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We are pleased to offer you a sampling of some of the lectures we have recorded so far. These audio clips require RealPlayer.
12 minute Introduction to Jung's Psychology by John Martin
"Do you believe in God?"
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Virginia Apperson
" Holding on to Dear Life: Living in the Tension of the Opposites"
1 cassette - $14.00
The tension of the opposites - a position that invites us to face a most excruciating challenge. Each "side" bears gifts. The difficulty lies in honoring both sides. This evening we will explore the quintessential opposites, the masculine and the feminine, with a belief that by suffering the inevitable tension between the two, we can achieve a respectful and fruitful side-by-side partnership.
Virginia is a practicing Jungian Analyst in Atlanta. In addition to wrestling with the tension of the opposites in her personal life, she has witnessed the complexities that it entails in various clinical settings, ranging from an inpatient adolescent chemical dependency unit, an outpatient eating disorders clinic, and the psychiatric consultation-liaison service at Grady Memorial Hospital. Virginia also leads dream groups and holds an Adjunct Faculty position at Emory University's School of Nursing.
Bernhard Kempler
" What shall I do? How shall I live - A Psychological Exploration of Choosing and Deciding" 2 cassettes - $14.00The need, opportunity, or necessity to make choices and decisions is an ever-present dimension of our everyday experience. In our present day society we are bombarded with both trivial and life changing options. Despite the importance of this existential constant in our lives, it has received relatively little psychological study. As we stand at important personal crossroads, at what level of consciousness do we make decisions? To what extent do we allow our feelings, intuitions, dreams, etc. to impact our decision making process? How does the ability to contain uncertainty and ambiguity impact on the quality of the decisions we make? Are there practices and processes that can help us make choices that are right for us?
As a psychotherapist, I have for many years been observing how people confront and struggle with significant life decisions. My objective for this lecture will be to raise our consciousness about the complex issues involved in the process of choosing and deciding.
Bernhard Kempler, Ph.D., ABPP, was born in Poland and lived in Sweden before coming to the United States at the age of sixteen. As an undergraduate at Brandeis University he studied psychology with Abraham Maslow. He then received his Ph.D. in clinical and developmental psychology at Clark University where he was strongly influenced by the developmental psychology of Heinz Werner. He came to Atlanta to teach at Emory University, then spent 27 years on the clinical psychology faculty at Georgia State University, where he was also the Director of the psychology Clinic.
Dr. Kempler has been a practicing psychologist in the humanistic-existential tradition for thirty-five years. He has written and lectured widely on such topics as the psychology of mental imagery, the meaning of fairy tales, self-disclosure, and the dynamics of small groups. Dr. Kempler is currently in full time private practice of psychotherapy and consultation.
Tom Kirsch
" C.G. Jung and His Psychology" 1 cassette - $14.00
Jung and analytical psychology have undergone many changes over the past decades. I shall describe some of my own experiences in the world of analytical psychology, having been involved since 1955, the year I shall begin with because that is the year Jung turned 80. He was featured in many articles, and even had his picture on the cover of Time magazine. Then, as now, Jung was the subject of much controversy. I will focus on what has happened in the United States to Jungian psychology, but will make many references to its Swiss origins. Recent attacks on Jung will be discussed, and we shall explore why he has drawn them.
" Dreams" 3 cassettes - $21.00
The all day workshop will focus on the study of dreams. It will begin with a brief overview of the recent scientific findings in the study of dreams, and from there we shall move to discussing Jung's view of dreams. Initial dreams will be taken as a starting point for the study, for it is there that we see the archetypal elements in some of their clearest manifestations. As time permits, we shall have the opportunity to work with a series of dreams of a patient, and perhaps some of the participants who are therapists would like to present some clinical examples.
Thomas B. Kirsch, M.D. was born in London and raised in Los Angeles. He graduated from Reed College, 1957, and Yale Medical School, 1961. He completed his psychiatric residency at Stanford, and served as consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health, 1965-67. Since then he has maintained a private practice and served on the Clinical Faculty, Dept. of Psychiatry, at Stanford University.
A 1968 graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, Kirsch served as President of the San Francisco Institute, 1976-78, and as Vice-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, 1977-1995 . He has been a member of the Academy of Psychoanalysis since 1974.
The author of numerous papers on the biology and psychology of dreams, he co-edited the Jungian section of the International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, 1977. Presently, he is writing a book on the history of analytical psychology called "Jungians" to be published by Routledge within the next year.
