Fall 1999 Programming

Workshop: From Bewitchment to Enchantment: Transformational Process in the Psychoanalysis of Early Trauma Patients who have suffered severe early trauma often find themselves bewitched by dark tyrannical voices assaulting them from within, leading to intense anxiety and depression. In dream work with such patients, the dark inner voices reveal themselves as both archaic and typical – hence archetypal – personifications whose inner purpose seems to be the defense of a vulnerable core of selfhood to make sure it is never violated again. However, in defending the true self against further trauma, the archetypal defenses also persecute and demoralize it, cutting off all hope for life-in-relationship to others. Therefore the positive side of the Self cannot constellate and the individuation process cannot get started. In successful depth psychotherapy these archetypal defenses slowly lose their power as their bewitching energy slowly becomes humanized in the transference and is transmuted into a mature capacity for love and creative living (enchantment). In this workshop, clinical material as well as the Grimm’s fairy tale Fitcher’s Bird (sometimes called Fitcher’s Vogel) will be utilized to illustrate this process. Attendees are asked to read the tale before the workshop. Versions of the story can be found online at:

• Translation by D. L. Ashliman
• All Family Resources Collection

You might also be interested in:

• Cindy Sherman Photographs from her book Fitcher’s Bird
• Reed College Student Susan Reagel’s Thesis Artwork

Donald E. Kalsched, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst with a private practice in Katonah, N.Y. He is a faculty member and supervisor at the C.G. Jung Institute in New York City and is also Dean of Jungian Studies specialty at the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. His recent book The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit was published in 1996 (Routledge).

This film will be shown in three parts, and after each showing a discussion will be led by Jungian analysts. All showings are free.

Film and Jungian psychology have many images of this paradisiacal home. These seem to be intensifying and deepening as the millennium approaches. This lecture and workshop will respectfully explore these images and reflect on their possible guidance and challenge in our journey toward the Gates of Paradise. As always with such conversations, no answers are promised, just a broadening and enhancing of our questions.

Terrill L. Gibson, Ph.D., is a diplomate pastoral psychotherapist and diploma Jungian analyst who practices individual and family therapy in Tacoma. He lectures and writes widely on the basic theme of the integration of psychotherapy and spirituality. He has frequently served as a consultant, faculty member, supervisor and facilitator for a variety of Pacific Northwest universities, social service agencies, corporations, and religious congregations. A book he co-edited with Laura Dodson, Ph.D., Psyche and Family (Chiron Press) is his most recent publication.

Workshop: The theme of the evening lecture will be explored in greater depth. Participants will be involved in a number of experiental exercises to understand the significance of dwelling places in their lives. The workshop format will be a combination of lecture, discussion, and personal sharing in small groups.

Clare Cooper Marcus, Professor Emerita, recently retired from the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of House as a Mirror of Self: Exploring the deeper meaning of home (Conari Press, 1995).