Intensives
Winter Clinical Intensive Program
Jung in the Consulting Room: Following Psyche’s Lead
JANUARY 15 & 16, 2016 (Snow date JANUARY 22 & 23, 2016)
at the C.G. Jung Institute–Boston
21 Hartford Street
Newton, Massachusetts
Clinicians: $250 Students: $100
11 NASW and MHC CEUs will be offered
If the spiritual adventure of our time is the exposure of human consciousness to the undefined and indefinable, there would seem to be good reasons for thinking that even the Boundless is pervaded by psychic laws, which no man invented, but of which he has “gnosis”…. Only heedless fools will wish to destroy this; the lover of the soul, never.
—CW 11, para. 168
The C.G. Jung Institute–Boston will be offering a two-day Winter Clinical Intensive at our Institute. Four senior analysts will share their knowledge and experience about how Jungian analysts work clinically. For instance, how does the process of a Jungian analysis unfold? What is added to traditional psychotherapies through Jung’s understanding of the psyche? What is the psychological understanding of “spiritual” and “soul” from a Jungian perspective? How can dreams, fantasies, synchronicities, and other material from the unconscious enhance the patient’s conscious ego life? How does an analyst help patients weave together these different psychic perspectives to promote healing and growth? And, even more delicately, how and when do analysts present interpretations of unconscious material to their patients?
The Winter Clinical Intensive is open to mental health clinicians from all theoretical orientations and to students in graduate or post-graduate clinical training programs. Confidentiality of case material will be requested.
Come join us for the 2016 Winter Clinical Intensive when four senior Jungian analysts open a door into the experience and practice of Jungian analysis.
THE PROGRAM
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2016 (Snow date JANUARY 22, 2016)
8:30 – 9:00 AM
SIGN-IN & INTRODUCTION – Jane Margaret Hunt & Lucia Maneri
9 AM – 12 PM
TREATING DEPRESSION: NEUROLOGICAL, PSYCHOANALYTIC, AND SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVES – Bill Ventimiglia
This workshop will focus on the phenomenon of depression from the perspectives of neurobiology, depth psychology, and spirituality. Depression may be conceived as the devastating loss of attachment to oneself, to people, and to the objects and activities that give life meaning. And, “meaning” I would define as the experience of vitality. Depression heralds a loss of soul—an alienation from the common, everyday rhythms of living. The healing of depression is in many cases a journey through death and rebirth in the presence of a sensitive, caring companion–listener.
Illustrative clinical material will be presented with opportunity for discussion.
Suggested Reading: C.G. Jung. Symbols of Transformation, Collected Works, Vol. 5.
LUNCH 12 PM – 1 PM
A list of restaurants will be provided.
1 PM – 4 PM
JUNG IN THE CONSULTING ROOM: FINDING MEANING IN LIFE’S SUFFERING IN ORDER TO HEAL FROM IT – Manisha Roy
This presentation will demonstrate how a Jungian analyst works with clients of different ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, keeping in mind Jung’s basic concepts regarding the structure of the objective psyche, including ego’s position and problems vis-à-vis the personal and the collective unconscious as reflected in outer life. The goal of Jungian analysis is to help ego to establish a healing emotional connection to the archetypal world of the collective unconscious, which can be done through dream work, transference-countertransference, and other time-tested methods, all of which will be discussed.