At the 1989 International Congress for Analytical Psychology in Paris, Rafael Lopez-Pedraza and two other Jungian Analysts offered a workshop on Art and Psychology, the idea of which was to learn psychology from art rather than to interpret the art by means of psychology. This unusual approached sparked great interest. He has since developed it further, and it will be the basis of his lecture and workshop.
"Picasso's Nekyia into the Underworld" 1 cassette - $14.00This lecture will deal with Picasso's descent into the psychic underworld in the year 1901, a few months after the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas. The psychological process of the Nekyia will be illustrated by slides of paintings, self-portraits and sketches that Picasso produced at the time.
The connection between Picasso and the Nekyia can, incidentally, be traced to Jung. After seeing the retrospective of Picasso's work at the Zurich Kunsthaus in 1932, Jung wrote a commentary on the exhibition for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the main newspaper in Zurich. In the article Jung drew a parallel between the Nekyia known to us from classical Greek texts and some paintings from Picasso's Blue Period. This commentary of Jung's is reproduced in Vol. 15 of his Collected Works: The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature.
"On Dionysus." 2 cassettes - $14.00
This workshop will treat such themes as Dionysus as the god of madness, women and wine. It will include Lopez-Pedraza's psychological reading of some passages of The Bacchae, which the great Greek tragic poet Euripides wrote in his old age while in exile in Macedonia. This psychological reading will also be an exercise in learning psychology from art.
In Lopez-Pedraza's view, Dionysus has been the most repressed of all the gods. According to the American scholar Ivan Linforth, the body is Dionysiac (Linforth, The Arts of Orpheus, 1973, p. 327). Thus, with the repression of Dionysus, the psychology of the body has also been repressed. Dionysus was, as the great German scholar Walter Otto wrote as far back as 1933, "the most psychiatric of the Greek gods," the god most closely associated with extreme mental states. Lopez-Pedraza will explore this aspect of Dionysus.
Born in Cuba, where he spent his early years, Rafael Lopez-Pedraza became a citizen of Venezuela in 1953. He pursued advanced studies in England, including work in Analytical Psychology with Irene Claremont de Castillejo, author of Knowing Woman. He then spent several years in Zurich, where he worked as a psychotherapist in a Jungian psychiatric clinic and completed the Diploma of the C.G. Jung Institute. In Zurich, he directed a series of seminars that were the matrix of what is now known as Archetypal Psychology. Since 1974 he has lived with his wife Valerie in Caracus, where he practices Jungian Analysis and teaches at the Central University of Venezuela. He has lectured widely and his publications include Hermes and His Children and Cultural Anxiety, and Anselm Kiefer: The Psychology of 'After the Catastrophe'.
William Willeford, Ph.D.
"Trickster and his Persistence" 2 cassettes - $14.00In widely separated times and places there have been deceiving and prank-playing gods and heroes, among them the ancient Greek Hermes, the African Anansi, Legba and Eshu, and the Native American Raven and Coyote.
These tricksters share basic traits: both cunning and stupid, they betray their origin in a time when the creation of the ordered world was not yet complete. (For example, one mythical trickster has an enormously long penis that will later be cut down to size but that he at first carries rolled up in a box.) And they are responsible for such human necessities as the sun, which they must steal from the gods, and techniques of fire-making and the procurement of food
Such concerns might seem so "primitive" as to be remote from us, but tricksters dramatize dilemmas that are intractable, sometimes bafflingly subtle and so fundamentally human that we share them with people in earlier times. (We may see our preoccupation with such dilemmas mirrored in films and novels about confidence men.)
William Willeford, Ph.D., is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Atlanta. The first of his books (The Fool and his Scepter: A Study in Clowns and Jesters and their Audience) is about fools and tricksters.
Daniel C. Noel, Ph.D.
"The Soul of Shamanism : Western Neoshamanism as a Way of Imagination" 1 cassette - $14.00
Based on his new book, The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imaginal Realities, Daniel Noel's lecture will identify the scholars, storytellers and seekers of the shaman's wisdom who have contributed to the creation of Western neoshamanism. His talk will also point out the problems and opportunities facing us as a result of this creation. On the one hand, neoshamanic fantasies 'in that they are "unconscious" and "cross-cultural" ' risk being also "delusional" and "colonialist." On the other hand, if these fantasies can be brought to full awareness and interacted with as spontaneous imaginings, they can become a new shamanism for the modern West.
Daniel Noel teaches in nontraditional programs at Vermont College and Pacifica Graduate Institute. Along with his new book, he has published five others including Seeking Castaneda and Paths to the Power of Myth. He presents his work widely and leads tours to Britain and the American Southwest.
