explores the four-year psychotherapeutic journey of a 13-year-old autistic girl diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa, aiming to understand her internal world and the interplay between her neurodivergence and eating disorder. In clinical practice, autistic girls often develop intense special interests; for some, anorexia becomes such an interest, characterized by a compulsion to excel in restrictive behaviours. The fear of relinquishing the anorexic identity raises concerns about how their emotional needs will be addressed by parents, healthcare professionals, therapists, and educators. More profoundly, there exists a certainty that adults may fail to recognize that academically capable adolescent girls might not be psychologically prepared for the responsibilities of adulthood.
Elizabeth Anscombe is a child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist, who trained at the Tavistock and Portman clinic.
"My works are fundamentally nothing but attempts, ever renewed, to give an answer to the question of the interplay between the ‘here’ and the ‘hereafter.’” — C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Sonu Shamdasani, editor of The Red Book, describes how Jung, in 1945, articulated what he described as a critical reformulation of analysis:
The whole goal of analysis is conceived … as the preparation for the detachment of the soul from the body. Not how is your life going, but how is your death coming along, would be the critical question from this perspective. Thus, analysis became reframed as a modern form of the ars moriendi.
This seminar invites a profound reorientation in how we live our lives. It is an invitation to drop into a deeper, more vital current of being— challenging, requiring sacrifice, but also alive with joy.
Catherine Cox is a Jungian Analyst and Supervisor in private practice (WMIP and BJAA), working between London and Norfolk.
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