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Hags and Heroes
February 15, 1986 @ 9:30 am - 4:30 pm PST
Material presented will include the use of Jung’s ideas and methods as applicable in interpersonal contexts; assessing and handling problems of the ‘mid-life’ crisis; assessing and coping with problems in basic trust and communications (especially non-rational communication) in relationships of couples who live or work together.
Included will be a dramatic representation of the 15th Century story, “The Wedding of Gawain and the Lady Ragnell” as introduction to discussion of a special transition in couple relations: from the loss of basic trust to the revitalization of the relationship.
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Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont and in private practice in central Vermont. Polly is the originator of Dialogue Therapy, designed to help couples and others (for example, parents and grown children) to transform chronic conflict into greater closeness and development. She is past president of the Vermont Association for Psychoanalytic Studies and a founding member of the Vermont Institute for the Psychotherapies. She is also a Mindfulness teacher and has been a practitioner of Buddhism since 1971. Polly is the author or editor of eighteen books, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. Her most recent work book is Love Between Equals: Relationship as a Spiritual Path (Shambhala, 2019).
EDWARD J. EPSTEIN is a practicing family therapist and individual counselor at Paoli Community for Human Growth. In addition to his training in social work, he holds a degree in Theatre from New York University, School of Drama. In his part-time practice he specializes in working with men in regard to their relationships.