The archetype of worldwide redemption—restoration to wholeness—has been envisaged throughout history. Jung refers to it in many of his writings as ‘apocatastasis’. The hopes and the difficulties associated with this compelling image of global health will be examined. Attention will be paid to spiritual, material, romantic and pragmatic elements of the symbol of relational integrity as they pertain to the planet as well as to the Self. Which attitudes and behaviors obstruct and which further collective individuation, the evolution of the human species?
Suggested Reading: The Shadow and the Problem of Evil: Five Examinations, Murray Stein (ed.), Chiron Publications, 2023.
Jung attempted to understand the nature of the psyche by comparing his clients’ unconscious material with symbolic images from alchemical treatises. In this presentation we will proceed in Jung’s footsteps as he studies various alchemical treatises. By following his twists and turns we hope to glimpse the unfolding of his understanding of the connections between psyche and alchemy.
This seminar aims to explore psychological themes through the visual narrative structures of selected films. We will focus on a common theme in therapy: anger. We will view three films in order to discuss the personal and archetypal patterns of anger as seen through the eye of the camera.
The films will be shown at ISAP and will be followed by discussions led by the presenters. We wish to provide the opportunity of the collective experience of viewing a film in a group setting, followed by the chance to share ideas and impressions.
30 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
This course requires extra work between sessions.
Helping others or the role of the helper is widely respected and highly regarded. Helping is often considered the “right” thing to do; it is an honorable act. Is there no negative potential in helping others? Does helping never inflict harm? What is the cost of being the helper? This course explores the persona and the shadow of the social worker, the physician, and the psychotherapist/analyst.
The concept of biunity is introduced to explain the roles of knower (observer) and known (object of observation) in Ibn ‘Arabî’s Sufism , C.G. Jung’s Analytical Psychology and John von Neumann’s Quantum Theory. The concepts and the logic involved in this comparison have implications for the phenomena of psychogenic death, psychogenic healing and psychotherapy.
This seminar will deepen our understanding of classical Freudian, neo-Freudian, Object Relations and Inter- Subjective approaches to the transference and counter- transference phenomena in the analytic situation. Students will also get a chance to role-play typical analytic situations.
10 Training and Diploma Candidates
This course requires extra work between sessions.
After a short introduction to the meaning of dreams and animals in history and human life there will be a guided imagination in which participants can meet their soul animals. Then the participants can paint and/or write about this experience. We will reflect on our experiences and report on our own dreams or discuss animal dreams from daily practice.
18 Training and Diploma Candidates
** This course has been cancelled due to illness. **
This seminar is meant to help participants learn to recognize essential and symbolic elements of dreams and to decipher their meaning.
10 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
We want to enact a fairy tale through role-play. Participants slip into the role of a fairy tale figure in order to get into the spirit of the fairy tale, to experience it in a deeper manner and to become aware of the deeper levels of their personal psyche. In identifying with the fairy tale figure one can experience the archetypal forces and the subjective level of the fairy tale for one’s self. I will bring some fairy tales, but it will be the group’s choice which fairy tale we work with.
8 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
We will read and discuss selected passages of this fundamental work (which first appeared in English in 2021) on the Jungian interpretation of fairy tales from around the world.
15 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
This course requires extra work between sessions.
The lectures offer an overview of Germanic mythology within the context of Indo-European cultures. I will be focusing on the old Germanic world view, the creation of the world, the dawn of the gods and the psychological role of some of the most significant gods and goddesses. Much of what is called modernity is based on old Germanic culture and mythology. Connecting with hidden roots is an essential aspect of individuation. Particular attention will be paid to female characters in Germanic mythology.
Discussion of mainly children’s representations in the sandtray, paying attention to the questions of psychological development and typology. In addition, we will discuss some general Jungian ideas of importance in child therapy. We will also look at some projective tests and discuss their symbolic meanings. We will also discuss the importance of working with the parents during their child’s therapy.
ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
Stanley Kubrick, like C.G. Jung, was profoundly aware of the problem of evil. Using clips from his movies, this lecture first aims to experience evil as Kubrick wants us to see it, then to reflect about it using Jungian psychology.
This is a theoretical overview of active imagination and a prerequisite for the experiential seminar. You will learn about this creative process C.G. Jung used himself and hear about the objectives and stages of active imagination as described by Marie-Louise von Franz. Vital information about when and when not to use active imagination will also be presented. Participants will be familiarized with central Jungian concepts such as compensation, tension of the opposites, and transcendent function.
In this seminar the participants will do active imagination followed by expression in drawings. Prerequisite is attendance at the lecture 04 40 on the theoretical overview of active imagination.
15 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
Meeting at the Kunsthaus Museum on three successive Wednesdays, students will select two paintings in which they find the same archetypal motif differently portrayed. They will research its meaning and write a one to two page paper on the archetypal image from a Jungian perspective which will be shared and discussed with the group.
