October 2024
Zoom Only: The Demon Lover and the Narcissist: Two Perspectives
Presented by Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., D.Litt., NCPsyA Program: 10 am-12:15 pm - Lunch Break: 12:15-12:45 pm - Program: 12:45-1:45 pm In this presentation, we will compare and contrast aspects of Closet Narcissism and Grandiose Narcissism, utilizing Woody Allen's film Blue Jasmine to illustrate the trauma and drama of the Closet Narcissist. …
Find out more »Jung at Heart (2024-2025): Archetypes and Complexes and How They Relate Part 2
Saturday, October 5 & 19, 2023; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm ARCHETYPES AND COMPLEXES AND HOW THEY RELATE Scholars of Jungian analytical psychology often surmise that his psychology could have well been named “complex psychology” and others posit it could have been called “archetypal psychology”. In this class we explore…
Find out more »Edith Sullwold Memorial Lecture: Zoom Only: “Social Media and the Collective Unconscious: Archetypal algorithms and the impact on children and youth”
Presented by Jane Clapp Saturday, October 19, 2024 from 10-1pm on zoom This lecture is an in depth exploration of the often negative impact of heavy social media use on the developing psyches of children and youth. The colonization of the human psyche driven by greed and hunger for power…
Find out more »Zoom Only: Painting Dreams: An Experiential Workshop
Presented by Marion Anderson, Ph.D. 4 Tuesdays: October 29, November 5, 12 and 19; 2-4 pm. Painting Inner Images is a non-verbal method to contact and symbolically express the unconscious, often not yet possible to be formulated in words. Dream amplification is a Jungian method of exploring the unconscious. In…
Find out more »November 2024
Jung at Heart (2024-2025): My Self: Who Am I Or: What Am I? From the Red Book Part 1
Saturday, November 2 & 16, 2024; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm MY SELF: WHO AM I? OR: WHAT AM I? FROM THE RED BOOK TO AION Jung began to give a unique and novel meaning to the term “Self” from 1916 as a result of visionary experiences which had radically…
Find out more »Zoom Only: Loving our Brokenness: The Human Dimension of the Archetype of the Black Madonna
Presented by Judy D. Zappacosta, M.A., L.M.F.T. Brokenness, imperfection, and failure are intrinsic qualities of being human. Just as lead was turned into gold in alchemy, so, too, can sorrow, shame, or trauma be "prima materia" for transformation. This program explores the archetype of the Black Madonna as an example…
Find out more »Clinician’s Program (2024-2025): Archetypes and their use in Clinical Practice
Saturday, November 9, 2024 Archetypes and their Use in Clinical Practice Presented by J. Gordon Nelson, Ph.D. Archetypal images lie at the core of the depth and breadth of psychological practice. An ability to identify and experience the energy of the archetype, as well as its power and structure, is…
Find out more »Jung at Heart (2024-2025): My Self: Who Am I Or: What Am I? From the Red Book Part 2
Saturday, November 2 & 16, 2024; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm MY SELF: WHO AM I? OR: WHAT AM I? FROM THE RED BOOK TO AION Jung began to give a unique and novel meaning to the term “Self” from 1916 as a result of visionary experiences which had radically…
Find out more »Zoom Only: Time and Trauma in Analytical Psychology and Psychotherapy: The Wisdom of Andean Shamanism
Presented by Deborah Bryon, Ph.D. This presentation will weave together interpersonal and Jungian analytic perspectives, informed by indigenous Andean shamanism, and contemporary scientific understanding of time in an exploration of a more expansive, vision of the world. It will provide different perspectives on experiences central to contemporary depth psychology –…
Find out more »December 2024
Zoom Only: Carl Jung & the Jewish Mystical Tradition
Presented by Rabbi Tal Sessler, Ph.D. The Lonely Man of Faith by Rabbi Professor Soloveitchik is the most important work of Jewish philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. His reflections on the two facets of the human condition mirror Jung's comments on his number 1 and number 2…
Find out more »Jung at Heart (2024-2025): Nightmares Are Our Most Important Dreams
