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The Jung Society  of Washington is dedicated to the experience of the Self and serves the "still small voice" of human longing (sometimes called "holy longing") that comes to us in our dreams and in moments of silence, contemplation, creativity, and imagination. Our programs support the exploration of our own psychic depths and the "heroic struggle" for personality integration and wholeness that Dr. Carl Gustav Jung called "individuation." We offer lectures, courses, workshops, evenings with distinguished analysts, that help guide our unique inner venture.


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Bring a New Guest to the Jung Memorial
Lecture by Don Kalsched

Members, if your friend has never attended programs at the Jung Society before, this time they can come for free!
Please email us at radhika@jung.org to receive a code. Please mention your friend's name. 

ANNOUNCEMENT FOR CLINICIANS:  
CLINICAL CASE SEMINAR WITH DON KALSCHED, PH.D.

Date:  Sunday, June 3, 2018, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location:  Alban Towers Community Room, 
3700 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016.
This facility is ADA accessible.

Contact Melanie Starr Costello, PhD, at drmscostello@gmail.com,
301-928-9333 for further program details and educational objectives.

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    The Jung Society provides continuing education for the human spirit. We help people find deeper meaning in everyday life. Our programs offer a wide variety of topics, taught by Jungian experts and other professionals in the disciplines of psychology, education, the humanities, and the arts. We explore educational themes from personal growth and insights to responses to love, loss, life passages, dreams, fairy-tales, the soul, psychological types, and more. 

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      OF SPECIAL INTEREST

      GLIMPSES OF THE "CORE COMPLEX" UNDERLYING
      TRAUMA AND DISSOCIATION: The Jung Memorial Lecture by Don Kalsched

      For the last 30 years, I have been writing about a sophisticated inner system of archetypal defenses (known as the “self-care system”), which forms what I believe to be a core complex of the traumatized psyche.  The purpose of this inner structure (witnessed in both mythology and dreams) seems to be to dissociate, protect, and defend a sacred, innocent core of en-souled selfhood from further violation by experience. 

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      By joining the Jung Society of Washington, you are taking an important step to connect with our inspiring community of educators and learners. Our members receive several benefits: discounts for most of our programs, free articles, video and audio recordings in the Member's Area, Jung Society Library borrowing privileges and more.

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      Library

      The Jung Society Library contains more than 3000 books, including Carl G. Jung The Collected Works and classics of Jungian studies. We are now working on creating an online catalogue of the library so you can easily find and request a book you need.
      Become a Member of the Jung Society and receive library borrowing privileges. Plus, get access to  hundreds of Jungian newsletters and publications. 

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      analysts

      Jung Society of Washington works in close collaboration with the local Jungian Analysts. Many of them are the Faculty that leads classes and programs at the Jung Society. If you are interested in connecting with the analysts please visit JAWA (Jungian Analysts of Washington Association) website by clicking the logo below.


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      SUPPORT THIS PROJECT

      Thanks to your generous donations in April our first online course has been published! Its title is The Interpretation of Dreams with James Hollis, Ph.D. Several other analysts expressed their interest in creating online courses. Please help us to reach our donation goal in May. We are getting ready for a new semester of wonderful classes. If you are interested, you can underwrite any of these classes. Underwriting gifts are typically between $300 and $1,500. Including your name in the program guide as an underwriter sparks interest about this opportunity in the larger Jung Society community. We would love to add your name to the program guide as an underwriter!
      Goal: $6,000.00
      Collected: $4,500.00
      75%

      OUR MISSION
      The Jung Society of Washington brings the general public and professional community the insights and tools of analytic psychology and related disciplines. Through programs, classes, visiting speakers, partnerships with like organizations, and digital media, the Jung Society creates a platform for communal discussion regarding the personal and cultural issues that confront us. The tools these programs provide assist individuals, relationships, and societies in a dialogue that enhances understanding the unconscious dynamics that course through personal lives, cultural problems, and historic patterns.

      JUNG SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON
      5200 Cathedral Ave., NW
      Washington, DC 20016
      CALL: 202-237-8109
      EMAIL: jungsociety@jung.org

      OFFICE & LIBRARY HOURS:
      Weekdays: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

      DIRECTIONS
      BY CAR: From MacArthur Blvd., turn east (away from the Potomac River) onto Cathedral at the light between Loughboro and Arizona.

      BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT: D6 bus line.
      Parking is available in the streets.
      Entrance to the Jung Society library and office is from the side street, Hawthorne Place.


      The Jung Society of Washington is a nonprofit educational institution. Although many of the Jung Society's programs involve analytical psychology and allied subjects, these offerings are intended, and should be viewed, as a source of information and education, and not as therapy. The Jung Society does not offer psychoanalytical or other mental health services.
      Images of mandalas throughout this site were created by Carl Jung's patients between the years 1926 and 1945.
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