2017 Schedule
1/13/16 Act and Image-videoconference form London with Warren Colman, PhD, Jungian Analyst
Special Note: Due to the time difference this Salon will be held from 12:30-2:30 PM
Cost: $50.00 non members/$40.00 for members
CEU: 2 LMHP/LCSW
Warren Colmanis a training and supervising analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology (London, UK) and Consultant Editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. He teaches and lectures internationally and has been involved in the training programs for Jungian analysts in Russia, Poland and Ukraine for many years. He has published over 40 papers on a range of topics including couple psychotherapy, sexuality, the self, the therapeutic process, imagination and various aspects of the symbolic process. His recently published book, Act and Image: The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination (Spring Journal Books, 2016) draws on cognitive philosophy, archaeology and anthropology to trace the evolution of the human psyche via the use of symbolic communication.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to
1. Approach Jung’s theory of archetypeswith an attitude of constructive critical questioning
2. Understand the importance of symbolic imagination in theevolution of the human psyche
3. Recognize the limitations ofthe collective assumption that separates psyche from world and begin toovercome them.
This talk, based on Warren Colman’s new book, is about how humans make symbols and symbols make us human. The starting point will be the lion-man of Hohlenstein-Stadel – the oldest figurative sculpture in the world (40,000 years) and the first visible evidence of the power of human imagination to create new ideas and forms that go beyond the material world, bringing into being the life of the psyche. The lion-man provides an illustrative motif for how symbolic imagination arises out of collective social activity in and through the world of material objects. This view updates Jung’s concept of ‘archetypes’ as pre-existent ideas in the mind with a view that makes symbols themselves constitutive of the human psyche. We cannot ‘think the spirit’ without a material world to think it with. How we do so is the subject of this talk.
2/10/17-Betrayal-Ryan Evans, LMHP, LADC
Bio for Ryan Evans:
Ryan graduated from UNO in 2012 and has worked at 2 different non profit mental health organizations in Omaha. He has been part of the Friends of Jung and the Psychoanalytic group for 2 years. He is currently in private practice, and much of his private practice is focused on working with individuals that struggle with addiction and chronic illnesses.
Ryan presentation will be focused on the theme of betrayal. Most of Ryan’s presentation will be based from the book by Salman Akhtar, Betrayal: Developmental, Literary, and Clinical Realms.
Bio for Salman Aktar:
Born in 1946 in Uttar Pradesh. Salman Akhtar is a psychoanalyst practicing in the United States. Currently, Mr. Akhtar is currently a professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He has published seven collections of petty and has served on editorial boards for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Objectives:
1). Understand the developmental aspects of Betrayal as explored by Salman Akhtar. Salman asserts that while the experience of betrayal “might be Ubiquitous in childhood, its lack of recognition by the parents is what lead to a fixation upon it.”
2). Gain knowledge of Betrayal as it appears in literature.
3). Begin to have a better foundation and/or approach for dealing with themes of betrayal as they arise in therapy sessions.
3/24/17- 9-12:00 PM-Hauntings-Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives” with James Hollis, PhD, Jungian Analyst
Special Note-This videoconference will be held at Westminster Presbyterian Church 3416 Woolworth Avenue Omaha, NE 68105
Time: 9:00-3:30PM with lunched being served
Check in begins at 8:30 AM
Cost: $100.00 OFOJ members/5 CEU LMHP/LCSW
$ 125.00-non-members/5 CEU LMHP/LCSW
$ 50.00- Public
Lunch is included in registration fees
Pre-registration is required, due by March 17, 2017 and must include payment in full.
For detailed descriptions of the presentations and to register/pay, please go to: omahafriendsofjung.com
James Hollis, Ph.D., is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D. C. where he is also Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington. He is the author of fourteen books, the most recent being Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life and What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life. Dr. Hollis is also Director Emeritus of the Jung Educational Center of Houston, where he served as the Executive Director from 1997-2008. He has taught as a Professor of Humanities for 26 years in various colleges and universities, and is the Director of the Jung Center/Saybrook University graduate program in Jungian Studies. He was a Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, was the first Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is vice-president emeritus of the Philemon Foundation, which is dedicated to the publication of the complete works of Jung. He is married to Jill Anne Hollis, an artist and retired therapist and together they have three living children and eight grand-children.
Objectives:
1. Understand the powers of the past to interfere with, and usurp the goals and intentions of the patient in the present.
2. Ascertain the importance of the concept of the complex, and the ubiquitous role it plays in both personal and societal agendas.
3.Summon the therapist, as well as the patient, to a greater capacity to discern the presence of these historically charged clusters and to enable both to take them on more consciously.
