** The originally scheduled course by Dariane Pictet has been cancelled and replaced with this one. **
An introductory course presenting the basic concepts of Jungian psychology; consciousness, personal and collective unconscious, complex, archetype and the historic setting in which Jung conceived them.
Instead of only tracing the origins of a complex back to early childhood trauma, the Jungian model tries to discover the hidden potential in the complex to provide structure and meaning to new experiences. Already in the time-transcending intentionality of the complex we witness its archetypal core.
In this lecture we will review the important relationship of psychological types to individuation and thereby gain a better understanding of why Jung said of his type theory: "I would not for anything dispense with this compass on my psychological voyages of discovery."
This seminar is based on the lecture 01 04. We will look at various nuanced type profiles in order to consider their implications for the individuation of a unique personality.
Prerequisite: Attendance of the lecture 01 04.
Participants will be invited upon registration to complete an assessment identifying their eight type dispositions for possible consideration in the seminar.
ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
** This course has been cancelled. **
There will be a list with instructions by the photocopy machine. Those with no access to ISAP can receive it from me directly.
This course requires extra work between sessions.
Jung prophesized a great future for Music Therapy, but thinking about the acoustic level of reality as a world of symbols and archetypes is comparatively rare in Jungian literature. This topic is presented from different theoretical standpoints, with practical examples and experiential material.
We will explore the transforming wisdom of sadness, including the perspective of evolutionary biology and the problem of anger in present society.
This seminar is an introduction to Jung’s concepts of masculine Logos and feminine Eros. Screening of the award-winning film Ensoulment by L. S. Salum, showing interviews with Jungians (e.g., James Hollis) and others: How can we reconnect to the feminine principle without losing the masculine principle? Group discussion.
“Soul” is a familiar word for Jungians. In spite of this, the notion tends to remain somewhat vague. With the help of a mythological figure as its archetypal foundation this lecture aims to contribute to our understanding of soul as a specific psychological entity.
Prerequisite is attendance at one of my past Authentic Movement Experiential Seminars.
This seminar will be dedicated to the practice of Authentic Movement, which is a form of active imagination. The relationship between consciousness and the unconscious can be explored through the spontaneous and self-directed expression of the body in movement.
Participants are requested to wear comfortable clothes, to take off their shoes before entering the room, to bring anti-slip socks, papers and a pen.
14 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
In his book, Answer to Job, Jung takes a hard look at the God-image and the plight of modern humanity, as well as at "the idea of the creature that surpasses its creator by a small but decisive factor."
The spontaneous creating of symbols provides a vitality that prevents Jungian concepts from becoming faded metaphors. Our symbolic mind not only provides inner images but also is active in the way we perceive the outer world.
In this seminar we will learn the difference between compensatory and non-compensatory dreams; the value of dream series and recurring dreams; the meaning of initial dreams; and how to interpret dreams subjectively and objectively; constructively (synthetic) and reductively (analytic).
15 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
Following brief introductory remarks, dreams will be discussed in relation to case work with individuals, looking at individual dreams and dream series. (New material)
Dreamwork can be practised in groups with non-professional people. In order for it to unfold its potential, this work must hold to some basic rules. The participants get to know this method by sharing their own dreams.
8 Training and Diploma Candidates
Using the story “The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Lady Ragnell” together with other archetypal versions of this story, we will be exploring the encounter with the anima phenomena.
15 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
This course requires extra work between sessions.
The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz is a 28 volume magnum opus from one of the leading minds in Jungian Psychology. Join us as the General Editor takes us through a history of the project, an overview of von Franz’s life, and a deep dive into the first volumes of this foundational material.
The tale to be discussed comes from Russian Folk Tales, a three-volume collection by Alexander Afanasiev, often referred to as “the Russian Grimm”. Here it is presented as a tribute to Von Franz’s valuable contribution to the Jungian understanding of fairy tales.
