The End of All Tears: A Dynamic Interdisciplinary Analysis
Presented by: Erik Goodwyn, MD
Saturday, September 23, 2023, 9:30am – 11:30 am (eastern)
(a ZOOM Online Presentation)
The End of All Tears: A Dynamic Interdisciplinary
Analysis of Mourning and Complicated Grief
Mourning is a normal, universal response to death with countless cultural elaborations worldwide. When we are unable to progress through normal mourning, complicated grief (CG) can be a result. Ways in which humans deal with the universal consequences of death are examined and compared to the typical modern setting found in first world nations. It is suggested that normal mourning is facilitated by various ritual acts and if these activities lack certain features (suggested by cross-cultural analysis of mourning rituals), an increased risk of CG may result. This appears to be a serious problem for modern Westernized nations in particular. Examination of rituals furthermore suggests ways clinicians may help patients cope with loss, via the use of symbol, narrative as healing elements, as Jung describes throughout his works.
Erik Goodwyn, MD, is an Attending Physician at Eastern State Hospital in Lexington, KY, Clinical Faculty at University of Kentucky, Clinical Associate Professor at the Billings Clinic, part of the WWAMI University of Washington School of Medicine--Billings Montana affiliate, Department of Psychiatry, and Adjunct Professor for University of Louisville, Department of Psychiatry.
He has authored numerous publications in the field of consciousness studies, Jungian psychology, neuroscience, mythology, philosophy, anthropology, and the psychology of religion. He is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Jungian Studies, and his published books include: The Neurobiology of the Gods: How the Brain Shapes the Recurrent Imagery of Myth and Dreams (Routledge, 2012), A Psychological Reading of the Anglo-Saxon Poem Beowulf: Understanding Everything as Story (Mellen, 2014), Healing Symbols in Psychotherapy: a Ritual Approach (Routledge, 2016), Magical Consciousness, co-authored with anthropologist Susan Greenwood (Routledge, 2017), Understanding Dreams and Other Spontaneous Images: the Invisible Storyteller (Routledge, 2018—Finalist in the 2019 International Association for Jungian Studies Book Award), and Archetypal Ontology, with philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills (Routledge, 2023). He has delivered over sixty lectures, workshops, and essays in peer-reviewed journals on the above topics and has presented at conferences on these topics at sites in the US, Switzerland and Ireland.
Pyre of Acilius Aviola
Remyth Your Story: Integrate Your Feminine & Masculine
Presented by: Jean Benedict Raffa, Ed.D.
Saturday, November 11, 2023, 10am – 12 noon (eastern)
(a ZOOM Online Presentation)
Remyth Your Story:
Integrate Your Feminine & Masculine Archetypes
Author Dr. Jean Benedict Raffa explores the interface between psychology, spirituality, and your life’s myth in her newest Nautilus Award-winning book, The Soul’s Twins: Emancipate Your Feminine and Masculine Archetypes.
Our families and social groups condition us from childhood to have certain beliefs and attitudes about gender differences. Our lack of knowledge about eight powerful archetypes traditionally related to gender can have painful lifelong psychological and spiritual consequences. Emancipating these archetypes from gender stereotypes enables us to change our personal myth and frees us to develop loving relationships with ourselves and others.
This presentation will include a big dream from the author’s childhood that shaped her life’s myth, motivated her studies in Jungian psychology, and inspired her creation of the Partnership Profile. This is an informal self-assessment that helps you to separate gender stereotypes from their innate masculine and feminine archetypes. Participants will receive a pdf of the self-assessment and a handout about how to work with their results when they register for the presentation. Dr. Raffa will lead a Q & A discussion about the meaning of their results following a PowerPoint presentation.
Learning objectives:
1. Attendees will understand the difference between an archetype and a personal archetypal image.
2. Attendees will be able to identify eight archetypal images that cultures associate with gender and a ninth androgynous archetype of unity and wholeness.
3. Attendees will gain insights about how their life’s myth has been shaped by unconscious archetypal forces and gender biases.
Note: Upon registration, you will receive a pdf of the Partnership Profile for you to complete before attending the class. Make sure to bring their your results to class. Sharing is optional.
Handouts: Guidelines for Working with the Partnership Profile
Materials Fee and Misc.: $18.00 for The Soul's Twins for those in the U.S. who want a signed copy. $22.00 from those outside the U.S. Participants can email the author at: jeanraffaauthor@gmail.com . Include your mailing address and she will let you know where to send your check. She will include a signed bookplate and a Nautilus Award seal. If you prefer to order the book from Amazon or elsewhere, she can send a signed bookplate and seal after you email her with your mailing address.