1:30-3:30 PM-Shared Realities: Participation Mystique and Beyond
Mark Winborn, PhD, NCPsyA
Presentation Description: In this presentation, Carl Jung’s concept of participation mystique is used as a starting point for an in depth exploration of ‘shared realities’ in the analytic setting and beyond. The concept of shared realities will be explored through clinical, experiential, and theoretical perspectives as well as related concepts such as projective identification, negative coniunctio, reverie, intersubjectivity, the interactive field, phenomenology, neuroscience, the transferential chimera, shamanism, shared reality of place, borderland consciousness, and mystical participation.
In Analytical Psychology, participation mystique has often been written or spoken about in a pejorative manner, as though it is something to be avoided or minimized. A review of the literature of associated with participation mystique allows us to recognize that the projective and identificatory tendencies which are at the heart of participation mystique can sometimes be acknowledged or recognized, and in some instances even reduced. However, these processes are always a part of our intersubjective interaction and communication in all facets of our lives, but particularly in analysis. The degree of influence from participation mystique is distributed as a continuum of experience and is ever present in our interactions with others and our environments. These influences will likely never be eliminated, nor would it be desirable to eliminate them if we could. In fact, to blindly attempt to restrict participation mystique experience is to reduce the depth to which we are able to connect with others and our surroundings, or to reduce the available ‘field knowledge’ in the analytic setting.
The intent of this presentation is to provide a new look at participation mystique – ultimately painting a picture of participation mystique as a broader umbrella term for a wide variety of intersubjective phenomenon.
Learning Objectives:
1. Develop understanding of the theoretical utilization of participation mystique.
2. Recognize the relationship between the concept of participation mystique and related concepts from Analytical Psychology and other schools of psychoanalytic thought.
3. Apply the concept of shared realities to other situations beyond the analytical setting.
4. Utilize the related concepts of participation mystique and shared realities to interpret experiences observed in a variety of audio/visual samples.
Recommended Reading:
Winborn, Mark (Ed.) (2014). Shared Realities: Participation Mystique and Beyond. Fisher King Press.
Biographical Information for Mark Winborn
Mark Winborn, PhD, NCPsyA is a Jungian Psychoanalyst and Clinical Psychologist. He received his BS in Psychology from Michigan State University in 1982, his MS and PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Memphis in 1987, and his certificate in Jungian Analysis from the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts in 1999. From 1988 – 1990 he was the staff psychologist at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Dr. Winborn is a training/supervising analyst of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. He currently serves on the American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis and the Ethics Committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. Dr. Winborn is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Analytical Psychology and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, as well as being a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.
His publications include Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey (2011) and Shared Realities: Participation Mystique and Beyond (2014), both with Fisher King Press, as well as journal articles, book reviews, and chapter contributions. Routledge Press has contracted to publish Dr. Winborn’s third book, Interpretation in Jungian Analysis: Art and Technique (forthcoming). He has also presented papers at the past three Congresses of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (Montreal 2010, Copenhagen 2013, Kyoto 2016). Since 1990 he has maintained a private practice in Memphis, Tennessee, USA where he was the Training Coordinator for the Memphis-Atlanta Jungian Seminar from 2010 – 2016. In addition to his teaching activities in Memphis, he has been an invited presenter for Jungian societies, training seminars and institutes in Atlanta, Austin, Charleston, Chicago, Santa Fe, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Florida, New Orleans, Houston, and the IRSJA candidate group.
4/14/17-Video with Polly Young-Eisendrath GATHER UP YOUR BROKENNESS: LOVE, IMPERFECTION, AND HUMAN IDEALS
POLLY YOUNG-EISENDRATH, Ph.D., is a psychologist, writer, speaker and Jungian analyst who has published 15 books includingThe Self-Esteem Trap, The Cambridge Companion to Jung, and Women and Desire. Her most recent book, The Present Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Discovery, is a meditation on the healing power of love – based on her experience with her spouse who died from early onset Alzheimer’s disease — that attempts to answer the question “What is love, anyway?”
Polly Young-Eisendrath is the originator of Dialogue Therapy — designed to help couples and others (for example, parents and grown children) to transform chronic conflict into greater closeness and development. In 1983, Polly and her late husband, Ed Epstein, designed Dialogue Therapy as a new form of couples therapy that combined psychoanalysis, Jungian theory, psychodrama, and gender theory. Polly published two books on Dialogue Therapy (1984 and 1993), detailing its theory and methods for clinicians and the general public. She has now re-visioned and updated Dialogue Therapy to include the unique combination of psychodrama, Object Relations, and Mindfulness. In 2018, Shambhala Publications will bring out her new book “True Love Ways: Relationship as Psycho-Spiritual Development” that offers her vision of personal love as a spiritual path and draws on her experience of 30 years as a Dialogue Therapist and Jungian psychoanalyst. Polly is shifting her clinical practice and teaching to the issue of couple relationship and couple therapy.
