July 2019
An Analytical Psychology Club Event:
The Evolution of Modern Thought in Same-Sex Marriage:
Transforming The Western God-Image
Presented by Felipe Capiral, Jr., MA, AMFT In his presentation Felipe will use the lenses of analytical psychology to provide an alternative myth for same-sex marriage, giving the revolutionary, historical event a psychological archetypal grounding. Felipe Capiral, Jr., MA, AMFT, is a graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute. He currently is…
Find out more »September 2019
An Analytical Psychology Club Event:
Romantic Love or a Dream?
Presented by Robert Moradi, M.D. Rumi says: انكه برد بحث را عشقست و بس “The one who succeeds in the debate is none but love.” In other words, love always wins. But love doesn’t care about the price that lovers have to pay because love, as ancient Greeks knew, is…
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Painting Inner Images Workshop :
Inner Geometry
Presented by Marion Anderson, Ph.D. Geometric forms such as rectangles, circles, and triangles are basic elements present in our outer life such as in architectural structure or, in their uneven forms in nature. Basic geometric structures also symbolically represent feelings, moods or lasting psychological states of our inner life. In…
Find out more »October 2019
Edith Sullwold Memorial Lecture
The Childhood of the Biblical God:
The Underpinnings of the Yahweh Complex in Human Behavior
Presented by Michael Gellert, M.A., L.C.S.W. The degree of character flexibility, the ability to open oneself to the outside world or to close oneself to it, depending on the situation, constitutes the difference between a reality-oriented and a neurotic character structure. – Wilhelm Reich This presentation will focus on the…
Find out more »Training Program Open House
Interested in learning more about the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles Training Program? Come and meet analysts and candidates, hear a brief presentation by senior analyst Jeanine Roose, Ph.D., on The Alchemy of Analysis and have your questions about becoming a Jungian analyst answered. Light refreshments will be served.…
Find out more »Nietzche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Presenter: Mark Troedson, Ph.D., M.F.T. 6 Sundays: October 20, November 24, December 8, 2019. January 12, 26, February 16, 2020. Time: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Held in the Kirsch Lecture Room. Open to candidates and analysts. Continuing Education: There are no CE credits offered for this course. This…
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Painting Inner Images Workshop :
Inner Geometry-SOLD OUT
Presented by Marion Anderson, Ph.D. Geometric forms such as rectangles, circles, and triangles are basic elements present in our outer life such as in architectural structure or, in their uneven forms in nature. Basic geometric structures also symbolically represent feelings, moods or lasting psychological states of our inner life. In…
Find out more »November 2019
An Analytical Psychology Club Event:
Know Thyself: Shadow Work with Tarot
Presented by Yolanda M. Robinson, Ph.D. This workshop will help participants understand various aspects of ourselves that remain hidden within the Shadow archetype until we dare to unveil them with the use of divination tools like Tarot images and alchemy of soul. Key 15, The Devil, will serve as psychopomp…
Find out more »The Mystical Hebrew Alphabet as a Path to Individuation
Presented By Rabbi Mel Gottlieb, Ph.D. In an interview, Jung said: "But do you know who anticipated my entire psychology in the 18th century? The Hasidic Rabbi Baer from Meseritz, whom they called the Great Maggid. He was a most impressive man." The ancient Sages/Kabbalists deepened the mysteries of the…
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An Analytical Psychology Club Event:
Bearing Witness to Transference in Relationship
Presented by Mark Troedson, Ph.D. "Every analysis is original research into the reality of the psyche…We step in; it grips us." - Ann Belford Ulanov There are many ways other than therapy to be gripped by this original research, but the way of relationship is perhaps our first and best…
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Facing the Other:
Women and the Search for Soul
Presented by Pamela Freundl Kirst, Ph.D. The “Other” is said to be a bridge to the unconscious, a pathway to the deepest core of the self. Jungian Psychology traditionally uses the term animus—identified as the inner masculine—to identify the “Other” within a woman’s psyche. Do such traditionally gendered ideas remain useful…
Find out more »An Analytical Psychology Club Event: Fairy Tales and the Psyche
Presented by Steven Galipeau, M.A., M.Div. "Fairy Tales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious psychic processes." -Marie-Louise von Franz In this presentation we will look at two Grimm's fairy tales, Iron Hans and The Girl Without Hands, to explore how they express critical elements of the struggles…
Find out more »December 2019
An Analytical Psychology Club Event:
“He Who Rides The Tiger…”
Presented by J. Gordon Nelson, Ph.D. “He who rides the tiger...,” an image of enlightenment in some Asian countries, is also another name for the Buddha. “Riding the tiger” implies not only our vulnerability and that we had better not fall off, but also the goal of life. In psychology,…
Find out more »Encountering The Shadow In Our Dreams
Presented by Michal Aizenman, L.P.C.C. "How little know we what we are How less what we may be" - Anne Brontë In this theoretical and experiential workshop participants will have the opportunity to practice Jung's approach to dream work, utilizing his concepts of active imagination, amplification, psychic energy,…
Find out more »January 2020
The Analytical Psychology Club presents:
Creative Aging and Individuation
Presented by JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez, L.C.S.W., Ph.D. Later life provides degrees of freedom to creatively transcend traditional roles, conventional perceptions and ways of relating based on personal history. This requires a newly improvised dance of the ego and the Self. Jung saw the latter half of life as asking us to…
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The Analytical Psychology Club presents:
Where a Healthy Psychology and a Healthy Spirituality Meet
Presented by Rev. Jim Clarke, M.Div., Ph.D. Everyone has a psychology (an understanding of the human person) and a spirituality (a particular value system). The question really amounts to: is your perspective conducive to living a productive, authentic life? The task of both of those areas of human interest is…
Find out more »February 2020
Series in Irvine:
The Agony of Perfectionism
Presented by Sherri Mahdavi, Ph.D. 4 Tuesdays: February 4, 11, 18, 25, 2020 When we discover an inferiority in ourselves we should not be depressed, no disaster has taken place, but we have discovered our humanity. —C.G. Jung, Modern Psychology, Vol. 2, p. 153 Clinical research has related perfectionism to…
Find out more »March 2020
Myth of the New World
Presented by Deborah O'Grady and Melinda Haas, L.C.S.W. Underneath the sense of hope and expansiveness in the New World is a shadow that has been there from its first colonization to the present moment. Dvořák set out to find and compose “American music.” What he created is a collage, suggestions…
Find out more »Levinas, Existentialism, and the Making of the Modern Self
Presented by Rabbi Tal Sessler, Ph.D. This lecture will explore the secular West’s journey for identity, and for the consolidation of authentic individuality for the modern person, in light of all the upheavals of the 20th century. We examine some of the psychological, social and political aspects in the work…
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A Painting Class:
Persona and Beyond
Presented by Marion Anderson, Ph.D. 4 Thursdays: March 5, 12, 19, 26, 2020; 11:15 am-1:15 pm Jung named the different aspects of ourselves that we show the world the persona. In this workshop we will discuss the concept of the persona, how it develops to protect the more vulnerable parts…
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.