After a lengthy and life-transforming spiritual descent, educator, Jungian scholar, and author Jean Benedict Raffa, Ed.D., began an in-depth study of Jungian psychology, mythology, and her dreams. Her books, The Soul’s Twins, The Bridge to Wholeness, Dream Theatres of the Soul, and the Wilbur Award-winning Healing the Sacred Divide, are outgrowths of this ongoing inner work. A former television producer and college professor, Dr. Raffa continues to give lectures and workshops.
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Website: https://jeanbenedictraffa.com/blog/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeanraffa/
Email: jeanraffaauthor@gmail.com
Introduction to Alchemy in Jungian Psychology
Presented by: Cynthia Swartz, MM, MD.
Saturday, November 18, 2023, 9:30am – 11:30am (eastern)
(a ZOOM Online Presentation)
Introduction to Alchemy in Jungian Psychology
What is Alchemy? Why was it important to Jung? And how is alchemy of use in understanding dreams today? This introductory class is for those who are newer to Jung’s studies of the human psyche or who want to revisit the basics. The goal of this talk is to review foundational Jungian concepts of the psyche and to introduce basic principles of alchemy with use of imagery and dreams. This introduction serves as preparatory material to the richness of Jung’s writings and especially to Edward F. Edinger’s Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy.
* (see CAJP Study Programs for information on the 2024 Winter/Spring offering: Edinger's Anatomy of the Psyche - Series 1)
Cynthia Swartz, MM, MD is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist in private practice in Montpelier, Vermont. Prior to going to medical school she attended the Analyst Training Program at the C.G. Jung Institute-Boston, and has continued her independent study of Jungian psychology. She holds a Master’s degree in Organ from Indiana University School of Music and currently studies violin and plays in local orchestras. She has a black Standard Poodle, Tess, who from time to time makes unscheduled appearances on video calls.
Hennig Brandt and the Discovery of Phosphorus
When Psyche Sings: Jungian Music Psychotherapy
Presenter: Joel Kroeker, RCC-ACS, MMT, MTA
Saturday, January 13, 2024, 10am – 12 noon (eastern)
(a ZOOM Online Presentation)
When Psyche Sings: Jungian Music Psychotherapy
Music is everywhere in our lives, both waking and sleeping, inside and out. But much of our musical ecosystem remains unheard in a state of non-representation. Drawing on Jungian, post-Jungian and contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives, this four-week course will explore the place of the acoustic imaginal within our psychic ecology and our current fractured world of splitting and polarization. The perception of sound triggers psychic contents and music mediates between our internal and external experience of consciousness through its affective impact on our symbolic imagination. Like a sound engineer, who can stop Time toward differentiation and integration, we will deeply listen together to the soundscape metabolization process of our auditory digestive system toward the fundamental psychoanalytic goal of hearing what cannot yet be seen. By distilling music into its basic archetypal elements, an approach is illustrated for working with musical symbols within analysis, referred to as Archetypal Music Psychotherapy. Through locating the role that acoustic images, both imaginal and material, play in our affective and archetypal engagement with our world, we will explore the contribution that musical processes offer to the wholeness and teleology of the individuation process intrapersonally, relationally and collectively.
Suggested text: "Jungian Music Psychotherapy: When Psyche Sings (Routledge, 2019)" Author: Joel Kroeker
Endorsements for Joel's work:
“As a musician and student of Jung, I have been waiting for this book all my life. Intelligently and comprehensively Kroeker explores the musical in every aspect of psychotherapy. If you have any musical sense at all, you will enjoy this sophisticated way of seeing how music makes art out of life.”
- Thomas Moore, Author of Care of the Soul
“Jungian Music Psychotherapy significantly helps round out the rich array of tools Jung left therapists everywhere.”
- James Hollis, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and author
“Kroeker writes passionately and brilliantly! all in the key of Jung. This book is a most welcome addition to the library on theory and practice in contemporary Jungian psychoanalysis.”
- Murray Stein, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and author
“Kroeker brings the same kind of surprising sensitivity that enabled Jung to convey the importance of recalling what we actually see when we imagine.”
