VI International Conference of Moscow Association for Analytical Psychology
Wisdom of the Psyche
Theory and Practice of Jungian Psychotherapy
October 14-16, 2011, Moscow
With
Ginette Paris (Canada), John Hill and Bernard Sartorius (Switzerland)
Ginette Paris:
Dr. Paris is a psychologist, therapist and author of many books, among which are: Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology after Neuroscience (Routlegde 2007), The Psychology of Abortion ), Pagan Grace, (Spring Publications) and Pagan Meditations (Spring Publications). Her books have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German with a forthcoming translation in Russian. She currently teaches Archetypal and Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. She lectures and leads workshops throughout Canada, the U.S. and Europe. He web site is: www.ginetteparis.com
Lecture: Imagination and medicine: the next evolution of Depth Psychology
The language of science has been colonizing Jungian psychology since its beginning. To understand psyche, we psychologists have borrowed most of our metaphors from science; it is no surprise then, that we developed an inferiority complex! Ever since psychology insisted it was part of science, depth psychology became the side-show to the main event, which is supposed to be happening either in the gray matter of the brain, or in the genes.
Lecture Psychology of Heartbreak
Workshop: Shopping for the right archetype: Debunking old metaphors and tired fictions.
This seminar will attempt to demonstrate a basic skill in the practice of archetypal psychotherapy. We will:
1) Review the main ideas that informs the practice.
2) Through a series of exercises, we will experience the process of metaphorizing, in order to replace the outdated inner cinema with fresh imagery, to revitalize one"s inner life. Special attention will be given to the problem of interference by the therapist, a frequent mistake in the practice of imaginal approaches, of narrative therapy and of so-called life-coaching.
Supervision
John Hill
John Hill, M.A., is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich, where he served for many years as a training analyst and lecturer. In private practice in Zurich and a training analyst of ISAPZURICH, he received degrees in philosophy at the University of Dublin and Catholic University, Washington, D.C. He has lectured internationally on the theme of home for more than twenty years and is also a leading Jungian expert in the field of Celtic mythology.
Lecture: The Dreaming Mind: Accessing a Playful Attitude to Life
In the presentation I propose to give a talk on the nature of the dreaming mind that allows us an alternative existence free from the constraints of the outer world. I will focus on the nature of memory in dreams and how the mind transforms memories into facets of the self. The dreaming mind can be playful. Play in dreams creates threshold experiences that carry over into waking life and encourage us to do things that otherwise would be impossible in ordinary life. With the help of dreams and clinical vignettes, I suggest that this attitude needs to be embodied in our culture. I will give examples of dreams to illustrate this process. Afterwards I will invite discussion.
Lecture: A New Icon of the Divine: Reflections on Jung"s Red Book
Supervision
Bernard Sartorius
He studied theology at Geneva University. Bernard served as parish and youth minister. He trained in Jungian analytical psychology at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich and served as a training analyst there and now is a training analyst at ISAP (International Seminar of Analytical Psychology). In the last years, he has made many trips to Islamic countries and has had discussions with Muslims about "our situation" in connection with the concerns of Islam.
Lecture The hermeneutical tension between image and word - mythologically expressed: between the Icon and the Quran.
I will try to speak about the psychic connections between hearing and seeing on the level of what is experienced - language and images. An archetypal image of the image and seeing it is for instance the Icon and an archetypal instance of the words and hearing them is for instance the Quran. There is a - archetpyal, this is: on the conscious level unresolvable - dialectical tension between them . This dialectics, I will try to illustrate it by a Grimm fairy tale ("Rumpelstilzchen"), the work of a modern painter (Paul Klee) and the respective theologies concerning the Icon and the Quran. I will conclude with some practical implications for our work as analysts (dream - images ! - interpretation - words...- for instance) and, on the collective level, for our view upon our contemporary culture in which there is a quantitative inflation of words and images (media, internet etc) and where the dialectics word-image tends to disappear.
Supervision
Lectures and Workshops of Moscow Jungians are in program of the Conference also.
Registration fee: 155 Euro
Language of the Conference: Russian and English
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