John Giannini
The Compass of the Soul: Four Typological Directions for a Fuller Life 5 cassettes - $28.00
The opening lecture will explore the historical reasons contributing to the lack of understanding between two Jungian-based communities: the analysts and the Meyers-Briggs practitioners. We may also discuss competing models of typology, the Singer-Loomis and the Keirsey-Bates temperament theory.
John Giannini will lay out the archetypal pictures of the four type couplings - that is, the four combinations of perception and judging that constitute the type mandala: sensing-thinking, sensing-feeling, intuitive-feeling and intuitive-thinking. We will explore the archetypal structures of typology and consider their connections with the four cultural archetypes as introduced by Toni Wolff for women and expanded on by Edward Whitmont for both men and women, and further developed by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette.
Given this ground, we will consider further these couplings in relationship to Hermann's four metaphorical brain quadrants, Erickson's four life stages, and the four disciplines of Deming's organizational philosophy that made possible Japan's industrial resurgence after World War II. We will play together these couplings in relationship to the life stages, the creative process, issues of love and work and in dreams. Most important of all, we will consider how the couplings aid us in the individuation process.
John Giannini is a 1980 graduate of the Interregional Society. He is a member of the Chicago Jung Society faculty. He has an MA from the University of Chicago in Psychology and Religion, and a M.Div. from the Dominican Order's St. Albert College, Oakland, Calif., as well as an MBA from Stanford.
Dr. Lionel Corbett, Jungian Analyst
A Depth Psychological Approach to the Divine 2 cassettes - $14.00
We are sadly in need of a new concept of divinity; the old idea of God as a divine parent, judge or celestial mechanic no longer serves. Many people with a strong personal sense of the sacred no longer find this dimension within traditional religious systems. However, new forms of the sacred are to be found in areas such as relationships, the natural world, the body, our psychopathology, and within the spontaneous products of transpersonal levels of the psyche. This lecture by Dr. Corbett will describe some of the implications of the idea that attention to the larger psyche is becoming a new religious practice.
The Religious Function of the Psyche 3 cassettes - $21.00
For many of us, traditional concepts of God, and the religious systems on which these ideas are built, have less and less meaning. But if we nevertheless have a profound sense of the sacred in our lives, we need a language and an approach that deals with sacred experience without trying to confine it within a Judeo-Christian model. This workshop will describe a depth psychological approach to spirituality that is based purely on personal experience and individual psychology, without recourse to theological or other preconceived ideas about the nature of God.
Dr. Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England, and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He is particularly interested in the synthesis of psychoanalytic and Jungian thought. His primary dedication is to the religious function of the psyche, especially the way in which personal religious experience is relevant to individual psychology, and to developing psychotherapy as a spiritual practice.
Dr. Corbett is on the falculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute, in Santa Barbara, California. His book, The Religious Function of the Psyche is published by Routledge.
John Beebe, M.D., Jungian Analyst
Typology and Integrity 2 cassettes - $14.00
Integrity means standing for something - in our relations with ourselves, our loved ones, and the world. It involves the ability to accept responsibility for the other in a way that allows us to remain true to ourselves. Dr. John Beebe will explore C.G. Jung's theory of psychological types as a key to the living reality of moral integrity.
Missed Integrity: A View of the American Psyche from Film. 2 cassettes - $14.00
"Missed Integrity: A View of the American Psyche from Film." American films are notoriously critical of the American character, often reflecting our national disappointment with our fellow citizens' integrity. In a funny and deeply felt set of meditations on this theme, James Brooks' award-winning "Broadcast News" - about the psychological clashes within a network television news team - is unusually effective in illustrating the types and complexes of the American psyche that sabotage its moral character. In this day long workshop led by Beebe, we will see the film and connect its characters and actions to the fragmentation of contemporary culture.
John Beebe, M.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in San Francisco. An internationally recognized clinical teacher of Jungian psychology, he is founding editor of the San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal where his movie reviews have run since 1980.
Beebe's writings on film have also appeared in The Journal of Film and Popular Culture, The Psychoanalytic Review, The Chiron Clinical Series, and Psychological Perspectives. His workshops on the American psyche in film have examined Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt," "Notorious," "North by Northwest," "Vertigo," and "Marnie" as well as more recent American films such as "Birdy," "True Stories," "Mask," "Blue Velvet," "Blow Out," "Broadcast News," "Do the Right Thing," "The Grifters," "Pulp Fiction," "Six Degrees of Separation," and "Schindler's List."
Dr. Beebe is author of Integrity in Depth, a study of the archetype of integrity. He can be seen discussing American movies in the 1990 award-winning documentary "The Wisdom of the Dream."
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