Jungian Odyssey Prelude
May 2026

Heike Weis Hyder, FMH Psychiatrie/Psychotherapie
10 60 Lecture | Living in Resonance with the Soul – Visions in the Red Book of C.G. Jung in Connection with a Clinical Case Study of Severe Trauma [Part 1 of 2]
This lecture describes the essential step in psychotherapy of entering into a direct inner and initiatory experience with the psyche as a living, self-existing entity within oneself. This humbling process transforms the individual into a more self-aware and differentiated human being, and can shape a new kind of therapist. I will present the therapeutic process of a severely traumatised woman, interweaving her material with the unfolding of the visions in the Red Book.

Heike Weis Hyder, FMH Psychiatrie/Psychotherapie
10 60 Lecture | Living in Resonance with the Soul – Visions in the Red Book of C.G. Jung in Connection with a Clinical Case Study of Severe Trauma [Part 2 of 2]
This lecture describes the essential step in psychotherapy of entering into a direct inner and initiatory experience with the psyche as a living, self-existing entity within oneself. This humbling process transforms the individual into a more self-aware and differentiated human being, and can shape a new kind of therapist. I will present the therapeutic process of a severely traumatised woman, interweaving her material with the unfolding of the visions in the Red Book.

Dariane Pictet, Ad. Dip. Ex. Psych
06 61 | A Journey into the “Hell Realms” with Kali, Ereshkigal and Baba Yaga
Facing the dark feminine is part of a soul retrieval process. We will explore the stories that illustrate the shadow world as a pathway to soul recovery and transformation.

Spring Excursion: C.G. Jung – The Basel Years: A
Walking Tour
Excursion leader: Kathrin Schaeppi
Registration required by 17 May, 2026
Meet at 8:45 at Zürich main station under the figure of the blue angel.

Maria Anna Bernasconi, lic. phil.
05 63 Lecture | New Animism and Jungian Psychology
The concept of animism was activated by contemporary ethnologists: they show us that people worldwide have a certain worldview: all is animated, even stones and brooks and the like. They all belong to the same community. This way of thinking is surprisingly quite compatible with many concepts of C.G. Jung: the archetypes, the transcendent function, but, above all, the attitude towards these entities. In the lecture I will present an overview of these parallels.

Peter Ammann, Dr. phil.
02 64 Lecture | Crossroad Dreams: Signposts towards Identity and Individuation
Crossroads are places where we can or must make life-changing decisions; they can be crucial situations of conflict in which we do not know which path to take. Crossroad dreams might appear when we, confronted with such a divide, are hesitant, afraid or even desperate to make a choice. Such dreams can be signposts on the path of individuation, leading us to find our true identity. One well-known example is Jung’s dream in which he had to kill Siegfried and consequently renounce pursuing his ambitious academic career as a university professor in favor of his own individuation process.

Marco Della Chiesa, lic. phil.
12 65 Lecture | Dignity – A Core Value: Dignity in Therapy and Dignity Therapy
What is human dignity? How can it be defined? What role does dignity play in therapy? The focus is on M. Chochinov’s Dignity-Centered Therapy.

Peter Ammann, Dr. phil.
05 66 Lecture | “Spirits of the Rocks” – Showing and Discussion of my Documentary Film
What is it about the Bushpeople (San) that touches something deep in us? With this question in mind, we set off to South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. Their extraordinary rock paintings lead us back into the world of our ancestors, the hunters and gatherers; they conjure up the early man in us, which – externally at least – has long been repressed and destroyed. Yet our journey also takes us to the Bushpeople who are still alive today. They share with us their myths and invite us to take part in their healing dance. In so doing, the Bushpeople restore our links with a way of life we have lost.

Graduation & Apéro