Polly maintains a full-time clinical and consulting practice in central Vermont. She is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont and Clinical Supervisor at Norwich University. Polly is recognized by Shinzen Young as a meditation and Dharma teacher in the traditions of Mindfulness and Vipassana.
5/12/17-Jean-Shinoda-Bolen presents a videoconference-Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman
Where: TBA
Time: 12:00-3:00 PM THE TIME HAS CHANGED SO PLEASE MAKE NOTE
Cost: Members of OFOJ-$75.00
Non-members-$90.00
Public-$65.00
Artemis is the Greek Goddess of the Hunt and Moon. Her symbols are the bow and arrow, the crescent moon, and mother bear; her realm is the wilderness. This is the archetype of the activist on behalf of girls and women, social justice, animals, trees, the environment. She is an explorer of the metaphoric wilderness, as well as being drawn to nature. Her curiosity draws her into unknown terrain. As twin and older sister to Apollo, she is competitive, has a sense of equality with men and sisterhood with women. S The moon aspect of Artemis is the spiritual and mystical oneness she can feel in nature. This archetype may be active all her life, and also may be recognized in the phases of the moon as she grows older: in Artemis-Selene-Hecate.
Recognition of the archetype of Artemis leads to an Aha! insight: when a woman realizes that this is so much who I am. Being attracted to or in relationship to an Artemis can be difficult—it helps to know why.
Objectives:
To learn about the Artemis archetype: psychological strengths, shadow qualities.
To learn that expectations of culture, family, and religion interact with archetypes.
References: Bolen, J.S. Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman
Also Goddesses in Everywoman, Goddesses in Older Women
6/9/17-Postponed due to the Summer Arts Festival using all the parking.
7/14/17-Speaking of Jungian interview with Nathan Schwartz-Salant taped on June 30th 2017.
8/11/17-Michael Meade-Touching the Soul of the World: A Mythological and Soulful View of Chaotic Times-in these confusing times we all need to hear a voice that not only speaks to our minds but speaks to our souls. We find our minds stretched to limits and places that darkness exists in ways we might not have imagined. Often this experience, if we hold the tension with sincerity and empathy for life/the world and all souls, we can deepen our lives and emerge out the other side with the ability to handle life on life’s terms. These experiences help carve out a space within us to able to hold more of life without falling apart.
To listen to a voice that speaks to the depths of our lives, please join us to listen to Michael Meade, mythologist, storyteller and warrior of the heart. This is a talk he gave for Pacifica Graduate Institute this past June called Touching the Soul of the World: A Mythological and Soulful View of Chaotic Times. Following will be a discussion on how Michael’s talk moves us.
9/8/17-Love in the Time of Psychotherapy. Lynn Anderson-DeMott, LCSW and Tim Swisher, MHR, will discuss this paper by Jackie Gerrard. They will use their on cases to discuss the idea of the feelings they have toward their clients.
Abstract for article:
This paper examines the hypothesis that patients need to arouse the loving
feelings of their psychotherapists in order to reach a sense of their own
lovableness and capacities for loving. The history of love in the
countertransference is reviewed and two kinds of love are described,
leading to the idea that secondary love arises out of primary love.
Examples of work with three patients demonstrate clinically various
ways in which the therapist’s loving feelings are reached.
Objectives:
1. Recognize when love is present in therapeutic relationships.
2. Identify ways in which the therapist’s lovingfeelings can enhance clinical experiences.
3.Recognize when loving or caring about a client becomes a problem
4. Learn who to express your feelings in an appropriate way
Gerrard – Love in Psychotherapy-1.pdf
10/6/17- Nathan Schwartz-Salant will present during a videoconference on his new book Order-Disorder Paradox-Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society. Here is his synopsis: Increasing order in a system also creates disorder: this seemingly paradoxical idea has deep roots in early cultures throughout the world, but has been largely lost in our modern lives as we push for increasing systematization in our world and in our personal lives. Created disorder can have negative consequences for the creator of the previous order, but potentially transformative functions as well.
Objectives:
1. Participants will understand the personal, mythological and scientific background of the Order-Disorder Paradox.
2. Participants will be able to identify how this paradox applies to clinical situations, and to chaos in modern life, an example being the Trump phenomenon.
Time: 12:30-2:30 PM
Cost: $40.00 members and $50.00 non-members-you can pay at our web site or at the door.
CEU: 2 LCSW/LMHP
10/13/17-How the Secret Esoteric Teachings of the Past Can Help us Through These Bewildering Times-Tim Swisher, MHR, LIMHP, LADC, Certified Jungian Psychotherapist will review some of the main “secret teachers” (Pythagorus, Plato, and several other to demonstrate that while these times may seem bizarre and strange, historically they are similar to historic times and there for we may be able to learn something for studying them.