8 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
This course requires extra work between sessions.
In spring of 2024 Sarah Blum donated a sequence of 43 oil-based crayon paintings—her late husband David Blum’s psychological legacy—to ISAPZURICH. This illuminating series is this autodidactic painter’s self- explorative journey, his individuation process, as he grapples with cancer. Through his dreams he meets his inner guide, a Wise Old Dog, his own inner wisdom, that supports and comforts him on his ultimate transformative journey.
This course is comprised of six short lectures:
Deborah Egger, MSW
What the Blum Collection means to ISAP
Murray Stein, PhD
“My Appointment with David Blum”
Sarah Blum (video)
The Soul of David Blum
Peter Ammann, Dr. phil.
A Bond of Music - My Friendship with David and Sarah Blum
Lucienne Marguerat, lic. phil. &
Penelope Yungblut, MA
The Healing Power of Images: “A Miracle has Taken Place”
Kathrin Schaeppi, MS, MFA
Why Do We Collect Pictures?
** This course has been cancelled. **
In the analytic setting an encounter with cultural wounds and traumas is intertwined with the patient’s personal history, shadow dynamics, cultural complexes in the therapeutic dyad, as well as transference and countertransference. Multicultural therapy (i.e. choosing a therapist from another culture) will be discussed. The peculiarities of speaking a second language will be discussed with special attention to transference and countertransference. The participants will be invited to look at various meanings and archetypal images that an analyst from another culture may have for their patients.
ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
Through looking at the Greek myth of silent Philomela and her transformation this lecture explores connecting with the dark feminine and using one’s own voice in the healing of trauma.
This is a two-semester course. Part I begins in Autumn 2024, and will focus on the ethnological comparison of death rituals and a variety of customs such as those related to the disposition of the body, the notions of soul and an afterlife, and the cultural attitudes surrounding the ongoing relationship of the living to the dead.
Part II will be held in Spring 2025 and will focus on how culture influences the individual and collective experiences of mourning and bereavement.
These two courses will help ISAP students apply ethnological principles to human behavior.
16 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
This course requires extra work between sessions.
All students will be asked to give a presentation of a cultural complex followed by a general discussion in which we share our impressions and experiences. It will be interesting to see the similarities and differences in the ways in which basic complexes constellate in diverse cultures. The presentation can be based on original material or on an exam already taken on cultural complexes.
8 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
This course requires extra work between sessions.
It was on a Sunday, January 16, 1916 when C.G. Jung had the strange feeling that his house was filled with ghostly entities; it was as if it had begun to be haunted. The night before three of his children had had similar experiences. In the afternoon the whole house was crammed full of spirits of the dead. Then the dead suddenly cried out: “We have come back from Jerusalem where we found not what we sought.” This is the beginning of the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos which Jung wrote in a few nights after the experience of haunting in his house. It is a text full of wisdom and beauty.
In the so-far untranslated alchemical text from the 16th century treatise “Tractatus aureus” Mercurius appears as a poisonous dragon who never sleeps and resides in a fiery mountain. The dragon must be healed by a remedy consisting of various ingredients. If the healing succeeds, the alchemist can enter the mountain on the top of which he will find the precious stone. This lecture offers a psychological interpretation of the parable as an introduction to C.G. Jung’s approach to alchemy.
Jung views spirituality (“Geistigkeit”) not only as an intellectual but also as an experiential quest that can be understood as being seized by the numinous qualities of the spirit archetype. Healing involves achieving or regaining a “religious attitude” that cannot be achieved by mere conformity to religious institutions or by the ritual consumption of psychedelic drugs (“entheogens” that bring forth the inner god). How can we understand this religious/spiritual attitude in today’s world which is characterized by a “spiritual turn”, i.e. an individual search for meaning, connectedness and transcendence?
This seminar is intended to help those students who will be presenting their Word Association Experiments later this semester. We will review the steps involved in the evaluation of the data, working with the Excel sheet, and grouping the material into complexes.
8 Diploma Candidates
Participants must have attended an introductory seminar and administered the WAE. A draft of the WAE report is to be submitted to the course leaders and fellow participants by October 1st. We will discuss the experience of each WAE so that reports can consequently be revised.
Studierende, die das WAE-Seminar auf Deutsch absolvieren möchten, mögen sich bitte melden bei: Katharina Casanova, [email protected]
8 Diploma Candidates
There must be a suitable song for every conceivable human situation—love, hatred, passion, loss, triumph, defeat, life and death, friendship, betrayal. In pop songs we encounter archetypal figures in many different appearances—the great mother, the hero, the wise elder, the mysterious stranger, the lover... We will examine pop and folk songs that are important for the participants, and try to discover the archetypal motifs and complexes they contain. We will also discuss other songs that illustrate certain archetypes or complexes.
