2025 -2026 Foundations Certificate Program Curriculum and Class Summary

October 18, 2025 – April 18, 2026
7 Saturdays (14 classes)
42 Contact Hours

Curriculum and Class Summary
What follows is the curriculum and class summaries for the 2025 -2026 Foundations Program. You will note that the class descriptions include suggested readings and those for further study. C. G. Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1961) is a foundational text, and it is strongly recommended that all participants purchase or have access to it. You are also strongly encouraged to do as much of the reading listed as possible ahead of each class. Where possible, shorter articles and essays will be made available to participants in pdf format. Reminders and any additional reading materials or relevant information will be conveyed to participants in the month leading up to scheduled classes.

Familiarizing yourself with the suggested readings and additional material – letting it stir and activate your curiosity and imagination – will enhance your experience in class, and of the program more generally.

Dates and Courses

 

 

COURSE TITLE: Jung and Freud
PRESENTER: Paul Sanderson, PhD., IAAP
DATE: October 17, 2025, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (3 hours) and 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (3 hours)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This class will focus on the two founders of Depth Psychology: Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung. We will begin with brief biological sketches with special attention to cultural/religious differences and how each of them, as wounded healers, discovered the presence and importance of the unconscious realm of psyche. Then we will briefly explore how they differed in their understanding of the unconscious and dream interpretation with more attention given to their different approaches to psychology of religion and religious experience, exploring their basic differences as grounded in the distinction between classical and contemporary physics.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung, C. G., Memories, Dreams, Reflections, New York: Vintage Books, 1961, specifically the chapter on Freud.
  2. Jung, C. G., Psychology & Religion, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1938.
  3. Jung, C. G., Dreams, Princeton, New Jersey: Bollingen Series, Princeton University Press, 1974.

 

FOR FURTHER STUDY

  1. Donn, Linda, Freud and Jung: Years of Friendship, Years of Loss, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988.
  2. Storr, Anthony and Stevens, Anthony, Freud & Jung: A Dual Introduction, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1998.

FACULTY
Paul Sanderson, D.Min., Ph.D., IAAP, is a Licensed Psychologist and a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Massachusetts; a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors; A Certified Jungian Analyst; and an Ordained Minister in the United Church of Christ. He taught psychology at Assumption College for twenty-five years. In addition to his private practice (in person and on-line) in Foxborough, Massachusetts, he serves as Pastor of the First Community Church of Southborough. He is married with three children, six grandchildren, and is a big fan of Pink Floyd and the New York Yankees.

 

 

COURSE TITLE: Know Thyself: C.G. Jung’s Psychological Types
PRESENTER: Olga Turcotte
DATE: November 15, 2025, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (3 hours)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
While Dr. Jung was careful not to categorize personalities, he discovered it helped the analytical process tremendously to observe and note that we all view the world through varying and different typological lenses. His extensive research and many years of findings on the typology of his patients paved the way for most present-day personality tests widely used in almost all professional fields across the globe.

In this seminar, we are going to learn about the different personality types and how we can tap into this knowledge to have a fuller and more authentic personal as well as professional life. If time permits, we will also do a hands-on exercise to expand our understanding of Typology. All materials and instructions will be provided by the seminar leader.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung, Carl Gustav, Psychological Types, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990
  2. Von Franz, Marie-Louise and Hillman, James, Lectures on Jung’s Typology, Putnam, Connecticut: Spring Publications, 2010
  3. Sharp, Daryl, Personality Types: Jung’s Model of Typology, Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto Press, 1980
  4. Quentin, Naomi, Was That Really Me?, Mountain View, California: Davies-Black Publishing, 2002.

Suggested sites for Personality Tests:
(Please note, it is not necessary for attendees to take any test prior to our seminar. All tests should be taken at will and analyzed in an informed manner.)

  1. https://www.humanmetrics.com/
  2. https://mypersonality.net/


FACULTY
Olga Turcotte is a consultant and lecturer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has lived and studied in seven countries and has worked in the fields of corporate finance, non-profit management, consulting and education. Her interest in analytical psychology started in the mid 80’s while she was still living in C. G. Jung’s Switzerland and has become her vocation over the years. Her areas of focus are dreams, history, literature, religion and symbolism.

