Latest Past Events
Special Program: Bone: Dying into life
1615 SW 5th Ave, PortlandMarion Woodman is renowned as a chronicler of women’s experience. In her latest work, she combines her trademark insight with a personal lesson in wisdom and strength. On November 7, 1993, Marion Woodman was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Bone is the story, told in journal form, of her illness and healing and the journey to ... Read more
Transforming depression: Healing the soul through creativity, egocide, symbolic death, and new life
First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room 1838 SW Jefferson Street, PortlandThis format will allow for the in-depth presentation and discussion of an actual case (a depressed and suicidal patient). Participants will learn how the egocide and transformation model is applied and how it works. The patient, guided by the analyst, symbolically kills (or analyzes to death) negative aspects of the ego and shadow (egocide and ... Read more
Transforming depression: Healing the soul through creativity, egocide, symbolic death, and new life
First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall 1838 SW Jefferson Street, PortlandThis presentation will cover: understanding depression and the quest for meaning, knowing suicide and its creative potential, and egocide and transformation (an innovative Jungian humanistic therapeutic paradigm). Egocide and transformation entails healing depressive and suicidal states through the creative technique of active imagination. In other words, the symbolic death of a destructive ego (and shadow) ... Read more
