Episodes

with Dan Ross, RN, PMHNP In recognition of the current COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis affecting our healthcare system, we are sharing a recent seminar by Dan Ross, “Death Panels: Our Cultural Complex around Death”, in its entirety. This seminar was part of our public program series this year, and was recorded on February 28th, 2020. The Spirit of the Times shapes our heroic attitude toward disease and death. Instead of the initiatory experience that fear of death can provide, we are paralyze...

Fanny Brewster, PhD, MFA, LP , was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at this year’s Founders’ Day Symposium on March 21st. The event has since been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Fanny Brewster is a Jungian analyst, and a professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a writer of nonfiction including African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows (Routledge, 2017), Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss (Routledge, 2018) and The Racial...

with June Singer and other Analysts The introduction to this episode is an interview with George Hogenson regarding our upcoming event Opera with an Analyst: Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. This day-long event, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago on April 11th, includes Dr. Hogenson’s presentation on the archetypal dimensions of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung , Colin Ure’s presentation on its musical dynamics, followed by the opera itself. A limited number of tickets are available on our website. If you already ...

In celebration of our Holiday Giving Drive, we are unlocking a full seminar by Polly Young-Eisendrath, “Gather Up Your Brokenness: Love, Imperfection, & Human Ideals”. You can be a part of this campaign by visiting our website and making a donation. Donors at the Supporter level and above will be acknowledged in the credits of this podcast. There are other benefits to donating so please consider visiting our website and making a contribution. This episode is the second half of “Gather Up Your B...

In celebration of our Holiday Giving Drive, we are unlocking a full seminar by Polly Young-Eisendrath, “Gather Up Your Brokenness: Love, Imperfection, & Human Ideals”. You can be a part of this campaign by visiting our website and making a donation. Donors at the Supporter level and above will be acknowledged in the credits of this podcast. There are other benefits to donating so please consider visiting our website and making a contribution. This episode is the first half of “Gather Up Your Br...

Boris Matthews, PhD, LCSW, NCPsyA, the Director of Training at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, interviews two Jungian Psychoanalysts and recent graduates of our Analyst Training Program (ATP), Adina Davidson, PhD, and Dan Ross, RN, PMHNP, MSN, MBA, about why they chose to commit to Jungian work and how it has change their practices. The Analyst Training Program prepares experienced, licensed clinicians to become certified as Jungian psychoanalysts through an in-depth understanding of the th...

Thomas Moore will be visiting us in October to lead a two-day seminar (registration is open now). As an introduction to Moore’s perspective and voice, we are sharing the first hour of his previous workshop with us, Cultivating Soul, which included two parts: Part 1: Ageless Soul Thomas Moore will speak about the themes of his book, Ageless Soul, and engage in conversation with attendees and analysts. Ageless soul offers positive and inspiring guidance for becoming a full person as time goes by....

Preparing to Meet the Gods: The Soul Turned Inward with John Van Eenwyk, PhD Experiencing the archetypes as personified gods and goddesses active in our lives reveals the great powers shaping our moods, choices, and actions. Facing the Gods: Archetypal Patterns of Existence illuminates the Olympian stories that serve as reflecting pools where we, as psychic heirs of Greece, discover ourselves. By recognizing the gods and goddesses at work we can gain release from archetypally determined pattern...

with Robert Moore, PhD This lecture is the first part of the series Structural Psychoanalysis and Integrative Psychotherapy: Introduction to a Neo-Jungian Paradigm, which contains the following lectures: Lecture 1 – Breaking the Code of the Archetypal Self: An Introductory Overview of the Research Discoveries Leading to Neo-Jungian Structural Psychoanalysis Lecture 2 – Deep Structures and the War of the Psychological Systems Lecture 3 – Structural Diagnosis: A Neo-Jungian Approach to Underst...

with Lucille Klein, MA, NCPsyA With the current debate over the nature and content of gender, Jung’s concepts of the anima/animus are being re-examined and, in some cases, reformulated or even discarded as a means of conceptualizing psychological life. It was recorded in 1989. This lecture is part of the set Views of the Animus, which includes the following lectures: Jung’s Concept of the Animus – Lucille Klein Animus Images in Dreams, Myths, and Fairytales – Lois Khan Female Authority: Sta...

with Robert Moore, PhD This episode is part one of the series The Four Couples Within: The Structure of the Self and the Dynamics of Relationship. It was recorded in 1989. The four archetypal couples inherent in the Self—the King and Queen, the Warriors, the Magicians, the Lovers—create four distinct psychosocial environments within a relationship. The archetypal dynamics underlying both fulfillment and frustration in human relationships are examined in this seminar recording, with particular f...

with August Cwik, PsyD This episode is the first half of Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche: The World According to C.G. Jung. It was recorded in 1992. Cwik introduces the basic elements of the psyche as described by Jung: persona, ego, shadow, complex, the Self, archetype, and collective unconscious. This lecture is part of the set An Intensive Overview of Analytical Psychology, which includes the following lectures: Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, August Cwik The Ego and Its Relati...