Suggested Reading: C.G. Jung. The Practice of Psychotherapy, Collected Works, Vol. 16: Part One, Chapters IV and VI; and Part Two, Chapters I, II, III.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 (Snow date JANUARY 23, 2016)
9 AM – 12 PM
PASSION, OBSESSION, AND EMOTIONAL DETACHMENT: EXPLORING HIDDEN TRAUMA AND DYNAMIC IMAGES OF THE DARK MOTHER – Patricia Vesey-McGrew
As a culture we are fascinated with images of mothers that are both terrifying and exceptionally compelling. Using both an archetypal and developmental lens we will explore the nature of three aspects of the sinister mother: the vampire mother, the dead mother, and the Medea mother. We will grapple with internal maternal energies (complexes) and also with dark mothers in our everyday lives. This talk will focus on maternal behaviors that have had a deleterious, traumatic effect on the developing infant and child, and which have contributed to neurotic syndromes in the adult. Through use of infant observation videos, psychoanalytic, attachment, and most importantly analytical psychology theories, maternal depression (deadness), narcissism, and obsessional fixation will be examined as contributing factors to pathological symptoms observed in our adult patients. Emphasis will be placed on a non-reductive clinical approach, as the mother is one factor among many that contribute to child development. Clinical cases, symbolic mythological material, poetry, and art will provide the participant with a deeper clinical analytic perspective of the theoretical suppositions.
LUNCH 12 PM – 1 PM
1 PM – 4 PM
SYMBOLIC MYSTERY AND CLINICAL PROCESS IN JUNGIAN ANALYSIS – Randall Mishoe
Through didactic presentation, class discussion, and experiential participation, this workshop will trace the development of an actual case as it moved through various stages, with attention to symptomatology, unconscious dynamics, and the life situation that precipitated a trauma. This case demonstrates the use of art, dreams, mythic narratives, transference and counter-transference awareness, and the DSM-V as they might be employed in the psychotherapeutic work of Jungian analysis.
Suggested Reading: C.G. Jung, Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925. William McGuire (Ed.). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
4 PM – CLOSING REMARKS – Jane Margaret Hunt & Lucia Maneri
WINTER CLINICAL INTENSIVE FACULTY
Randall Mishoe, DMin, IAAP, is a Jungian analyst and Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, with a private practice in Charlotte, NC. A member of NESJA as well as past President of the North Carolina Society of Jungian Analysts, he serves as Analyst Director of the Summer Intensive. For further information, consult his website at: www.randallmishoe.com.
Manisha Roy, PhD, IAAP, is an anthropologist and a senior Jungian analyst trained in Zurich. She has been practicing for close to forty years on more than one continent, and has been on the teaching and supervising faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute–Boston for thirty years. A former professor of anthropology, Dr. Roy has taught and lectured in many parts of the world, and has published extensively in two languages. Among ten books, three are as co-editors and two are in Bengali, her mother tongue. Her first book Bengali Women (1976) is used as a text in many university anthropology departments. Her latest book, a memoir entitled My Four Homes, is just published by Chiron.
William Ventimiglia, DMin, IAAP, is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland. He is a past-president and present member of the Training Board of the C.G. Jung Institute–Boston and is a member of NESJA. Publications include “Supervision & The Circumcised Heart” in Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, “Where Is God Gone: Inclusivity in the Face of the Holy” in Parabola Vol. 30 No. 4, and “Self Cohesion & the Search for a Spiritual Container” in Jung Journal Vol. 3, No. 3. He has a private practice in Cambridge and Topsfield, MA.
Patricia Vesey-McGrew, MA, NCPsyA, is a Chicago-trained Jungian psychoanalyst. She is a supervising and training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute–Boston, where she is past president and a faculty member. Additionally, she is Deputy Editor (US) of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. She has presented papers and workshops internationally on a number of topics, including “The Dead Mother” and “Power of Dreams.” Her most recent publication is a chapter in Jungian Psychoanalysis, Volume Three (Open Court).
Jane Margaret Hunt, MSW, IAAP, is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute–Boston and a member of NESJA. She has a private practice in Ithaca, NY, is a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute–Boston, and serves as a co-director of the Winter Clinical Intensive. For more information, see her website at: www.janemargarethunt.com.
Lucia Maneri, LMHC, IAAP, is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute–Boston and a member of NESJA. She has a private practice in Worcester, MA, and also works in a community mental health center. She serves as a co-director of the Winter Clinical Intensive.