 

 

COURSE TITLE: Jung’s Complex Theory
PRESENTER: Annette Hanson, LCMHC, IAAP
DATE: November 15, 2025, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (3 hours)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will provide an overview of Jung’s Complex Theory, which is the most central component of both the theory and the practice of Jungian analysis. In this class, we will explore how Jung came to understand that the nature of the psyche is populated by a network of what he initially called ‘split-off complexes’, ‘impacted-feeling complexes’ and ‘feeling-toned complexes.’ We will consider the multi-faceted functions of complexes such as defensive patterns that facilitate adaptation to the world and alternatively as a potential means and orientation toward wholeness. In addition, we will learn about how complexes function at the group level to shape, influence and organize societies and cultures.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Chapter 4 “Jungian Complex Theory” in Jungian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction. by Mark Winborn. 2024. Routledge.
  2. Intergenerational Complexes in Analytical Psychology: The Suffering of Ghosts. by Samuel Kimbles. 2021. Routledge.


FOR FURTHER STUDY

  1. Jung’s Collected Works 8 “The Structures and Dynamics of the Psyche” Page 92. Essay: “A Review of Complex Theory.”

FACULTY
Annette Hanson, LCMHC, IAAP, is a senior Jungian Analyst, a faculty member and current president of the C. G. Jung Institute of New England. She is also a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in both NH and MA. Annette has taught analytic training seminars on the Jungian clinical process and fundamental Jungian theory as well as several public lectures on psychoanalytic theory, attachment theory and Jungian theory. Annette is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Analytic Psychology. She lives and has a private practice in Newmarket, NH.

 

 

COURSE TITLE: Archetypes
PRESENTER: Michael Conforti, IAAP
DATES: December 13, 2025: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (3 hours)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
It was the brilliance of Jung, von Franz and the early Jungians to see in the archetypes the self-organizing tendency of the psyche and how these components of the “antique soul” are represented in our dreams and fantasies. Jung suggested that archetypes function as morphological constants within the Psyche. This realization was later echoed by Von Franz who viewed the archetypes as “Nature’s Constants.” Both comments speak to the eternal and innate presence of archetypes within the personal and collective psyche, and how they literally shape personal and collective life.

However, the profundity of these discoveries is unfortunately being eclipsed by modernity which tends to understand and view universal and archetypal images through the lens of our very personal and subjective experiences. This personal circumambulation too often eclipses the archetypal and spiritual meaning of the image.

Through the presentation and detailed examination of a dream we will look at the relationship and differences between a personal and archetypal understanding of images. We will come to see the utter beauty and profundity of this voice of Psyche as it speaks to us about life, love, destiny, and most importantly, about our relationship to the sacred.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung C.G. 1934. A review of the complex theory, in Collected Works, Vol. 8, 92-104 2d ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.
  2. Kaufmann, Yoram. The Way of the Image: The Orientational Approach to the Psyche, Zahav Books, Inc., (2009)
  3. Osterman, Elizabeth. “Patterning in the Psyche and the Natural World.”


FACULTY
Michael Conforti, Ph.D., IAAP, is a Jungian analyst and the Founder and Director of the Assisi Institute. He is a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute of New England, the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, and for many years served as a Senior Associate faculty member in the Doctoral and Master’s Programs in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England. A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, Dr. Conforti is actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences.

He has presented his work to a wide range of national and international audiences, including the C.G. Jung Institute – Zurich and Jungian organizations in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Italy, Russia, South Africa, the Ukraine and Venezuela.

He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings (2007) and Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature, and Psyche (2002). His articles have appeared in Psychological Perspectives, The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Roundtable Press, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, and Spring Journal. His books have been translated into Italian, Russian, and a soon to be released Spanish edition of his work.

 

 

COURSE TITLE: Body as Shadow- Jung on Re-membering the Body
PRESENTER: Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, IAAP
DATE: December 13, 2025, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (3 hours)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
In 1913, Jung followed his Soul into the unconscious. This journey was the Rosetta Stone for the rest of his research and work. His destiny was to redeem the embodied soul from vilification and exile for modern psychology. The body was relegated to the shadow. We will trace through neuroscience and history how and why our healthy instinct, emotion, intuition, energy, imagination, somatic unconscious, and the feminine was pushed into the cultural unconscious. Our embodied soul was forced into the shadow.

