Past Presentations, Workshops, and Courses

The Postmodern Unconscious

December 6, 2006

(presentation for undergraduate students on the postmodern unconscious in Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and James Hillman)

New York University
New York, NY

The Butterfly Woman: An Archetypal Image of Transformation

November 8, 2006

(case presentation to psychoanalytic candidates on a dream of a butterfly as an archetypal image of the metamorphosis of the soul, or the transformation of the psyche)

New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
New York, NY

Dream Interpretation

Fall 2006

(semester-long course for undergraduate students on Freudian and Jungian theories and methods of dream interpretation)

Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts
New York, NY

Hillman Alone in Pursuit of the Imagination: Golden Calf Psychology

July 8, 2006

(plenary presentation in celebration of the 80th birthday of James Hillman)

International Association for Jungian Studies Conference
University of Greenwich
London

Does Myth (Still) Have a Function in Jungian Studies? Modernity, Metaphor, and Psycho-Mythology

July 7, 2006

(plenary presentation on whether myth still has a function in Jungian Studies)

International Association for Jungian Studies Conference
University of Greenwich
London

Imaginology: The Jungian Study of the Imagination

July 6, 2006

(plenary presentation on Jungian psychology as an "imaginology" - an imaginal psychology that emphasizes concrete images (such as the "dragon" and the "fish") over abstract concepts (such as the "monster")

International Association for Jungian Studies Conference
University of Greenwich
London

Fourth of July Jungian Fireworks: A Transatlantic Translation

July 4, 2006

(discussion of differences in contemporary Jungian theory and practice in America and Britain)

British Association of Psychotherapists, Jungian Section
London

Critical Thinking, Spirituality, and Psychotherapy

Spring 2006

(semester-long course for graduate students on the role of spirituality in the practice of psychotherapy by social workers)

New York University School of Social Work
New York, NY

Psychoanalyzing Greek and Roman Mythology

Spring 2006

(semester-long course for undergraduate students on how to analyze psychologically Ovid's Metamorphoses, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid)

Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts
New York, NY

Dreaming of the Ku Klux Klan

February 22, 2006

(presentation on "race," culture, and history in psychoanalysis)

Adelphi University
Garden City, NY

The Butterfly Woman: An Archetypal Image of Transformation

December 19, 2005

(case presentation to psychoanalytic candidates on a dream of a butterfly as an archetypal image of the metamorphosis of the soul, or the transformation of the psyche)

New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
New York, NY

The Islamic Cultural Unconscious in the Dreams of a Contemporary Muslim Man

September 21, 2005

(presentation on a series of dreams by a Muslim man who happened to arrive to live and work in New York City the day before September 11, 2001, a discussion of how these dreams appropriate and adapt material from the Quran and from Islamic culture to serve particular, quite personal purposes, and how the dreamer employs a dream of the Kaba in the practice of spiritual meditation and active imagination)

Blanton-Peale Institute
New York, NY

Dream Interpretation

Fall 2005

(semester-long course for undergraduate students on Freudian and Jungian theories and methods of dream interpretation)

Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts
New York, NY

The Islamic Cultural Unconscious in the Dreams of a Contemporary Muslim Man

July 8, 2005

(presentation on a series of dreams by a Muslim man who happened to arrive to live and work in New York City the day before September 11, 2001, a discussion of how these dreams appropriate and adapt material from the Quran and from Islamic culture to serve particular, quite personal purposes, and how the dreamer employs a dream of the Kaba in the practice of spiritual meditation and active imagination)

International Academic Conference of Analytical Psychology
(in collaboration with the International Association for Analytical Psychology and the International Association for Jungian Studies)
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

Dreams and Metamorphosis

May 24, 2005

(workshop on how images that emerge from the unconscious in dreams have a transformative impact)

Jewish Association for Services for the Aged
New York, NY

The Imagination of Dreams

April 15, 2005

(presentation on how to work with dreams in a contemporary Jungian way)

National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
New York, NY

The Man Who Was So Pissed Off He Couldn't Pee: Identifying with the Aggressing Object

