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The Embodied Psyche: Alchemical Imagery and Unconscious Emotional Communication

November 6, 2009 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PST

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Jung’s work is founded on a belief in the reality of the psyche rather than on a reductionist point-of-view. Yet we may also wonder how his theories about the nature of unconscious communication, self-regulation, and active imagination jibe with new and fascinating studies coming from the field of neurobiology.

We will begin with images of the King and Queen from “Psychology of the Transference” and from the Splendor Solis, as examples of Jung’s use of imagery, which can communicate emotions and ideas that cannot be easily put into words.   We will then compare Jung’s method to Darwin’s early work on emotional communication through body language and facial expression and to contemporary research, which employs neuro-imagining techniques to study nonverbal cues that can trigger an emotional response in another person, both before and sometimes without any conscious awareness.   Participants can expect to come away with a basic understanding of nonverbal communication, which underlies much of what we talk about when we speak of unconscious-to-unconscious communication in psychotherapy and in everyday life.

Related Workshop: The Embodied Psyche: A Flowering Tree: Emotion, Imagination, and the Brain

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.

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Date:
November 6, 2009
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PST
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Venue

First United Methodist Church, Sanctuary
1838 SW Jefferson Street
Portland, OR 97201 United States
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