Jung states that we cannot have a soulful life or transform without connection to our body – they are inextricably linked. We will demonstrate how his favorite method of working, embodied active imagination, offers us the ability to engage with our embodied soul and the inter-active field thus retrieving it from the shadow personally and professionally. This is his legacy to us.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Lorentz, Erica, Body as Shadow: Jung’s Embodied Individuation Process (Fall 2025 release)
  2. Bosnak, Robert, Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel, Routledge, 2007.
  3. Dallett, Janet, Listening to the Rhino: Violence and Healing in a Scientific Age, Aequitas Books, 2008.
  4. Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight | TED Talk

FACULTY
Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, IAAP, is a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of New England where she has served on the Training Board. Her book Body as Shadow: Jung’s Embodied Individuation Process will be published by Karnac London this fall. She has been an adjunct faculty at Antioch New England Graduate School of Professional Psychology, and a training analyst with the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Pacifica Radio and the Jung Platform have featured her work, and her lectures can be found on YouTube. Since 1986 she has given lectures and workshops in the US, Canada, and the UK, and had the honor of teaching in India last year. Her area of expertise is working with the embodied mythopoetic process in analysis and the interactive field. Her initiation into Jung’s embodied active imagination started in 1975 when she began studying Authentic Movement (the Jungian form of movement work) with her mentor Janet Adler.

 

 

COURSE TITLE: Jung’s Concept of Individuation and the Analytic Process
PRESENTER: Brian Hobbs, M.Ed., CAGS, IAAP
DATES: January 17, 2026, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (3 hours)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Though the term was coined by an alchemist in the sixteenth century, the concept of individuation was taken up by CG Jung and became a critical aspect of his theoretical framework. Over his lifetime his definition of this term was articulated by him in different ways. In 1921, in Volume 6 of his Collected Works, he defined individuation as “the process by which individual beings are being formed and differentiated; in particular, it is the development of he psychological individual as a being distinct from the general, collective psychology. Individuation, therefore, is a process of differentiation, having for its goal the development of the individual personality…”

In this seminar we will explore the implications of this concept, it’s relation to other core Jungian concepts, such as the Self, and will identify key components in individuation as a process. The class will read the myth of Cupid and Psyche as an example of an individuation process in symbolic form. We will use the myth to help us reflect on its necessarily complicated course and its manifestation in particular forms.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung, C.G. (1933). “A Study in the Process of Individuation.” In: The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, CW 9,I. Princeton University Press.

FOR FURTHER STUDY

  1. Cavalli, Alessandra. “Identification – obstacle to individuation, or, on how to become ‘me.’ Journal of Analytical Psychology, vol. 62 (2017), no. 2, 187-204.
  2. Jacoby, Mario. (1990). Individuation and Narcissism: The Psychology of the Self in Jung and Kohut. London and New York: Routledge.
  3. Von Franz, Marie- Louise. (1997). Individuation and Fairy Tales. Boston and London: Shambhala.

FACULTY
Brian Hobbs, M.Ed., CGS, IAAP, is a graduate of the CG Jung Institute of New England and a member of the faculty at the Institute. He maintains an analytic practice in Princeton, MA.

 

 

COURSE TITLE: Anima and Animus
PRESENTER: Will Furber, IAAP
DATE: January 17, 2026, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (3 hours)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Anima and Animus are fundamental gender related archetypes serving as important internal guides to individuation and wholeness. As experienced as complexes within the personal unconscious, they contain only a part of this potential because they are limited by the collective and individual understanding and experience of gender prevailing at the time. Much has changed in the understanding of gender within collective and individual consciousness since the mid Twentieth Century, so these concepts as initially formulated by Jung and others are now quite outdated. Attending to archetypal resonance as images of anima and animus emerge in dreams and other manifestations of the Self in relation to this developing understanding will assist these complexes to evolve and more fully reflect their archetypal core. As a parallel to evolving understanding about gender, these concepts can now be understood as more fluid, nuanced, and highly particularized to the individual.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung, C.G., Collected Works, vol. 7, Part II, Ch. 2, “Anima and Animus.”
  2. Jung, C.G., Collected Works, vol. 9, Ch, 3, “The Syzygy: Anima and Animus.”
  3. Jung, Emma, Animus and Anima: Two Essays (1974, Spring Publications).
  4. Hillman, James, Anima: an anatomy of a personified notion, (1985, Spring Publications).