Objectives:
1.Be able to understand what is meant be “secret teachers”
2.Be able to identify how the psychology of human beings has changed over the years but also remained relatively the same and how that tension creates new ways of seeing and experiencing life.
3.Start to conceptualize the instinctual/archetypal nature of the psyche throughout history.
4. See imagination as a reality and not a pop culture type of fantasy of the mind.
11/10/17-John Campbell, LCSW, on Passivity-A shadow archetype, passivity is a state of mind which refuses to live in the present moment. Erupting from within the shadow, often camouflaged, it can paralyze the ego and direct it toward conflicts of among exceptions, desires and achievement. We wind up on a treadmill: “So this is my life? What happened to the person I thought I might be at this stage of the game? Where did that person go? Why am I feeling like I’m just treading water, trying to stay one step ahead…” (John Lee, “The Half-lived Life”) It can become a dominating theme driving our life. Discussion during this salon will use a working definition of this passivity phenomenon, and the relationship between myths, shadow archetypes of the masculine/feminine, and their possible influences on personal experiences and change.
Objectives:
1. Identify a personal definition of passivity.
2. Identify effects of passivity on subjective experience
3. Understand connection between self-doubt and individuation
4. Understand the relationship between passivity and the functions of anima and animus.
12/8/17-Holiday Party-we will celebrate the ending of the year through poetry. We would like everyone to bring a favorite poem or two to share with the group. Write if you like or just come and listen. Food and drinks will be provided be the OFOJ but please feel free to bring something with you as we always enjoy the gifts of others.
To get the season started here is a poem of mine. We hope to see you soon.
They Come in the Autumn
Among the shadows and rustling leaves of autumn
They all come to visit me
One by one
Ghost people of the past
Floating up seemingly from nowhere
Faces, whispers, memories of deeds and regrets, thankfulness, humility
and the longing to connect with them no matter how painful or ecstatic it may be
Old friends and lovers bring with them faint colors; fuzzy tones with no sharp lines
Funny and tragic I have lost them to time, although, they are not dead to me in anyway
Autumn brings a falling away of things,
The heart searches the ruins for shelter from the past and future
A home for all those Souls that visit every year at this time
A place where we can commune with one another, never lose contact, never fade away
Instead I will find my own burrow, my own hut for the winter, the wind and the cold
The Ghosts both funny and tragic will sleep with me and our dreams will search the earth
for others who wander the night, visiting old haunts and hearts
Finding refuge in the importance of the smallness of things
and glimpses of the thread that weaves us together
Tim Swisher
12/15/17-OFOJ presents Alchemical Imagination with Dr. Gus Cwik, Jungian Psychoanalyst.
When: 12:30-2:30 PM
CEU: 2/LCSW/LMHP
There is no cost to this videoconference-it is a gift of the season!
The Fundamentals of an Alchemical Imagination
August J. Cwik, Psy.D.
Jung was fascinated with alchemy, the ancient art of transmuting lead into gold, throughout his entire life. He saw the images and processes of alchemy reflecting the psyche’s own natural transformational operation. Alchemy can be approached as a psychic discipline attempting to transform the archetypal and emotional conflicts of everyday life. However, alchemical imagery is often experienced as quite esoteric and obscure. This lecture will present an overview of an alchemical approach to symbolism and psychotherapy. Topics that will be covered are: the dual aspects of the alchemical laboratory, the attitudes necessary in the transformational process, who is the alchemist in psychological work, images of the goal, the nature of the container, the prima materia as starting point, and an alchemical look into depression.
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
1.Name the attitudes necessary for transformational processes to occur
2.List the steps of the technique of active imagination
3.Describe images of the goal of the proces
4.
References
Cwik, A. Rosarium revisited. Spring, 74, 189-232, 2006
Cwik, A. Active Imagination: Synthesis in Analysis. In M. Stein (Ed.), Jungian Analysis (Second Edition), La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 1995
Edinger, E. Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy. La Salle Illinois: Open Court, 1985.
Hillman, J. Concerning the stone: Alchemical images of the goal. Sphinx, 5, 234-265, 1993
Raff, J. Jung and the Alchemical Imagination. York Beach, Maine: Nicoals-Hayes, Inc., 2000.
Von Franz, M-L. Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology. Toronto: Inner City, 1980.
Von Franz, M-L. Alchemical Active Imagination. University of Dallas: Spring, 1979.
Biography
August J. Cwik, Psy.D. 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 is an Assistant Editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. He was Co-Director of Training of the Analyst Training Program and Co-Director of Clinical Training Program in Analytical Psychotherapy at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He has published articles on alchemy, supervision, dreams, active imagination and numerous reviews.
