Jungian Advanced Seminars
Fall 2016 - Spring 2017
Tuition for each seminar: $540
Please see Registration Application
for multiple-registration tuition discounts.
Contact hours: 21 CE contact hours for NYS Social
Workers for each seminar.
Please note:
For licensed NYS Social Workers applying for CE credit, an attendance
sign-in sheet will be used for each class session. To receive
accreditation, students must sign in and out when entering and
leaving the program site and must attend all sessions.
The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology,
Inc., SW CPE, is recognized by New York State Education Department's
State Board of Social Work as an approved provider of continuing
education for licensed social workers #0350.
Seminar #1: Fall 2016
14 Wednesdays, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
September 7 - December 21 (excluding September 14 and
November 23)
Jung's Red Book: Its Relevance to Individuation
and the Psychotherapeutic Process
This class
will combine a close textual reading of Jung's Red Book (Liber
Novus) with a meditation and analysis of the painted images.
Our primary goal will be to understand the relevance of Jung's
encounter with his soul to the work on the psyche, individuation and
the psychotherapeutic process.
In the
course of examining the clinical relevance of Liber Novus, we
will consider the ethical, philosophical and theological implications
of Jung's Red Book project, place this work in the context of
the history of ideas, address the relationship between the ideas in The
Red Book and Jung's Collected Works, and consider the
importance of The Red Book for the future of the social
sciences.
While
reference will be made to Reading The Red Book (Spring, 2012),
the intent in this class is to give Liber Novus a fresh,
active and critical reading and viewing, and to have seminar members
join in this process. Each class will begin with a summary of
the main themes and issues raised by the readings and paintings,
followed by a group discussion of key passages and images, and their
relevance to clinical issues and Jungian psychology. Seminar
members will also be encouraged to present their reactions to the text
and images through personal and clinical reflections, poetry and
other writings, and artwork. The many topics that we will
consider in relation to individuation and therapeutic processes will
include: the "spirit of the depths" vs. the "spirit of
the times," sense and nonsense, the demise of the inner hero,
masculine and feminine, the value of chaos, the significance of
death, wonder and madness, "accepting all," the "inner
Christ," being guided by one's soul, the coincidence of the
opposites-thinking and feeling, reason and unreason, and good and
evil.
Instructor: Sanford Drob, PhD
Sanford L. Drob, PhD, is on the Core Faculty of the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California. He holds doctorates in philosophy and clinical psychology and served for many years as the Director of Psychological Assessment and Senior Forensic Psychologist at Bellevue Hospital in New York. Dr. Drob is the author of numerous professional articles in clinical, forensic and philosophical psychology. His Reading the Red Book: An Interpretive Guide to C. G. Jung's Liber Novus was published by Spring Journal Books, in June 2012. Dr. Drob's other books include Kabbalistic Visions: C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism (Spring Journal Books, 2010) and Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialog (Peter Lang, 2009). His Archetype of the Absolute: The Unity of Opposites in Mysticism, Philosophy and Psychology will be published by the Fielding Graduate University Press in the Fall of 2006. Dr. Drob is also a narrative painter whose work encompasses archetypal themes. His oil paintings can be seen at www.sanforddrobart.com.
Seminar #2: Spring 2017
14 Wednesdays, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
February 1 - May 10 (excluding April 12)
Jung, the Neuroscience of Spirituality, and
Psychological Change
Spirituality holds a
privileged position within Jung's analytical psychology and within
human development. As Jung predicted, spirituality is becoming
increasingly diverse as individuals seek to find and connect with it
in more personal and less collectively determined ways. This
increasing desire for spirituality as a process derived from personal
experience indicates that it will continue to become a more integral
part of the therapeutic process. It tends to show up clinically when
individuals have lost a sense of meaning, are seeking meaning, or
when their spiritual beliefs fail them. It is the conscious and
unconscious spiritual beliefs held by a person that capture and
impose themselves on both imagination and everyday life. Whether
explicit or implicit, clinicians interact with these beliefs every
day.
While Jung understood
the value and essence of a spiritual outlook on life and its role in
the therapeutic process, the tools for understanding the contribution
of the brain to the creation, processing, and changing of
spirituality were unavailable during his lifetime. The neuroscience
of spirituality allows us to comprehend how spiritual beliefs are
formed, embodied, come to influence and even shape consciousness, and
how they help or hinder psychological change. Not only does the
neuroscience of spirituality affirm many of Jung's concepts it also
links spirituality to the body and, as Jung suspected, social and
emotional regulation as well.
This class will be
experiential, relational, and self-reflective. We will draw from
Jung's analytical psychology, connect it with the neuroscience of
spirituality, and consider them together in connection with the
clinical process of psychological development and change. The topics
covered are the formation and development of spiritual beliefs,
spiritual practices and experiences such as prayer and ritual,
mindfulness and active imagination, mystical experiences, and
entheogens. This course requires no prior knowledge of Jungian
psychology or neuroscience.
Instructor: David Walczyk, EdD, NCPsyA
David J. Walczyk, EdD, NCPsyA, is a Jungian analyst
in private practice in New York City. He is a graduate of Columbia
University and the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. His clinical
interest is the relationships between Jung's analytical psychology,
neuroscience, and the psychology of desire. He specializes in working
with individuals and groups from the creative practices of design,
art, and cultural production. David has presented his ideas
domestically and internationally and has designed and taught graduate
and undergraduate courses at Pratt Institute and NYU.
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