April 9, 2005

(presentation on the phenomenon of identifying with the aggressing object, by reference to a case of hysterical conversion with urinary retention as a symptom of anger repression)

Object Relations Institute Conference
New York, NY

Alfred Hitchcock's Psychoanalytic Movie and Salvador Dali's Surrealistic Dream Images

March 25, 2005

(discussion of Spellbound)

Committee on Psychoanalysis, Metropolitan Chapter of the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work
New York, NY

Active Imagination and the Fantasy Principle

March 20, 2005

(day-long presentation on the Jungian technique of deliberately inducing fantasies and then actively engaging the images that spontaneously and autonomously emerge from the unconscious)

The Round Table
Media, PA

Psychoanalyzing Greek and Roman Mythology

Spring 2005

(semester-long course for undergraduate students on how to analyze psychologically Ovid's Metamorphoses, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid)

Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts
New York, NY

Psychosis and Jungian Psychoanalysis

December 18, 2004

(discussion of the application of Jungian psychoanalysis to psychosis, including schizophrenia)

New York Chapter of the International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses
New York, NY

Dream Practicum

December 5, 2004

(day-long course for psychoanalytic candidates - a demonstration of the three Jungian techniques for analyzing dreams psychologically: explication, amplification, and active imagination)

Jungian Psychoanalytic Association
New York, NY

The Practical Value of Jungian Analysis

November 8, 2004

(presentation on the practical value of Jungian analysis to graduate students in the course "Theories of Depth Psychology" in the Psychiatry and Religion Program)

Union Theological Seminary
New York, NY

The Fantasy of Reality and the Reality of Fantasy: Politics, Culture, and the 2004 American Presidential Election

October 9, 2004

(keynote address on the role of political and cultural fantasies and the irrelevance of reality in the 2004 American presidential election between George W. Bush and John Kerry)

National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis Conference
New York, NY

Dream Interpretation

Fall 2004

(semester-long course for undergraduate students on Freudian and Jungian theories and methods of dream interpretation)

Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts
New York, NY

If the University Won't Have Jungians, Then How Might Jungians Have the University?

August 30, 2004

(presentation with recommendations on how Jungians might reach out to academics, benefit from the tradition of critical discourse in the university, and engage in a discussion of other, different, and new ideas - how Jungian training programs might, for example, appoint academics as "fellows" and invite them to teach courses, deliver guest lectures, plan conferences, and so forth)

Panel on Jung at the University: An Academic Challenge
International Association for Analytical Psychology Congress
Barcelona

The Miraculous Travels of Muhammad: Mythic Journeys in Islamic Imagination

June 3-6, 2004

(presentation on the archetype of the journey as a mythic image in Muslim tradition)

Mythic Journeys Conference
Atlanta, GA

Fantasy Objects and Active Imagination

February 28, 2004

(day-long workshop on how to combine object relations psychology and Jungian psychology and how to apply the technique of active imagination to fantasy objects)

Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
New York, NY

Psychoanalyzing Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mythology

Spring 2004

(semester-long course for undergraduate students on how to analyze psychologically the Tanakh, New Testament, and Quran)

Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts
New York, NY

Mythological Dreams

December 6, 2003

(day-long workshop on how images from the "mythological unconscious" manifest in dreams)

C.G. Jung Society of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA

Jung, 'Race,' and the Cultural Unconscious

December 5, 2003

(evening presentation on how "race" continues to be a factor in the psyches of whites and blacks, how culture unconsciously influences experience, and how Jungian psychology might contribute to the effort to reimagine America multiculturally)

C.G. Jung Society of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA

How Clinical Material Sounds in the Ear of a Jungian and a Lacanian

November 7-9, 2003

(presentation with Lacanian analyst Judith Feher-Gurewich about how Jungians and Lacanians listen to the unconscious differently)

NYU Postdoctoral Program Weekend Retreat
New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Interlaken, MA

Active Imagination and the Fantasy Principle

October 25, 2003

(day-long workshop on the "fantasy principle" in contrast to the "reality principle" and on the Jungian technique of active imagination)

