Please note this course is a 6-week course held bi-weekly on Mondays.

The dates are September 16th and 30th, October 14th and 28th,

and November 11th and 25th, 2024.

This program is an ongoing reading and discussion class from previous semester(s). 

The reading material is Psychology and Alchemy, CW 12.

Psychology and Alchemy, Collected Works, Volume 12, is one of C. G. Jung’s most influential works.  This book serves as Jung’s introduction to alchemy. Carl Jung felt that alchemy provided an archetypal backdrop for his own concept of psychological transformation, the individuation process. Additionally, Jung found that the alchemical images, due to their source in the objective psyche, continue to live on in the psyches of humankind in dreams and other fantasy materials, and thus provide an objective basis from which to approach unconscious material.  The major portion of Jung’s later work revolves around the material in this volume.

Please note, familiarity with Jung's previous works is recommended but not necessary. 

The course is thorough, progressing slowly, and with a lot of discussion for each paragraph.

Cathryn Polonchak,  L.C.S.W., is a certified Jungian Analyst and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of West Virginia.  She has a private practice in the Shepherdstown and the Charles Town/Harpers Ferry areas of West Virginia.  Cathryn is a member of JAWA,  the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA), the International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP), and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW).  She was the past Director of Seminar for PAJA.  She is interested in the interface between body and mind, particularly at the psyche-soma level of trauma.