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Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying Before I Do; How Individuals Can Develop Skills to Integrate Traumatic Life Events Into Their Lives
September 13, 1997 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
We all fear “seeing the crab,” for a diagnosis of cancer that has spread is a nightmare come true. Facing the reality of terminal illness is the greatest challenge for families, friends and persons living with metastatic disease. “I had to get to know this cancer, this vile crab, and make it pare of who I am,” says Jungian analyst, Christina Middlebrook.
How do we take in information about ourselves that we abhor? Should we include the knowledge and fear of illness in the picture we paint of our lives? Or should we keep it off the page? What about other traumatic life events? How does one move beyond them?
On Saturday Christina Middlebrook will lead a workshop of personal excercises and group discussion. The workshop will focus on how individuals can integrate life events that are ego-alien. The aim of the workshop is to increase skills for integrating traumatic life events.
Related Lecture: Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying Before I Do
Christina Middlebrook, M.A. lives with advanced breast cancer. She is a Jungian analyst and author of the book, Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying Before I Do. She trained at the C.G.Jung institute of San Francisco where she currently serves on the training faculty. She was born in Illinois, received her B.A. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Middlebury College, Vermont. She received an M. A. in psychiatric social work from the University of Chicago. She has been in private practive in San Francisco since 1972, and currently lives there with her husband and children.