2024 Schedule

November

The Omaha Friends of Jung Presents:

Dr. Gus Cwik-Associative Dreaming and The Alchemical Third

 

Schedule and Admission

This Fall we are honored and excited to present Gus Cwik, Psy D, Jungian Analyst for a video conference on November 15th from 12:30-2:30 PM (CST) at my office. Seating is limited so please sign up now by emailing me at timswisher@aol.com.

Joining through Zoom is also available.

 

Details

This presentation will be a colloquium where a participant will offer Gus a case to discuss using Associative Dreaming and the Alchemical Third.
 
We will offer 2 CEU for Master level therapists.
 
The cost is $45.00 and make your checks out to the Omaha Friends of Jung. You can send your check or pay at the door.
 

Associative Dreaming and the Alchemical Third

The idea of countertransference has expanded beyond its original meaning of a neurotic reaction to include all reactions of the therapist: affective, bodily, and imaginal. Additionally, Jung’s fundamental insight in Psychology of the Transference was that a “third thing” is created in the analysis, but he failed to demonstrate how this third is experienced and utilized in analysis. This “analytic third”, as Ogden names it, is co-created by analyst and analysand in depth work and becomes the object of analysis. We will look at what I have come to call the “alchemical third.” Reverie, as developed by Bion and clinically utilized by Ogden, provides a means of access to the unconscious nature of this third area. Reverie will be placed on a continuum of contents of mind, ranging from indirect to direct associative forms and described as associative dreaming. Active imagination, as developed by Jung, provides the paradigm for a mode of interaction with these contents within the analytic encounter itself. Whether the analyst speaks “from” or “about” these contents depends on the capacity of the patient to dream, do psychological work. Classical amplification can be understood as an instance of speaking “about” inner contents. As the ego of the analyst, the conscious component, relates to unconscious contents emerging from the analytic third, micro-activations of the transcendent function constellate creating an analytic compass.”
 
A participant is asked to present clinical material in a manner that I will outline for them and the class beforehand.
 

Presenter

Gus is a clinical psychologist, hypnotherapist and Jungian analyst in private practice in the Chicago area.  He is a member of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts and the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts.  He was Co-Director of Training of the Analyst Training Program and the Clinical Training Program in Analytical Psychotherapy at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago.  He has published articles on thirdness, the structure of analysis, alchemy, supervision, dreams, active imagination, training, and numerous reviews. He can be contacted at guscwik@hotmail.com.
 
Hope to see you there!

May

The Omaha Friends of Jung and Trivium Life Services Presents
Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy

 

Schedule

8:30 Registration
9:00-10:30 Tim Swisher
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-noon German Ascani
Noon-1:00 Lunch on your own
1:00-2:45 David O’Donoghue
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30 Jason Butler
 

A Brief History of Psychedelics-Personal and Collective

Tim Swisher, MHR. LIMHP, Certified Jungian Psychotherapist started working as chemical dependency counseling and then became a mental health psychotherapist. He has worked in inpatient and outpatient settings for mental and substance abuse. He has designed therapeutic programs for adults and adolescents. He was the Licensee Assistance Program Coordinator where he worked with impaired healthcare providers for the state of Nebraska. He served on the Advisory Board of the Creighton Medical Schools Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Program.

He completed a two-year Clinical Training Program through the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. In 2005 he started the Omaha Friends of Jung that introduced Jungian Analysts and others to the Omaha Metro area through videoconferencing. He currently is in private practice in Omaha, NE where he sees adults and provides supervision. He is also an active musician.

Objectives:

  1. Participants will be able to identify at least one important historical event in the research or use of Psychedelics for therapeutic reasons
  2. Participants will be able to identify at least one aspect of the restoration from fiction to facts concerning psychedelics.

Ketamine (KAP) and MDMA in Relational Application

German F. Ascani, MD, MS is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychedelic mental health consultant and educator. He feels passionate about the potential that psychedelic and natural medicines have in nurturing and supporting our inherent drive towards psychological, emotional and spiritual growth.  He has worked extensively with underserved, poor, homeless and marginalized communities providing patient care and clinical leadership. He is bilingual and bicultural having immigrated to the US from Argentina in his youth. 

He is presently in private practice in Denver through his clinic, Evolve Mind Wellness.  He has taught hundreds of licensed health professionals through faculty roles at the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (PRATI) and Naropa University in Boulder, CO.   He is MAPS trained and is an associate consultant for Lykos in MDMA-AT, having previously participated in the phase 3 clinical trial for MDMA-AT for PTSD.

Objectives

  1. Overview of Psychedelic assisted therapy paradigm, going beyond medical mode.
  2. Overview of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy for treatment refractory depression, suicidality and other resistant disorders in mental health
  3. Overview of MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD

The Phenomenological and Clinical Aspects of Work with the Classical Psychedelics

David O’Donoghue, PsyD, PhD has an MA in art therapy and Jungian and transpersonal counseling from Antioch university and a PsyD from the Illinois focusing in psychoanalytic and Jungian depth work. He split his time between a private practice and a faculty position at Antioch Seattle. He went back to school as an older student for five years of study of philosophy in which he was focusing on the use of philosophical wisdom in clinical practice, what became known as philosophical counseling. He presented multiple papers at international conferences on the contributions of William James, Nietzsche, Hegel, Spinoza, Plotinus, and Plato to working with psychological and existential issues of clients. Out of this work, he started his own adult education program which he ran in the mountains of North Carolina, Baltimore and New Orleans, culminating in building a retreat center in Eastern Iowa. David completed his psychedelic therapy training with the original MAPS team in New Orleans. He continues to be a co-therapist in groups there as well as doing his own practice at his retreat center, Terramuse. 

Objectives

  1. Participants will become familiar with some of the various models of psychedelic healing offered currently.
  2. Participants will be able to get a sense of the variety of psychedelic experiences from classic to current medicines. 
  3. Participants will be apprised of some of the current challenges and debates within the psychedelic healing community.

Depth and Imaginal Approaches in Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy

Jason Butler, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist, a psychotherapist and supervisor at Sage Integrative Health, and an associate professor in the Integral Counseling Psychology department at CIIS. His therapeutic approach and teaching orientation is an integration of archetypal, relational, somatic, and liberation frameworks, with a lifelong interest in the study of dreams and the engagement of imagination in healing practices. He is deeply committed to broadening diversity, accessibility, and theoretical rigor in the field of psychedelic psychotherapy.

He has written several published articles and chapters on the intersection of depth psychology and social justice. He is the author of a book entitled Archetypal Psychotherapy: The Clinical Legacy of James Hillman and is the co-editor and co-author of a newly released book entitled Integral Psychedelic Therapy: The Non-Ordinary Art of Psychospiritual Healing.

Objectives

  1. Describe principles of Jungian theory that conceptualize common challenges and growth areas in psychedelic-assisted therapy.
  2. Demonstrate practical applications of a Jungian approach in psychedelic-assisted therapy.