FACULTY
Will Furber, J.D., IAAP, is a Jungian analyst in Maine and a frequent teacher on Jungian topics.

 

 

COURSE TITLE: Dreams and Jung’s Concept of the Symbol
PRESENTER: D. Stephenson Bond, M.Div., IAAP
DATE: February 21, 2026, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (3 hours)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this course we will review Jung’s essential approach to working with dreams. After a brief review of Freud’s dream method, we will discuss basic Jungian concepts such as the prospective function and compensatory function, subjective versus objective interpretation, the dream ego, and the classical Jungian dream structure. We will finish with a discussion of Jung’s unique approach to symbols as the “best expression of a relatively unknown fact.”

SUGGESTED READING

  1. “General Aspects of Dream Psychology,” in The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, CW Volume 8.
  2. “On the Nature of Dreams,” in The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, CW Volume 8.

FACULTY
D. Stephenson Bond, M.Div., IAAP, is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute, Boston, and the author of six books, most recently Confessions of an Introvert: The Solitary Path to Emotional Maturity (2018), as well as Living Myth: Personal Meaning As a Way of Life (1993, 2002) and The Archetype of Renewal (2003).

 

 

COURSE TITLE: C.G. Jung’s Red Book: An Introduction
PRESENTER: Stephanie Buck, PhD, IAAP
DATE: February 21, 2026, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (3 hours)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This introductory course provides an overview of The Red Book and the context in which it is situated. Addressed are some of the issues and themes Jung struggled with that led to his break with Freud and the psychoanalytic movement and had him engage in his intense self-experiment which he called his “confrontation with the unconscious.” What Jung learned during this process of inward journeying helped him resolve these issues and focus on themes that occupied him for the rest of his long life. It also helped him develop a new approach to working with psyche, which he named analytical psychology. The creation of The Red Book was central to his process of self-discovery and to the conceptualization of the archetypal psyche and the process of Individuation.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung, CG (1965). “Confrontation with the Unconscious” (Chapter 6). In Memories, Dreams, Reflections, pp. 170-199.
  2. Jung, CG (1916). The Transcendent Function. In The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (CW 8, pp. 67-91). Princeton/Bollingen. [PDF provided].
  3. Shamdasani, S, ed. (2009). ‘Liber Novus The Red Book of C.G. Jung’ in The Red Book Liber Novus: A Reader’s Edition pp. 1-104).
  4. Stein, M. (2019). What is ‘The Red Book’ for Analytical Psychology? Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology. 7:1, 1-16. [PDF provided].


FOR FURTHER STUDY

  1. Kirsch, T. and Hogenson, G. (2014). The Red Book: Reflections on CG Jung’s ‘Liber Novus’. Routledge.
  2. Foundation of the Works of CG Jung, ed. (2018) The Art of CG Jung. Norton.


FACULTY
Stephanie Buck, PhD, IAAP, is a Jungian analyst living and practicing in New York State. She is Past-President of the C G Jung Institute of Chicago and Past-President of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts (2020-2022); and Past Analyst Co-Director of the Jungian Psychotherapy Program/Jungian Studies Program (2018-2020); and is a Training Analyst at the CG Jung Institute of New England and the CG Jung Institute of Chicago. Stephanie’s interests include Jung’s early writing with its focus on the irrational dimension of reality which led to his mature work on synchronicity and his creation of The Red Book, Jung’s most marvelous document on the individuation journey and how it is enabled. Dream work and working with the active imagination through creative means are important aspects of the therapy-analytic process.

 

 

COURSE TITLE: Fairy Tales and The Realm of Living Symbol
PRESENTER: Angie Brenner, LICSW
DATE: March 21, 2026: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (3 hours)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this course we will explore why fairy tales have such a prominent place in the study and practice of Jungian psychology, as a uniquely useful lens into deep patterns operating in our lives–on a personal and a collective level.