18 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
After an introduction to and overview of developmental psychology, we will delve into specific concepts of significant pioneers. Students are expected to contribute actively by presenting papers.
ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
This course requires extra work between sessions.
We will look at the unfolding emotional needs, tasks, and achievements of the young child and explore the relevance of holding, containment, attachment, impingements, intersubjectivity, life stages, and archetypal steps. We will examine how deficits in early childhood show up in everyday life and in analysis with adults.
We will view the film Lars and the Real Girl in this class and using it as a basis, explore the themes of healing in the therapeutic relationship, transference, intersubjectivity and attachment.
30 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
This seminar will concentrate on readings and discussion of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual 2: “The Symptom Axis”. The goal of the class is to sharpen thinking about assessment and diagnostic formulations.
20 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
This course requires extra work between sessions.
This lecture will start with the exploration of the understanding of psychic suffering and illness in antiquity. In a further step, we will compare Freud’s and Jung’s understanding of neurosis. How does the Jungian understanding of neurosis effect the analytical work?
Contrary to what many think, Jung had a definite notion of object relations; he formulated perhaps the first thorough description of the ego’s relation to internal objects. Kernberg’s descriptions of object relations bear similarities to aspects of Jung’s. The question is then whether they treated object relations similarly or differently. This lecture will explore the similarities and differences.
We shall be looking at the development of the inner core of the psyche as it unfolds in Jung’s Red Book from the viewpoint of psychiatry, in particular the transformation of the ego and other inner figures. Jung’s insights into these processes offer a key for healing resonance of soul, love and life, which is greatly needed in today’s world.
Introduction to the AMDP. Recognising, exploring, naming, understanding and documenting psychopathological symptoms. The seminar is a preparation for the Propaedeuticum Exam “Fundamentals of Psychiatry and Psychopathology”. In the final session a patient from my praxis will be available for interviewing by a candidate selected by the class.
Training and Diploma Candidates
This course requires extra work between sessions.
Einführung in AMDP. Erkennen, Explorieren, Benennen, Verstehen und Dokumentieren von psychopathologischen Symptomen. Das Seminar dient der Vorbereitung auf die Propädeutikumsprüfung “Grundlagen der Psychiatrie und Psychopathologie”. Ein(e) Patient(in) aus meiner Praxis wird sich zum Abschluss des Seminars zum Üben der Exploration zur Verfügung stellen.
Ausbildungs- und Diplomkandidat/innen
Dieser Kurs erfordert zusätzliche Arbeit zwischen den Unterrichtsstunden.
Depression as regression of libido into the unconscious, understood as a process fundamental to individuation, is a core concept in Jung’s theories. We will review and deepen our understanding of this process and how to support and work with it as an analyst. Then we will look at the current understanding of ‘clinical depression’ as a physiological and psychiatric illness. We will proceed to examine recent discoveries in neuroscience which support Jung’s theories, and discuss Jaak Panksepp’s Affective Neuroscience theory which helps to diagnose and discuss depression.
We will be discussing classical theories of narcissism. In addition, we will be looking at what contemporary Jungians are writing about, what it is, and how to work with it. We will also be exploring our topic by using archetypal representations in myths and fairy tales.
15 ISAP Students (MA, TC, DC)
This course requires extra work between sessions.
We will discuss autobiographies, videos, books and research papers on the therapy of psychosis, especially schizophrenia, that show how analytic psychotherapy can heal enough to enable patients to live an independent life. We may have time to look at some Art Brut paintings as illustrations.
15 Training and Diploma Candidates
This course requires extra work between sessions.
In this seminar we will read and reflect on Jung’s Psychology and Alchemy, CW XII. Each participant will be expected to write a summary of a chapter assigned by the instructor and to present it in the seminar for discussion. We will put special emphasis on the value of understanding alchemical symbolism and processes in clinical work.
12 Training and Diploma Candidates
This course requires extra work between sessions.
After his heart attack and near-death experience, Jung returned to three of his life’s major passions: Gnostic, alchemical and Christian symbols of the Self. In Aion he traces the development of the European psyche throughout the Christian era, addresses the problem of evil and the Antichrist, and finds an explanation for the Utopian mass psychoses which still trouble us today.
Panelists and their topics:
Kathrin Schaeppi, MS, MFA
“Psychology and the Art of Poetry”
Brigitte Egger, Dr. sc. nat. ETH
“Psychology and the Art of the Ecological Turnaround”
Luis Moris, MA
“Psychology and the Art of Film”
Paul Brutsche, Dr. phil.
“Psychology and the Art of Painting”
Murray Stein, PhD (moderator)
These five songs recreate a descent into the Underworld and resurfacing from the Unconscious: Ode to Anima, Tyger, Hymn to Sophia, Nightbirds, and Paper Airplane. I will tell you where they came from and we will perform them.
