May 2020
Dreaming in the Time of Corona – An Interactive Seminar
Presented by Judith Hecker, Ph.D. The psychological impact of living with the corona virus, a worldwide pandemic, has altered ordinary life in numerous ways, socially, economically, and emotionally, as people struggle to integrate ever-changing new realities. As clinicians one of the ways in which we see the psyche attempting to…
Find out more »Pandemic: A Collective Nightmare or a Wake-Up Call?
Presented by Robert Moradi, M.D. Psychologically nightmares are viewed as the eruption of a fierce conflict between instinct and will within the psyche of an individual. They are understood as an attempt by the psyche to protect its own container (the body and soul) when the psyche experiences itself in…
Find out more »June 2020
The Gilgamesh Epic:
How an Ancient Myth Reflects Splits in our Culture
Presented by Steven Galipeau, M.A., M.Div. The Gilgamesh Epic is the oldest story in the world but for over two thousand years all traces of it were lost. As various fragments have been uncovered since 1850, scholars and poets have been drawn to understand and elucidate this tale. Using some…
Find out more »September 2020
A Writer’s Group for Women
Presented by Sheila Traviss, L.M.F.T. 10 Thursdays: September 24, October 1, 8, 15, 22, November 12, 19, December 3, 10, 17, 2020 - 7:00 - 8:30 pm Pacific Time- Registration for series only. In this writer's group, limited to 12 women, we will utilize Jungian concepts as prompts to explore…
Find out more »Memories, Dreams, and Reflections
Presented by Sherri Mahdavi, Ph.D. 4 Tuesdays: September 29, October 13, 20, 27, 2020 - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Pacific Time- Registration for Series Only. Limited enrollment. In this seminar, we will read Jung's autobiography, Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, written later in his life as he reflected on the…
Find out more »October 2020
Training Open House
Join us online on Sunday, October 11 at 2:00 when our Director of Training will host a virtual Open House with a panel of analysts and candidates to answer your questions and offer their own experiences of the program. Hearing from current candidates and those who have recently been certified…
Find out more »Painting Inner Images: Symbols of Nature
Presented by Marion Anderson, Ph.D. 5 Thursdays: October 15, 22, 29, November 5 , 12, 2020 - 11:00am-1:00pm Pacific Time- Registration for series only. Enrollment limited to 8. During unusual times in the outer world, we resource to the voice of our inner nature, the unconscious. C.G. Jung, in personal times…
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The Clinical is Cultural, The Cultural is Clinical:
Black Women Depth Psychologists on the Evolution of Clinical Practice
Presented by Sharon D. Johnson, Ph.D.; Sherrie Sims Allen, Ph.D.; Marcella De Veaux, Ph.D.; Kim Howell, Ph.D.; Patricia Taylor, Ph.D. Saturday, October 31, 2020; 10:00 am-1:00 Pacific Time. Psychotherapist Philip Cushman’s text, Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy, sought to highlight the social-cultural placement of clinical practice…
Find out more »November 2020
Animal Symbolism in Dreams
Presented by Elizabeth Schofield-Bickford, M.A., M.F.T. 4 Wednesdays: November 11, 18, December 2, 9, 2020 - 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Pacific Time - Registration for Series Only. Enrollment limited to 12. "The animal embodies something that is at first manifested as the animal instinct in man, but behind which…
Find out more »Living Between Worlds: Finding a Center in Turbulent Hours
Presented by James Hollis, Ph.D. Saturday, November 14, 2020; 9:00 am-12:00 pm Pacific Time. Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born … - (Matthew Arnold, 1885) As individuals, we often find ourselves in in-between times, somewhere between a world we knew, and a world that…
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“Pantheon of Paradoxes”:
Archetypal Imagery in the Ancient Egyptian Pantheon
Jacqueline Thurston, M.A. Friday, November 20, 2020; 7:30-9:30 pm Pacific Time. Jung’s understanding of synchronicity, the intersection between the inner world of dreams and the imagination and the outer physical world, and his exploration of cultural and personal archetypal imagery both inform and guide this presentation. Drawing from images from…
Find out more »December 2020
Notebooks of Transformation: Introducing Jung’s Black Books
Presented by Sonu Shamdasani, Ph.D. The recently published Black Books, a series of personal journals written between 1913-1932, represent Jung's explorations of the visionary imagination through writing and painting and include both reflections on his own psychological development, as well as the evolution of his theory of analytical psychology. The…
Find out more »February 2021
Series: Reading Persian Sufi Poetry through the lens of Jungian Psychology
Presented by Sherri Mahdavi, Ph.D. 3 Tuesdays: February 9, 16, 23, 2021 - 7:00 - 9:00 pm Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly Let it cut more deep Let it ferment and season you - Hafiz I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the Astonishing Light…
Find out more »Physical Disability from a Wounded Healer’s Perspective
Presented by Renata Ferraz Torres, M.D. In this presentation, the archetype of the wounded healer will be discussed from personal, archetypal, and clinical perspectives. Diagnosed at age eight with familial spastic paraplegia, a disease which resulted in a physical disability, Torres brings a unique perspective to her work as a…
Find out more »The Janus-faced archivist: Reflections on 4500 colorful pictures sleeping in grey boxes.
Presented by Ruth Ammann The picture archive of the C. G. Jung Institute Zürich/Küsnacht contains nearly 4,500 original works by Jung’s patients from 1917-1955, and another 6,000 works of patients from the collection of Jolande Jacobi. Jung frequently asked his patients to paint and draw their inner images as he…
Find out more »March 2021
No Choice but to Act
Presented by Coline Covington, Ph.D. In the midst of atrocities, there is the silent presence of those brave individuals who act and stand apart from the crowd, who risk their own lives by rescuing others, and in other ways, by voicing their dissent. The actions of these exceptional individuals raise…
Find out more »April 2021
Moby Dick: How an American Myth Speaks to Our Times
Presented by Steven Galipeau, M.A., M.Div. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is a uniquely American description of the encounter with our unconscious depths. In this seminar, we will examine some of the ways in which this extraordinary product of the American imagination speaks to our modern circumstances with striking relevance. Some of…
Find out more »Painting Inner Images: On Vulnerability
Presented by Marion Anderson, Ph.D. 4 Wednesdays: April 14 , 21, 28, May 5 - 3:00 pm-5:00 pm. During unusual times in the outer world, we resource to the voice of our inner nature, the unconscious. C.G. Jung, in personal times of crisis, resourced to contacting his inner images and…
Find out more »C. G. Jung and the Composition of Synchronicity
Jung and Synchronicity recommended reading Presented by Laurence Browne, Ph.D. Rarely do new words introduced to the public by a particular author become readily accepted as part of general discourse, and it is doubtful that Jung himself could have predicted how popular his invented term would become. His hypothesis of…
Find out more »June 2021
Medea – For Clinicians Only
Medea Presented by Corey Hooper, M.F.T. Medea’s act of killing her children stands out as one of the most horrific crimes/taboos in our collective memory. In this presentation, we will examine our own potential for rage, hatred, and violence, and our horror at confronting this shadow piece of ourselves. We will…
Find out more »Continuing Education:
Psychologists/LCSWs/MFTs/LPCCs: The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Nurses: The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is an accredited provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing. Registered Nurses may claim only the actual number of hours spent in the educational activity for credit.
