Previous Tuesday Lunch Forums

2012

Tuesday, January 3, 2012
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Oh, Those New Year’s Resolutions: Everyday Mindfulness for Creating Change

Speaker: Joan Griffiths Vega

After the indulgences of the holidays, welcoming the New Year is often accompanied by recriminations and a new set of resolutions trying to fix everything. Membership at the gym goes up and by the third week in January, attendance traditionally drops off.

This year, establish your goals without striving. During this luncheon discussion, learn ways to recognize the patterns of the mind and in the body that might lead to frustration and postponed visits to the gym. Through the cultivation of mindfulness, kindness and appreciation new habits may be embraced with sense of curiosity and play. Welcome even the grumbling.

Learn a basic meditation that can be used wherever you go, ways of recognizing early signs of stress, and ways to cultivate a more relaxed, spacious and engaged way of living this life. Some current updates from neuroscience research supporting this paradigm will also be shared.

Joan Griffiths Vega currently teaches eight-week mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) workshops at Mt. Sinai to breast cancer survives and a model that she adapted to the special needs of caregivers at the Martha Stewart Center for Living. She has extensive experience facilitating support groups sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association as well as playgroups in which participants swim with wild dolphins, meditate and incubate dreams. This spring she completed the contemplative care foundations program at the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Who Was Sabina Spielrein? An exploration of her life and work

Speaker: Ilona Melker, LCSW

Since the release of the film A Dangerous Method, Sabina Spielrein’s name has become known to a wider public. Unfortunately the film does very little justice to the image of this exceptional individual. Spielrein was Jung’s first psychoanalytic patient at Burgholzli Hospital and the movie is based on the powerful transference and countertransference between Spielrein and Jung. Jung was troubled by the strong emotions his former patient stirred in him and sought out Freud’s advice on the matter, thus beginning their correspondence and relationship.

Sabina, once freed from her debilitating hysterical/sexual complex, enrolled in medical school, and went on to become a psychoanalyst. She also integrated her idealizing transference to Jung and her projection on him as she devoted herself to work as psychoanalyst first at Burgholzli, then in Geneva and in Moscow. She was one of the first female psychoanalysts in the early days of the Vienna and Zurich schools. Her interest in child psychoanalysis was contemporary with that of Melanie Klein. Unfortunately, most of her work has been either lost or unacknowledged.

Her contributions as a pioneer of psychoanalysis and her uncredited impact on both Jung and Freud will be the topic of this lecture, which will broaden the image we have of Sabina Spielrein.

Ilona Melker, LCSW, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City and Princeton, NJ. A graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, she is also a Certified Sandplay Therapist and member of the STA. She has done extensive work with Marion Woodman, whose emphasis on the psyche-soma connection brings the body as rejected feminine into focus.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Getting Connected

Speaker: Gary Brown, LCSW, LP

The unabashed purpose of Analytical Psychology, whether in the consulting room or in the auditorium at the C.G. Jung Foundation, is to connect us, individually, culturally and socially, with spiritual meaning.

We will discuss the why and how of this project and its especial need now at this socially pivotal time.

Gary Brown, LCSW, LP, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. He is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and a supervising analyst there. He has taught at the C.G. Jung Foundation, the Analytical Psychology Club of New York and the Mid-Hudson Jung Society, among others and currently serves as Vice President of the New York Association for Analytical Psychology. He is also a long-time student and teacher of Buddhism.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Transforming the Heroic Ideal: What Would Jung Say About America in 2012?

Speaker: David Rottman, MA

Jung’s observations about America took place as long as a century ago, but it is as if he were alive and writing his thoughts for us now. Jung’s “take ‘?on America was so profound that his comments are often more penetrating and stimulating than those of today’s observers of the American scene.

In this forum, we will explore some of Jung’s most famous remarks about America. We will see how he foresaw it all.

On the negative side: our addiction to gadgets and machines and technology, our propensity to waste time with endless distractions, the tendency of one part of our society to overwork, our neurasthenia which leads us to rely on medications (Jung in 1912: America is the country of the nervous disease), the unhappiness of so many American women with the boyishness of their men, our sports mania, and the rage that dominates much of our political discourse.

On the positive side: the brightness of so much boundless opportunity, the admirable idealism and generosity of the American people, the “newness ‘?of the still-developing role of women, and most of all, the Heroic Ideal that characterizes American psychology more than anything else—for better and worse.

In that last idea of Jung’s–that America is dominated by an unquestioned assumption of its own “greatness ‘?- we will find our task for our discussion.

Is our Heroic Ideal breaking down in America in 2012, or are we in the middle of a maturation process as a nation?

David Rottman, MA, is President and Chairman of the Board of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, a member of the Foundation’s Continuing Education Faculty, and Senior Faculty Member of the Archetypal Pattern Analyst Training Program at the Assisi Institute.

2011

Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Once Upon A Time …
Fairy Tales: The collective unconscious tells its own story

Speaker: Georgia Diakos

The belief that fairy tales are meant for children is something that has not always been true. Orators often told their tales to adult audiences in ancient times. Thus, a fairy tale can be an entertaining bedtime story for children or an interesting literary study for adults.

Fairy tales have universal appeal. They are found in almost every culture and region of the world. Although the tones and plots may vary, they include similar universal themes. Jung traced these themes to the collective unconscious psychic processes. Please join me to explore their “genesis” and structure as well as to experience how to creatively engage them.

Georgia Diakos is an RN, PMHCNS-BC, APN, CA Board Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist in Psychiatry and Mental Health (PMHCNS-BC), Certified Advanced Practice Nurse (APN, C) as well as a student at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. She practices psychotherapy in New York and New Jersey.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Poetry’s Mystery: Creativity and the Unconscious

Speaker: Fanny Brewster, Ph.D

The Creative Urge lives and grows
like a tree in the earth from which it draws its nourishment.

— C.G. Jung, The Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry

In Jung’s “The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature,” the chapter that discusses the relationship between Analytical Psychology and Poetry considers the creative process. Jung says that he uses this writing as an opportunity to give us his opinion about creativity and the human psyche. Jung’s thoughts provide us with an opening to express our own ideas regarding our views and personal work as creators. In his discussion of creativity as expressed through poetry, Jung gives insights into how we are to approach and develop our creative selves as reflections of the unconscious in its dynamic movements.

• How can we participate more in our own creative processes?
• How has Jung shown us through example a psyche-led, creative life?
• How do we recognize our creative shadow and learn integration?