“All reality is iconoclastic. The earthly beloved, even in this life, incessantly triumphs over your mere idea of her.”
– C.S. Lewis in Grief Observed
We will explore the theme of Otherness in relation to the beloved. What or who is the beloved? Is he/she inner or outer? What happens in the space between myself and the other? How do I differentiate between the ideal and the reality of the other person, between the Other in my psyche that still keeps me enclosed within my own universe and the outer Other who forces me to open myself to the new and unexpected?
This module will analyse the psychological resonance of Richard Wagner’s musical drama Parsifal, showing how it depicts the perils and rewards of the individuation process and the metamorphosis of consciousness through confrontation with the shadow and anima/animus. A key focus will be representations of personal and collective trauma in Parsifal, and the ways in which the text and musical symbolism evoke similar phenomena encountered in clinical practice.
This is a weekend course for students who want to deepen their knowledge regarding the Eranos I Ching and have participated in some of the introductory weekend seminars in the past.
8 Training and Diploma Candidates
The feeling of being ‘broken’ during psychic fragmentation is often accompanied by numinous experiences and unconscious experiences of identification with one’s surroundings.
I will discuss the concept of fragmentation, which is based on the psyche’s property of dissociability. We will also look at the way in which fragmentation and numinosity appear in conscious and unconscious material.
Lastly, through a discourse on the fairy tale “Jorinde and Joringel” we will contemplate fragmentation as an individuation path.
We will explore ways in which the individuation journey is a pilgrimage which asks for authenticity, differentiation, integrity, and resilience. It is a journey of becoming who we are meant to be, reflecting creatively on insights from the unconscious, discovering our unique path, and responding to that which lies deepest within.
In each session two different training analysts will have been given a case vignette and will present their considerations in working with the client, with special focus on transference and countertransference. With Christa Gubler, Peter Luginbühl, Christa Robinson, Ilsabe von Uslar, Ursula Lenz-Bücker and Erhard Trittibach.
Note that the sessions start at 9:00!
20 Training and Diploma Candidates
Open to all Training and Diploma candidates, including those who have previously attended. The aim is to give the candidates tools to create the trustful atmosphere necessary for in-depth work and to avoid problems. Each session will start with a theoretical introduction, followed by role-play.
16 Training and Diploma Candidates
For Diploma Candidates only. Registration and payment directly with colloquium leader. At least four registrations are required for a colloquium to take place. 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.
Nur für Diplomkandidat/innen. Anmeldung und Bezahlung direkt bei der Kolloquiumsleitung. Mindestens vier Anmeldungen sind erforderlich, damit ein Kolloquium stattfinden kann. Kolloquien werden nicht im Kalender aufgeführt, da die genauenTermine noch offen bzw. Änderungen vorbehalten sind. Alle Änderungen unterliegen der Verantwortung der Kolloquiumsleitung.
Weekly meetings at ISAP. At our first meeting dates for the semester will be arranged for mutually agreed upon times.
Location: ISAPZURICH
Registration: [email protected]
6 Diploma Candidates
Case Colloquium from the point of view of developmental psychology (e.g., early trauma).
Location: Zypressenstrasse 41, 8003 Zürich
Registration: [email protected]
5 Diploma Candidates
Jung used only the first ten woodcuts from the Rosarium to depict transference. We will compare the difference between solar and lunar transformation by considering the second half of the 20 pictures. Basic understanding of the first ten pictures is required.
Location: Rietstrasse 3, 8712 Stäfa
Registration: [email protected]
6 Diploma Candidates
We will focus on dreams in individual cases in order to discuss their message for the dreamer.
Location: ISAPZURICH
Registration: [email protected]
6 Diploma Candidates
The participants will be invited to experience the Balint intervision method.
Location: Steinbrüchelstrasse 64, 8053 Zürich
Registration: +41 (0)44 383 13 63
[email protected]
8 Diploma Candidates
Case colloquium with emphasis on psychopathology, psychiatric cases, according to the candidates’ preferences.
Location: Stampfenbachstrasse 123, 8006 Zurich
Registration: [email protected]
Diploma Candidates
This course requires extra work between sessions.
Fallkolloquium mit Schwerpunkt auf Psychopathologie, psychiatrische Fälle, entsprechend der Wünsche, Interessen, Präferenzen der Kandidat(inn)en.
Ort: Stampfenbachstrasse 123, 8006 Zurich
Anmeldung: [email protected]
Diplomkandidat/innen
Dieser Kurs erfordert zusätzliche Arbeit zwischen den Unterrichtsstunden.
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.
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.
Maria Anna Bernasconi
Expressive Arts Therapy (ISIS)
Kunst- und Ausdrucksorientierte Psychotherapie (ISIS)
Marco Della Chiesa
Psychodrama
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