Fairy tales are psychic manifestations: they show the nature of psyche as well as basic archetypal situations and conflicts. Using selected fairy tales (German and Russian), we want to work out diagnostic options and play one or two fairy tales in the group. Reading: M. L. v. Franz and Jung, CW9, “Spirit in Fairy Tales”
10 Training and Diploma Candidates
This course requires extra work beforehand.
We will explore our relation to the earth, matter, body in the light of the Homeric Myth of Demeter. Food allergies and eating disorders, may be evidence of an increasingly unsustainable attitude to our own nature and to the Earth.
Frida Kahlo, the famous Mexican artist, suffered from serious physical disabilities due to an accident. She devoted her life to art and painted her suffering. Her paintings go beyond the personal realm and reach an archetypal layer.
Sandplay, according to Dora Kalff (1904–1990), is based on Analytical Psychology; it involves playing in and with sand and selected miniature objects. It activates fantasy, embodying it through expressive means. The sandbox is used as a projection surface allowing access to deeper layers of the unconscious.
We will consider drawings from cases in order to learn how they can help to analyze and diagnose a client’s psychic condition and processes. We will then practise some self experience in this method. Please bring your own drawing materials (colors and paper).
10 Training and Diploma Candidates
This course requires extra work between sessions.
*** This course was originally identified as 14 40 Expressive Therapy, but is now 04 40 Experiential Seminar ***
After a short introduction to the theory and background of Sandplay, the participants can experience the work in dry and wet sand. A varied collection of figures and other materials is available for the creation of images in the sand.
Location: ISAPZURICH, Stampfenbachstrasse 115
Registration: [email protected]
8 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
This is a theoretical overview with examples and is a prerequisite for the experiential seminar.
In this seminar the participants will do active imagination followed by expression in drawings. Prerequisite is attendance at the above lecture 04 46 on the theoretical overview of Active Imagination.
12 Training and Diploma Candidates
Using case material, this course will provide a detailed introduction to the various criteria for a symbolic understanding of pictures by analysands.
Jung traveled to non-Western societies to see himself through the eyes of others. What unrecognized and unexamined aspects of ourselves, our attitudes, values, and norms, might be mirrored back to us from an encounter with another culture? How may this experience contribute to our individuation?
We will consider terms in social anthropology and their psychological dimensions. Groups will choose a society and present certain aspects or rituals, attempting a Jungian understanding.
12 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
This course requires extra work between sessions.
We will explore a profound and puzzling passage in Jung’s autobiography in which he concluded that “Human consciousness created objective existence and meaning, and man found his indispensable place in the great process of being.”, and ask whether this insight is only alien to the Western world view.
Required reading: Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Chapter IX ‘Travels’, especially Part III: “Kenya and Uganda”.
Non-Western perspectives especially welcome!
Training and Diploma Candidates
This course requires extra work beforehand.
Humility expresses essential elements that connect the individual with the Self. This course will examine the role, function and nature of humility in daily life, psychiatry, and psychotherapy. I will be referring to Jung, Böhme, & Meister Eckhart.
The lecture will begin by exploring suffering and healing in ancient times. Next we will have a closer look at a Biblical story about healing and interpret it symbolically. Finally, we will concentrate on the Jungian understanding of healing and the importance of the analytic encounter.
This course deals with the motif of the pilgrimage, reflecting on contemporary as well as historical manifestations of an archetypal phenomenon.
In diesem Kurs geht es um das Motiv des Pilgerns. Wir werden die Aktualität und auch die kulturhistorischen Manifestationen dieses archetypischen Phänomens untersuchen.
I will discuss the role of the religious instinct in cultural complexes and how this presence manifests in disinformation. Consideration will be given to the ways in which the religious function can be both appropriated and perverted by religious as well as secular forces.
What has happened to the Feminine in the Catholic Church? I will give a brief historical overview of the archetypal development of the Feminine in human consciousness. I explore the fear of the Feminine underlying the Judeo-Christian culture and shadow aspects of the split between sexuality and spirituality.