These are questions to consider as we welcome the month of February noted for its affinity with things of the Heart. Poetry as an expression of the Heart supports our interest in delving deeper into unconscious processes which include our depthful understanding of creativity as a life force energy. Jung suggested that the writing of this chapter on Poetry provided him with the chance to expand his considerations of art in general. Perhaps, as we meet, we will do the same in thinking about our lives as creative individuals and exploring ways in which we can find and express this creativity.

Fanny Brewster, PhD, holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently a student at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and is a NYS Certified School Psychologist.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Caring for the Caregiver:
Cultivating Resiliency for the Journey

Speaker: Joan Griffiths Vega

We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in some ways so shameful ‘because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed ‘is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them. — Alice Walker, Anything We Love Can Be Saved

Caring for spouses and parents, particularly with dementia, throws most people into the dark woods without a path or a guide. Learning the importance of self-care and stress reduction helps the individual manage exhaustion, depression and frustration. During this lunch hour, the ABC’s of resiliency — Awareness, Balance and Community — will be discussed in light of recent discoveries in neuroscience, as well as some communication skills useful in dementia care, and the gift of meditation and mindfulness.

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We feel more alive. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation and healing. — Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living

Joan Griffiths Vega currently teaches an eight-week mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) workshop that she adapted to the special needs of caregivers at the Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mt. Sinai Hospital. She has extensive experience facilitating support groups sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association as well as playgroups in which participants swim with wild dolphins, meditate and incubate dreams. Last fall she began the contemplative care foundations program at the New York.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Writing from Darkness

Speaker: Susan Tiberghien

Imagine writing from darkness, from the night.

We will take a few steps along the path of those who have written from darkness, reading excerpts from Hildegard of Bingen, St. John of the Cross, and Ettie Hillesum. Then we will look at how C.G. Jung wrote from darkness in his Red Book.

We will see how we can effectively imagine writing from our own night.

Susan Tiberghien, an American-born writer living in Switzerland, has published three memoirs, Looking for Gold, Circling to the Center, and Footsteps, A European Album, and most recently a book on writing, One Year to A Writing Life, along with numerous narrative essays in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. She teaches and lectures at graduate programs, C.G. Jung Centers, and at writers’ conferences both in the United States and in Europe, where she directs the Geneva Writers Group and Conferences. Her website is www.susantiberghien.com.

Tuesday, May 03, 2011, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Dreams of the Self

Speaker: Fanny Brewster, PhD

When I parted from Freud, I knew that I was plunging into the unknown. Beyond Freud, after all, I knew nothing; but I had taken the step into darkness. When that happens, and then such a dream comes, one feels it as an act of grace.
— C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

One of Jung’s most important archetypal images of the Self was shown to him in his own Liverpool Dream. In this dream of 1927, Jung found himself in the city of Liverpool. He describes the city as “sooty.” It was a dark and rainy night. However, in the distance, Jung saw a small island, on which grew one magnolia tree in a “shower of reddish blossoms.” He recognized this image as an expression of the symbol of his own life’s work. He understood, by this dream, that he had achieved the goal of his deepest yearnings of self-exploration and the search for life’s meaning. Jung says, “This dream brought with it a sense of finality.” He believed that through this dream, as expressed through his mandala paintings at the time, he had seen the symbolic psychic center of the unconscious. This center, he identified as the Self. Jung believed that it is because of, and through the archetype of, the Self that we achieve meaning in our lives.

Our discussion will allow us to explore Jung’s Liverpool Dream and the significance of it as reflected in our own life experiences. It may also take us into a place of thoughtful consideration of personal dreams, which we perceive as acts of grace.

Fanny Brewster, PhD, holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a Jung Foundation faculty member and will complete her Analyst-in-Training program at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York in May, 2011.

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

The Female Hero

Speaker: Sarah Jackson, MFA, MA

Who are your heroes? When you think of them, do any women come to mind? If so, are they different from their male counterparts? In this lecture and discussion, we will explore the heroic impulse in women, both contemporary and historical, actual and mythological, fictional and cinematic, in art and in dreams.

Please join us for a lively lunch break in the company of girls, goddesses and Grandmothers.

Sarah Jackson, MFA, MA,is in her fifth year of training at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. She holds masters degrees in fine art and archetypal psychology. Sarah is a visual artist as well as a psychotherapist, and has taught drawing, color theory and art history. She has been in private practice in Great Barrington, MA, for twenty one years. She is presently writing her thesis on the female hero.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

The Caretaker Complex

Speaker: Irina Doctoroff

Many of us are caretakers, but some feel identified with the “Caretaker complex” and perceive ourselves as objects destined only to serve, take care of and accommodate other people, often at our own expense. As one client put it, “If I don’t try to be good and serve others, I am just a waste of space.” What brings caretaker-identified people to therapy is their inability to experience happiness and pleasure. Often they don’t have full access to their creativity. Sometimes they refer to the “void” or “deadness” inside which can never be fully filled. We will discuss the difference between healthy and compulsive caretaking, with emphasis on the latter. We will explore the formation of the caretaker personality in early childhood and in our patriarchal culture.

Irina Doctoroff was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. She graduated from St. Petersburg University where she specialized in English Language and Literature. She came to the USA in 1992 and got a graduate degree in Couples and Family Therapy from the University of Maryland in College Park. Her interest in Jungian theory started while in graduate school and developed over the years, resulting in her entering the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, from which she graduated last spring. She now works as a Certified Jungian analyst in private practice in Manhattan and also has a part-time job in a counseling center providing family therapy.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Dreams, Visions and Soul: The Way of What is to Come

Led by: Fanny Brewster, PhD

Amen, you are the deer that breaks out of the forest.
Amen, you are the song that sounds far over the water.
Amen, you are the beginning and end.
— C.G. Jung, The Incantations, The Red Book

Jung’s writing of The Red Book began approximately one hundred years ago and continued until 1930. Today, we find ourselves discovering and re-visiting these words and images from the early 20th century. Jung weaves a rich tapestry of his own dreams, visions and inner dialogue with Soul. In the section “Soul and God” he says, “Dreams are the guiding words of the soul.”

Many of us search for the Divine in life. However, Jung’s experiences as revealed in The Red Book, taught him that there is not only love and beauty to be found. There is also the Terrible and that which can cause us to be afraid.

Our wanderings for Soul, the courage to live a Soulful life and the faith to believe in what finds us, are as possible for us today as for Jung a century ago. He says of his human journey in search of Soul, “This life is the way, the long sought-after way to the unfathomable, which we call divine.”

We join Jung in seeking, and realizing, the Divine.

Fanny Brewster, PhD, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in NY. She is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and Pacifica Graduate Institute and is a NY State Certified School Psychologist.

