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Murray Stein, Ph.D.
Jungian Analyst and Author
Friday Lecture
"The Reality of the Soul"
People have had experiences of the soul’s transcendence since time immemorial. Yet we continue to wonder...What do these experiences prove? Do they offer a genuine vision of reality, or are they only products of human imagination? Are they rooted in human desire, in the wish for immortality, in projection? There are certain special moments in life, call them “openings to transcendence,” when we confront a symbol and see reality as the unconscious, according to Jung, regards it all the time. At this level, the psyche knows no difference between spirit and matter. They are identical. Figures from both dimensions of reality are experienced as woven of the same threads. The songs of birds and the thoughts of human beings are parts of a single fabric. In this lecture, Murray Stein invites the audience to reflect on such experiences of transcendence. These experiences do not offer incontestable proof of the soul’s transcendence, but they can open us to question some of our deepest assumptions about the boundaries of the soul.
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Saturday Workshop
"Four Pillars of a Jungian Approach to Psychotherapy"
At the end of psychotherapy’s first century, many questions about its values, orientations, and effectiveness have been raised.Questions like: Does all psychotherapy fall under a medical, insurance-covered model of treatment? Is psychotherapy a modern form of spiritual direction? What can people expect and hope for in the way of change and improvement in psychological functioning if they take up long-term psychotherapy? How much time should psychotherapy take? With what frequency should one meet for therapy? There are as many answers to these questions as there are schools of psychotherapy. Why do we even have so many different “schools?” Murray Stein presents in this seminar the bare bones of the Jungian approach to psychotherapy. The four pillars, to be described and elucidated in the seminar, are: 1. Assessment and evaluation of the state of the psyche in the individuation process; 2. Understanding and using transference and countertransference dynamics in psychotherapy; 3. Interpreting dreams in psychotherapy; 4. Transforming psychic structure through active imagination. Each of these key elements will be described theoretically and illustrated using clinical case material and examples from practice. The purpose of this seminar is both to teach these elements to those who know little about the Jungian approach to psychotherapy and to refresh the skills of those who already know a great deal about them. Texts recommended for preparation are: Jungian Analysis (edited by Murray Stein), Practicing Wholeness by Murray Stein, and Jung’s Map of the Soul by Murray Stein.
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