** This course has been cancelled for family reasons. **
Science, as a study of the natural world, initially developed in complete opposition to religion. But science was originally based on the passion to understand the divine world. Nature was and still is an inseparable aspect of and resource of consciousness. We will explore the connection between nature and religion.
Some personal memories serve to approach M.-L. von Franz and her great personality. Alchemy was particularly close to her heart. I will give an introduction to her first and last books on alchemy: her commentary on Aurora Consurgens and her commentary on Hall ar-Rumuz by the Arab alchemist Ibn Umail.
Early Jung concerned himself with the treatment of individuals, as can be seen by his earliest formulations of psychotherapy. The later Jung as philosopher took up the relationship between his interest in religion and his discovery of the religious function present in alchemy.
ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
Prerequisite is attendance at lecture 06 41.
We will look at new directions in the light of the emergence of the goddess image in present times and the challenge to a shifting patriarchal paradigm.
ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
Part I of the required WAE seminar (offered every Spring), presents a brief history of word association, and introduces Jung's theory and work with complexes. It prepares students for their later use of the WAE with an analysand, analysis of the data, and written and oral reports. Part II, the presentation of these reports, is offered every Autumn.
Studierende, die das A. E. Seminar auf Deutsch absolvieren möchten, mögen sich bitte melden bei: Katharina Casanova [email protected]
ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
This course requires extra work between sessions.
Exploring how the ideas of D.W. Winnicott and C.G. Jung help us work with core issues encountered in analysis with adults. Silenced voices include the grandiose engineer who discovers his ordinariness, the puella who finds meaning in her art, and the businessman who repeats his abusive childhood.
I will present sandplay pictures, mainly by boys and girls aged 6–10 years. We will discuss and try to interpret them from different points of view (developmental psychology, status within family, sibling issues, typology, etc.)
Ich werde Sandbilder zeigen, vor allem von sechs- bis zehnjährigen Buben und Mädchen. Wir werden diese aus verschiedenen Blickpunkten betrachten und zu deuten versuchen. (Entwicklungspsychologie, Stellung in der Familie, Geschwisterthemen, Typologien, usw.)
We will look at some case vignettes from the point of view of different schools of depth psychology. We will compare their concepts of the unconscious and their approaches to its manifestations (such as in dreams and symptoms).
ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
During this seminar we will be exploring Narcissism from three different perspectives: object relations, self psychology and analytical psychology.
16 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
We will be investigating the history, symptoms and resulting cascade of physical effects set in motion by sustained deep suffering and resulting archaic defenses.
This lecture – an update of the lecture given in Autumn 2019 – is a prerequisite for attendance at the trauma seminar 10 66 (and subsequent seminars on trauma therapy).
J. L. Herman: Trauma and Recovery, 2015
B. van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score
We will work on cases in published case books and practice differential diagnosis in psychiatry.
6 Diploma Candidates
I will provide an historical overview of the field of psychiatry from antiquity to the present day.
The concept of the Major Depressive Disorder will be examined using the memoir of the late William Stryon, Darkness Visible. The increased frequency of the diagnosis of Depression since the 1980’s (with the advent of the DSM-III) will be considered alongside a Jungian perspective on treatment.
Creative reflections on schizoid phenomena are often unrecognised in analysis and missed in a client’s apparently narcissistic presentation. There are obvious lacunae in the way in which Jungian thinking addresses the schizoid's major struggle.
In this seminar we will discuss different psychiatric and psychological perspectives, treatment methods and prognostics regarding this illness.
ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
We will be discussing how to work with trauma as opposed to working with other psychic disorders: The concept of PITT (Psychodynamic Imaginative Trauma Therapy), resource work, ego state approach, meeting inner parts and the Jungian approach. Students who have not attended the trauma lecture 10 12 should contact the instructor.
16 Training and Diploma Candidates
Prerequisite is attendance at lecture 10 42.