2010

Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Stories our Bodies Can Tell Us:
Psyche in Body — Body in Psyche

Speaker: Pamela Anderson, MA, CSW

In this discussion, we will explore psyche ‘s stories that can hide in somatic symptoms. We will explore Eros, the principle of relatedness, as another way to enter into a dialogue with soma.

In our fast-paced modern world, we are plagued by neuro-muscular pain and musculo-skeletal problems. We seek out orthopedists, chiropractors, and physical therapists, attend yoga classes, and go to the gym — but do we know how to listen? One of physical pain ‘s desires is to get our attention, to talk. Often there is a story, much like a dream, that is waiting to be told. This is another way in which psyche reveals that we are out of balance and is trying to right itself. Finally, we will experience how complexes and experiences of wholeness are at work in our everyday moving life.

Pamela Anderson, MA, CSW, is currently training to become a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. She is a former Director of Teacher Certification of the American Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT) in New York City and was on the faculty of ACAT. She has been in private practice in the Alexander Technique since 1977 in both New York City and Basking Ridge, New Jersey specializing in psychosomatic and musculo-skeletal issues.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Love’s Journey: Finding and Keeping Love

Speaker: Fanny Brewster, PhD

I falter before the task of finding the language which might adequately express the incalculable paradoxes of Love.

— C.G. Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections

We understand the importance of love in our lives. We seek the pleasure and joys of ‘being in love. ‘? Jung ‘s thoughts on love show the dilemma of this state. When we fall into that place of unconditional love, we open ourselves not just to the joyful abundance but also to the sufferings which accompany this state of possession we call love.

How do we find the right partner ‘our soul mate? How do we bear to lose love? How can we live without it? These are questions which accompany us through our lives. Oftentimes, the notion of love presents us with more questions than answers. It truly is a journey and an adventure of which we cannot know the outcome. It is filled with paradox and mystery.

In our discussion, we join each other at the crossroad, meeting with Eros and Jung in developing a deeper understanding of love from a place of individuated consciousness.

Fanny Brewster, PhD holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently a Candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, a Jung Foundation faculty member, and a NYS Certified School Psychologist.

Tuesday, March 02, 2010, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

AVATAR, the movie: Awakening: Between Two Worlds

Speaker: Gary Brown

The recently released movie, AVATAR, has gripped and moved many, many people. It appears to be a significant collective phenomenon. That so many are shaken so deeply points to the soul-fissure in the cultural unconscious that has been touched in people around the world. As beautiful as the film is, with incredible special effects, it takes us into our own spiritual estrangement and soul-less disconnection.

We identify with the wounded hero, trapped in a broken human body. Our alienated life essence, lost in a disembodied electronic world of digital hard edges which is beautifully juxtaposed with a soft, interconnected one, finds itself strongly and movingly embodied in an alien form. Human/alien, broken/whole — our hero quests in both worlds, raising deep questions of identity and its consequences.

Join Jungian Analyst, Gary Brown, in opening explorations of our current identity crisis and its consequences following on the insights of Jung in relation to this important cultural phenomenon.

Gary Brown, LCSW, LP is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. He is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and a supervising analyst at the Institute. He has taught at the C.G. Jung Foundation, the Analytical Psychology Club of New York and the Mid-Hudson Jung Society, among others. He is also a long-time student and teacher of Buddhism.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Mind the Gap: Awakening into Spring

Speaker: Joan Griffiths Vega

C. G. Jung believed that a life must be lived in balance. The Buddha called it the middle way. Christ gestured to the lilies of the field.

This lunchtime is an invitation to create a timeless hour in which to reconnect with your enthusiasm and curiosity that is revived with Spring ‘s eternal return. Under the auspices of the gods and goddesses of healing, slough off the grey dreariness of winter. Give yourself this time to reconnect to your deep wellspring of calm abiding, creative invention, and the joy of being alive.

Joan Griffiths Vega currently teaches an eight-week mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) workshop that she adapted to the special needs of caregivers at the Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mt. Sinai Hospital. She also facilitates stress reduction workshops in her home, corporate settings as well as private one-on-one sessions. She has extensive experience facilitating support groups sponsored by the Alzheimer ‘s Association as well as playgroups in which participants swim with wild dolphins, meditate and incubate dreams.

She recently finished her Masters at Pacifica Graduate School in depth mythology. This summer she hopes to begin her PhD, which will explore the nature of the unrecognized mythic journey of the caregiver as s/he learns to navigate its unfamiliar archetypical energies to return to the healthy balance that lies beneath its turbulence.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Writing and Metaphor

Speaker: Susan Tiberghien

What is metaphor?
How has it been used in literature?

We will look at examples from Plato’s Dialogues to C.G. Jung’s the Red Book, and also from the work of contemporary authors, to see how metaphor illuminates their work.

We will see how metaphor can in turn illuminate our own lives through our writing.

Susan Tiberghien is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. She has published three memoirs, Looking for Gold: One Year in Jungian Analysis, Circling to the Center, A Woman’s Encounter with Silent Prayer, and Footsteps, A European Journal. She teaches and lectures at graduate programs, at C.G. Jung Centers, and at writers’ conferences, both in the United States and in Europe.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Jung, Animus and 21st Century American Women

Speaker: Fanny Brewster, PhD

If it was no easy task to describe what is meant by the anima, the difficulties become almost insuperable when we set out to describe the psychology of the animus.

C. G. Jung, Aspects of the Feminine

Jung first came to America in September, 1909. When he returned for his third visit, at the invitation of Fordham University in September, 1912, Jung gave an extensive interview to The New York Times. In this interview, “America Facing Its Most Tragic Moment,” Jung spoke of his concerns regarding the personal relationship between American women and men. He also expressed his ideas regarding American women and their role as wives.

Jung’s concept of the Animus was being developed during this time period. Over the last century, Jungian women such as Esther Harding, Marion Woodman and Claire Douglas have contributed their voices to developing Jung’s ideas regarding the Animus and the Feminine.

Would Jung consider American women to be different than they were a century ago? Would he have a changed opinion of how they are affected by Animus energy? We have an opportunity to take a century’s perspective, to look at transformative experiences of consciousness in American women. We can discuss Jung’s Archetypal Animus then and now and see how we understand this archetypal energy to exist in our lives and in our relationship with work, play and love.

Fanny Brewster, PhD holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently a Candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and a NYS Certified School Psychologist.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Dream Art: Creative Process and Active Imagination

Speaker: Maria Taveras

This is a presentation on dream art. It illustrates how to create works of art from archetypal images that emerge from the collective unconscious in dreams. The presentation includes a slide show of sculptures as examples of psychic transformation ‘?especially the transformation of the feminine.