Saturday, December 7, 2024; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm NIGHTMARES ARE OUR MOST IMPORTANT DREAMS Nightmares are about our naïveté. Nightmares wake us up from our innocence. They reflect to us what is infinitely unique about each one of us. They bring us the darker side of life that is…
Find out more »Clinician’s Program (2024-2025): Myths, Fairy Tales and Parables: Their Practical Application in the Consultation Room
Saturday, December 14, 2024 Myths, Fairy Tales and Parables: Their Practical Application in the Consultation Room Presented by Sheila Traviss, M.A., L.M.F.T. Myths, fairy tales, and parables are reflections of human thoughts and consciousness. Embedded within these stories are archetypes imbued with symbolism and meaning that, upon inspection and reflection,…
Find out more »Jung at Heart (2024-2025): Romantic Love
Saturday, December 14, 2024; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm ROMANTIC LOVE In the analysis of a person in love, this powerful experience should not be discarded as an unexplainable phenomenon, a temporary insanity, a heavenly gift, or a grace of gods that brings an end to suffering. On the contrary,…
Find out more »January 2025
Jung at Heart (2024-2025): Dreams Part 1
Saturdays, January 4 & 18, 2025; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm DREAMS In the first session, we will present an overview of dreams, comparing Freud’s and Jung’s approaches. Then, we will present the basics of Jungian dreamwork. If time allows, we will work on a dream from one of the…
Find out more »Clinician’s Program (2024-2025): Dreams in Clinical Practice
Saturday, January 11, 2025 Dreams in Clinical Practice Presented by Lumi Docan, M.F.T. Jung said, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the ways we see ourselves”. This presentation will…
Find out more »Jung at Heart (2024-2025): Dreams Part 2
Saturdays, January 4 & 18, 2025; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm DREAMS In the first session, we will present an overview of dreams, comparing Freud’s and Jung’s approaches. Then, we will present the basics of Jungian dreamwork. If time allows, we will work on a dream from one of the…
Find out more »February 2025
Jung at Heart (2024-2025): Spontaneous Waking Visions
Saturday, February 1, 2025; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm SPONTANEOUS WAKING VISIONS: AUTONOMOUS COMPLEXES OR TRANSPSYCHIC REALITY? This presentation explores spontaneous waking visions and their dynamism for transformation, which propels the individuation process. Spontaneous waking visions were of interest to Jung (1977), and he proposed that the visions contained unconscious…
Find out more »Clinician’s Program (2024-2025): Transference and Countertransference
Saturday, February 8, 2025 Transference and Countertransference Presented by Susan Frankel, Ph.D. In his writings, Jung made contradictory statements about transference and countertransference, leading to discussion and debate about his point of view. His clearest views on the subject are described in detail in his essay Psychology of the Transference, which…
Find out more »Jung at Heart (2024-2025): Becoming Conscious: A Jungian Lens on Artist Hilma Af Klimt
Saturdays, February 15, 2025; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm BECOMING CONSCIOUS: A JUNGIAN LENS ON ARTIST HILMA AF KLIMT Upon seeing Hilma af Klint’s ((1862–1944) works, there is an instinctive recognition of that which Jung (1875-1961) presented through his creative expressions, in both his visual works and his writings. This…
Find out more »March 2025
Jung at Heart (2024-2025): The Numinous Path of the Twelve Step Experience Part 1
Saturdays, March 1 & 15, 2025; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm THE NUMINOUS PATH OF THE TWELVE-STEP EXPERIENCE “You see, ‘alcohol’ in Latin is spiritus, and you use the same word for the highest religious experience as well for the most depraving poison. The helpful formula therefore is: spiritus contra…
Find out more »Clinician’s Program (2024-2025): The Great Work of Alchemy: A Journey of Transformation
Saturday, March 8, 2025 The Great Work of Alchemy: A Journey of Transformation Presented by Gita Morena, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. In this seminar, the alchemical transmutation of base metals is explored symbolically and historically as a metaphor for the individuation process. The stages of the transformation process are delineated, from the…
