Psychospiritual Scotland: Welcome

PSYCHOSPIRITUAL SCOTLAND

This site is dedicated to promoting Scottish based 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.

2010 PROGRAMME

THE SHADOW OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPIST

~ a practitioner's workshop ~

with Jim Fitzgerald

DATE: Saturday 13th November 2010

This is a clinical seminar, particularly aimed at those who are currently practising psychotherapists. Issues of boundaries and containment in therapy will be explored, and emphasis will be placed on matters that arise in the transference through the constellation of the therapist's shadow. The image of the Wounded Healer will be discussed, and the Grimm Fairy Tale, Godfather Death, will be explored in order to illuminate further issues for therapy that may arise from the unconsciousness of the therapist.

BIOGRAPHY

Jim Fitzgerald trained as a Jungian Analyst (Diploma) at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich and is in private practice in London. He is a past Chairman of the C. G. Jung Analytical Psychology Club and past Chairman and Trustee of the Guild for Analytical Psychology and Spirituality. With a background in Ancient Classics and Byzantine Greek, he is also a supervisor to trainees in Ireland; teaches courses in Jungian psychology and has lectured widely in Ireland, the U.K. and abroad. He is also the author of two pamphlets published by the Guild of Pastoral Psychology, London: The Father's Shadow and the Source of the Masculine, and Vision of Light: The Healing Power of the Numinous. In a previous incarnation Jim has published poetry in Gaelic.

BOOKING: £70 (trainees £60). £30 non-returnable deposit reserves your place on the workshop. Full fee payable by Monday 4th Ocober 2010. Please make cheques payable to Psychospiritual Scotland.

TIMES: Saturday 10.00am to 5.00pm

VENUE: 28 Great King Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QH [Map]

~ NEW since 24th June ~

ALCHEMY & PSYCHOTHERAPY

~ a practitioner's workshop ~

with Dale Mathers

DATES: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th December 2010

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).

BOOKING: £120 (trainees £100). £40 non-returnable deposit reserves your place on the workshop. Full fee payable by Monday 1st November 2010. Please make cheques payable to Psychospiritual Scotland. Please note that places are limited.

TIMES: 10.00am to 5.00pm both days.

VENUE: 28 Great King Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QH [Map]

Preview of 2011 programme

Murray Stein & Donald Kalsched will be offering seminars in Edinburgh in 201l. Dates for Murray Stein have been finalised for Spring, and it is hoped that Donald Kalshed's visit will conicide with the publication of his new book.

Please note that places on these and other workshops are limited, and it is advisable to book well in advance.

PREVIOUS EVENTS

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