When Jung discusses active imagination, he emphasizes the creative process. “The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all,” he says, “consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and in elaborating and shaping this image into the finished work.” Marie-Louise von Franz notes that when an individual actively engages an image, Jung advises the individual to give the image “a form.” For example, the individual may draw it, paint it, or, as she says, “sculpt it.”

Maria Taveras is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York. She is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and an award-winning sculptor. In her sculptures, she explores the unconscious sources of creativity in an intimately personal way, using archetypal images from her own dreams to illustrate the process of psychic transformation. Her sculpture “Transformation of the Feminine” won a 2004 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. She has exhibited in New York, Montreal, San Francisco, London, Cape Town, and Berkeley. Her web site, which includes examples of her dream art, is www.jungiantherapy.com.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

What Is The Archetype of Love?

Speaker: David Rottman

In this first Tuesday discussion, we will look at the nature of love from a Jungian perspective. Among the questions we will ask: Why and how is love redeeming? How do complexes limit the amount of love we experience? What is a useful definition of love? And what does it mean to be exquisitely attuned to those we love?

David Rottman, MA, is President of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York and a member of the Foundation’s Continuing Education faculty and Senior Faculty Member at the Archetypal Pattern Analyst Training Program at the Assisi Institute.

2009

Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Tibetan Approaches to Simplifying Mental and Consumer Habits

Speaker: Suzanne Ironbiter, Ph.D.

In this time of cutting back on spending and energy use, as we respond to economic and environmental crises, Tibetan Buddhism offers useful ways of addressing habitual patterns. This forum will consider philosophical and practical aspects of Tibetan psychology and how these can help rescue us from old ruts.

Suzanne Ironbiter has a doctorate in the history of religion from Columbia University and teaches at SUNY Purchase College. Her book, Devi: Mother of My Mind (MapinLit 2006), is a personal poetic interaction with the goddess tradition in the mythology, mysticism, and philosophy of India.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

COSTANZA — Lunch with a Medieval Queen

Speaker: John Marino

Costanza (1154-1198) was the Queen of Sicily and a Holy Roman Empress. At age 40 she gave birth to a son who became Frederick II. Dante wrote of her in the Paradiso segment of the Divine Comedy.

Today ‘s talk will be about her story, part history and part fable, as portrayed in the recently premiered opera ‘Costanza ‘?whose music was written by our presenter, John Marino.

We will view recorded scenes from the opera and see Costanza in her role as protector of the people of Sicily, as inspiritrix to her son Frederick, and as a symbol of the Anima Mundi, the soul of the world that longs for justice and compassion.

John Marino, MM, MA, LP,is a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Manhattan and Tenefly, NJ. He is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and holds a certificate from the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society in group work. He holds a Masters degree from NYU in Counseling Psychology and a Masters degree in composition and jazz from the Manhattan School of Music. He currently serves on the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and chairs the Speakers Bureau of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, as well as serving on its faculty. He is currently Music Director of the United Methodist Church of Demarest, NJ. He recently wrote the music for an opera entitled ‘Costanza, ‘?based on the life of a medieval Sicilian queen and Holy Roman Empress, which was given its premiere in January, 2008, and has been submitted for a Gradiva award.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Wrestling with Destructive Projections

Speaker: Kathryn Madden, Ph.D.

Life within nations, political organizations, institutions, corporations, and communities is often characterized by power struggles, envy, and projections onto an “other.” We split over points of view, procedures, politics, and personality types. These disputes can lead to endless destruction on all levels. How does a Jungian understanding help with suffering the shadow in one ‘s self, becoming conscious, engaging in dream work, exploring the places of self-doubt and self-loathing which are triggered by the shadow-projections of others? Can we dis-identify from the “identities” projected onto us by others while, at the same time, withdrawing our projections onto them?

Kathryn Madden Ph.D., licensed psychoanalyst, NCPsyA, has served the past 10 years as President and CEO, and as Academic Dean of the Blanton-Peale Graduate Training Institute in New York City. Kathryn received her Ph.D. in Psychology & Religion at Union Theological Seminary under the tutelage of Prof. Ann Belford Ulanov. She is the senior editor of Quadrant: Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology and co-editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Psychology & Religion (Springer, 2009). Her newest book is entitled Dark Light of the Soul (Lindisfarne, 2008). She maintains a private clinical practice of Jungian orientation in New York City.

For more information about Kathryn Madden, visit: www.therapywithsoul.com.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Attention: Opening the Forgotten Space between the Caregiver and Loved One

Speaker: Joan Griffiths Vega

Over lunch we will invoke the goddesses and gods of healing and compassion to bring ourselves into the present moment. Acknowledging our caregiving roles, we will play with several kinds of attention or mindful awareness to wake up to possibilities of greater ease, compassion, joy, and less stress.

Joan Griffiths Vega has led meditation workshops as a stress reduction tool for caregivers of loved ones suffering from dementia at Leeza ‘s Place, and Lennox Hill Neighborhood House. She is began a new 8-week workshop at the Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mt. Sinai in March 2009. She completed the teacher-training course at the Center for Mindfulness where Jon Kabat Zinn founded his program Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in the early 80 ‘s. After swimming with wild dolphins in the 1990 ‘s, she visited the Pacifica Graduate Institute at Carpinteria, California, fell in love with the land, the professors and enrolled in their graduate program in depth-mythology. Her Masters completed, she is preparing for her PhD dissertation on care giving as a call to the heroic journey. She has had a personal meditation practice in MBSR for over 5 years as well as a deep love for story and myth.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Seeing Beauty Around Us

Speaker: Susan Tiberghien

From Socrates, “Give me beauty in the inward soul,” to Blake, “To see a world in a grain of sand / And heaven in a wild flower,” beauty has been seen as a doorway to the spiritual. In contemplating beauty, we awaken creativity both within us and around us.

Susan Tiberghien will discuss the relationship between beauty and creativity, touching on the following short texts:

• Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C.G. Jung (“The earthly manifestations of God’s world began with the realm of plants as a kind of direct communication from it.”)
• Waiting for God, Simone Weil (“The beauty of the world is the mouth of the labyrinth.”)
• Beauty, the Invisible Embrace, John O’Donahue
• The Long Journey Home, Re-visioning the Myth of Demeter and Persephone, editor Christine Downing
• One Year to a Writing Life, Susan Tiberghien

Susan Tiberghien is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. She has published three memoirs, Looking for Gold: One Year in Jungian Analysis,Circling to the Center, A Woman ‘s Encounter with Silent Prayer, and Footsteps, A European Journal. She teaches and lectures at graduate programs, at C.G. Jung Centers, and at writers ‘?conferences, both in the United States and in Europe.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

The Dorje and the Bell

Facilitated by: Royce Froehlich

The theme of this month ‘s Lunch Forum honors of the publication of C.G. Jung ‘s much acclaimed Red Book and its first-ever public exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York City, beginning Oct. 7, 2009.

