November 2018
Dream Workshop for Men 50 and Older
Dreams after midlife are commonly in the service of helping the dreamer face challenges of aging, both physical and emotional, as one grapples with changes in the body, in one's relationship to partners, siblings, children and grandchildren, as well as changes in one's attitude towards work and friendships.
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Our Ecological Self:
Restoring the Bond between Inner and Outer Nature
Recent studies suggest that reconnecting to nature can increase one's sense of vitality, promote a sense of healing, provide inspiration, stimulate self- awareness, decrease pain and stress, support the individuation process and contribute to the resolution of trauma.
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The Analytical Psychology Club Presents:
Healing Our Collective Wound through the I Ching
Presented by Christopher Miller, PhD In a previous program Dr. Miller addressed how we might understand and heal narcissistic injuries in ourselves and in our nation through psychology and mythology. In this presentation he will discuss this healing of narcissistic injuries with the aid of divination, specifically as found in the I Ching or Book of Changes.…
Find out more »December 2018
Three Reflections on Sandplay:
A Course for Clinicians
Sandplay, a non-verbal form of psychotherapy in which the client utilizes miniatures to create scenes, has been found to be especially helpful in working with children as a way of helping them express feelings and internal conflicts which they may not yet be able to put into language.
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The Analytical Psychology Club Presents:
Working with The Red Book as an Individual Reader and in a Group Setting
Presented by Judith Hecker, PhD &. J. Gordon Nelson, PhD In this presentation, Jungian analysts Hecker and Nelson will discuss their experiences of working with The Red Book. They will elaborate on how the book describes a process that was…
Find out more »Puella’s Shadow
Presented by Susan Schwartz, Ph.D. The joyous, intense energy of the Puella, while appealing, often masks a more fragile personality; unrealistic, fantasy driven, easily dissembled, immature, and untouched. The wounds of the Puella, stemming from early losses, particularly by the masculine, can manifest in body numbing, distorted self-image, and difficulty with…
Find out more »The ‘As If’ Personality and the Deadened Mother, a Course for Clinicians
Presented by Susan Schwartz, PhD Jung, Narcissism and the 'as if' Personality The 'as if' personality is characterized by feelings of fraudulence and narcissistic wounding, bounded by a wall of impenetrability. Like Narcissus, the struggle to connect to himself and others is hindered by a fragile internal structure of perfectionism and dissociation, which…
Find out more »January 2019
Reflections on Bidirectional Influence in the Matisse/Picasso Relationship and in Clinical Practice
Presented by Linda Carter, M.S.N., C.S. For two personalities to meet is like mixing two different chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed - C.G. Jung, CW 16. Jung's prescient grasp of the relational aspect of psyches resonates with contemporary notions of bidirectional influence in psychotherapy. In…
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A Psychological Perspectives Event:
Wolfgang Pauli’s Dreams:
The Archetypal Foundation of Science
Presented by J. Gary Sparks, M.A., M.Div. In 1932, Austrian quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli consulted Carl Jung in a state of personal distress. Fourteen years later, after the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Pauli returned to Jung to discuss his dreams that followed World War II. In this talk, we will…
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A Psychological Perspectives Event:
The Psychoid Archetype in Erotic Transference
Presented by J. Gary Sparks, M.A., M.Div. Continuing our investigation of the archetypal basis of experience, this workshop will describe the role of Jung's final conception of the archetype, and its relationship to the analytic process. Using case material, we will examine the role of the psychoid aspect of the…
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An Analytical Psychology Club Series
Seeing the Self: Creating Visual Explorations
Presented by JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez, L.C.S.W., Ph.D. Jung referred to a path to the authentic self as being one in which its essence or soul was made visible. We will work with images and reflections to potentially enter into this fuller perspective of our psyche. We will use mixed media in order…
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A Reading and Book Signing:
The Butterfly Effect from an Imaginal Perspective:
Quantum Physics, the Shadow, and Collective Transformation
Presented by Sharon Heath, M.A., M.F.T. Come celebrate with us the release of Jungian analyst Sharon Heath’s third novel of The Fleur Trilogy, Return of the Butterfly! How do you maintain your balance in a world turned upside down? Buffeted by dire winds of climate change, Nobel scientist and odd…
Find out more »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…
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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 »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.