ANZSJA Professional Development Seminars

INTRODUCTION:

ANZSJA’s 2009 – 2011 clinician’s Professional Development program takes as its point of departure Jean Knox’s (2007) suggestion that Jung’s work is built on the following seven ‘signature’ concepts:

1) The self as an organizing psychic structure
2) Archetypes and the collective unconscious
3) The dissociative nature of the psyche and the formation of complexes
4) The unconscious as an active and purposive agent in individuation
5) The psyche as self-regulating - the transcendent function
6) Libido as neutral psychic energy, available for a number of purposes
7) Psychic imagery as symbols not signs, reflecting something as yet unknown

In order to support the clinical focus of this series of professional development lectures and seminars ANZSJA has added Jung’s well-known principle that:
8) the clinician cannot exert influence unless they are available to be influenced by their client /patient (C.W. 16, para. 163).
Each of the professional development lectures and seminar/workshops in this series takes one or more of these Jungian signature concepts as its point of departure. The Friday night lectures look at the wider clinical and theoretical implications the ideas under discussion, and stand alone in themselves. They also, however, form a prelude to a more in depth exploration in the Saturday seminars which follow them.
The Saturday seminars include input from presenters on both traditional and contemporary understandings of Jungian concepts. These discussions will be grounded in clinical examples drawn from a wide spectrum of presenting issues, and attendees are invited to bring confidential clinical examples for discussion.
This series of professional development lectures and seminars have been structured to make them accessible to clinicians who have little or no knowledge of Jung’s work. At the same time, the approach being taken to the ideas under discussion means that these events will also be relevant to clinicians who are familiar with Jung’s ideas and are interested in exploring how they might develop new ways of applying them in their work.
Over the three year cycle, the concepts in Knox’s list will be covered in the lectures and seminars as follows:

Jungian Analysis: The Self as Process in Theory and Practice
1) The self as an organizing psychic structure

Jungian Analysis: The Personal and Collective Psyche - Therapy as a Process of Individuation:
2) Archetypes and the collective unconscious
4) The unconscious as an active and purposive agent in individuation

Jungian Analysis: Symbolisation and the Structure of the Unconscious:
3)The dissociative nature of the psyche and the formation of complexes
7) Psychic imagery as symbols not signs, reflecting something as yet unknown

Jungian Analysis: The Nature of The Psyche and Processes of Therapeutic Change:
5) The psyche as self-regulating - the transcendent function (including experiences of the emergent third and item 8 above which is Jung's clinical principle that one cannot influence a client unless one is available to be influenced by the client)
6) Libido as neutral psychic energy, available for a number of purposes

(Reference: Knox (2007) Who Owns the Unconscious? or Why Psychoanalysts Need to 'Own Jung', p.319 in "Who Owns Jung?" ed., Ann Casement, Karnac, London).