News and Events

Psychoanalysis and Creativity: How Art and Spirituality Catalyze Emotional Growth

Jay RosenblattOpening event: Imaging the UnimaginableSat. September 26 1:00 – 3:30pm

Helen Marlo, PhD.Birth of Self: Out of Dissociation into Creation through Relation September 9-October 21 10:00-11:30am

Angela Sowa, PsyD., MFTEnigmatic Signifiers and the Search for the Discoverable ObjectOctober 28-December 16 10:00-11:30am

John Conger, PhD.The Evolutionary Body and Creative AnalysisJanuary 13-February 24 10:00-11:30am

Susan Yamaguchi, LCWArt and PsychoanalysisMarch 2-April 13 10:00-11:30am

Deepening the Work: Relational Psychotherapy through a Jungian Lens

2015-2016 Yearlong Course for Licensed CliniciansSeptember 2015 – June 2016

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 and minds and experience of Jungian analysts. We will learn of the profound connection between Jung’s work and current thinking on the power of the relationship and the mutual influence of patient and therapist to heal the wounds of both.

Faculty and Seminar Listing:

Betsy Cohen, PhD & Mark Sullivan, PhD, MFTCourse Coordinators

Betsy Cohen, PhDMutual Unconscious Influence, Flexibility and Vulnerability

Bryan Wittine, PhDRelational Jungian Analysis and the Recovery of Being

Maria Chiaia, PhDMeeting and Creative Emergence:The Silent Interpenetrating Mix of Therapist and Patient

Mark Sullivan, PhD, MFTDancing with Eros: Discovering a Place for Both the Patient’sand the Therapist’s Emotional Life in Depth Work

Steve Zemmelman, PhDSubmission and Surrender as Modes of Relatingin Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology

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

Helen Marlo, PhDOut of Dissociation into Creation through Relation:Connecting with Art and Soul

Robin Eve Greenberg, MFTThe Therapeutic Relationship and Active Imagination

The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco is accredited by the Institute for Medical Quality/California Medical Assocaition (IMQ/CMA) 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 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

NDNU Clinical Psychology Department Alumni Training Group

All NDNU Clinical Psychology Graduates Welcome!

When: Every First Tuesday of the Month

Where: Ralston Annex

Time: 6:00-7:15pm

Other: Facilitated by Helen Marlo, Ph.D.Chair, Clinical Psychology DepartmentProfessorClinical Psychologist (PSY 15318)

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 that 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 SelfHow 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 story.

Birth is a topic that is pregnant with meaning. It can be a signifier of the un-symbolized, unimagined, and un-experienced. 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 over 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, allowing participants to reflect on their experience in analysis and examine the practice of analysis and its transformative potential.

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