Pittsburgh Jung Society
Pittsburgh, PA

Muhammad's Night Journey: The Mythic Imagination in Islam

October 24, 2003

(evening presentation and slide show on Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and through all seven heavens to paradise and then all the way back to Mecca in just one night)

Pittsburgh Jung Society
Pittsburgh, PA

Mythological Dreams

September 20, 2003

(day-long workshop on how images from the "mythological unconscious" manifest in dreams)

Analytical Psychology Society of Western New York
Buffalo, NY

Psychoanalyzing Islam: Muhammad and the Muslim Imagination

September 19, 2003

(evening presentation and slide show on the miracles and visions of Muhammad and on images in the Islamic cultural unconscious)

Analytical Psychology Society of Western New York
Buffalo, NY

Lions and Centaurs: The Three Uniquely Jungian Techniques

September 13, 2003

(morning seminar for psychoanalytic candidates on the three distinctively Jungian analytic methods: explication, amplification, and active imagination)

C.G. Jung Analyst Training Program of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

A Resurrection of Birds: Soul Dreams and Revelations from the Unconscious

September 12, 2003

(evening presentation on dreams that employ ancient religious images for modern prophetic purposes)

C.G. Jung Analyst Training Program of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Dream Interpretation

Fall 2003

(semester-long course for undergraduate students on Freudian and Jungian theories and methods of dream interpretation)

Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts
New York, NY

Jung and the Mythological Unconscious

May 15, 2003

(evening presentation on how myths emerge unconsciously in the dreams, fantasies, and experiences of contemporary men and women)

Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy and Mental Health
New York, NY

Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams

Spring 2003

(10-week course for psychoanalytic candidates on the Freudian wish-fulfillment theory and free association method of dream interpretation, with intensive study of the book that Freud said contains "the most valuable of all the discoveries it has been my good fortune to make")

Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
New York, NY

Dream Analysis: Object Relations and Jungian Perspectives

Spring 2003

(10-week course for psychoanalytic candidates)

Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
New York, NY

Psychoanalyzing Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mythology

Spring 2003

(semester-long course for undergraduate students on how to analyze psychologically the Tanakh, New Testament, and Quran)

Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts
New York, NY

Imagination, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm: Archetypal Psychology and the Islamic Cultural Unconscious

November 23, 2002

(afternoon presentation and slide show on the religious prohibition against images as well as the political use of images in Islam)

Mid-Hudson Jung Society
Rhinebeck, NY

The Fantasy Principle: Imaginal Psychology and the Dethroning of 'Mr. Reality'

November 16, 2002

(presentation on the "fantasy principle" in contrast to the "reality principle" and demonstration of Jungian techniques with images in contrast to Freudian and Kleinian techniques)

Jung Studies Day on Analytical Psychology and Creativity
Unit of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths College of the University of London (in collaboration with the International Association for Jungian Studies and the Psychoanalytic Studies Program of the University of Essex)
London

Muhammad and Monotheism: The Cultural Unconscious of Islam

October 26, 2002

(presentation on the revelations and dreams of Muhammad and discussion of whether the unconscious is intrinsically monotheistic or polytheistic)

International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education Conference
Fort Lauderdale, FL

War, Emotional Possession, and the Underworld: Affects in the Mythological Unconscious

October 25, 2002

(presentation on the emotions - such as "Grief," "Cares," "Dread," "Hunger," "Want," "War," and "Discord" - that Aeneas encounters when he descends with the golden bough into the underworld - or, in psychoanalytic terms, the "unconscious" - and that emerge to possess humans, as, for example, Allecto, mistress of Grief, does when she possesses Queen Amata and Prince Turnus)

Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society Conference
Philadelphia, PA

Jung, Plato, and William Blake's 'The Sea of Time and Space'

October 20, 2002

(Jungian and neo-Platonic interpretation of the mythological images in Blake's painting of Odysseus's return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War)

The Round Table
Media, PA

C.G. Jung and Jungian Psychology

October 8, 2002

(evening presentation on archetypes, the collective unconscious, the hero myth, symbols of transformation, the compensatory function of dreams, the techniques of amplification and active imagination, and the spiritual dimension of the psyche)

