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The Embodied Psyche: A Flowering Tree: Emotion, Imagination, and the Brain
November 7, 2009 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PST
Keeping the reality of the psyche as our touchstone, we will look at emotional experience and communication as fundamental to the lives of primates, as well as active imagination as a form of healing. We will begin with the basic organization of the brain, including Alan Schore’s work on hemispheric specialization, and then look at the ways the brain is designed to integrate functioning from the two hemispheres and specialized areas. We will also discuss the latest research on two very interesting types of neurons, one type (“mirror neurons”) related to embodied communication of emotional states and imitative learning, and the other (von Economo neurons) potentially related to intuition. Using the East Indian women’s folk tale of A Flowering Tree, we will also consider how experts in neurobiology and in Jungian psychology may arrive at conflicting conclusions as they interpret across disciplines. No previous knowledge of neurobiology is required.
(Please note this workshop will have a half-hour lunch-break. Participants are encouraged to bring brown-bag lunches.)
Related Lecture: The Embodied Psyche: Alchemical Imagery and Unconscious Emotional Communication
Dyane N. Sherwood, Ph.D. did her analytic training at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where she was certified in Adult and in Child and Adolescent Analysis. After graduation, she served as Editor of The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal (which she re-visioned as Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche), on the Board, as a speaker in public programs, and as a Training Analyst. In 2010, she moved to Oberlin, Ohio, where she has a private practice. She has published book chapters and articles and also co-authored a book with the late Joseph Henderson, MD, Transformation of the Psyche: The Symbolic Alchemy of the Splendor Solis (Routledge, 2003). Website: dyanesherwood.com.