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What: Lecture
Who: Caterina Vessoli, Ph.D & Brigitte Egger, Ph.D
When: Friday
Fee: $25.00, all
From Caterina: The recent research in neuroscience and the work on dissociation, done by scientists and psychoanalysts, have given new life to the work of Jung as a clinician and as a scientist. Working as a psychiatrist at the dawn of the last century, Jung at the beginning of his career, developed a profound interest in the human soul, while as a scientist he was deeply dissatisfied with the paradigms of the positivistic science of his time. Jung was in search of a paradigm that could conjugate what was called "the personal equation" to a scientific model that could explain matter and psyche, perfectly aware that it wasn't a question of reducing natural science to mysticism or vice-versa. In the years of the great discoveries of Einstein, Pauli, Heisenberg, Bohr, etc., Jung considered that psychology had to become a science and with great courage confronted his developing theory with the modern theory of physics; he attempted to deeply know and understand the personal equation in the light of the new paradigms that science was elaborating. Today, a hundred years later, it may be that, albeit with less ingenuity and more theoretical tools, we can develop some of Jung's intuitions and concepts and see them at work in our clinical practice. Clinical material will illustrate how the concepts of synchronicity and psychoid, for so- long questioned, can today be understood and used in clinical practice and in life.
Caterina Vezzoli is a Jungian training analyst residing in Milan, Italy. Her fields of study, research, and professional interests include psychothera-peutic hypnosis, sexual disturbance, addictions, children and their dreams, the association experiment, and the effects of psychotherapy. Her interests in clinical research have seen her involved in different projects in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry of the Milan University. As Supervisor she has on-going collaborations with the Italian National Health Service in the Units for the Treatment of Addictions and in the Department of Developmental Psychology. Caterina earned her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Padua, Italy; she received her diploma in analytical psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich , where she is also a training analyst. She has been president, director, and currently serves as treasurer of CIPA, the Jungian Training Institute of Milan.
From Brigitte: Our main ecological problems, like climate change and biodiversity loss, are linked to our overuse of material energy. What contribution can a Jungian approach bring to such an urgent issue? How does it describe the underlying psychic predispositions leading to such overuse? To have energy is a central wish of us all, both as psychic energy (be it inspiration, love, knowledge, hope, etc.) and as material energy (be it money, oil, electricity, etc.). But any imbalance between the psychic and the material spheres may turn destructive on both sides, as seen in the widespread psychic depression and nearly suicidal overuse of material energy - both symbolically linked. Main causes are the loss of symbolic understanding and the loss of the soul dimension, which leads us to unconsciously project our inner needs onto the concrete outer world, overcharging the latter with constraints and obsessions and draining psychic energy. Conversely, to take care of soul needs, to become more conscious - thanks to symbolic understanding - means to gain free psychic energy and to liberate the outer world. This raises the question of giving adequate, life-fostering form to psychic energy on a collective level and even more on a very personal level, an eminently ethical question.
Brigitte Egger is a Jungian training analyst with private a practice in Zürich as well as an ecologist with a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. She concentrates her research on the psychic and symbolic dimensions of collective issues and works at introducing this dimension into practical environment protection - especially concerning energy and water, further predators, landscape, and market globalization - thus building up the field of psychecology.
Come early; parking is on the street. Also, or this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.
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