September 2017
Developmental Theory
Presented by Susan Frankel, Ph.D., J.D. While Jung addressed the early stages of psychological development, he placed much more emphasis upon adult individuation. This course will present selected writings from Jung, Neumann, Fordham, Samuels and the other Jungian analysts who have expanded the understanding of childhood development. This course will…
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A talk, a Book Launch and Signing:
Love in the Time of Climate Change
Presented by Sharon Heath, M.A., M.F.T. A talk, a celebration and small feast, a book launch and signing, and a testimony to the power of the living psyche by Jungian analyst and author Sharon Heath. Come and hear Sharon Heath amplify how a Jungian perspective can liberate, deepen, and enhance…
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Exploring the Crossroads Where Jungian Psychology and Shamanic Healing Meet:
An Example of the Possibilities through My Lived Experience
This presentation will be a personal and theoretical exploration of the relationship between Jungian psychology and shamanic practices of indigenous peoples. We will examine the dialectic between Jungian psychology and shamanism by highlighting the overlapping ideas, intersecting beliefs, and divergent aspects of both perspectives.
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The Analytical Psychology Club Presents:
The Alchemy of Play
Presented by Daniel Anderson, Ph.D. Jung noted that “the creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.” Playing and creativity are intimately related. Jung greatly valued play, including building little stone villages, as a way of orienting himself after…
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The Analytical Psychology Club Presents:
Creating Our Aging
Presented by JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez, LCSW, Ph.D. Limited Enrollment. In this series we will explore Jung’s assertion that in the first half of life the question is: “What does the world ask of me?” In the second half of life the question is “What now does the soul, self, ask of…
Find out more »Complexes in Everyday Life
Presented by Sherri Mahdavi, Ph.D. By instructor consent. Limited enrollment. Our complexes are frequently experienced as "blind spots" in our personalities, easily seen by others when we become defensive or taken over by strong feelings, threatening to overtake our ego-self, and wreck havoc on our relationships. Jung understood complexes as…
Find out more »Initial Dreams in Clinical Work
Initial dreams appearing in the earlier phase of the analytic or psychotherapeutic process frequently possess diagnostic and prognostic value by pointing to the patient's core conflicts and guiding the course of the treatment.
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The Rationality of Political Violence:
“Our” Fascination and Envy of “Them”
Presented by Andrew Samuels, Ph.D. Sold Out In this talk we will examine some of the circumstances in which political violence can be considered not only 'rational' (in Hannah Arendt's phrase), but may also in fact be valuable. The idea that the psychological relationship between Westerners and, for example, Islamic…
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Creating and Nurturing a Relationship with Psyche:
Dream Work in Therapy and Analysis
An Experiential Group for Clinicians
Presented by Pamela Freundl Kirst, Ph.D. By Instructor Consent “The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul.” -C.G. Jung Working deeply with one's own dreams is a pathway to working with the dreams of others. This course is organized as a…
Find out more »Mother-Daughter Relationships
Presented by Marion Anderson, Ph.D. Sold Out Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter. -C. G. Jung Mother-daughter relationships are universal, yet can be experienced in many forms. In this 4 week…
Find out more »Journey Towards Wholeness
Presented by Lynne Radomsky, Ph.D. This journey will take us into a remote region of the Kalahari desert that borders Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, and into the territory of the San Bushman who can trace their origins back almost 200 000 years to the first people, and two million…
Find out more »Dancing with God
Presented by Lynne Radomsky, Ph.D. The connection between the hunter and the healer will be explored, particularly in the amplification of the juxtaposition of the Eland Hunt and the Eland healing dance, both of which are central to the healing mysteries of these ancient people. For the Bushman, the Eland…
Find out more »Foundations of Chassidic Psychology, in Conversation with Jungian Concepts and Motifs
Presented by Rabbi Tal Sessler, Ph.D. Respondents: Judith Hecker, Ph.D. & Wendy Wyman-McGinty, Ph.D. The Kabbalah is an intricate symbolic system, which seeks to articulate, elucidate and map out the internal structure of the soul of the cosmos, according to the Jewish mystical tradition. As universal truths, many of the…
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Edith Sullwold Memorial Lecture:
The Child in Twenty-First Century Film
Presented by John Beebe, M.D. Sold Out In this presentation, John Beebe will weave excerpts from three recent films to explore the relationship of the cinematic presentation of the child to prospects for the contemporary psyche and the future of the culture. John got his start in the mental health…
Find out more »Mother-Son Relationship: A Theoreticl Exploration of the Mother’s Role in Her Son’s Masculine Development
As the first person who introduces her son to the feminine principle of relatedness, the mother plays an important role in her son's masculine development.
Find out more »November 2017
The Other Side:
C.G. Jung’s Fascination with Alfred Kubin
Presented by Bradley A. TePaske, Ph.D. Recommended by Jung as an exemplary portrayal of the unconscious, this phantasmagorical novel of dystopian social experiment and the dark aesthetic of Austrian artist, Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) reflects the torment of a son who lost his mother at ten, attempted suicide on her grave…
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The Analytical Psychology Club Presents:
Healing Our Collective Wound
Presented by Christopher Miller, Ph.D. Prior to last year’s presidential election, the word narcissism frequently was used in descriptions of the character of one party candidate in particular. What the election revealed, however, is the collective narcissistic injury experienced by both the Left and Right sides of the political spectrum.…
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The Analytical Psychology Club Presents:
Jung’s Typology
Presented by Robin Robertson, Ph.D. “My typology is . . . not in any sense to stick labels on people at first sight. It is not a physiognomy and not an anthropological system, but a critical psychology dealing with the organization and delimitation of psychic processes that can be shown…
Find out more »Nightmares; a Demonstration
Presented by Robert Moradi, M.D. For Clinicians Only/Sold Out Nightmares are often some of our most important dreams. In this talk, videotapes will be utilized to demonstrate the significance of nightmares, and suggest ways of helping patients work with these types of dreams. We will examine how to approach the…
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.