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Active Imagination In the classic form of Jungian psychoanalysis, active imagination played a key role as a method for engaging the unconscious and for instituting the more advanced stages of the individuation process. An important tool in the practice of active imagination was and remains “making pictures.’ Using pencil, pen, paint, clay and other means of expression, the practitioner gives concrete reality and embodiment to the images generated in active imagination. This seminar will focus on how the method came into being, how it was and is used, and how it has evolved during the past several decades into its contemporary forms. Murray Stein will introduce and explain the method of active imagination and its history, and Paul Brutsche will show how the making of pictures in particular plays a role and how the pictures created are worked with and interpreted within the context of long-term Jungian psychotherapy.
Friday August 7th, 2009 8:30 am-1:15 pm (Eastern Time Zone)
Sites: Asheville, Raleigh, Charlotte & Omaha
Fee: $89 4CEU's available
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Learning Objectives:
1. To gain an understanding of Jungian thinking about active imagination and the use of images in psychotherapy.
2. To learn practical application of Jungian active imagination in psychotherapy.
3. To understand the meaning of such products of the unconscious as symbolic.
4. To learn about personal and archetypal levels of images and their meaning.
Outline of seminar:
An interview with Paul Brutsche.
“Introduction to active imagination as a psychotherapeutic method: History and Contemporary Forms.” – Murray Stein. Followed by questions and discussion.
Break
“Working with Pictures in the Psychotherapeutic Setting” - Paul Brutsche.
Followed by questions and discussion.
Questions and discussion with Murray Stein and Paul Brutsche.
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Murray Stein, PhD is a training analyst and currently co-president of The International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland (ISAP Zurich). He is the author of The Principle of Individuation and many other books and articles in the field of Jungian Psychoanalysis. From 2001 to 2004 he was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He has lectured internationally and presently makes his home in Switzerland.
Paul Brutsche, Ph.D. was born in 1943 in Basel Switzerland. He studied philosophy and psychology, and received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Zürich. He trained at the C.G. Jung Institut, Zürich, and is in private practice since 1975. He is a former President of the Swiss Society of Analytical Psychology, of the C.G. Jung Institute and of ISAP International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich. His special areas of interest are art and picture interpretation. He has lectured in Switzerland and in different countries in Europe and overseas.
Further readings:
Abt, T. 2005. Picture Interpretation according to C. G. Jung. Zurich: Living Human
Heritage.
Cwik, A. 1995. "Active Imagination: Synthesis in Analysis," in Jungian Analysis, 2nd
Edition (ed. Murray Stein). Chicago: Open Court.
Hannah, B. 2001. Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination as Developed by
C.G. Jung. Wilmette, IL.: Chiron Publications.
Jung, C.G. Visions: Notes of the Seminar given in 1930-34 (ed. Claire Douglas).
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Raff, J. 2000. Jung and the Alchemical Imagination. York Beach, ME.: Nicholas-Hays.
Schaverein, J. "Art, Dreams, and Active Imagination," in JAP 50:2 (2005), pp. 127-153.
Schlamm, Leon. "C.G. Jung's Visionary Mysticism," in Harvest Vol. 52, No 1, 2006.
Swann, Wendy. "Tina Keller's analyses with C.G. Jung and Toni Wolff, 1915-1928," in
JAP 51:4 (2006), pp. 493-510.
Von Franz, M.-L. 1997. Alchemical Active Imagination. Boston & London: Shambhala.