Friday night Public Lectures: |
Saturday morning Seminars/ Workshops (practicing
psychotherapists only): |
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Friday 15th October: PUBLIC LECTURE at 8pm TCD
'Still Living in Jung's Shadow?'
The recent publication of the Red Book begs the questions of why Jung felt unable to release it during his lifetime, and why it has taken another fifty years to appear. Does this point to an ambivalence on Jung's part toward the"numinous beginning which contained everything"? Today, we ask whether this shadow has been erased - or whether we, in our current anxiety to present therapy as effective and highly regulated, are likewise in danger of omitting to give full weight to key elements in our training and professional practice.
Speaker: Bill Callanan, is an Analytic Psychotherapist, founder member and former Chair of the IAPA. He has also trained as a Family Therapist and has had a long-term involvement with psychotherapy training in a variety of theoretical settings. He has lectured widely on Carl Jung including teaching modules at TCD, DBS, and Creative Counselling centre, as well as having been a visiting lecturer at All Hallows College and The Milltown Institute.
Saturday 16th October: Clinical Seminar 10am - 1pm. Milltown
'Soul-Searching'
The Red Book shows Jung's use of Active Imagination to engage in a debate with his soul around the role played by religion, particularly Christianity, in contemporary spiritual problems. Using these dramatic vignettes as a starting point, this seminar will explore from a depth-psychology perspective, issues that may bear on the current collective malaise in religion.
Presenter: Bill Callanan
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Friday 26th November: PUBLIC LECTURE at 8pm. TCD
'Color Me Green - Envy, Begrudgery, and the Death of Eros'
'One of the Seven Deadly Sins, envy is a destructive psychic attitude that poisons and cripples relationships with family, friends, work colleagues. This silent killer can ultimately damage the the inner relationship we have with our Self. As an unconscious aspect of shadow, envy is often left unexamined and can tragically diminish the energy available to fully live a creative and authentic life. Whether we are the one who envies, or the envied,, the psychic wound so inflicted can be deep, damaging - and even incapacitating. This lecture addresses philosophical, religious and psychological approaches to envy, and attempts to expand understanding of the role envy and begrudgery play in our lives.
Speaker: Diane Fassett, Jungian Analyst and former Chair of the IAPA, currently in private practice in Washington DC and Rhinebeck NY. She has lectured and taught on programmes in Dublin and Washington, and has developed courses integrating psychiatry and psychotherapy, comparisons of Jungian and Freudian approaches, and has a particular interest in the therapeutic use of painting and drawing.
Saturday 27th November: Clinical Workshop 10 am - 4pm. Milltown
‘Color Me Conscious -The Therapeutic Use of Painting and Drawing'
When we draw, paint, or doodle, the unconscious speaks. Interaction with these images begins a dialogue with the unconscious, expanding our conscious understanding of ourselves and others. In the workshop we will work with the paintings and drawings of clients as well as with images from our own dreams and feelings in an effort to better understand unconscious processes. A Jungian approach to picture interpretation will be introduced during the experiential processes of drawing and painting. Discussion will provide a safe container to explore personal reactions to unconscious contents which may be frightening, mysterious, and illuminating.
Presenter: Diane Fassett
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Saturday 12th February: Clinical Seminar 10am-1pm Milltown
'Do all roads lead to Rome? Advances in the Psychotherapy of Borderline Personality Disorder'
(This seminar is strictly limited to practicing psychotherapists who are also currently Members/Associate Members of IAPA )
Borderline Personality Disorder is a serious psychiatric disorder, associated with high levels of psychosocial impairment as well as high levels of psychiatric care. The difficulty in treating borderline patients has been well recognised with high drop out rates in psychotherapy. The suicide rate is as high as 15%. This bleak scenario had given rise to a clinical impression that such patients were essentially untreatable. However, since the early 1990’s a number of psychotherapeutic models have delivered significantly improved outcomes for BLPD. This seminar will review new findings that have emerged from dialectical behavioural therapy, mentalization based treatment underpinned by attachment theory, and Otto Kernberg’s transference focussed psychotherapy. Jungian approaches to this condition will also be explored.
