News, Events, and Interviews

Why does everything have to be fun?
ParentMap
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Into the woods with Jean Shinoda Bolen: On analysis, activism, Artemis, and archetypes
Published interview
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Nothing to fear but fear itself: Where do phobias come from?
Headspace
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Can anti-DUI posters in video games help prevent drunk driving?
The Guardian
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What do Trump, Syria, and HS suicide have in common?
Interview with Dr. Helen Marlo by Ken Mallon
Psych Psense YouTube series
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Advisory Board Member
Dr. Helen Marlo
The Burkard School
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San Francisco clinical psychologist believes education is transformative
Interview with Helen Marlo — September 14, 2015
CBS News
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Between the worlds—healing trauma, body, and soul: A conversation with Donald Kalsched
Marlo, H. — August 13, 2013
Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche
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Managing motherhood: Support group provides emotional resource for new moms
Schilling, S. — April 20, 2013
Daily Journal
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Inspiration of the Year Award
2023
One Life Counseling Center
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Community Hero
2023
San Mateo Chamber of Commerce
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Oversharing on LinkedIn isn’t new, but it has been getting worse
Suciu, P. — December 5, 2023
Forbes
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Why ‘monk mode’ and social media don’t mix
Suciu, P. — October 20, 2023
Forbes
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Bittersweet milestones for a Catholic university
September 6, 2023
Inside Higher Ed
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Make your life like music: Work-life rhythm, mentoring mothers, and home
BizCatalyst 360°
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New mothers and PTSD
August 7, 2019
Inside Higher Ed
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Experiencing college: A crash course
Colleges of Distinction
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Synchronicity speaks
Spotify
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Social media groups are a ‘drama’ club—yet we can’t stay away
Suciu, P. — April 9, 2024
Forbes
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Lindsay Clancy: mom on trial for killing her children
Spargo, C. — August 10, 2026
People
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How postpartum psychosis can alter reality, experts explain amid Clancy trial
Trufant, J. — August 7, 2026
The Patriot Ledger
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The known, unknown, and unknowable: A conversation with Dr. Helen Marlo
Notre Dame de Namur University — March 13, 2026
Notre Dame de Namur University
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Psychotherapy vs. AI chatbots: Dr. Helen Marlo on what real therapy requires
Jacobsen, S. D. — March 19, 2026
The Good Men Project
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Psychotherapy vs. AI chatbots: Dr. Helen Marlo on what real therapy requires
Notre Dame de Namur University — March 20, 2026
Notre Dame de Namur University
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April reset: Know why you are failing your goals; tips on small mindset shifts to fix it fast
Shiraz, Z. — April 8, 2025
Hindustan Times
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How do successful people stay motivated when their initial excitement fades?
Shiraz, Z. — April 7, 2025
Hindustan Times
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Age restrictions could kill the dream of being an online kidfluencer
Suciu, P. — April 6, 2025
Forbes
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The healing power of awe
Paturel, A. — March/April 2025
Spirituality & Health, 2(2)
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Post Prop 36, drug treatment participation remains low
DiNapoli, A. — March 17, 2025
San Mateo County Daily Journal
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Protect your peace during the holidays
Mata, A. — November 26, 2024
San Mateo County Daily Journal
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Misinformation is spreading as more students seek mental health care
Donadel, A. — September 30, 2024
University Business
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The new era of mental health counseling on college campuses
Donadel, A. — September 25, 2024
University Business
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The intuition intervention
Paturel, A. — December 2024
Prevention, pp. 55–61
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What are my precognitive dreams trying to tell me?
Wisner, W. — August 2024
Verywell Mind
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Recognizing and tuning into medical intuition
Westerleigh, V. — July/August 2024
Spirituality & Health
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Dr. Helen Marlo on how each of us can leverage the power of gratitude to improve our overall mental wellness
Frankel, J. — April 2024
Medium / Authority Magazine
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April reset: Know why you are failing your goals; tips on small mindset shifts to fix it fast
Shiraz, Z. — April 8, 2025
Hindustan Times
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How do successful people stay motivated when their initial excitement fades?
Shiraz, Z. — April 7, 2025
Hindustan Times
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Age restrictions could kill the dream of being an online kidfluencer
Suciu, P. — April 6, 2025
Forbes
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The healing power of awe
Paturel, A. — March/April 2025
Spirituality & Health, 2(2)
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Post Prop 36, drug treatment participation remains low
DiNapoli, A. — March 17, 2025
San Mateo County Daily Journal
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Misinformation is spreading as more students seek mental health care
Donadel, A. — September 30, 2024
University Business
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The new era of mental health counseling on college campuses
Donadel, A. — September 25, 2024
University Business
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The intuition intervention
Paturel, A. — December 2024
Prevention, pp. 55–61
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What are my precognitive dreams trying to tell me?
Wisner, W. — August 2024
Verywell Mind
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Recognizing and tuning into medical intuition
Westerleigh, V. — July/August 2024
Spirituality & Health
No public link available.