In his ‘Transcendent Function ‘?essay, Jung asks, ‘How does one come to terms in practice with the unconscious? ‘?Then he goes on to say, ‘This is the question posed by the philosophy of India, and particularly in Buddhism. ‘?/p>

This Lunch Forum will focus on the symbols used to depict two archetypes: compassion and wisdom, symbolized by the dorje (a small scepter) and bell. Tibetan Buddhism, with its rich iconography, can help us to understand Jung ‘s psychoanalytic method.

Royce Froehlich, MA, M.Div, LCSW-R, is a psychotherapist in private practice and faculty member of the C.G. Jung Foundation. He is in training to become a Jungian Analyst at the CG Jung Institute of New York, where he recently received the Halpern-Kelly Award for his paper that provides the basis for the October Lunch Forum.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

INDIA! In Myth and Image

Led by: Ami Ronnberg, MA

We will visit India, where works of art serve as mediators to the invisible world. To be religious in India means to be a seer (rishi). One form of worship called ‘darshan, ‘?means seeing through and also to be seen by the divine. For an hour, we will follow psyche ‘s reflections in beautiful, sensuous, fantastical, images

Ami Ronnberg, MA, is Curator of the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS). She is also Editor-in-Chief for The Book of Images: Reflections on Symbols to be published by Taschen in 2010 as part of the ARAS publication project.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Artistic Influences on the Development
of Jung’s Red Book

Led by: Jane Selinske, EdD

“The Wealth of the Soul Exists in Images”
— The Red Book

Between 1914 and 1930, C.G. Jung engaged in self-exploration with his unconscious which evolved into his monumental work, The Red Book. The New York Times described The Red Book as ‘The Holy Grail of the Unconscious ‘?and the editor of the book, Sonu Shamdasani, wrote that The Red Book was ‘possibly the most influential hitherto unpublished work in the history of psychology. ‘? When one encounters the book, it is obvious that both quotations are true and one feels the desire to bow in awe to Jung ‘s massive undertaking and accomplishment.

The distinctive red leather bound book contains calligraphy written in Latin and German along with beautiful detailed drawings and illustrations. The Red Book has been equated with medieval manuscripts and The Book of Kells. In Jung ‘s text, he also gave special prominence to the drawing of mandalas, the sacred circle. The mandalas, drawings, and illustrations all contributed to the evolution of Jung ‘s future theoretical work.

In addition to the development of his future theories, The Red Book revealed Jung to be a very gifted artist and calligrapher. Historically, Jung referenced himself as a scientist and not an artist. However, The Red Book revealed Jung to be an artist and it is apparent that there have been influences on his art. This lecture will discuss Jung ‘s encounter with the mandala beginning in 1896, when he sat in a s ‘ance with his cousin, Helene Prieswerk, and will look at experiences he had as a youth with art, the artists that appealed to Jung, the travels and circle of associates that influenced his art, and his movement toward symbolic art.

Jane Selinske, Ed.D., LCSW, LP, MT-BC, is a licensed Jungian analyst, a certified teacher and trainer of Mandala Assessment, and a Board Certified Music Therapist. She is currently a faculty and board member of the C.G. Jung Foundation, the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, and on the faculty of the Institute for Expressive Analysis in New York. She has a practice in Montclair, New Jersey.

For more information about the Red Book exhibit at the Rubin Museum of Art visit their website: rmanyc.org

2008

Tuesday, January 8, 2008, 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Special Expanded Forum and Book Signing

On Life’s Journey: Always Becoming

Speaker: Daniel A. Lindley, PhD, LCSW

“This deeply personal memoir folds time and space, poignantly bridging one man’s life and humanity’s distant past with grace, wit, and quiet perception.”

— W. Raymond Johnson, Ph.D., Director, Epigraphic Survey, Oriental Institute,
University of Chicago

In The Development of Personality, C.G. Jung wrote, “In every adult there lurks a child — an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the human personality that wants to develop and become whole.” In this reflection on life’s journey, Daniel Lindley applies the insights gleaned from many years of study of literature and psychoanalysis to show how we are always becoming ‘and always obligated to care for that archetypal child.

Drawing upon psychological truths expressed by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Eliot, and others, Dr. Lindley illuminates the process of individuation through personal experience, art, and archetype. From birth to old age, he shows that, even in our separateness, we share an archetypal ground. According to Dr. Lindley, at any point in our lives, the path we walk is not unknown but has purpose and direction. We live out stories, which existed long before we did and will continue long after we are gone.

Daniel A. Lindley, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., has degrees from Yale, Harvard, Florida State, and Loyola University of Chicago. Formerly a schoolteacher and professor of English, he is a training analyst in the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and is in private practice. He is the author of This Rough Magic: The Life of Teaching and On Life’s Journey: Always Becoming.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

For Better or For Worse: Analytic Insights on the Transference in the Relationship of Clergy and Congregation

Speaker: Douglas Tompkins, MDiv, LP, NCPsyA

The Rosarium pictures of Jung’s “Psychology of the Transference” offer a helpful lens through which to view the conscious and unconscious relationship not only between analyst and analysand, but also between clergy and congregations. This forum will give an overview of the progression of this relationship and serve as an introduction to Mr. Tompkins’ upcoming Continuing Education course of the same name.

Douglas Tompkins, MDiv, LP, NCPsyA, is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Ecology and Tantra Yoga

Speaker: Suzanne Ironbiter, Ph.D.

Tantra is a holistic yoga philosophy, aesthetic, and meditation practice for experiencing spirit in nature and enlightenment in life. Its insights can be useful in addressing our current environmental and health issues. This forum will consider how the tantra view can modify our dualistic practices of picturing ourselves apart from nature.

Suzanne Ironbiter has a doctorate in the history of religion from Columbia University and teaches at SUNY Purchase College. Her book, Devi: Mother of My Mind (MapinLit 2006), is a personal poetic interaction with the goddess tradition in the mythology, mysticism, and philosophy of India.

[Website: www.suzanneironbiter.com]

Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Narcissism and its Discontents

Speaker: Maxson J. McDowell, PhD, LMSW-LP

Narcissistic injuries seem to be everywhere. Addictions, compulsions, controlling behavior, excessive anger and grandiosity all point to narcissistic injuries. Depression, anxiety, underachievement, creative blocks and relationship problems may also be signs. Narcissistic injuries resist consciousness and are often missed, even in analysis. Dr. McDowell will discuss symptoms, causes and treatment. This lecture is accessible to lay-people as well as to therapists.

