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ABOUT Psychospiritual Scotland is dedicated to promoting lectures, workshops, intensives, and trainings offered by published Jungians and transpersonal psychology practitioners. Particular emphasis is given to the practical application of Jungian and transpersonal psychologies. These events are aimed at practitioners within the psychological professions unless otherwise specified.
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Transcendence – the Missing Fourth (public lecture) with Murray Stein Friday 8th April 7.00pm to 8.30pm The feminist theologian Sallie McFague is critical of talk about transcendence. It can be a disguised form of top-down dominance, a patriarchal style of discourse. The one who claims knowledge of the transcendent can trump those who are without such gnosis, and traditional teaching has been used in this way to achieve and to hold dominance. Contrary to this, as she writes, “The ‘view from the body' is always a view from somewhere versus the view from above, from nowhere; the former admits to its partiality and accepts responsibility for its perspectives, while the latter believes itself universal and transcendent, thus denying its embodiment and limitations as well as the concrete, special insights that can arise only from particularity” ( The Body of God, p. 95). The type of strong transcendence I will be speaking about in this lecture, however, is precisely grounded in the body, is concrete and particular rather than an abstract overview from above that claims objectivity and universality. It is transcendence embedded in event, given to a particular subject, deeply related to an individual psyche, and connected to physicality. Working with Dreams and Active Imagination in Jungian Analysis, with Special Attention to ‘the Numinous' Saturday 9th April 10.00am to 4.00pm (professional seminar/workshop) with Murray Stein In a letter to P.W. Martin (20 August 1945), the founder of the International Study Center of Applied Psychology in Oxted, England, C.G. Jung confirmed the centrality of numinous experience in his life and work: “It always seemed to me as if the real milestones were certain symbolic events characterized by a strong emotional tone. You are quite right, the main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact is that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experiences you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character” (Jung 1973, 1: 377). If one holds the classical Jungian view that the only genuine cure for neurosis is to grow out of it through pursuing individuation, then treatment based on this model would seem necessarily to include “the approach to the numinous,” as Jung states so firmly in this letter. The individuation process, as proposed by Jung and his followers, typically includes experiences of a numinous nature. The question is: How are such momentous experiences related to and used within the context of analysis and the individuation journey, and how do they contribute to the overall process of individuation? On the answer to this complex question rests the difference between psychological individuation and the development of spirituality. While the psychological hero(ine) of the individuation journey is by no means identical to the spiritual hero(ine) of the journey to God (however this term may be defined), it is not always easy to tell where their paths diverge, precisely because Jung placed such central importance on numinous experience for individuation. And yet they do diverge, and decisively. BIOGRAPHY Murray Stein, Ph.D. is currently President of The International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich (ISAPZurich). He is the author of In MidLife , Jung's Treatment of Christianity , Jung's Map of the Soul and many other books and articles. Most recently he has edited and published Jungian Psychoanalysis in collaboration with an International team of Jungian psychoanalysts. He lives in Switzerland and is a training and supervising analyst with ISAPZurich. BOOKING: Lecture £10 Seminar/workshop £70 (trainees £60). £40 non-returnable deposit reserves your place on the workshop. Full fee payable by Tuesday 1st March 2011. Preparatory reading for this day is C. G Jung's The Red Book. Please make cheques payable to Psychospiritual Scotland. VENUE: Gillis Centre, 100 Strathearn Road, Edinburgh, EH9 1BB (map) Murray Stein will also lecture in London on 7th April, sponsored by three organizations: Association of Jungian Analysts , Confederation for Analytical Psychology & Guild of Pastoral Psychology Details are to be found on the C G Jung Analytical Psychology Club website Alchemy & Psychotherapy ~ a practitioner's workshop ~ with Dale Mathers Saturday 15th October 10.00am to 4.00pm Jung became fascinated by the medieval art of alchemy, the process by which base metals could be turned into gold, through which the ‘Philosopher's Stone' might be discovered. In their magical, mystifying and mystical Opus , with its endless symbolism and seeming contradictions, he discovered metaphors which analytical psychologists continue to find useful; both in understanding the transference and countertransference, and in helping clients discover how to form and use symbols. This workshop is designed for counsellors, therapists and analysts wishing to understand how alchemical metaphors for psychological change can be of value in this twenty first century. It will look at implications of alchemy within clinical practice, in society, politics and eco-psychology. Key themes are: ~ a brief history of alchemy ~ use of the alchemical metaphor in clinical practice ~ individuation ~ archetypal processes at work in the individual and society We will use social dreaming to ‘put gold into' the workshop, discussion and drawing to ‘take the gold out'. Participants are invited to illustrate their take on the theme by bringing poetry, pictures and (fictionalised) clinical examples to share. If you wish to prepare in advance, may I suggest: Schwartz- Salant, N., (1995) C. G. Jung on alchemy London: Routledge. Chapter (8) on Alchemy and Psychotherapy Jung, C. G., ‘An account of the transference phenomena based on the illustrations to the “Rosarium Philosophorum”, in Collected Works of C. G. Jung Vol 16: The Practice of Psychotherapy. Enjoy the pictures; perhaps look particularly at the first two sections, The Mercurial Fountain, and The King and Queen. BIOGRAPHY Dr. Dale Mathers MB. BS., MRCPsych . Jungian analyst, a supervisor with the Association of Jungian Analysts. Also a humanistic psychotherapist, in private practice in South London. Teaches at several analytical psychology schools in the UK and Europe. Directed the Student Counselling Service at the London School of Economics and was Mental Health Foundation Fellow at St. George's Hospital, London. Member of the British Association for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Supervision (BAPPS). His publications include An Introduction to Meaning and Purpose in Analytical Psychology, Vision and Supervision: Jungain and Post-Jungian Perspectives, and Self and No-Self: Continuing the Dialogue between Buddhism and Psychotherapy, all published by Routledge. His forthcoming book is on alchemy and psychotherapy. BOOKING: £65 (trainees £55). Please make cheques payable to Psychospiritual Scotland. Please note that places are limited. VENUE: The Gillis Centre 100 Strathearn Road Edinburgh EH9 1BB [Map] Previous Events 2010 The Shadow of the Psychotherapist with Jim Fitzgerald 2009 Wrestling With Eros: The Myth of Anteros & its Meanings with Dr. Craig Stephenson PhD Vision & Supervision with Dr. Dale Mathers 2008 Sweet Darkness with Dianne Timberlake & Dorothy Mason Jung & Buddhism & Mindfulness in the Consulting Room with Polly Young-Eisendrath PhD 2007 Human Being Human: Creative Psychotherapy, Individuation and Image with Christopher Hauke Minding the gap: Touching time with Winnicott, Jung and Lacan & Hysteria and projective identification: Dionysus in the Consulting Room with Chris Williams Deep Imagery: Opening the Window to the Imaginal World with Dianne Timberlake 2006
Authority, Autonomy, Authenticity: "each things goes itself..." with Josephine Evetts-Secker Sandplay Therapy with Diana Jansen, Mike Falcus & a film by Dr. Peter Ammann Sexuality, Gender Identity and Analytical Psychology with Dr. Dale Mathers Dreamwork as Soulcraft with Bill Plotkin & Geneen Marie Haugen Jung's Concept of Possession with Craig Stephenson 2005 Meaning, Buddhism and Analytical Psychology & Meaning Disorders with Dr. Dale Mathers 2004 What is the Self? & Typological Analysis with Dr. John Beebe |
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