92nd Street Y
New York, NY

The Clinical Value of Contemporary Jungian Analysis

October 6, 2002

(presentation on Jungian psychology as an imaginal psychology and demonstration of the clinical techniques - explication, amplification, and active imagination - that Jungian analysts apply to images from the unconscious)

Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies
Baltimore, MD

The Mythic Journey

September 4 - December 18, 2002 (excluding November 13 and 27)

(14-week course on archetypal images of the individuation process in dreams, fantasies, and myths for psychotherapists in the Professional Studies Program)

C.G. Jung Foundation
New York, NY

Use of Dreams in Psychoanalysis

Fall 2002

(16-week course for residents)

Blanton-Peale Institute
New York, NY

Dream Interpretation

Fall 2002

(semester-long course for undergraduate students on Freudian and Jungian theories and methods of dream interpretation)

Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts
New York, NY

For Love of the Imagination: Myth, Therapy, and Multiculturalism

July 4, 2002

(evening presentation with integrative arts therapist Jocelyne Samuels and discussion with Jungian analyst Andrew Samuels)

Sesame Institute and Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education
London

Just How Important Is Mythological Knowledge in Jungian (and Freudian) Analysis?

April 28, 2002

(presentation on the clinical value of mythological knowledge)

New York Association for Analytical Psychology
New York, NY

9/11 and Psycho-Spiritual Transformation

April 27, 2002

(workshop on terrorism, trauma, and transformation in the aftermath of September 11, 2001)

National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis Conference
New York, NY

Jung-Seminar with Michael Vannoy Adams

February 21-24, 2002

(e-mail discussion about Jungian psychology with 250 participants from 21 countries)

cgjungpage on the Internet

Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams

Spring 2002

(10-week course for psychoanalytic candidates on the Freudian wish-fulfillment theory and free association method of dream interpretation, with intensive study of the book that Freud said contains "the most valuable of all the discoveries it has been my good fortune to make")

Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
New York, NY

Psychoanalyzing Greek and Roman Mythology

Spring 2002

(semester-long course for undergraduate students on how to analyze psychologically Ovid's Metamorphoses, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid)

Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts
New York, NY

Dreaming of the Ku Klux Klan

November 2, 2001

(presentation on "race", culture, and history in psychoanalysis)

International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education Conference
Fort Lauderdale, FL

Race, Culture, and Psyche: A Free Conference for the Bay Area Community

October 6, 2001

(presentations and panel discussion with Jungian analysts Sam Kimbles, Betty Meador, and Thomas Singer)

C.G. Jung Institute
San Francisco, CA

Multiculturalism and the Future of Jungian Analysis

October 4, 2001

(presentation and discussion with Jungian analysts)

C.G. Jung Institute
San Francisco, CA

Jung, Plato, and William Blake's 'The Sea of Time and Space'

September 21, 2001

(Jungian and neo-Platonic interpretation of Blake's painting of Odysseus's return home to Ithaca after the Trojan war)

New York Open Center
New York, NY

Multicultural Issues in Clinical Practice

Fall 2001

(16-week course for residents)

Blanton-Peale Institute
New York, NY

Dream Analysis: Object Relations and Jungian Perspectives

Fall 2001

(10-week course for psychoanalytic candidates)

Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
New York, NY

Dream Interpretation

Fall 2001

(semester-long course for undergraduate students on Freudian and Jungian theories and methods of dream interpretation)

Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts
New York, NY

Cross-Cultural Psychotherapy

July 28-29, 2001

(two-day course for graduate students in the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology)

Pacific Graduate Institute
Santa Barbara, CA

Mythological Dreams

July 12, 2001

(day-long workshop in One-Week Intensive Summer Study Program on Jungian Psychology)

C.G. Jung Foundation
New York, NY

A Jungian Perspective on Addiction

May 15, 2001

(presentation and workshop with therapists in the Chemical Dependency Services Department)

Greenwich House
New York, NY