Maxson J. McDowell, PhD, LMSW-LP is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. President of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, he is also a faculty member of the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

A Writing / A Creative Life

Speaker: Susan Tiberghien

What is a writing life? For Susan Tiberghien it is a life that slows down to touch each moment, a life that deepens from an inner source. She was fifty years old when she started along the way. She will tell us how the well within her filled with fresh creativity when she cleared away the clutter and found words for her stories. Reading short passages from her new book, One Year to a Writing Life, she will start with journal writing, move to writing from dreams, go deeper with the alchemy of imagination, and finish with Writing the Way Home.

She will encourage us to be light-bearers in the world around us.

Susan M. Tiberghien is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. The author of three memoirs, she has also published widely in journals and anthologies. Tiberghien teaches and lectures at graduate programs, at C.G. Jung Centers, and at writers’ conferences in the United States and in Europe.

[Website: www.susantiberghien.com]

Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

The Lion and the Antelope

Speaker: Heidi Kolb, MA, LCSW, NCPsyA

At its core, Jungian thought has always mirrored the newly arising mythologem, which can be poetically expressed as the Return of the Goddess and psychologically viewed as the recovery of the feminine principle in the human psyche.

We will look at the relationship between the return of the feminine and the notion of an ‘Ecological Intelligence, ‘?a term coined by South African Jungian Analyst Ian MacCallum.

How can we begin to reconcile the Human-Nature split? What is the nature of the newly emerging consciousness? What are the consequences if we fail to make the psychological leap? These are some of the questions we will engage. Particular emphasis will be given to the role of aggression, violence and destruction that seem to plague or current times, but are also unavoidable consorts of the returning Goddess stirring in the depths of our unconscious psyche.

Heidi Kolb, MA, LCSW, NCPsyA, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City and is a faculty member of the Blanton-Peale Institute, the C. G. Jung Institute of New York and the C. G. Jung Foundation.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Divine Androgyny: The Archetype and Its Manifestations

Led by: Royce Jeffrey Froehlich, LCSW-R, M.Div., MA

There are many images of the divine androgyne accompanying Jung’s writings, with the union of opposites as a guiding thought for psychological wholeness.

In this Tuesday Lunch Forum, we will look at some of the symbolic and historical aspects of the archetype Divine Androgyny, and then discover how this idea from the collective unconscious reveals itself in today’s world through image, biological reality, and spiritual practice

Royce Jeffrey Froehlich, LCSW-R, M.Div., MA, is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University’s School of Social Work, and the New School for Social Research in Media Studies. He is currently training to become a Jungian analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of New York and is a faculty member at the Jung Foundation. He offers private psychotherapy in Manhattan and Queens.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

How Stress Creates Strength; Jungian Psychology and Transformation

Speaker: Tobi Zausner, Ph.D.

We are all capable of doing more than we can imagine. Often what holds us back from achieving our goals are the things we view as difficulties in our lives. This beautifully illustrated presentation will show how the stress of difficulties can become the source of our greatest strength. We will see this phenomenon in Jungian psychology where hardships are symbolized as a passage through the Underworld. On this journey of initiation, the darkest darkness brings forth the greatest light. We will also see the gifts of stress in nature in the way animals adapt in response to difficulties and in the life stories of artists when the stress of physical illness transforms their work, their lives, and our world.

Tobi Zausner, Ph.D., has an interdisciplinary doctorate in Art and Psychology. She is also an art historian and an award-winning visual artist with works in major museums and in private collections around the world. Dr. Zausner writes and lectures widely on the psychology of art and teaches at the C.G. Jung Foundation. Her book, When Walls Become Doorways: Creativity and the Transforming Illness, is about the influence of physical illness on the creative process of visual artists.

2007

Tuesday, January 9, 2007, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

The First Feather Cloak: A Symbolic Interpretation of a Polynesian Legend of Shamanism

Speaker: Maxson J. McDowell, Ph.D., C.S.W.

This Hawaiian legend is about a shaman who is the chief’s slave and a woman with a feather cloak who has died. When interpreted symbolically, it offers a surprising mirror to the analyst’s work.

Maxson J. McDowell, Ph.D., C.S.W., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Manhattan. President of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, he is also on the board of the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism. He is a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

The Lives of Animals: Animals in Our Lives

Speaker: Ami Ronnberg

In ancient Egypt the gods often appeared in animal forms. We will meet some of these animals, so magnificently presented in Egyptian art: the cat, the dog, the cow, the monkey, the scorpion and the snake. We will also look at how we perceive animals in our own time–in the wild, as pets in our homes, and in our psyche.

Ami Ronnberg, M.A., is Curator of the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS). She is also Managing Editor of the ARAS publication project. She is presently working on The Book of Images: Reflections on Symbols.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

The Protean Soul

Speaker: Gary Brown, MSW, CSW

Proteus, “The Old Man of the Sea,” is a shape-shifting image of the psyche-soma, the body-soul. His fluid, endlessly changing form evokes our experience of the embodied psyche, accessible if we attend to our bodily felt-sense. The myth tells us that this experience can give us a new orientation to our lives. We will discuss and experience briefly this little-known function that Jung called “Introverted Sensation.”

Gary Brown, MSW, CSW, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City and Rhinebeck, NY. He is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and a past president of the Mid-Hudson Jung Society. He is also a teacher of Buddhist meditation.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

The God with Two Faces: Transforming Cultural and Interpersonal violence through Art, Myth and Ritual

Speaker: Juliet Bruce, Ph.D.

Dr. Bruce will use the Warrior Archetype to explore the common ground between violence and creativity. We will look at the “science” behind the use of art, myth, and ritual for personal and social healing. Writers, educators, artists and professionals, as well as anyone interested in an effective approach to transforming the energies of violence, will find this talk provocative and useful.

Juliet Bruce, Ph.D., was the first David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality at the Library of Congress. She is a therapist whose approach is influenced by Jung, Campbell and Hillman, and she is the founder of the nonprofit organization Arts for Life.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007, 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Please note the expanded time for this forum.

When Walls Become Doorways:
Creativity and the Transforming Illness

Speaker: Tobi Zausner

Illness may feel like an impassible barrier, but it can become the doorway to a new and more creative existence. Leonardo da Vinci, Frida Kahlo, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Henri Matisse are among the many artists whose physical disorders enhanced their creativity and transformed their lives. Illness shaped their work, and their masterpieces changed our world. In the face of pain and disability, they showed perseverance and ingenuity, revealing that life’s lowest moments can hold our greatest potential for creativity and growth.