Dr. Helen Marlo on how each of us can leverage the power of gratitude to improve our overall mental wellness
Frankel, J. — April 2024
Medium / Authority Magazine
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Social media groups are a ‘drama’ club—yet we can’t stay away
Suciu, P. — April 2024
Forbes
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Work-Life Integration for Caregivers in Pandemic Times
June 2, 2023, 7–8 p.m.
NDNU Summer Speakers Series
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The Language of Dreams
Dr. Willow Pearson and Jared Ferrell
January 23, 2018, 6–7:30 p.m.
NDNU Cunningham Chapel
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The Impact of Trauma on the Individual and Collective Psyche and the Trauma of Violence; the Violence of Trauma
May 2017
C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco
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Homecoming: Journeys to the Self
March 17, 2018, 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco

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Psychoanalysis and Creativity: How Art and Spirituality Catalyze Emotional Growth
2015–2016 extended study series
September 9–April 13, Wednesdays, 10–11:30 a.m.
Menlo College
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Deepening the Work: Relational Psychotherapy Through a Jungian Lens
2015–2016 yearlong course for licensed clinicians
September 2015–June 2016, Monday evenings
C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, East Bay
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NDNU Clinical Psychology Department Alumni Training Group
Open to all NDNU Clinical Psychology graduates
First Tuesday of every month, 6–7:15 p.m.
Ralston Annex, NDNU
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Psychic Birth and Rebirth Through Analysis: Lecture and Workshop
November 13–14, 2015
Unity Church of Portland
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Psychoanalysis and Creativity: How Art and Spirituality Catalyze Emotional Growth
2015–2016 extended study series
September 9–April 13, Wednesdays, 10–11:30 a.m.
Menlo College

Imaging the Unimaginable
Jay Rosenblatt
Opening event: September 26, 1–3:30 p.m.

Birth of Self: Out of Dissociation into Creation Through Relation
Helen Marlo, Ph.D.
September 9–October 21, 10–11:30 a.m.

Enigmatic Signifiers and the Search for the Discoverable Object
Angela Sowa, Psy.D., MFT
October 28–December 16, 10–11:30 a.m.

The Evolutionary Body and Creative Analysis
John Conger, Ph.D.
January 13–February 24, 10–11:30 a.m.

Art and Psychoanalysis
Susan Yamaguchi, LCW
March 2–April 13, 10–11:30 a.m.

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Deepening the Work: Relational Psychotherapy Through a Jungian Lens
2015–2016 yearlong course for licensed clinicians
September 2015–June 2016, Monday evenings
C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco

2727 College Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705

Tuition: $1,800
For licensed clinicians only

69.5 continuing education hours available
Approved for MD, Ph.D., LCSW, MFT, and RN
Tuition includes continuing education credits and online access to readings.

Questions: Contact Extended Education at (415) 771-8055, ext. 208, or email
sschafer@sfjung.org.

This yearlong program will be the Jung Institute’s first in the East Bay and the first to present contemporary relational analysts through the hearts, minds, and experiences of Jungian analysts. Participants will explore the profound connection between Jung’s work and current thinking about the power of relationships and the mutual influence of patient and therapist in healing the wounds of both.

Faculty and Seminar Listing

Betsy Cohen, Ph.D., and Mark Sullivan, Ph.D., MFT
Course coordinators

Mutual Unconscious Influence, Flexibility, and Vulnerability
Betsy Cohen, Ph.D.

Relational Jungian Analysis and the Recovery of Being
Bryan Wittine, Ph.D.

Meeting and Creative Emergence: The Silent Interpenetrating Mix of Therapist and Patient
Maria Chiaia, Ph.D.

Dancing with Eros: Discovering a Place for Both the Patient’s and the Therapist’s Emotional Life in Depth Work
Mark Sullivan, Ph.D., MFT

Submission and Surrender as Modes of Relating in Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology
Steve Zemmelman, Ph.D.

Beyond Jung’s Notion of Syzygy: Relational and Jungian Reflections on Queering the Gender Binary and Working in Psychotherapy with Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Individuals
Anita Josefa Barzman, MD, CCH

Out of Dissociation into Creation Through Relation: Connecting with Art and Soul
Helen Marlo, Ph.D.

