Psyche

C. G. Jung Institute Of New York

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The C.G. Jung Institute of New York offers a post-graduate clinical training program that prepares its students for a professional practice as a Jungian psychoanalyst and membership within a worldwide community of Jungian analysts. The training program is designed to meet the requirements for New York State licensure as a Psychoanalyst and students develop their clinical experience through the Institute’s Referral Service.

This clinical program aims to develop, within a community of students and practicing analysts, an analyst with personal and professional competencies in both theory and clinical practice. Throughout your training, you will engage in personal analysis, supervised clinical practice, and small classes that approach analytical work and clinical practice from both historic and contemporary perspectives. Within this style of training, Jungian analytical psychology is studied and applied in the context of an evolving psychological field where basic assumptions about human nature are assessed and applied to clinical theory and methods of practice.

The training program’s philosophy, institutional policies, and teaching methods are geared towards open dialogue, creative expression, and critical discussion with a small class structure. The teaching and supervising faculty have extensive clinical experience, are distinguished within the field, and come to psychoanalysis with a diversity of backgrounds from a variety of disciplines.

In addition to the experienced resident faculty, internationally recognized Analysts are invited to present their unique perspectives. Among these are Ashok Bedi, John Beebe, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Joan Chodorow, Michael Conforti, Mary Dougherty, James Hillman, Katherine Olivetti, and Nathan Schwartz-Salant.

 

C. G. Jung Institute Of Chicago

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The mission of the Institute is to advance Analytical Psychology – the theoretical foundation of Jungian psychoanalysis – as a practice that speaks to the basic human need for psychological growth and consciousness. The objectives of the Institute are to train psychotherapists to become Jungian Psychoanalysts as well as to educate mental health professionals in the principles of Analytical Psychology. The Institute also maintains a collegial society that provides continuing education and ethical review for member analysts as well as supports scholarly research and publication among its members to advance Jungian psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Finally, the Institute offers educational pro­grams in Jungian thought for the general public.

 

C. G. Jung Institute Of Zurich

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In 1948, the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich was founded with the cooperation of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.

His Analytical Psychology and Psychotherapy belong to the psychodynamic therapies, which attach great importance to the unconscious.

To the idea of the personal unconscious, Jung added the concept of the collective unconscious. In this he recognized the primeval imprinting and basic patterns of human life which he called “archetypes” and which are depicted, for example, in myths and fairy tales. These basic patterns give rise to the development of complexes which mirror our individual relationship experiences as well as personal experiences and anchor them in our memories.

Jung’s theory of complexes helps us to understand personality development, relationship conflicts and psychological maladjustmentes and, on this basis, to treat them psychotherapeutically. Jungian psychotherapy promotes the development of one’s own resources and regards a psychic problem as a challenge to a real personal development, a process Jung called “individuation”.

In practical psychotherapeutic work, the interpretation of dreams, typology, pictures, sandplay and active imagination are very important for an understanding of conscious and unconscious psychic processes. The purpose and aim of working with the unconscious is to get in touch with the soul and with one’s individual creative possibilities. On this basis, Jungian psychology and psychotherapy touches upon questions of meaning and of spirituality.

The transcultural orientation of Jung’s work makes for an richer interdisciplinary exchange which is capable of exploring answers to the challenges of a globalized world and of multicultural societies. This aspect in particular makes Analytical Psychology increasingly relevant in the context of the modern world.

 

Nancy Swift Furlotti, Ph.D. – Jungian Analyst

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Past President of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Jungian Analyst Nancy Swift Furlotti, Ph.D. lives in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California. Nancy trained at the Los Angeles Institute while also participating in the von Franz Centre for Depth Psychology in Switzerland. She is a faculty member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, and teaches and lectures in the US and Switzerland. Her articles ‘The Archetypal drama in Puccini’s Madam Butterfly’ and ‘Tracing a Red Thread: Synchronicity and Jung’s Red Book’ have recently been published in Psychological Perspectives. She also has a chapter, ‘Angels and Idols: Los Angeles, A City of Contrasts’ in Tom Singer’s (ed.) book, Psyche and the City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern Metropolis. Her recent book edited with Erel Shalit, The Dream and its Amplification, is available through Amazon and Fisher King Press.

Nancy has a deep interest in exploring the manifestations of the psyche through dreams and myths, with a specific focus on the dark emanations from the psyche. A current focus of research is on Mesoamerican mythology and multiple states of consciousness. Her Ph.D. dissertation was titled, “A Jungian Psychological Amplification of the Popol Vuh,” the Quiché Maya Creation Myth. Nancy’s interest in exploring symbols and deepening her understanding of Jung, have landed her on two foundations: The Philemon Foundation, where she serves as President, and ARAS (Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism). She is also chair of the Film Archive Committee that oversees the Remembering Jung Video Series, 30 interviews with Jungian analysts, and the films, A Matter of Heart and The World Within.

