Featured Events
In-Person + Zoom: For Clinicians Only:
Is Tele-Psychoanalysis an Oxymoron?
In-Person + Zoom: For Clinicians Only:
Defensive and Destructive Encounters in the Analytic Process
In-Person + Zoom: For Clinicians Only:
At the Intersection of Identity Politics and Analytical Psychology
In-Person + Zoom: For Clinicians Only:
Group Dreaming during Times of Extraordinary Private and Communal Stress
Zoom Only:
Painting Inner Images: Metamorphoses
In-Person + Zoom:
From Gregorian Chant to Rap:
Music is Always the Bridge
In-Person + Zoom:
Becoming Conscious:
A Jungian Lens on Artist Hilma af Klint
In-Person + Zoom:
The Dangerous Dance of Renewal
Public Programs
The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles offers comprehensive educational programs in the theory and practice of Analytical Psychology.
Our seminars, workshops, and conferences are directed toward the interests of the general public, mental health practitioners, and interested individuals from other disciplines. Programs elaborate and amplify the ideas of C. G. Jung by exploring:
- diverse perspectives of Analytical Psychology;
- related fields of knowledge such as mythology, religion, history, anthropology, and the creative arts.
We hope to see you at the upcoming events!
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In-Person + Zoom:
The Collective Unconscious in the Age of Neuroscience:
Severe Mental Illness and Jung in the 21st Century
Presented by Hallie Durchslag, Ph.D.
Is all psychosis the same? Depth psychology treats it as such, yet medical models of severe mental illness say different. While medication can be a dirty word in Jungian circles, some disorders cannot be treated without it. Is there common ground? Can Jung’s bedrock notion of a collective unconscious coexist within scientific advances that have occurred since his death? The answer is a resounding yes. This workshop will explore the remarkable prescience of Jung’s work, how medical models actually advance his theory, and the challenges and opportunities for analytical psychology moving forward.
In-Person + Zoom: For Clinicians Only:
Is Tele-Psychoanalysis an Oxymoron?
Presented by Pamela Power, Ph.D.
This presentation is meant to open a discussion of the impact of tele-health technology on the psychoanalytic process with a particular focus on transference and countertransference. The more hidden and refractory aspects of the psyche seem to be less effectively met in the process of ‘distance’ analysis. While we are aware of the losses ensued by the lack of in-person meetings, are there any gains? Perhaps we are living in the midst of a paradigm shift to what Jungian psychoanalysis is becoming.
In-Person + Zoom: For Clinicians Only:
Defensive and Destructive Encounters in the Analytic Process
Presented by Stephen Kenneally, M.B.A., M.F.T.
How do clinicians and patients bear the spark of consciousness that the analytic encounter can generate when we know that full integration is elusive and slow? The slow circling of a complex can be frustrating; the defensive regressions can be demoralizing; and the envious attacks can be exasperating. This conversation will address various strategies to help the therapist hold these reactions and discuss ways of thinking about these painful encounters as necessary precursors in the service of individuation.
In-Person + Zoom: For Clinicians Only:
At the Intersection of Identity Politics and Analytical Psychology
Presented by Barry Miller, Ph.D.
As our present culture struggles (as all cultures do) to find what seem like the "truths" about ourselves and our position in the culture, we must all relate personally to the emerging ideas that have enormous impact in generating pivotal assumptions of physical and psychology identity. Issues such as recognizing the urgent need to bring in those who have been outcastes, or our yearning for an understanding of the variance of sexualities and gender, are some of the conditions that generate a tendency to coagulate a readily communicable identity, offering a sense of knowing who one is and who is the other. The analytic relationship becomes an arena where these truths and emerging ideas are tested in terms of an individual's own psychology. The ways in which we approach these current themes, how they emerge in the work, and how we maintain a psychological attitude in the presence of these tensions will be the focus of our discussion.
In-Person + Zoom: For Clinicians Only:
Group Dreaming during Times of Extraordinary Private and Communal Stress
Presented by Judith Hecker, Ph.D.
Beginning in September 2001, a small group of candidates in training at the C. G. Institute of Los Angeles began meeting to discuss their dreams. Some of the themes that emerged included responses to the stress, fear, and anxiety resulting from the current political situation, how individuals respond to extreme personal and communal disturbance, and what analytical psychology has to offer in terms of dealing with current reality and our adaptive responses to it. We will also address how to apply the principles of small group dreaming to one’s clinical practice.
Zoom Only:
Painting Inner Images: Metamorphoses
Presented by Marion Anderson, Ph.D.
While Jung emphasized the importance of fantasy and play to psychic development, he also recognized that fantasies also need to be actively transformed and symbolically represented for any significant transformation to occur. In this workshop series, we will use a fantastic short story and actively engage with color and brushes as a means of helping our inner images become alive and more conscious. Individuals will be encouraged to further amplify their images through personal reflection such as writing and sharing with the group. We will discuss ways of implementing painting as a form of active imagination in the context of analytic work.
This workshop does not require any artistic training or capacities and is for adults only.
In-Person + Zoom:
From Gregorian Chant to Rap:
Music is Always the Bridge
Presented by Pamela Power, Ph.D.
This presentation will begin with a brief overview of the evolution of Western music before turning to the music of Rap that today plays a powerful, perhaps unrecognized, artistic function of our times. Rap is ubiquitous around the world, provides a unifying function and carries a spirit of global awareness. Rap can be seen as contemporary ‘liturgical’ music.
In-Person + Zoom:
Becoming Conscious:
A Jungian Lens on Artist Hilma af Klint
Presented by Marybeth Carter, Ph.D.
The Swedish artist, Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), has transitioned from obscurity to prominence as was illustrated recently by a solo exhibition of her work. This exhibition (October 12, 2018-April 23, 2019) became the Guggenheim New York’s most popular show since the museum opened 60 years ago. In addition to the incredible visual quality of her art, af Klint impels the viewer to consider concepts and states similar to Jung’s (1875-1961)creative expressions, both through his visual works and writings. Through their prolific output, af Klint and Jung each reveal their personal encounters with an invisible “other” and explore the multi-dimensional. This presentation will review Hilma a Klint’s life experiences and creative achievement, then explore the parallels with those of Jung and Jungian psychology.
In-Person + Zoom:
An Immersive Sound Experience:
Why do I cry when I hear the first eight minutes of Wagner’s Ring Cycle?
Presented by Sheila Traviss, L.M.F.T.
We know sound/vibration by way of chromosomal/collective, congenital/familial, and personal contact. In this workshop, we will explore the collective, familial, and personal experiences of sound via a soundscape, accompanied by a personal narration of pre-birth, in-utero, lived experience, as well as those imagined to accompany one post-death. The concept of sense memory retrieval will be explored from both a clinical as well as a poetic perspective, as a way of imagining and experiencing our connection to our world via sound. This workshop will include a written active imagination for participants to use for themselves and/or their clients as an aid to accessing embodied memories.
In-Person + Zoom:
The Dangerous Dance of Renewal
Presented by Suzanne Ecker, B.C.-D.M.T., M.F.T.
Dance ritual has served a pivotal role in human history, providing culture groups and their members a rich means to revivify core values and confront the uncertainties of an overwhelming and ever-changing world. In this presentation, I will share footage of traditional dances placing participants in ritual peril as a means to enlarge the psychic capacity of participants and revitalize the shared meanings and resources of their group. We will then look to modern dance works in which these same purposes may be reemerging. Specifically, we will explore the element of danger in the phenomenon of site-specific dance and movement forms which may be serving to confront collective risk-aversion with the necessity of uncertainty to true aliveness.