The Therapeutic Relationship and Active Imagination
Robin Eve Greenberg, MFT

The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco is accredited by the Institute for Medical Quality/California Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco designates this live event for a maximum of 69.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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NDNU Clinical Psychology Department Alumni Training Group
Open to all NDNU Clinical Psychology graduates

First Tuesday of every month
6–7:15 p.m.
Ralston Annex, NDNU

Facilitated by Helen Marlo, Ph.D.
Chair, Clinical Psychology Department
Professor
Clinical Psychologist, PSY 15318

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Psychic Birth and Rebirth
November 13, 2015, 7:30–9:30 p.m.
Unity Church of Portland

Birth of the Self
November 14, 2015, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.
Unity Church of Portland

Psychic Birth and Rebirth Through Analysis

“The neurosis is as a rule a pathological, one-sided development of the personality, the imperceptible beginnings of which can be traced back almost indefinitely into the earliest years of childhood. Only a very arbitrary judgment can say where the neurosis actually begins. If we were to relegate the determining cause as far back as the patient’s prenatal life, thus involving the physical and psychic disposition of the parents at the time of conception and pregnancy—a view that seems not at all improbable in certain cases—such an attitude would be more justifiable than the arbitrary selection of a definite point of neurotic origin in the individual life of the patient.”
—Jung, CW 16, 257–258

“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.”
—Erich Fromm

Lecture
Birth and rebirth are powerful themes that can shape a person’s development within analysis at any age and stage of life. They contain timeless and profound archetypal and developmental meanings that stimulate our development and relationship to the Self.

This lecture will focus on ideas regarding birth and rebirth and their expression in analysis. The ways analysis can give birth to the self will come to life through imagery, session dialogue, and Dr. Marlo’s inner experience in her work with a patient who experienced psychic birth through analysis.

Workshop: Birth of the Self
How can analysis birth the self?

We will explore this question by illuminating ideas about birth. Nascent stirrings of the Self often initiate the labor of analytic work, which can be influenced by our life stories, including our birth stories.

Birth is a topic that is pregnant with meaning. It can be a signifier of the unsymbolized, unimagined, and unexperienced. It can manifest as a regressive developmental experience suffused with body or implicit memory. Birth can also act as a symbol or metaphor and be expressed as a second birth or rebirth. Finally, it may emerge in the efflorescence of self-development involving a more related connection to the Self—a precursor to more complete development, heralding transformations in being and spirit.

These ideas come to life through Dr. Marlo’s presentation of an emergent process of birth, development, and transformation from more than 15 years of analysis with a woman who began analysis dissociated from her self/Self.

Using evocative imagery, session dialogue, and Dr. Marlo’s inner experience, this workshop intimately examines what happens behind the consulting room door. It allows participants to reflect on their experience in analysis and examine the practice of analysis and its transformative potential.

Helen Marlo, Ph.D.
Dr. Marlo is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst practicing in San Mateo, California. She is a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and Professor and Chair of the graduate Clinical Psychology Department at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. She has published and presented on trauma, spirituality, synchronicity, and reproductive mental health. She is Reviews Editor for Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche.

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Birth of the Self
January 31, 2015, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
First Unitarian Universalist Church
1187 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA

Helen Marlo, Ph.D.
John Beebe, MD
Karen Peoples, Ph.D.
Beverly Zabriskie, LCSW

How can analysis birth the self?

This program explores clinical and developmental processes that frame a response to this question, illuminating developmental and archetypal ideas about birth and interpersonal trauma through classical and contemporary theory and research.

Significantly expanding upon Dr. Marlo’s previous work, this workshop chronicles more than 15 years of analysis with a woman who began treatment in a dissociated state. Using imagery, session dialogue, and Dr. Marlo’s inner experience, the presentation provides an opportunity to examine what happens behind the consulting room door, allowing participants to explore the practice of analysis and its transformative potential.

Three renowned analysts—Dr. Beebe, Dr. Peoples, and Ms. Zabriskie—will be discussants of Dr. Marlo’s presentation. These leaders in the field offer different insights on the material as they address the self/Self, trauma, the relational unconscious, transformation, and emotion—from myth to neuroscience.

Helen Marlo, Ph.D.
Jungian analyst; Chair of Clinical Psychology, Notre Dame de Namur University

John Beebe, MD
Jungian analyst; past President of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco

Karen Peoples, Ph.D.
Psychoanalyst; Personal and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California

Beverly Zabriskie, LCSW
Jungian analyst; founding member and former President of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association