Creative reflections on schizoid phenomena are often unrecognised in analysis and missed in a client’s apparently narcissistic presentation. There are obvious lacunae in the way in which Jungian thinking addresses the schizoid's major struggle. We will discuss a case presentation to illustrate this dilemma.
ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
We will explore how engaging imaginatively with our dreams, fantasies, affects, and other energies arising from the unconscious can heal emotional wounds, transform our sense of self worth, enable us to withstand collective pressure to conform, and foster a self of our own, which does not collapse under stress.
Participants are asked to read Erich Neumann: Depth Psychology and a New Ethic. A further reading list is available in the library.
12 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
This course requires extra work between sessions.
An opportunity to explore hidden parts of self and unprocessed experience though active imagination with images, affects, and other energies emerging from the unconscious. Participants are asked to contribute CHF 15 for art materials and to bring lunch.
8 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
** This course has been cancelled. **
This is a lecture on Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis.
How does one’s personal myth relate to individuation and living the symbolic life? Our four-semester workshop is designed to create a temenos for psychic transformation. Working with personal myth experientially, we enrich our relationship to the unconscious. In this third weekend we will be focusing on “Midlife”.
Attendance at the previous module 11 36 in Autumn Semester 2021 is a prerequisite.
A commitment to journaling between semesters is strongly encouraged.
14 Training and Diploma Candidates
This course requires extra work between sessions.
Participants will be given a role, follow destinies, examine intergenerationally seeming “anti-" (“negative") individuation, witnessing psyche’s movements/ intra-/inter- personal dynamics/development. Read or watch Hamlet beforehand. Bring the text in English.
Recommended reading:
- Stein, M., The Principle of Individuation
- Von Franz, M-L., Individuation in Fairy Tales
12 Training and Diploma Candidates
This course requires extra work between sessions.
In my seminar we will discuss differences and similarities in working with LGBT clients in comparison with other clients. I will provide case material to discuss.
12 Training and Diploma Candidates
The class will cover the American civil rights movement, focusing on the Selma campaign as a metaphor for the Self's movement. Nonviolence provides the bridge between the conscious and unconscious realms; thus, the consistent practice of nonviolence potentiates and/or cultivates a conscious life.
Shadow integration and different levels of consciousness are key to understanding nonviolence and its effectiveness. Thus, shadow integration in the transference/countertransference is pivotal to the understanding of how nonviolence mediates aggression, potentiating relationships within a power paradigm. This concept will be included in the talk.
This dreamwork seminar is based on material collected from a patient (supervised by Dr Wolfgang Giegerich) who seemed to be well adapted in an individualized and “liquid” society; however, during our first session, she described a feeling of emptiness, feeling stuck and said that her sentimental relationships did not last.
Each session two training analysts use one case vignette to share their considerations in working with the client, such as transference/countertransference, resources, and difficulties. With:
- D. Egger-Biniores
- I. von Uslar Ryffel
- I. Berkenbusch-Erbe
- R. Locher-Dworkin
- U. Ulmer
- P. Luginbühl
- U. Wirtz
- C. Gubler
16 Training and Diploma Candidates
We will look at the many faces of 'bittersweet' Eros and his gifts of love and lust. Diving into the shadow side of Eros and Sex in analysis via experiential exercises, we will explore the torturous transference and countertransference dynamics.
16 Training and Diploma Candidates
Case formulation is a theoretically based hypothesis about the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment directions of any case from its initial session to its termination. This class will focus on the unique characteristics of case formulation in a Jungian analysis.
Jungian case formulation is a process that helps conceptualize a case, for case exam purposes or for clinical practice.
15 Training and Diploma Candidates
Nur für Diplomkandidat/innen. Anmeldung und Bezahlung direkt bei der Kolloquiumsleitung. Kolloquien werden nicht im Kalender aufgeführt, da die genauenTermine noch offen bzw. Änderungen vorbehalten sind. Alle Änderungen unterliegen der Verantwortung der Kolloquiumsleitung.
