February 2019
Exploring our Unlived Life Through Dreamwork
Presented by Sherri Mahdavi, Ph.D. In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. - C.G.Jung The unexamined life is surely worth living, but is the unlived life worth examining? …
Find out more »Introduction to Chassidic Psychology
Presented by Rabbi Tal Sessler, Ph.D. Chassidism is a profound and systemic all-embracing life-philosophy, which provides a deep psycho-spiritual lens through which to view and experience the human condition. Through the use of archetypes and symbolic language, it suggests a way of reading and understanding the Torah as a psychological journey…
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An Analytical Psychology Club Event:
The Shape of Water:
A Modern Fairytale of Love and the Other
Presented by Thuy Bui, Ph.D. Love in the sense of concupiscentia is the dynamism that most infallibly brings the unconscious to light. - C.G. Jung – Transformation Symbolism in the Mass. This presentation will explore the symbolic and mythological representations of love and the “other” and their collective manifestations as seen through…
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An Analytical Psychology Club Event:
The Personal Dig – A Writing Workshop to Delve into Yourself
Presented by Jan Wesley Writing is a wonderful way to be honest and revealing, as it informs and offers possibilities of questioning and changing ourselves. It allows us greater access to understanding our lives outside, and the worlds inside us. We will explore, through writing exercises, the memories, visions, and events of daily life that fill us. This requires a “dig” as a process of examining who we are through delving into our experiences. Participants will write from ideas or “prompts” to…
Find out more »March 2019
Painting Inner Images:
Opposites We Carry Within
Presented by Marion Anderson, Ph.D. I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say in any other way things that I had no words for. - Georgia O’Keeffe At times we struggle to express opposing tendencies within ourselves, as we try to find ways of resolving…
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The Ford/Kavanaugh Complex:
Trauma and Soul in American Culture
Presented by Steven Galipeau, M.A., M.Div. The Christine Ford testimony to the Senate and Brett Kavanaugh’s response gives us a close look at a critical cultural complex in our country. This complex limits the ability to hear the pain and suffering of people, be it women, Native Americans, African Americans,…
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Jungian Sandplay:
The Orphan and Finding Nemo
Presented by Audrey Punnett, Ph.D. The Orphan: The Psychic Drive for Wholeness in Sandplay In this case presentation of Sandplay therapy with an 11 year-old boy, we will focus on how the constellation of the orphan archetype, with its accompanying feelings of isolation, anguish, and despair can act as a…
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What Do Our Dreams Tell Us About Ourselves That We Don’t Already Know?
An Introduction To Jungian Dream Work
Presented by Michal Aizenman, L.P.C.C. In this theoretical and experiential workshop we will practice, experience, learn about and discuss Jung's approach to dream work. Using a dream presented, we will examine the structure of a dream, and ways of analyzing a dream from an objective as well as a subjective…
Find out more »A Reading and Book Signing: Into the Heart of Sandplay
Presented by Harriet Friedman, M.A., M.F.T., Sachiko Taki-Reece, Ed.D., M.F.T. and Gita Morena, Ph.D., M.F.T. Come celebrate with us the publication of Into the Heart of Sandplay with three of its contributors. Into the Heart of Sandplay (edited by Dyane N. Sherwood and Betty C. Jackson) is a compilation of experienced sandplay therapists from around the…
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An Analytical Psychology Club Series:
Reading Series
Discussion of Robert Johnson’s books He, She and Inner Work
In honor of Robert Johnson, a beloved senior analyst, we will have read these books ahead of time and can share our questions and observations each week. Bring something to share for our hospitality table. Inner Work by Robert Johnson $16.99 Buy Now She by Robert Johnson…
Find out more »April 2019
Between Esotericism and Psychology:
Runes, Magic and the Mysteries in Jung’s Liber Novus
Presented by Sonu Shamdasani, Ph.D. From 1913 onwards, in the course of his self-experimentation, Jung crafted a self-styled practice of the imagination and engaged with magic and Hermeticism in a syncretic manner. He came to conceive of his experiences as an initiation into the mysteries, which he sought to generalize as…
Find out more »Who Do Wilshire Blvd. and Carl Jung Have in Common?
Presented by Jay Sherry, Ph.D. This slide presentation will answer this intriguing question and feature other personalities discussed in my book The Jungian Strand in Transatlantic Modernism. We will begin with Jung's first visit to New York, where he saw the Armory Show, an experience which took his creativity in a…
Find out more »May 2019
“Who Will Write Our History”
PLEASE SAVE THE DATE FOR A REMARKABLE FILM! Dear friends, Our Institute is in the fortunate position of being able to screen an extraordinary and innovative new documentary on Wednesday evening, May 1st, as part of its worldwide release on International Holocaust Memorial Day. Who Will Write Our History, from…
Find out more »The March From Selma to Montgomery and the Nonviolent Movement in Analysis
Presented by Renee M. Cunningham, M.F.T. The program will focus on the March from Selma to Montgomery and the development of culture through the implementation of the eightfold path of nonviolence (Gandhi’s concepts of Satyagraha and Ahimsa and King’s six tenets). The concepts of individuation, the ego/Self Axis, the cultural unconscious…
Find out more »Master/Slave: Abuse of Power in the Analytic Relationship
Presented by Renee M. Cunningham, M.F.T. Utilizing case material, we will examine the potential for abuse of power in the context of the analytic relationship, and how this can replicate aspects of the archetypal master/slave relationship. Drawing from the principles of the eightfold path of nonviolence, we will examine some of…
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An Analytical Psychology Club Event:
Women and Soul
Presented by Pamela Freundl Kirst, Ph.D. “Is it long as a noodle or fat as an egg? Is it lumpy like a potato or ringed like an oak or an onion and like the onion the same as you go toward the core? That would be suitable, for is it…
Find out more »Session 2-Painting Inner Images: Opposites We Carry Within
In this painting workshop, we will utilize complimentary colors to evoke images of the unconscious, and find creative ways in which to reconcile these pairs of opposites.
Find out more »June 2019
Living Life More Fully in the Shadow of Mortality
Online Registration for this event has ended. Tickets will still be available at the door. Presented by James Hollis, Ph.D. Jung observed that "life is a short pause between two mysteries." That fact is not in debate; what does matter, then, is how we live that short pause. Given that…
Find out more »Taking Your Life Back: Steps to the Recovery of a Personal Journey
Online Registration for this event has ended. Tickets will still be available at the door. Presented by James Hollis, Ph.D. Tiny, dependent, and at the mercy of the world around us, we all have to adapt, adjust, bury, deny, split-off and repress, and thereby lose contact with our own sovereignty…
Find out more »Jungian Sandplay: The Importance of Being and Silence in Child Analysis
Presented by Maria Ellen Chiaia, Ph.D. Drawing from clinical and theoretical material, we will focus on the importance of being and the role of silence in analytic work with children. As the child tells his or her story through play and interaction with the therapist, we in turn imagine and empathize with the child in their world and in the wordless spaces between us. This capacity to be with the child's emotional experience without verbal interpretation, allows children the freedom to express their thoughts and feelings without impingement, so that a liminal space may be created for healing and transformation.
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.
