The C.G. Jung Foundation Continuing Education courses are five-week courses designed to be informative and stimulating both to the general public and to professionals. Our program offers you the opportunity to study and explore analytical psychology, the works of C.G. Jung, and fields of related interest.

These courses will be offered through the online program Zoom. After you enroll in a course and before the first class session, you will be emailed instructions and a Zoom invitation. Please be sure to download the Zoom program on your device before the first class session at Zoom.us. It is a free program. Also please send us your email address and daytime telephone number. These programs will not be recorded.

Note: 7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for the Jungian Dream Interpretation and The Inner World of Childhood courses.
The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc. is recognized by New York State Education Department’s State Board of Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0350, and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts, #P-0015, and licensed creative arts therapists, #CAT-0068.

For licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts or Creative Arts Therapists applying for CE credit to receive accreditation, students must attend all sessions. Please be sure to send us your NYS profession and license number.

 

Fall I: Classes begin the weeks of October 5th on Zoom

 

Jungian Dream Interpretation
5 consecutive Tuesdays, 6:30 - 8:00 pm Eastern Time, USA, online only via Zoom.
Beginning October 6, 2026
Instructor: Maxson J. McDowell, PhD, LMSW, LP

7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists.

This program will not be recorded.

A dream uses an imagistic language we can decipher. This language is universal, the same as is used in myths from stone-age cultures. A dream shows us the next possible step in our developing personality. It warns us if we are going astray, encourages us if we need it, or offers penetrating insights into our confusion, Like every living thing, your personality grows. But how it grows is more variable. This allows you to adapt to opportunities. The purpose of dreams is to help you find your way in this creative work.

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The Inner World of Childhood: A Jungian Approach to Working with Children
5 Wednesdays, 6:00 – 7:30 pm Eastern Time, USA, online via Zoom.
Beginning October 7, 2026
Instructor: Helaine Ciporen, LCSW, MEd

5 Wednesdays, 6:00 – 7:30 pm Eastern Time, USA, online via Zoom.
Beginning October 7, 2026
Instructor:Helaine Ciporen, LCSW, MEd

7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists.

Jung's approach to psychotherapy extends to work with children. Many adult psychological difficulties are rooted in early wounds of childhood, raising essential questions: How do we reach and heal children? How might this understanding inform our work with the wounded inner child in adulthood?
This course offers an introduction to the Jungian approach to working with children. Grounded in the work of C.G. Jung, Frances Wickes, and Marie-Louise von Franz, it emphasizes symbolic understanding, rather than intervention techniques or behavioral outcomes.

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Fall II: Classes begin the week of November 9, 2026, on Zoom

 

 

Why We Love the Way We Do:
The Patterns That Shape Love, Intimacy,
and the Experience of Being Truly Known
5 consecutive Mondays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm Eastern Time, USA, online via Zoom.
Beginning November 9, 2026
Distinguished Senior Instructor: David Rottman, MA

This course is not offered for NYS CE contact hours.

Why do different relationships so often bring us to surprisingly familiar emotional places? Why can we understand our relationship patterns clearly, and still find ourselves repeating them? How can we love someone deeply yet struggle to create intimacy with them? And what does it mean to be loved—and to love another person—for who they actually are?

From our earliest experiences of loving and being loved, each of us develops powerful expectations about how love works. These expectations shape whom we are drawn to, what feels like love, what makes us feel secure or anxious, what we allow another person to see, and what we are able to see in them.

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The Rivers Beneath the River:
Exploring Archetypes of Descent and Ascent in the Second Half of Life
5 consecutive Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm, Eastern Time, USA via Zoom
Beginning November 12, 2026 (excluding November 26)
Instructor: Mary Apikos

This course is not offered for NYS CE contact hours.

“No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent; the vanishing shapes are shaped anew, and a truth is valid in the end only if it suffers change and bears new witness in new images, in new tongues, like a new wine that is put into new bottles.”
C.G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation, CW5, para. 553

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FACULTY

Mary Apikos taught at Parsons School of Design NYC for 17 years.  She taught inter-disciplinary courses about aspects of design culture that fell through the cracks to people who fell through the cracks. She is ABD in Cultural Anthropology from CUNY Graduate Center and has worked as an ethnographic textile conservator at the Museum of the American Indian, George Heye Foundation NYC and in private practice where she specialized in the care of sacred materials. In 2022 Mary completed a one-year remote applied arts program at the Centre for Applied Jungian Studies in South Africa and is on staff at The London Arts Based Research Centre. She is a working artist and currently resides in Chicago. Her work can be seen on her website maryapikos.com

Helaine Ciporen, LCSW, MEd, has more than 35 years of experience in private practice, teaching and hospital social work. She has worked with children and their families in various settings, to address a variety of issues, including chronic illness and learning disabilities. As the mental health member of clinical teams, Ms. Ciporen contributed to public health initiatives, research studies and publications. She has taught at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College and Columbia University School of Social Work.

Maxson J. McDowell, PhD, LMSW, LP, is a senior Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City.  Former President of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, he is also a longtime faculty member. He has taught courses in dream interpretation online and in person for over 25 years.  He has published numerous papers on dream interpretation, Jungian psychology, narcissistic injury, systems theory and autism.

David Rottman, MA, Distinguished Senior Instructor of the Jung Foundation’s Continuing Education Faculty, is past President of the C.G. Jung Foundation. He is the author of The Career as a Path to the Soul. He was the editor and publisher for The Way of the Image by Yoram Kaufmann. He has an international private practice.

These are online courses, given through the program Zoom. Please download the Zoom program in advance of the first class session at Zoom.us

PAY ONLINE: YOU DO NOT NEED A PAYPAL ACCOUNT. HERE IS HOW TO PAY WITH CREDIT CARD: On the Paypal login page, look below login fields for a boxed link that reads PAY WITH DEBIT OR CREDIT CARD.

TUITION
All 5-week courses are $175 for the general public and $150 for members.

IMPORTANT NOTES

When you pay you must also email your current email address and telephone number to the Foundation at cgjungny@aol.com. The Foundation will send you an email message and you must reply to confirm receipt. If you are taking this course for 7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists, please specify which license you hold and give your NYS license number.

Class size is limited. Early registration is strongly recommended. Refunds for continuing education courses, less $15 for administrative services, will be made up to seven days before the first session. There will be no refunds issued after classes have begun. No exceptions will be made. Programs are subject to change without notice.

For more information, call or write:

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The C.G. Jung Foundation of New York
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