When Tobi Zausner was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1989, her doctor didn’t think she would last the year, but her life transformed. For Zausner and the others artists discussed in this book, the wall of illness became a door of opportunity. Using fascinating and well-documented life stories of artists and drawing upon her own experience, Zausner offers us methods for accessing our creative abilities and ways to turn a time of poor health into achievement and a more meaningful new life.

Tobi Zausner, Ph.D. has an interdisciplinary doctorate in Art and Psychology. She is also an art historian and an award-winning visual artist with works in major museums and in private collections around the world. Dr. Zausner writes and lectures widely on the psychology of art, teaches at the C.G. Jung Foundation in New York, and is an officer on the Board of A.C.T.S (Arts, Crafts, and Theatre Safety), a non-profit organization investigating health hazards in the arts. Her book, When Walls Become Doorways: Creativity and the Transforming Illness (Harmony/Random House, 2007), is about the influence of physical illness on the creative process of visual artists. It shows that instead of stopping artists, physical difficulties transform them, enhancing both their life and their work.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Aspects of Vedic Psychology: Conflict Resolution.
Based on Principles of Hindu Spiritual Science

Speaker: Braja Kishor Dev of Vrindaban, India

There are three types of conflicts that are typical in daily life: Personality, Decision-making, and Interpersonal Relationship conflicts. The most ancient scriptures of India, the Vedas, offer a unique way of understanding the causes of conflict: how and when they arise and how to work through them.

This Lunch Forum will focus on the art of how to gain the means to settle and resolve inner disputes, to make life easier through a better understanding of oneself and others.

Braja Kishor Dev is a teacher of psychology and philosophy as well as an astrologer, trained in the ancient Hindu teachings on consciousness. He lectures and consults in India, the United States and Latin America.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Carl Jung: The Leader Who Wanted No Followers

Speaker: Armin Wanner

In this lunchtime forum we will view the documentary Carl Jung and the Journey to Self Discovery (part of the Young Indy Documentaries) and Armin Wanner will discuss with the audience questions provoked by the film.

Armin Wanner, STL, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. He is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich and a faculty member in the C.G. Jung Foundation’s Continuing Education program. He has also taught at the Cooper Union, the New York Open Center and the New Seminary.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

The Sound of Wholeness?

Speaker: Royce Froehlich

This forum is devoted to questions concerning Sound and the part it plays in the individuation process. The ocean of air we live in delivers the oxygen we breathe as well as the sounds that envelop us. Many of us choose to integrate our surrounding soundscapes with music or other forms of aural enhancements. Why? What do these sounds do for us? What do they mean? Originally from the Latin, Persona meant ‘by sound,’ the sound of an actor’s voice as it emanated through his mask. Jung used it as a word to describe an integral part of the personality, the face we want others to see. The sounds that inform us may also be a function of the persona, and also a communication that speaks both to and from the Self.

What we hear tells a part of the story of who we are and, sometimes, how we wish to be known: always on the way to wholeness. This forum will feature some simple experiential sound exercises to provoke philosophical and psychological thoughts on the relationship between sound and being (and have some fun, too).

Royce Jeffrey Froehlich is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City and a member of the Foundation’s teaching faculty. He was an audio engineer at ABC Radio Networks, with a Master’s in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research, and holds a Master’s in Divinity from Union Theological Seminary.

2006

Tuesday, January 10, 2006, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Art and Soul: Birds as Prophesy

Speaker: Ami Ronnberg, MA

In this presentation, we will follow the flight of birds in word and image. In almost every culture, birds have been seen as images of the soul. In ancient Greece, birds were used to predict the future. Even today, we may turn to birds as messengers from our environment as well as from our inner nature.

Ami Ronnberg, MA, is Curator of the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism. She is also Managing Editor of the ARAS Publication Project and is presently working on A Dictionary of Symbolic Images. She lectures widely on images and symbols.

Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Mediatrix: Jung and the Effect of Technology on the Human Psyche

Speaker: Royce Froehlich, MDiv, MA, LCSW

A letter that C.G. Jung wrote in 1949 to the newspaper of the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute on the subject of “The effect of technology on the human psyche” will be the touchstone for this lecture on Jungian thought and its relevance for us. “Media-trix,” a word-play: mediatrix (a.k.a. anima) and trickster, offers a clue to some of the avenues that the discussion will take, along with other voices on the topic from the fields of science, theology, philosophy, and media studies.

Royce Froehlich, MDiv, MA, LCSW, is an analyst-in-training at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and a doctoral candidate in Communications at the European Graduate School, Sass Fee, Switzerland. A former audio engineer at ABC Radio, he is in private practice in New York City.

Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

The Birth of Conscious Relating: A Polynesian Legend

Speaker: Maxson McDowell, Ph.D., LCSW

Polynesian legends provide startling (to western eyes) images of the psyche’s development. Together we will read one legend and explore its meaning: the birth of consciousness from a woman’s point of view.

Maxson McDowell, Ph.D., LCSW, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Manhattan. President of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, he is also on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York.

Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

The Snow Queen, Relationships and the Soul

Speaker: John Marino, M.M., M.A.

Andersen’s The Snow Queen is a tale that shows how connection to the Other and to others may be shattered by our early experience. This can limit or “freeze” our ability to access our inner resources which manifest in images and feelings. Without this access, we can never truly know ourselves or relate to others.

This lecture will focus on these “Snow Queen” dynamics and how one can work towards freeing oneself from soulless life that may result.

Reading the tale is recommended or for a summary of the tale contact John Marino at Oniram59@aol.com.

John Marino, M.M., M.A., is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and in private practice in Manhattan.

Tuesday, May 2, 2006, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Writing Our Way Home in a Fragmented World

Speaker: Susan Tiberghien

We will explore the role of Hestia, the keeper of the hearth, as well as the pieces of our lives to find the images that resonate, their patterns and their stories, as we prepare to write our way home.

Susan Tiberghien is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. She has published three memoirs, Looking for Gold, One Year in Jungian Analysis, Circling to the Center, A Woman’s Encounter with Silent Prayer, and Footsteps, A European Journal, and innumerable narrative essays in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. Ms. Tiberghien teaches and lectures at graduate programs, at C.G. Jung Centers, and at writers’ conferences both in the United States and in Europe.

Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Objective Psyche: Jung and Contemporary Meaning-Making

A One-Hour Introduction by Steven Hart, M.A.

One of the least examined of C.G. Jung’s “discoveries” is his notion of objective psyche. He believed that psychical life is as much publicly shared as it is private and interior. The collective unconscious then can be seen outside of ourselves and felt as social, archetypal presences. This interactive presentation explores the settings we share as themselves subtle reservoirs of communal meaning.

Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Dream Incubation and the Wounded Healer

Speaker: Diane Fremont

In The Symposium, Plato wrote, “The doctor ought to be able to bring about love and reconciliation between the most antithetic elements in the body … Our ancestor Asclepius knew how to bring love and concord to these opposites, and he it was … who founded our art.” The roots of modern psychotherapeutic practice can be traced back to the myth and cult of Asclepius, the divine physician, and the ancient Greek art of psychic healing and dream incubation. Through lecture and image (slides), we will explore this myth and ancient practice in order to discover the links with the methods and aims at the foundation of modern analytical psychotherapy.

Diane Fremont, LCSW, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in
New York City.

Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Eros and Addiction

Speaker: Julie Bondanza

The power of Eros can take us to ecstatic heights, but also to the depths of despair. We experience this power whenever we fall in love. As long as we remain unaware of the fact that the ideal image of the beloved is a projection of our own psychic content, and the more we seek to satisfy erotic fantasies externally, the more we can get lost in compulsive longing, destructive relationships or sexual addictions. The archetype of Eros and erotic longing helps with an understanding of how Eros can become destructively connected with addiction.

Julie Bondanza, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and licensed psychologist with private practices in Manhattan and the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. She is presently Director of Training at the Philadelphia site of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.

2005

Tuesday, January 4, 2005, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Authentic Movement

Led by Irina Harris, C.S.W.

Authentic Movement is Carl Jung’s Active Imagination in movement. Developed in the 1950’s by Mary Whitehouse, a former student of Jung’s, Authentic Movement has evolved into a form that has a wide variety of uses, from the technical (for dancers to purify their movement vocabulary) to the intimately psychotherapeutic in individual or group work.

Tuesday, February 1, 2005, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Imbolc: A Celtic Celebration of the Union of God and Goddess

Led by Jane Selinske

Imbolc, the Druidic/Celtic fire festival commemorated on February 1st or 2nd, is the celebration of the return of the Sun-God to the Goddess Bridget, and marks the mid-point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. It is at this time of year that winter still holds its grip on the land but the seeds within the soil are beginning to awaken and grow. Hope and faith make Imbolc a festival celebrating the coming of Spring after the darkness of Winter.

During this program, we will connect with the archetypal energies and symbols associated with Imbolc and the Goddess Bridget so that they can inform our own individuation process. We will end with a ritual to celebrate the return of the sun.

Jane Selinske, EdD, LCSW, MT-BC, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City and Upper Montclair, New Jersey. She is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and is a board certified music therapist with a secialization in guided imagery and music and drawing interpretation

Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Love, Connection, Marriage: A Polynesian Fairy Tale

Led by Maxson J. McDowell, PhD, CSW.

The story of a woman’s journey from one husband to her next can help us to discuss Eros and how it drives us into a deeper relationship with another person and with ourselves.

Maxson J. McDowell, PhD, CSW, President of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Manhattan, New York.

Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Topic to be announced

Led by Julie Bondanza

Tuesday, May 3, 2005, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

The Alchemy of Imagination and Writing.

Led by Susan Tiberghien

We will look at how living images in our dreams, memories and surroundings can lead us to a deeper creative life through journal entries, short stories, essays and prose poems.

Susan Tiberghien, an American writer living in Switzerland, leads the Geneva Writers’ Group and the biennial Geneva Writers’ Conference. She has published three memoirs, Looking for Gold, Circling to the Center, and Footsteps, A European Album. She teaches at Jung Centers and at writers conferences, has been a workshop director for IWWG since 1990, and is an active member of International PEN.

Tuesday, October 4, 2005, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Holding the Opposites and Riding the Wild Hyphen:
Analytical Psychology and Buddhism

Speaker: Petah Digby-Lewis

Jung wrote that his interest as a doctor drew him to Buddha, who taught deliverance from suffering through maximum development of consciousness. This development is accomplished BY (not “through”) observing the mind’s innate tendency to get entangled in the narrow confines of ego-consciousness, resulting in a proliferation of illusory emotion and thought.

Jung takes a contrasting position, stating that “complete redemption from suffering is and must remain an illusion.” However, both Buddha and Jung are united in the notion that a life lived with depth and ease belongs to an experience of selfhood liberated from the narrow confines of the conscious ego.

In this presentation, we will experience sitting with opposites, holding their tensions, and waiting for what will arise from the space between them. The “hyphen” refers to the in-between state that is an ideal situation, one in which we don’t get caught, and one in which we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit.

Petah Digby-Lewis has been a certified somatic psychotherapist and student of Eastern religions since 1985. She facilitated aliveness and body-mind integration groups and participated in a co-learning community that explored the “Mythic Life” seminars of Jean Houston. Now an advanced candidate in psychoanalytic training at the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, she combines Buddhist practices, knowledge of bodywork and Western psychoanalytic theories to focus on communication and the ways in which we organize experience. She is in private practice in New York City.

Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Fierce Gods and Hungry Ghosts:
The Worlds We Live In and Their Transformation

Speaker: Gary Brown

We live in worlds created by our own consciousness according to the Buddhist tradition. The analytical psychology of C.G. Jung would say we live in the worlds of our own projections. In the Buddhist teachings developed over centuries in Tibet, these worlds are the six realms of the famous Wheel of Life, much like the well-known Fortune’s Wheel of medieval times in the West. We spend our days and lives spinning on this wheel as the three Passions of the hub come to life, mixing and matching, combining to bring us the worlds in which we live.

The Passions, as they are sometimes called, of craving, repulsion, and ignorance, form personality patterns archetypally imaged as “worlds.” We will explore the imagery of the Five Buddha Families, corresponding to these worlds in the Tibetan tradition and how psychologically the passions that create these worlds may be transformed to wisdom. Though this symbol system will be looked at as a whole, focus will be on the world of the Hungry Ghosts built upon neurotic craving, and the world of the Fierce Gods, an expression of aggressive envy.

Gary Brown, MSW, CSW, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City and in Rhinebeck, NY. A past president of the Mid-Hudson Jung Society, he is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and also a teacher of Buddhist meditation.

Tuesday, December 6, 2005, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil

Speaker: Heidi Kolb, MA, LCSW

Evil is a perennial problem that does not allow for hasty solutions. Its elusive nature evades grasp and definition all too easily. As clinicians we sense its presence in the felt experience of sadism and masochism and in the fragmentation of psychotic processes.

We will discuss what a Jungian approach, particularly Jung’s concept of the shadow, teaches us about how to relate to our experience of evil. Selected images will serve as a focal point to understand the role of evil from within the Judeo-Christian tradition and we will make an attempt to extrapolate meaning and a possible religious dimension to the terrifying enigma of evil.

Heidi Kolb, MA, LCSW, is an analyst-in training at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She is currently working on her thesis on Hitler as an embodiment of archetypal evil.