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Our programs are being offered online, via Zoom,

until further notice due to COVID-19.

Links will be in your registration confirmation email. They will also be sent out at least 12 hours before the program starts. If you have not received the Zoom link for a program you have paid for 12 hours before its start time, please reach out directly to support@jung.org, thank you.

Registration closes at NOON the day before the program begins.

You can take a look at our mini quick guide about Zoom here - HOW TO USE ZOOM

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Friday, March 22 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm, Eastern Time

Jung's Philosophy in Context, a Lecture with Lionel Corbett

This lecture will place Jung’s thinking in the context of some of the major philosophical commitments that underpin contemporary theories of psychology and psychotherapy. Rather than compare Jung with other schools of thought on the basis of differences in clinical theory and technique, this lecture will describe Jung’s assumptions about the psyche, about human nature, and even about reality that underpin his theory and distinguish it from other approaches. 

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Saturday, March 23 | 1:00pm - 4:00pm, Eastern Time

Jung's Philosophy in Context, a Workshop with Lionel Corbett

This workshop will describe how Jung’s approach to the psyche and to psychotherapy arises out of his philosophical commitments. I will show how his is a philosophy of idealism, and how he does not see the psyche as merely a product of the brain. I will discuss Jung’s rejection of metaphysics but how he also reveals his personal metaphysical beliefs, especially his monism, based on the idea of the unus mundus. I will show how Jung acknowledges a spiritual dimension to the psyche, in contrast to most other forms of psychology, especially in terms of his ideas about the Self and the objective psyche as a source of religious experience. I will discuss the debate about Jung’s status as a scientist. Finally, I will describe how Jung and Wolfgang Pauli tried but failed to find common ground between depth psychology and quantum mechanics based on their common interest in synchronicity.

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Friday, April 5 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm, Eastern Time

An Evening With Manisha Roy: The Interface of Creative Writing and Depth Psychology

This lecture will try to convey how creative writing can not only be an expression of the writer’s depth psychological work but also can be an essential accompaniment for a deeper satisfaction and understanding of oneself. Creating fiction, for example, can be a form of active imagination that renders a kind of healing power to the imaginary characters vis-à-vis the author and hopefully the readers as well. 

I shall use my novel Professor Hamilton’s Passage to India (Chiron, 2022) to illustrate these realizations and observations. My own personal journey of self-exploration went hand-in-hand with my writing passion via an unconscious synchronistic event that remained unknown to the ego for many years until a life-threatening trauma made it conscious. My analytical training and creative writing enriched each other immensely.

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Five Alternate Mondays, April 8 - June 3 | 7:30pm - 9:30pm, Eastern Time

Works on Betrayal, Revenge, and Forgiveness: A Course with Julie Bondanza

Betrayal cuts deep and can lead us to exact revenge and, possibly, to forgive, which can heal both us and the other. In this course, we will look at these strong emotions through the eyes of some of the great writers. The readings for the course include four novels and a play - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Embers by Marai SandorThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert, and King Lear by William Shakespeare.

I’m looking forward to seeing you. 

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Four Tuesdays, April 9 - 30 | 7:30pm - 9:30pm, Eastern Time

Revitalize, Revive, Reclaim: A Reunion With Your Creative Process: A Course with Kaitlin Staples-Vigo

Join me for a four-week immersive art workshop where we will explore various depth-oriented techniques for stimulating creativity. We will explore symbolic material, muses, sources of creative support, and methodology that fosters the creative process. By the end of this workshop, you will have gained access to methods that allow for a deeper relationship to unconscious creative content. Participants will be invited to share as little or as much of the products they create as they’d like. Although led by an art therapist, this experience is not clinical in nature nor intended as a therapeutic intervention. 

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Friday, April 19 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm, Eastern Time

An Evening With Tim Lyons: Dialoguing with the Dissociative Identities of Psyche and Soma:Understanding Metabolism and Individuation

Every psychic and somatic experience originates from the metabolic combustion furnace that constitutes the human body. This inner fire ignites the life force, burning organic fuels and processing psychic experiences that can nourish and regenerate the cells of our body or sicken and destroy them. Autonomic functions of our organs, body systems, and the desires of our ego consciousness often find themselves at odds, dissociated from each other. In The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease (1960), Carl Jung pointed out that from this conflict unexpected contents may emerge from the unconscious: “the dissociation can even go so far as to create one or more secondary personalities, each, apparently, with a separate consciousness of its own.” 

Jung suspected that psychic dysfunction and ultimately psychosis were linked to both psychogenic and metabolic causes. He concluded that "individuation cannot occur without the body." From his practical experience at the Burgholzli psychiatric hospital in Zurich (1900-1909), Jung speculated, “disturbances of the sympathetic system, of the metabolism and the blood-circulation, produces, both psychologically and physiologically, an overall picture of schizophrenia, which in many respects reminds one of a toxic disturbance, and…the possible presence of a specific, metabolic toxin.” Could we then, by understanding the metabolic alchemy of psyche and soma, heal psychic splits, improve physical health, and help ourselves achieve conscious individuation? (Continue reading on his program page) 


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Please note, by agreeing to enroll in an online program offered by the Jung Society of Washington, you are also agreeing to comply with our terms. This means that you cannot record (through internal or external devices) the audio, visuals (photos), or video of the program. The intellectual property belongs to the Jung Society of Washington, and we ask you not to violate this policy. Also, we highly value the anonymity of the content of the program, of the presenters, and of individuals present in the program, and hope that everyone can contribute to a respectful and trust-building online environment.  The Jung Society of Washington is not a therapeutic institution. We do not conduct therapy at all. We are not insured to manage therapeutic material in our programs, even if the presenter is a therapist. For this reason, it is important that people do not bring their personal issues into the discussions at our programsThank you!


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