- John Beebe, M.D. Jungian analyst and author
This Presentation/Workshop is Ideal If:
- the participants have access to my book to seed further reflection and discussion
"Jungian Music Psychotherapy: When Psyche Sings (Routledge, 2019)"
- musical examples and an experiential component is possible (ex. I'll play recorded music examples and perhaps some live music during the sessions as content for our exploration regarding perception as a creative act)
Course Overview: (Themes)
The Six Principles of Archetypal Music Psychotherapy (AMP)
Perception as a creative act
How psyche communicates through sound (Musicking and Dreaming)
The Musical Field: processing your auditory ecosystem
By the End of This Workshop You Will Be Able To:
1) Identify the major components of Archetypal Music Psychotherapy and apply these to your own life and work.
2) Experience your own relationship with music as a useful metaphor for exploring the psyche and its teleology toward wholeness.
3) Increase your attunement to the acoustic world around you and its impact on you (intrapersonally, interpersonally and transpersonally)
4) Better understand the relationship between music-centered psychotherapy and Jungian analytical psychology
Joel Kroeker, RCC-ACS, MMT, MTA is a Swiss-trained Jungian psychoanalyst, clinical supervisor and author with a private practice based in Victoria, BC. Drawing on over 25 years of diverse experience Joel devotes part of his practice to training and supervising international practitioners in his original modality of Archetypal Music Psychotherapy across North and South America, China and parts of Europe. He currently serves as a journal reviews editor for the Journal of Analytical Psychology and divides his time outside of clinical hours between parenting, musicking, teaching and writing. His new book, “Jungian Music Psychotherapy: When Psyche Sings” is a finalist for the IAJS (International Association for Jungian Studies) book award and has also recently been released in Portuguese. His website is www.joelkroeker.com
Reconsidering Individuation in the 21st Century
Presented by: Joseph Cambray, Ph.D.
Saturday, February 3, 2024, 12:30pm – 3:30pm (eastern)
(a ZOOM Online Presentation)
Reconsidering Individuation in the 21st Century: the Role of Synchronicity and Reenchantment
Individuation is a key concept of Jungian Psychology; it is a process of becoming as full a person as is possible in our lifetime. We will look at the origins of the idea arising in the midst of Jung’s confrontation with the unconscious. We will also explore the link between individuation and the notion of synchronicity. A contemporary reconsideration in light of the changes in our conceptions of nature and culture in the 21stCentury will be examined from the perspective of complexity theory. The disruptions and uncertainties at societal and global scales of the last several years point to a shift or transformation in the archetypal patterns emerging in the collective unconscious, as well as manifesting in our individual lives. How can we best find our way through these times? An archetypal approach will be offered which provide a pathway to the reenchantment of our world through wonder.
Joseph Cambray, Ph.D. is the Past-President/CEO and Provost for Pacifica Graduate Institute;Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; served as the U.S.Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology and is on various editorial boards He was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry at MassachusettsGeneral Hospital, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. Dr. Cambray is a Jungian analyst now living in the Santa Barbara area of California. His numerous publications include the book based on
his Fay Lectures: Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe and severaledited volumes: one with Leslie Sawin Research in Analytical Psychology - Volume 1: Applications from Scientific, Historical, and (Cross)-Cultural Research, and an earlier one with Linda Carter, Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Psychology. He has published numerous papers in a range of international journals.
Emily Dickinson & Carl Jung: Soul Mates – Part 2
Presented by: Kaye Lindauer, MS, MLS, M.Div
Saturday, May 4, 2024, 9:30am – 11:30am (eastern)
(a ZOOM Online Presentation)
Emily Dickinson and Carl Jung: Soul Mates – Part 2
Both Dickinson and Jung were on a quest for self-discovery. Both wrote from their own experience of understandings that came to them from a deeper wisdom (a deeper knowing) or in Jungian language from the Self. They knew how to listen and how to reflect on the messages, accepting the complexity of the human psyche. What came to them was ‘gift’ but giving a voice to their intuitions and imaginations in their writings required intelligence and focus.
Topics concerning soul, hope, possibility, mystery, and transformation will be discussed as Dickinson’s poetry will be studied ‘side by side’ with writings of Jung and post-Jungians. This programs follows the 2023 CAJP program on Dickinson and Jung.
Kaye Lindauer, MS, MLS, M.Div presently (and for the past 32 years) teaches classes at Chautauqua Institution on literature, poetry, Jungian psychology and philosophy as well as adult education classes for OASIS EVERYWHERE and for Road Scholar programs. Kaye taught graduate courses at Syracuse University for twenty-five years while speaking widely at conferences and coordinating retreats. Most recently presented The 13th Gathering of Women Retreat at Chautauqua. Kaye has studied at the Jung Instiute and at ISAP in Zurich.