For Diploma Candidates only. Registration and payment directly with colloquium leader. Colloquia are not shown in the calendar as timing is either unspecified or subject to change. Any changes are the responsibility of the colloquium leader.
Focus on psychiatry, according to the participants’ wishes (diagnostics, documentation, evaluation of effectiveness etc.)
Dates to be arranged at the first meeting.
Location: ISAPZURICH, Stampfenbachstrasse 115
Registration: [email protected]
12 Diploma Candidates
This course requires extra work between sessions.
Case colloquium in, and with the group.
Location: Rosengasse 6, 8001 Zürich
Registration: [email protected]
5 Diploma Candidates
Translating back and forth between clinical interviews and fairy tales creates a therapeutic method girded with mystery and hope.
Location: Paulstrasse 6, 8400 Winterthur
Registration: [email protected]
4 Diploma Candidates
Location: ISAPZURICH, Stampfenbachstrasse 115
Registration: [email protected]
8 Diploma Candidates
Location: ISAPZURICH, Stampfenbachstrasse 115
Registration: [email protected]
12 Diploma Candidates
Location: Freiestrasse 120, 8032 Zurich
Registration: [email protected] before 01.04.22.
10 Diploma Candidates
Location: ISAPZURICH, Stampfenbachstrasse 115
Registration: [email protected]
8 Diploma Candidates
Für die detaillierten Bestimmungen siehe das Ausbildungsregulativ 7.2.3.8: Kandidat/innen können sich minimal 20 bis maximal 30 Stunden separater und paralleler Ausdruckstherapie auf die reguläre Lehranalyse anrechnen lassen, vorausgesetzt dass sowohl der/die Lehranalytiker/in als auch der/die Analytiker/in für Ausdruckstherapie informiert sind. Alle angerechneten Stunden dürfen nur bei einem/r der unten aufgeführten Analytiker/innen und Therapieformen absolviert werden. Kurse in Ausdruckstherapie werden nicht im Kalender aufgeführt, da die genauen Termine noch offen bzw. Änderungen vorbehalten sind. Alle Änderungen unterliegen der Verantwortung der Ausdruckstherapie-Leitung.
See the Training Regulations 7.2.3.8 for the detailed provisions: Candidates have the possibility to count a minimum of 20 hours and maximum 30 hours of separate and parallel expressive therapy toward their regular training analysis, provided that both the Training Analyst and the analyst for expressive therapy are informed. All credited hours must be completed with only one of the analysts and with one type of expressive therapy, as listed below. Expressive Therapy courses are not shown in the calendar as timing is either unspecified or subject to change. Any changes are the responsibility of the Expressive Therapy leader.
In this weekend seminar participants will have the opportunity to practice this work with small objects, which allows for an emotionally and resource oriented approach to the unconscious. They will learn how to use this kind of work in their practice. Participants must be in analysis.
Location: Freiestrasse 120, 8032 Zurich.
Registration: [email protected] before 01.03.22.
8 Training and Diploma Candidates
Maria Anna Bernasconi
Expressive Arts Therapy (ISIS)
Kunst- und Ausdrucksorientierte Psychotherapie (ISIS)
Marco Della Chiesa
Psychodrama
Psychodrama
John Hill
Fairy Tale Enactment, Psychodrama
Märcheninszenierung, Psychodrama
Verena Osterwalder-Bollag
Therapeutic Sandplay (D. Kalff)
Therapeutisches Sandspiel nach D. Kalff
Christa Robinson
Group Processes Using the I Ching
Gruppenprozesse mit dem I Ging
Erhard Trittibach
Therapeutic Sandplay (D. Kalff)
Therapeutisches Sandspiel nach D. Kalff
Joanne Wieland-Burston
Active Imagining with Objects
Aktives Imaginieren mit Gegenständen