Presenter: Richard Blennerhassett, M.B., M.R.C. Psych, F.R.C.P.I., Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director in Psychiatry at St Ita’s Hospital Dublin since 1997, and Senior Lecturer at the University Dept of Psychiatry at the RCSI. He was a major contributor to the acclaimed documentary The Asylum by international filmmaker Alan Gilsenan. The development of effective treatment approaches for borderline personality disorder has been an area of special interest. He developed a community based dialectical behaviour therapy programme within the St Ita’s service and has lectured and published in the field of personality disorder.
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Friday April 8th : LECTURE at 8pm.
NOTE: This lecture to be held in Milltown
Park.
‘Mindfulness of the Body, Bodyfulness of the Mind: the Complementarity of Psyche and Soma’
New insights from neurobiology and attachment theory demonstrate the responsibility of the therapeutic relationship towards the attunement of the body-mind dialogue. This brings the focus on to the 'here-and-now' moment of the therapeutic dialogue and the dynamic ongoingness of being. This lecture looks at current developments in the field and their possible application in a Jungian framework.
Speaker: Marian Dunlea, Jungian Analyst and psychotherapist, is in private practice in Kinvara, Co. Galway. She works extensively with the Marion Woodman Foundation, facilitating BodySoul Workshops, and has also trained in trauma work.
Saturday 9th April : Clinical Seminar 10am - 4pm. Milltown
An experiential continuation of the lecture topics.
Presenter: Marian Dunlea. There will be a special emphasis on body- sensitive ways of working in the ‘here and now’ moments of the therapeutic relationship in order to integrate conventional verbal/narrative and emotional techniques with mindfulness of the body and the ‘implicit relational knowledge’ that the body contains. Participants will be encouraged to observe the plasticity of the brain, where injured neural pathways may be unblocked through the quality of the therapeutic presence to energy and matter. We will discuss how to work with the traumatised psyche. Clinically grounded conversation will help to synthesize “right –brain” experience with more explicit “left – brain’ cognitions, integrating the approach to body, mind and soul. Through this dance of psyche and soma, we will explore the connections between the conscious body and Jung’s subtle body, where breath, symptom, dream, and metaphor all resonate with one another. Here the unlived life may begin to come to consciousness through the loving container of the body.
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Friday May 20th : PUBLIC LECTURE at 8pm, and Saturday May 21st: Clinical Seminar 10am -1pm. Both at a GALWAY VENUE
'Coming Home: The Return of the Soul'
(Check website nearer to date)
The sense of home is a fundamental one for humans, on both personal and
collective levels. In order to achieve a valid realisation of our
identity, we need to be rooted in a firm base.This can be a literal
place or the sense of an interior psychological reality. How
these relate is often the very stuff of analysis, as is the
establishment of a true sense of home in the world. This Lecture and
Seminar will look at the idea of Home, the significance of leaving it,
and the necessity of return. This circular movement of Life and Psyche
is what is represented, according to Jung, by the individuation
process. Homecoming is a human reality that all desire; an end and a
goal where we are finally recognised as our true selves, united within,
an essential part of the universal whole.
Speaker: Jim Fitzgerald, Jungian Analyst and Supervisor, and a former Chair of IGAP, London.
Please note that Saturday's seminars
(but not Friday night public lectures) must be pre-booked and paid for
in advance by cheque/bank draft/postal order. Fees are non-transferable
and non-refundable.
Cost of public lectures: IAPA
members
€15; Non-members €20; Seniors/Students (full time) €10
Cost of seminars:
Half day: Members €35; Non-members €50 Full
Day: Members €60; Non-members €85
Cheques are payable to IAPA, c/o 30 Sycamore Drive,
Highfield Park, Galway. Confirmation will be sent by email.
Receipts and CPD-certificates, if requested, will be issued only on the
day of an event.
Clinical Seminars: admission limited to
Practicing
Psychotherapists, Psychologists and Counsellors
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Please do not contact Milltown or TCD directly; any
queries
should be directed to jungireland@gmail.com
The opinions of the speakers do not necessarily represent those of the
IAPA.