Fairy tales do a particularly important kind of mythopoetic work. Hiding out as humble children’s stories, fairy tales and folklore perform a compensatory function to the dominant political and religious narratives of the times, which often have little regard for wholeness, and little recognition of the reality of the living psyche. Fairy tales restore our connection to the world where everything is alive, where the power of magic and imagination are evident all around us–where the forces we call archetypes are still speaking.

The symbolic narrative of a fairy tale can pinpoint with uncanny precision what has gone wrong in life–what is out of balance or wounded or dried up. And then the tales gather the threads of story and image that constellate the archetypal pattern in need of restoration. By studying the story-language of fairy tales, we can orient ourselves to these maps for meaning-making.

We will spend time as a group with two tales from the Brothers Grimm: The Six Swans, and Briar Rose. This will give us an experiential opportunity to delve into the elements of image and story that make up a fairy tale, and find what this study might offer us, in our personal and clinical work.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales.
  2. Grimm Brothers. “Briar Rose.” Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
  3. Grimm Brothers. “The Six Swans.” Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
  4. Martin Shaw, “Sunday Stories: The Six Swans.” (recording) The House of Beasts & Vines, Substack post, March 26, 2023. https://open.substack.com/pub/martinshaw/p/sunday-stories-the-six-swans?r=133vod&utm_medium=ios

FOR FURTHER STUDY

  1. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run with The Wolves.
  2. Adina Davidson and Raisa Cabrera, “Briar Rose: Awakening and Transformation”, Jungian Ever After podcast, October 25, 2023 Jungian Ever After | Briar Rose: Awakening & Transformation – C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago
  3. Marion Woodman and Robert Bly. The Maiden King
  4. Martin Shaw, The Wild Twin.

FACULTY
Angie Brenner, LICSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Melrose, MA, and an analyst-in-training at the C.G. Jung Institute of New England. Her interests include trauma, integration of the Feminine and marginalized genders in religious life, the human relationship with nature, and the transformative potential of mythopoetics on our lived experience.

 

 

COURSE TITLE: The Transcendent Function
PRESENTER: Pamela Donleavy, J.D., IAAP
DATE: March 21, 2026: 1:30 – 4:30 pm (3.0 hours)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Jung wrote an essay about the Transcendent Function in 1916 and then placed it in his files. Although he mentioned it as a function several times in his writings, it wasn’t well described until the essay was found in 1953 and published by the Student Association of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich. It was made public in 1959 and updated with a prefatory note and some revisions made by Jung just two years before his death.

In this class we explore the transcendent function through an examination of Jung’s writings, and through the use of dreams, imagination, and reflections on the analytic process. We arrive at a deeper understanding of this often-mysterious aspect of the psyche which seeks to reconcile the tension between the opposites of conscious and unconscious perspectives and experiences in the interest of psychological growth. We will also discuss ways in which consciousness can work to facilitate the workings of this important function in the psyche.

At the conclusion of this course participants will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the Jungian concept of the transcendent function. Further, participants will understand how the transcendent function manifests in one’s psyche and in the analytic process and learn ways to facilitate its working in individuals, groups, and societies.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung, C.G. (1953). The Transcendent Function, CW8, pgs. 67 – 91. Bollingen Foundation, New York, NY.
  2. Miller, Jeffrey C. (2004). The Transcendent Function, Chapter 7. State University of New York Press.
  3. Ulanov, Ann. (2018). The Functioning Transcendent. Chiron Publications, Ashville, NC.


FACULTY
Pamela Donleavy, J.D, IAAP, is a Jungian psychoanalyst with a private practice in Arlington, MA. She is a past president of the C. G. Jung Institute – Boston and is presently on the Board of the C.G. Jung Institute of New England. Her interests include the interconnection of her prior professions as a lawyer and musician with Asian philosophies and Jungian theories.

