12th Annual Conference of Research in Jung and Analytical Psychology Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies Wednesday, July 24-Saturday, July 27, 2013 Chicago, IL Deadline for Proposals: November 30, 2012 The title of this conference, Psyche and Society: the work of the unconscious grows out of the themes and concerns of the 11th annual conference of…
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Bonnie Bright and the Depth Psychology Alliance have blessed us again. Bonnie’s interview with Barry Spector is extraordinary, timely, and should not be missed. It can be downloaded or listened to at this LINK. Spector’s mythopoetic voice and message was a sort of chimera blending a trumpet rallying me to battle and a didgeridoo calling…
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Why all the fuss about the end of the world on December 21, 2012? And what do the Maya and Jung have to say about it? By: Nancy Swift Furlotti Do we really believe the end of the world is upon us at the end of this year? It is true that our world feels…
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It’s been 11 years since 9-11 and in that period of time it seems there has been little progress made toward bridging the enormous divides that existed and possibly contributed to the iconic images the world recorded on that fateful Tuesday. If some of those responsible for flying airplanes into the Twin Towers of the…
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I just finished viewing the film We Have to Talk About Kevin. I watched the film primarily out of obligation as we are about to host a seminar on it. I knew nothing about it, other than Dan Ross was moved by it and wanted to lead a seminar about “the Predator.” I was absolutely…
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The predator emerges often in unlikely places. Sometimes it emerges in people we least suspected and we may ask ourselves why we didn’t catch that or ask, “How could I have missed that?” We always seem shocked and we try to put the blame on someone or something, our mental health care system or, dare…
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Neuroscience, Complexity, Chaos, Fractal Geometry, Self-Organization, Emergence, and Jung are explored in the Asheville Jung Center conference “Jung and Neuroscience”. Seven years ago, I enrolled in a college math class at UNC Asheville. I had been unable to crack the code and learn Fractal Geometry on my own (click on this link for a fascinating…
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New York, New York JULY 19-22, 2012 An International Conference Organized by the Art and Psyche Working Group Sponsored by the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, the International Association for Analytical Psychology and the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism Cosponsored and Hosted by New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development: Department of…
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There are many reasons to read The Jung-Kirsch Letters : The Correspondence of C.G. Jung and James Kirsch edited by Dr. Ann Lammers and to attend the conference from the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco on April 28 2012. The book is a trove of historical documents that evoke a sense of how Dr….
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Bias, Trayvon Martin, and Undercurrents in American Society Len Cruz, MD “Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone but only his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things…
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