The C G Jung Institute of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts Present Its
Professional Development Seminar Series 2005 – Early 2006
Through 2005 and early 2006 The C G Jung Institute of ANZSJA will be offering a series of professional development seminars. These
two day seminars are open to current practicing clinicians from psychologically-informed disciplines, and those who are working
towards training in such disciplines in the near future. The seminars will be clinical in nature and will be based on groups of
presentations from ANZSJA analysts from New South Wales, Canberra, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and
the north and south islands of New Zealand.
It is anticipated that the structure of the seminars will evolve over time, with later seminars including short presentations from nonanalysts who have been involved in the developing seminar series. The seminar series is also expected to evolve towards increased use
of small groups and break-out discussions following presentations.
Auckland, New Zealand 5th & 6th March 2005 (Regional Organizer: Chris Milton)
“WHAT REALLY HAPPENS IN ANALYSIS: DIALOGUES ON THE PLURALISTIC REALITY OF ANALYTIC TECHNIQUE”
As clinicians we declare allegiance to a particular ‘technique’ both directly and indirectly. What we say we do and what we actually do
are, however, often different. In this seminar we will be exploring the pluralistic reality of our analytic technique. We will be inviting
discussion about the things which we really do on a moment to moment basis when we are working with people, and our reflections on
why we do what we do in any given moment. For example how do we build a dialogue with a patient and how do we make shifts in
analytic focus between empathy, interpretation, education, transference/countertransference, dreams, amplification and so on? Specific
questions will be responded to by ANZSJA analysts in order to stimulate discussion. These questions include:
1. What prompts me to empathic attunement and what shifts me towards interpretation?
2. When and how do I move into the role of ‘educating’ my patients and what leads me to do so?
3. What do these shifts tell me about what I really think/feel about transference, countertransference and the analytic container /or
temenos?
4. In what way does transformation enter psychotherapy and what is my role in it?
Note: in order to provide a separate forum for engagement with people who are interested in perhaps applying to train with ANZSJA’s
CG Jung Institute at some point in the future, there will be an open forum on the Friday evening preceding the Auckland seminar where
one or more of the co-convenors of training will be available to respond to questions. There will also be an opportunity after Sunday’s
seminar for the group of people who attend this Friday night meeting to re-convene to address any material which emerges to for them
over the weekend. The purpose of these 2 meetings is to clear the space on Saturday and Sunday for the professional development
seminar to concentrate on it’s clinical objectives.
Gold Coast, Early August 2005 (Regional Organizers: Leon Petchkovsky and Patrick Burnett )
“MINING JUNG’S BANK OF CLINICAL INTUITIONS”
At the core of Jungian theory is an articulation of a defining and organising paradigm for the 21st Century's understanding of
subjectivity and depth psychodynamics. Embedded in Jung's theory of complexes is a model of dynamic patterning which operates
across scale, offering ways of engaging with the question of Self versus radical Other which dominates contemporary thought and
clinical practice. If properly engaged, an awareness of the implications of Jung's understandings offers exciting and challenging
possibilities for post-Jungian praxis, already arguably the most radically intersubjectivist of all the depth psychology methods. Just what
this 'proper engagement' might constitute is at the at the heart of this clinical forum and our ongoing debates about the nature of a
Jungian 'method'. Whatever 'proper engagement' turns out to be, it must gesture towards, and resonate with, the shocking nature of spirit,
creativity, and intimacy.
Canberra 5th & 6th November 2005 (Regional Organizer: Leslie Devereaux)
“THE RECYCLABILITY OF MADNESS”
Jung wanted to know how the human mind reacted to the sight of its own destruction. He thought psychiatry's renunciation of the
symbolic in favour of normative functionality was "an articulate expression of that biological reaction that seizes upon the so-called
healthy mind in the presence of mental illness." What else, then, can be done with madness?
These days, relational and intersubjective approaches to analysis make use of the contagion of madness: empathy, vicarious
introspection, counter-transference all regard the mind of the clinician as the instrument which may move the eruptions of the
unconscious [neurotic or psychotic] into a shared space, rendering it human, recognizable, and therefore able to enter consciousness in
symbolic form.
What are the limits to this? Do we sign up for such personal commitment as analysts, when we might feel safer behind the screen of
objective insight? Can all madness be recycled into something creative? Is analysis a vehicle through which one can, as a clinician, come
to know one's mental instrument well enough to survive what walks in our door? How do we know when a form of madness is
unrecyclable by us?
Melbourne February/ March 2006 (Regional Organizers: Joy Norton & Gillian Clezy)
“SYMPTOMS, SYMBOLS, RELATIONSHIPS - Transitions....”
Using clinical material, experiential understandings, and a range of analytic approaches, this seminar will explore transitions in the
analytic encounter around symptoms, symbols and relationships. Of particular interest is how three aspects of clinical work may unfold
when working within the frame of analytical psychology.
For further details of all seminars see ANZSJA’s website at: http://www.anzsja.org.au, (go to Events Listing). Bookings can be arranged
by emailing pds@anzsja.org.au or calling Jan Blackburn on +61 2 9875 4079. Other queries should be directed to Margaret Caulfield on
+61 2 9380 5409. Please note, there will be no refunds on cancellations made less than 20 days before each event.