 

 

COURSE TITLE: Alchemy and the Religious Function of the Psyche
PRESENTER: Jason Smith, MA, IAAP
DATE: April 18, 2026: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (3.0 hours)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
“Among all my patients in the second half of life — that is to say, over thirty-five — there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.” C.G. Jung, CW11, par. 509

The living process of the unconscious, taught Carl Jung, is more aptly expressed by religious symbols than by scientific formulas. The psyche, he asserted, naturally possesses a religious function, and it is by coming into conscious relationship with this function that the way is opened for the individual’s experience of psychological wholeness. In the literature of alchemy with its often strange imagery, Jung found a particularly apt parallel for how this movement toward wholeness is expressed in the unconscious life of the individual.
In this class we will discuss the religious function of the psyche and look at how it is experienced both individually and collectively. We will discuss the symbolism of alchemy and its relevance to the individuation process. Finally, we will look at the ways that religious questions can manifest in the context of the psychotherapeutic setting.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Jung, C.G. (1968). Introduction to the religious and psychological problems of alchemy (Psychology and Alchemy, part 1). In H. Read et al. (Eds.). The collected works of C.G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans., Vol. 12, pp. 1-37). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  2. Smith, J. E. (2020). Religious but not religious: Living a symbolic life. Asheville, NC: Chiron Publications.

FOR FURTHER STUDY

  1. Edinger, E. (1992). Ego and archetype: Individuation and the religious function of the psyche. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
  2. Jung, C. G. (1931/1970). The spiritual problem of modern man. In H. Read et al. (Eds.), The collected works of C.G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans., Vol. 10, pp. 74-94). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  3. Jung, C. G. (1932/1969). Psychotherapists or the clergy. In H. Read et al. (Eds.), The collected works of C.G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans., Vol. 11, pp. 327-347). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  4. Jung, C. G. (1938/1969). Psychology and religion. In H. Read et al. (Eds.), The collected works of C.G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans., Vol. 11, pp. 3-105). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  5. Jung, C. G. (1954/1989). The symbolic life. In H. Read et al. (Eds.), The collected works of C.G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans., Vol. 18, pp. 265-290). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

FACULTY
Jason E. Smith, MA, IAAP, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. He is the author of Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life and the creator and host of the podcast Digital Jung. Jason is an instructor for the online platform Jung Archademy. He also serves as a training analyst and faculty member for the C.G. Jung Institute of New England.

 

 

COURSE TITLE: Synchronicity, Complexity and the Psychoid Field
PRESENTER: Joseph Cambray, PHD., IAAP
DATE: April 18, 2026: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (3.0 hours)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This presentation will begin with a brief history of the origins and development of Jung’s notions of synchronicity and the psychoid. Complexity and field theories will then be applied to provide a 21st century view of these holistic, intuitive concepts. Examples of synchronistic phenomena from the presenter’s practice will be explored using the new approach. Links to the Kairos of enactments and reveries will be included to consider the noetic potential in synchronistic phenomena. Further examples from the history of culture, especially where artisans or artists were able to represent profound knowledge of highly complex natural phenomena well ahead of any scientific understanding, indicating the reality of psychoid fields, will be offered.

SUGGESTED READING

  1. Cambray, J. Synchronicity: Nature & Psyche in an Interconnected Universe (Fay Lecture Series). College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, (2009). (Available by Open Access—e.g., through “academic.edu”).
  2. Cambray, J., “Reconsidering Individuation in the 21st Century: When Archetypal Patters Shift,” in Our Uncertain World: Challenges and Opportunities in a Dark Time, ed. Leslie Sawin. Asheville, North Carolina: Chiron Publications (2023).
  3. Jung, C. G. (1960). “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle.” In The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, Collected Works 8, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

FOR FURTHER STUDY

  1. Main, Roderick. Breaking the spell of disenchantment: Mystery, meaning, and metaphysics in the work of C. G. Jung. Volume 8 of The Zurich Lecture Series. Chiron Publications. 2022.
  2. The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung’s Critique of Modern Western Culture. New York, London: Routledge. 2004.
  3. Von Franz, Marie-Louse. Number and Time: Reflections Leading Toward a Unification of Depth Psychology and Physics. Trans. Ernst Kett Verlag, Andrea Dykes. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. 1986.

FACULTY
Joseph Cambray, Ph.D. IAAP, is Past-President-CEO of Pacifica Graduate Institute; he is Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; has served as the U.S. Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology. He was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General 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. He has published numerous papers in a range of international journals. He lectures and gives workshops internationally.