Find out more »Jung at Heart (2024-2025): The Numinous Path of the Twelve Step Experience Part 2
Saturdays, March 1 & 15, 2025; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm THE NUMINOUS PATH OF THE TWELVE-STEP EXPERIENCE “You see, ‘alcohol’ in Latin is spiritus, and you use the same word for the highest religious experience as well for the most depraving poison. The helpful formula therefore is: spiritus contra…
Find out more »April 2025
Clinician’s Program (2024-2025): Somatic Practice in Jungian Psychotherapy
Saturday, April 5, 2025 Somatic Practice in Jungian Psychotherapy Presented by Celeste Ryan, Ph.D. This presentation will introduce the integration of somatic practices into Jungian psychotherapy, focusing on the archetypal material of the collective unconscious and working with complexes. We will cover Jung’s view that the archetypes reside within the body…
Find out more »Jung at Heart (2024-2025): Finding Value in Nonviable Love Relationships Part 1
Saturday, APRIL 5 & 26, 2025; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm FINDING VALUE IN NONVIABLE LOVE RELATIONSHIPS Film is a medium that explores frustration at least as often as it allows us the pleasure of seeing wishes gratified. According to a Jungian vision, development of the anima or animus begins…
Find out more »Jung at Heart (2024-2025): Finding Value in Nonviable Love Relationships Part 2
Saturday, APRIL 5 & 26, 2025; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm FINDING VALUE IN NONVIABLE LOVE RELATIONSHIPS Film is a medium that explores frustration at least as often as it allows us the pleasure of seeing wishes gratified. According to a Jungian vision, development of the anima or animus begins…
Find out more »May 2025
Jung at Heart (2024-2025): The Psyche in the World Part 1
Saturdays, May 3 & 17, 2025; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm THE PSYCHE IN THE WORLD: HOW CULTURAL COMPLEXES CAN TAKE POSSESSION OF OUR SOULS Differentiating the personal, group, and archetypal levels of cultural complexes is not easy but can be quite rewarding in terms of helping ourselves and the…
Find out more »Clinician’s Program (2024-2025): Working with Children Through a Jungian Lens
Saturday, May 10, 2025 Working with Children Through a Jungian Lens Presented by Elizabeth Schofield-Bickford, M.A., L.M.F.T. Jung searched for a method to heal himself. He was drawn to engage the impulses and images of the unconscious. While Jung himself did not see children, he found good medicine in listening to…
Find out more »Jung at Heart (2024-2025): The Psyche in the World Part 2
Saturdays, May 3 & 17, 2025; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm THE PSYCHE IN THE WORLD: HOW CULTURAL COMPLEXES CAN TAKE POSSESSION OF OUR SOULS Differentiating the personal, group, and archetypal levels of cultural complexes is not easy but can be quite rewarding in terms of helping ourselves and the…
Find out more »June 2025
Jung at Heart (2024-2025): Individuation as an Ethical Process Part 1
Saturdays, June 7, 2025; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm INDIVIDUATION AS AN ETHICAL PROCESS – PART ONE: EMBRACING OUR CONFRONTATION WITH THE UNCONSCIOUS Description TBA Christina Becker, M.B.A., R.P., is a Zurich trained Jungian analyst with a private practice in Toronto Ontario, Canada. She is the author of The Heart of the…
Find out more »Clinician’s Program (2024-2025): Active Imagination
Saturday, June 14, 2025 Active Imagination Presented by Marion Anderson, Ph.D. “Experience in analytical psychology has amply shown that conscious and unconscious contents seldom agree to their content and their tendencies.” – C.G. Jung CW 8 §132 Jung developed the tool of active imagination as a means of helping patients…
Find out more »Jung at Heart (2024-2025): Individuation as an Ethical Process Part 2
Saturdays, June 21, 2025; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm INDIVIDUATION AS AN ETHICAL PROCESS – PART TWO: FINDING NEW LIFE IN INTEGRITY AND THE HEART Description TBA Christina Becker, M.B.A., R.P., is a Zurich trained Jungian analyst with a private practice in Toronto Ontario, Canada. She is the author of The Heart…
Find out more »Continuing Education:
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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.