Nancy has recently established the Carl Jung Professorial Endowment in Analytical Psychology at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.

Anarah – Transformative & Intuitive Healer

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AnarahAnarah is an intuitive Life Coach who works with individuals, couples, and groups, to help them produce lasting changes in their lives. She has fused her background in counseling with her training in the esoteric arts to develop her own unique brand of transformational coaching, which she refers to as “Soul Coaching”.

From a young age, Anarah was aware that her experience of the world was different from those around her. She realized early on that there was more to life than what could be perceived through our five senses and this drove her interest in learning about other realms of consciousness and different states of awareness.

Anarah also found that she was highly sensitive to people, and had an ability to hone in on others’ emotions and motivations. In a sense, she was able to glimpse “behind the mask”, to that which was hidden or unspoken. She began to search for the language to articulate these experiences and isconstantly on a quest to discover tools to help people be happier and more fulfilled.

In college Anarah was drawn to study such subjects as psychology. She continued her training post-college in a variety of domains and institutions, beginning with a year of post graduate study in Adult Education at the University of British Columbia. She graduated the Practitioner’s Training Program from The Clearmind Institute, where she developed a deep working knowledge of family systems and patterning. Anarah completed an intensive Clairvoyant Training program in Southern California, to enhance and focus her intuitive abilities and learn different meditation techniques. In addition, Anarah is a Reiki Master and a practitioner of Cranial Sacral Therapy.

Anarahhas a gift for helping people gain a deeper self-awareness. In her gentle and supportive manner, she guides her clients to confront their issues, limitations and hurts, and to move beyond these to bring about profound transformation. Her clients report that through their work with her, they are able to manifest their desired outcomes while experiencing life in a new, more empowered way.

Over the past 15 years, Anarah has developed a base of private clients both in the US and internationally, that have grown primarily through referral. Her teaching repertoire includes a series of Meditation, Healing and Relationship workshops that she teaches in Orange and San Diego Counties. She is well traveled, and has lived on four different continents. Currently, Anarah makes her home in Newport Beach, California, where she lives with her husband of 17 years.

 

Michel Gellert – Jungian Analyst

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Michel GellertMichael Gellert is a Jungian analyst practicing in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California. He treats individuals and couples and offers a psychotherapy group and a writing workshop. He was formerly Director of Training at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, where he is currently a research instructor. He has also been a humanities professor at Vanier College, Montreal, and a lecturer in religious studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Prior to living in Los Angeles he lived in New York City, where he supervised District Council 37’s Personal Service Unit Outreach Program, an employee assistance program for employees of the City of New York.

Over the years he has served as a mental health consultant to various organizations, including the University of Southern California and Time magazine. Michael was born and raised in Montreal. He was educated in rabbinic Judaism, traveled overland from Europe to India at age 19, studied theology at Loyola College in Montreal, and trained with the renowned Zen master Koun Yamada in Japan for two years. He has master’s degrees in religious studies and social work, and studied with Marshall McLuhan at the University of Toronto.

The author of Modern Mysticism, The Fate of America, and The Way of the Small, he lectures widely on psychology, religion, and contemporary culture.

 

In the Beggar’s Outstretched Hand

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by Erel Shalit, Ph.D.

We all react when we see the beggar in the corner of the streets, stretching out his, or her, hand, begging us for a small contribution.

We may react by turning away, passing by as if we didn’t see, or we may give him something in order to quiet our conscience, or in order not to be bothered any more, or we may give out of compassion, or we may refrain from giving because it contradicts our social norm that “a man shall earn his living” and we should not encourage begging as a way of living.

There are plenty of stories about the beggar who after his death is discovered to have accumulated a fortune. These stories may be true or not, in the material sense, but they do carry an essential truth pertaining to the archetypal aspect of the beggar. The beggar out there in “real life” is a reversal of the beggar in our soul; his or her poverty is a reversal for the richness of the beggar who dwells in our interiority.

While the real life beggar asks for something, the beggar as an archetypal image that reflects a deep layer of our soul does not ask anything from us. He, or she, does not even beg to be seen. The beggar does not carry a persona, that outer layer or mask of appearance, that social face we need to carry. No, the soul-image IS, truly, the persona. Persona, like person, comes from the Latin per sonare, by means of voice. The beggar whispers that Voice from within, which easily goes unheard.

If in outer life we may pass by the beggar as if we didn’t see him, internally we often don’t hear his voice, simply because we don’t stop to listen, to listen to our own call, our personal vocation.

While in consciousness we may have formulated a principle or an attitude towards beggars and begging, whether to see or not to see him/her, it is infinitely more difficult to realize that the inner beggar, who stands at the gateway to our innermost self, the kernel of our wellspring, does not ask anything of us. It is entirely up to myself whether I will stop, stay and reflect, to hear his Voice, calling on my merely by the whisper of the wind, and to see the microcosm that hides in the nothingness of the beggar’s outstretched hand.