Just two spaces left in each of these depth workshops for integrative therapists.
Jul 10-11: Working with the Erotic ❤️
Sept 18-19: Money and the Fee 💰
Online + In Person Format (London)
More details: https://t.co/dud8iUv4Lt
I’ll be presenting at the 7th Analysis and Activism conference this October in Mexico City, on the intergenerational trauma of the Tasmanian Genocide and how pilgrimage can contribute to transformation.
Details: https://t.co/xLpv8JmOPz
We can argue about what ‘depth’ means, in my mind, it’s where analytic insight meets relational presence. And in that both numinous and human exchange, healing takes hold.
A wise and thoughtful exploration of approaching mind and body together in therapy and the hazards of too much clinical certainty.
https://t.co/kc24dmGIdD
Wasseem El Sarraj in @psyche_the_mag:
“While they can imitate the language of therapy and reliably deliver a pastiche of validation, they cannot innovate an embodied response to you – a response born from being changed by what they witness. Consider the role of silence; while therapists sense what it holds, LLMs are not changed by silence. For them, silence isn’t training data.”
https://t.co/o7sWnGeUFf
#Jung wrote this during his “confrontation with the unconscious”, when he wrote #TheRedBook as a record of his encounter with the “spirit of the depths”, in which he included many references to “the dead”.
The spiritual journey is not a career or a success story.
It is a series of small humiliations of the false self that become more and more profound.
-Carl Jung
Three #depthpsychology workshops this spring 🌱
April 24-25: Transference & Countertransference
May 15-16: Money & The Fee
May 29-30: Working with the Erotic Friday online + Saturday in-person Kings Cross
More details: https://t.co/CzVaravc2n
➡️ May 15-16: Psychology of Money & "The Fee".
Money as symbol, not just practicality. How our relationship with money connects to developmental anr archetypal material. Plus: how to work with the fee relationally rather than avoiding the conversation. This one sold out quickly last year.
➡️ April 24-25: Unlocking Transference & Countertransference.
Working with projection rather than resolving it away. Transference isn't pathology - it's the royal road to transformation. We'll how to stay participatory without collapsing into collusion.
“In my chosen field of depth #psychology, both a discipline and a way of seeing that seeks to engage with the unknown, to dialogue with the #unconscious, we view #psychopathology somewhat differently than other healing modalities. It is natural for the #ego-driven world, a world that offers much richness, to wish to rid itself of suffering as soon as possible, but from an analytic perspective we rather ask these heuristic questions: why has this come to me, what is its summons, how am I to reframe my understanding of self and world as a result? These questions are not easy, obviously, but they do lead us to a developmental dialogue with that other over which we may have no outer powers of resolution.
Analytic work is very humbling, for it repeatedly teaches us the impossibility of ego-sovereignty over our world. But, rather, the ongoing project is to bring the ego into a more harmonious relationship with the other energies of the psyche, lest we remain at odds with ourselves and further our uncivil war within. The psyche, like other elements of nature, is a constantly shifting cluster, so this work is life-long. One does not get ‘analyzed,’ as some have fancied, but one’s aroused awareness is summoned to an on-going state of vigilant attendance upon the passage of things.”
~James Hollis, Ph.D., Jungian psychoanalyst, Tending The Fire: Creativity, Purpose, and the Unfolding Self, pp. 21-22
This new book by Enrique Martínez Celaya and James Hollis drops February 1st by Chiron Publications.
They join me February 2nd on Speaking of Jung.
📷: James Hollis, The Jung Center of Houston Texas
@becomingethical This resonated on many levels. The individual becoming the interface; see this is many systems. Great way of thinking about the complexity.