Donald Meltzer, a neo-Kleinian, theorized that, like an ordinary mother’s devotion to their child in their speech and gestures, an analyst's way of speaking to the truth of their patient's experience entails appreciating beauty.
Before they were re-visioned as “seven deadly sins,” desert monastics of the fourth century imagined eight evil thoughts, or “calculating reasons” of the mind.
When the world burns, how do we transform rage into desire? In this workshop, we will explore the goddess KALI in her unknown avatar of the dancing goddess who holds passion and desire.
In 1935, writer Samuel Beckett attended a lecture where C.G. Jung spoke of a young girl "who had never been born entirely," a concept that would deeply influence Beckett's characters for the rest of his life. This event examines how Beckett utilized this "unborn archetype" and the corresponding "devouring mother" as source material and structural scaffolding for his famous stories.
On its 50th anniversary, we return to Hillman’s Re-Visioning Psychology in a time when we are meeting the collective shadow as fate in dreadful social, political, and environmental consequences.
In this workshop participants will deepen their relationship to the unconscious by exploring the nature and language of dreams and learn through Jung’s method of active imagination and modalities of the expressive arts how to “dream the dream onwards.
Jung Embodied: Active Imagination in Movement & the Arts
Analyzing strengths and weaknesses in models of Substance Use Disorder (SUD), addiction, and treatment through case study: what the clinician should know