with John Giannini, MDiv, LCPC, NCPsyA This episode is part one of the series Understanding and Healing Addictions: A Jungian Contribution. It was recorded in 1990. This course offers a Jungian understanding and healing of addictions by considering the correspondence between Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and Carl Jung, whom Wilson praises for being one of the key influences leading to the formation of AA and its 12 Steps. The meaning of addiction within our culture is also e...

with Robert Moore, PhD This episode is part one of the series Myth and Psyche: An Introduction to Jungian Perspectives on Human Mythology. It was recorded in 1992. According to Jung, myth-making is a natural and impersonal potential present in the collective unconscious of all peoples throughout all times. Drawing on the contributions of Jung, Campbell, and Eliade, this course explores the role of myth in human life. Five of the major mythological themes prominent in world mythology are examin...

with Ken James, PhD This episode is the first part of the series The Way of the Sly One: The Psychology of Our Possible Evolution in the Writings of Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, & Jung. Most depth psychological theories look backward into the personal history of the individual in order to find the causes for neurotic symptoms, gain insight into their persistence in the present, and diminish their effects in the future. A key feature of Jungian psychology is the addition of a forward focus, a construc...

with June Singer and other Analysts As we enter a new year, it seems right to share the recording of the program “The Fate of Depth Psychology in the New Millenium”, held in 1998. It includes introductory remarks by June Singer and a lengthy discussion with panel and audience members. We hope this event will facilitate reflection as we enter 2018. From the original CD jacket: “As we approach the year 2000 humanity finds itself, as it always will, wrestling with the eternal questions of the mea...

with Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD This episode is the first part of the series Women’s Mysteries: Sources of Creativity, Religion & Spirituality, & Solace. Jungian analyst and author Jean Shinoda Bolen leads a workshop for women “who seek to nurture their own creative and spiritual yearnings and find ways of expressing, articulating, and valuing what grows out of their inner life and the life they have lived so far. In the company of other women who know that suffering and joy and life are linked, p...

with Murray Stein, PhD This lecture, “Origins: The Ego Once- and Twice-Born”, is part one of the series A Psychological Approach to the Bible I. It was recorded in 1989. Jungian analyst Murray Stein leads a study of the Bible for its insight into psychological questions about the ego’s proper relation to the self, the ultimate aim of individuation in coniunctio, and encounters with the shadow. The set includes the following lectures: Origins: The Ego Once- and Twice-Born Bondage vs. Freedom:...

with Lionel Corbett, MD & Cathy Rives, MD This episode is the first session of the series Jungian Psychology & Kohut’s Self-Psychology. The psychoanalytic methods of self psychology as developed by Heinz Kohut examine the development and the developmental disturbances of self-esteem and confidence, the formation and malformation of guiding ideals, empathy for the thoughts and feelings of others, initiative and creativity, and even sense of humor and wisdom. Lionel Corbett and Cathy Rives compa...

with Boris Matthews, PhD, LCSW. We are rebroadcasting this episode because it inexplicably disappeared from our iTunes feed. The work of C.G. Jung offers thoughtful clinicians useful, practical insights into the emotional lives of clients. Yet much of his work remains unknown to many clinicians. The “Jung 101” series, which began with this lecture on September 18, 2015, introduces Jung’s key concepts. In this lecture, Boris Matthews will present Jung’s concept of individuation, explaining why i...

with Thomas Patrick Lavin, PhD This episode is the first session of the series Christian Shamanism: Visions of Nikolas of Flue. A shaman is a person who has been forced by fate to take an inner, awe-filled journey which ultimately gives a new form to the person and to the culture. This journey demands sacrifice, isolation from the collective’s expectations, and a particular form of courage which is able to accept new forms of awareness and new forms of the divine. Every religious tradition ha...

with Robert Moore, PhD This episode is part one of the series Jungian Psychology and Human Spirituality: Liberation from Tribalism in Religious Life. It was recorded in 1989. In this seminar, Dr. Moore stresses that “although it is important that people find and affirm their common human spiritual roots, it is time to realize that tribalism in human culture, politics, and religion must be transcended. Jungian thought may be a vehicle to assist in facilitating that process.” Robert Moore, PhD ...

with Anthony Stevens, MD This episode is part one of the series The Archetypal Realities of Everyday Life. It was recorded in 1986. This seminar examines the ways in which the archetypes of the collective unconscious guide, form, and vitalize our daily existence. We can perceive this archetypal influence subjectively in consciousness and objectively in art and literature. As Jung wrote: “The impact of an archetype, whether it takes the form of an immediate experience or is expressed through th...

with Murray Stein, PhD This episode is part one of the series Understanding the Meaning of Alchemy. It was recorded in 1992. During the last thirty years of his life, Jung turned to alchemy as a fundamental resource for depth psychology. In alchemy he found images and thoughts that were uniquely fitted to his perceptions of psychological life and that confirmed his views of the spontaneous activity and directedness of the unconscious. Jungian analyst and author Murray Stein presents an overvie...