Conferences

Time and Trauma in Analytical Psychology and Psychotherapy

The Wisdom of Andean Shamanism By Deborah Bryon

Psychological, psychodynamic, and Jungian approaches to evil. 

Seminar topics:

This lecture will discuss the sources of evil both from the point of view of the individual's psychology and culture. We will compare traditional religious views of evil with psychological approaches. In particular, we will look at the developmental factors that predispose to evil behavior from the point of view of Jungian theory and psychoanalytic theory. We will discuss Jung’s notion of the dark side of the Self, or archetypal evil, and its relationship to the personal shadow. 

Individuation, Ego-death, and Evolution

Seminar topics:

• Phase between the primary maternal form of attachment and Ego development 
• The transitional object and importance of playing in childhood
• The importance of myths, fairy tales and imaginative techniques in emotional regulation.

How can we, as psychotherapist, help our patients to repair in adult life, the failure of the experience of the transitional object "phase"

Seminar topics:

• Phase between the primary maternal form of attachment and Ego development 
• The transitional object and importance of playing in childhood
• The importance of myths, fairy tales and imaginative techniques in emotional regulation.

Animal symbolism in dreams, active imagination, and mythology & the meaning of centering in the individuation process

Seminar topics:

• Instinctive and archetypal meanings
• Dreams, active imagination, and personal significance 
• Focused on the individuation process

Is it possible to live your true life? Wounds of manhood and healing in therapy.

Seminar topics:

• Dilema of men nowadays
• Therapy and rites of passage in transformation
• Therapy to heal the wounds

"The manifestation of the sacred in therapy".

Seminar Topics:

• How we experience sacred in therapy?
• About “sacred and nouminos “ in Jung perspective
• Contemplating beyound ordinary or the everyday ego

 Hatred, adolescence and the paradoxes of growth

Seminar Topics:

1. Understanding the mind of adolescent and how they experience Hate, Love and Knowledge using Bion models
2. Exploring the way Jung articulates the coexistence of ‘good’ and ‘evil’, and the paradoxical nature of mental functioning in relation to the individuation process.
3. Theory about adolescent mind, and its dramatic phenomenology using case examples from analytic work with a mid-adolescent female patient and a late-adolescent male patient.

3Visionary Experiences of Individuation and The Self in Turbulent, Transitions Times
(Experiențe vizionare ale Individuării și Sinelui în vremuri tulburi, de tranziție)

Seminar Topics:

1.Analogies in Myth, Legends, and Healing Rituals
2.Spiritual emergency: The Inner Movement towards Reconnection 
3.Creative Integration of Meaningful Visions & Dreams.