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CJSSF 2014-2015 EVENT CALENDAR
Theme for the 27th Season:
The Myths That Haunt and Heal Us
“The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of
the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in
the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness,
from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious…
Meaning makes a great many things endurable—perhaps everything.”
- C. J. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 340
Everywhere there is the cry for meaning.
Why is this cry so desperate in our time?
Jung suggests it is because we have lost our mythic bearings.
Come join us as we explore Jung’s message that myth is not only not
something unreal or untrue, but that it is at the heart of psychological
growth in ways that both haunt and heal us … all within a supportive,
welcoming community of mental health professionals and others actively
seeking personal awareness, exploration, and growth.
October 10, 2014
SOCIAL EVENT AND BOOK SALE
All are welcome!!
Friday 6:30 – 9:30 pm
FREE EVENT!
All Saints Episcopal Church, 333 Tarpon Drive, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
Please join us as we kick off our 27th Season with an evening of conversation, food and
drinks – all FREE – plus amazing bargains. Build your library with new and classic Jungian
and other psychological works, along with donated books at low, low prices. This event
provides the opportunity to connect with old and new friends who have common interests,
thus strengthening our Jungian community .
FREE EVENT! Please RSVP to help us!
MEMBERSHIPS & DONATIONS APPRECIATED!
Friday & Saturday, November 21 & 22, 2014
CJSSF PRESENTS A SPECIAL EVENT
WITH DR. JAMES HOLLIS
WHAT IS MYTH? AND WHAT IS MY MYTH?
Friday Reception 6:30 pm, Lecture 7:30 – 9:30 pm
Saturday Workshop 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (lunch included)
Lecture & Workshop – $200; Lecture only – $50; Workshop only – $150
The Riverside Hotel, 620 E. Las Olas Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
“What we are to our inward vision, and what man appears to be
[in eternal form], can only be expressed by way of myth.
Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.
Science works with concepts of averages which are far too general to do
justice to the subjective variety of an individual life.”
- C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 3
WHAT IS MYTH?
James Hollis, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst
Jung asked himself, "What is my myth?" and realized it was a question he could not answer.
Can we answer it? We first have to understand what is meant by myth. It is not what you
think. Contrary to the pejorative connotation often ascribed to it as untruth, for Jung,
discovering one’s myth is synonymous with exploring what resonates most deeply with an
individual or culture. Dr. Hollis will consider what the question, “What is myth?” itself
means. Why we even have to ask this question is yet another question. What is the cultural
context in which we make these inquiries? How do our personal journeys intersect with the
climate of our time? Responses to these and related issues will be explored as Dr. Hollis
offers putative approaches to discovering our myth, and challenges us to a more thoughtful
engagement with our own personal myth and journey. (2 CEUs, $6)
Learning Objectives: Following the completion of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Define myth in depth psychology terms; and
2. Appreciate the significance of myth for individuals and cultures for both oneself and one’s
clients.
WHAT IS MY MYTH?
James Hollis, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst
During the course of today’s program, Dr. Hollis will elaborate on the queries suggested in
his presentation on Friday evening. He will suggest that, for each individual and culture,
myth represents four critical connections: to the cosmos at large; to nature and the earth; to
the tribe or one’s society; and ultimately to one’s self psychologically. These connections
have historically been provided by religions and culture in general, but this is often no longer
the case. To lose these mythological connections is to be bereft of meaning. In our
postmodern era, the burden of meaning increasingly falls on the individual in one’s search
for a personal myth so as not to suffer a “division with oneself.” Thus, discovering one’s
personal myth has become the central purpose of life. This is despite the fact that it
represents “a dangerous enterprise” that involves an archetypal hero’s descent into the
unconscious. The goal is nothing less than the integration of the unconscious with the
conscious in the image of “my fable, my truth,” either for oneself and/or one’s clients
psychological development. Dr. Hollis will pose even more questions in order to provoke
participants to further personalize these issues and answer the question posed by Jung, “What
is your myth—the myth in which you live??” (6 CEUs, $18)
Please bring pad and pen on which to reflect and to write.
Learning Objectives: Following the completion of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the significance of the question, “What is my myth?”;
2. Appreciate the differences between what is ordinarily thought of as myth, and the
perspective assumed by depth psychology with regard to myth;
3. Identify and elaborate on the four functions of myth;
4. Understand the difference between cultural and personal myth;
5. Describe the consequences of not being aware of one’s cultural or personal myth; and
6. Apply depth psychological techniques for exploring and clarifying one’s own and/or
one’s clients’ personal myths.
James Hollis, Ph.D., is a Zurich-trained and internationally acclaimed Jungian analyst and
author in private practice. Dr. Hollis is the Executive Director of the Washington (DC) Jung
Society as of September 2014, and former Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center
of Houston. He is also: professor of Jungian Studies at Saybrook University, San Francisco;
retired Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts; first
Director of the Philadelphia Jung Institute; and President Emeritus of the Philemon
Foundation. Among his many publications are numerous articles and fourteen books (some
of which have been translated into sixteen languages) including The Archetypal Imagination,
The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other; Finding Meaning in the Second Half of
Life; What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life; and his most recent book,
Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives.
PLEASE NOTE: A few rooms have been reserved at The Riverside Hotel. Please call 954467-0671 for reservations under CJSSF until rooms are filled.
February 7, 2015
Saturday 1:00 – 5:00 pm -- CJSSF Treasure Coast Chapter Event
Movie, Discussion & Refreshments – $30
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 623 SE Ocean Blvd, STUART, FL 34994
REALITY, DREAM AND SOUL IN
JIMMY P: PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN
Fred Fleischer, M.Div., Jungian Analyst
Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian brings to life the adventure of a psychoanalysis
through images of dreams and enactments of memories that emerge while patient and analyst
sit together in therapy sessions. The film is based on Georges Devereux's Reality and Dream,
an 800-page record that provides a rare entrée into the analytic process. Benicio del Toro
plays Jimmy Picard, a Blackfeet Indian from Montana, who returns from WWII with psychic
trauma, or soul pain. Famed psychiatrist Karl Menninger matches Jimmy with Devereux, a
European anthropologist who had worked with the Mohave. The Mohave pay attention to
dreams, and the experience converted Devereux to psychoanalysis. What unfolds is the soul
work and personal myth discovery process of two men who are outsiders in different ways.
Although Jimmy is the patient, it is his searching deeply for his individual reality beyond
culture that helps transform Devereux into an analyst. This is said to be the first film that
portrays a Native American as a whole woman (in the role of Jimmy's love interest). The film
shows how analysis can transcend culture through what Jung called the individuation
process. (3 CEUs, $9)
Learning Objectives: Following the completion of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Appreciate the intersubjective and dynamic nature of the psychotherapeutic process as it
impacts on both client and therapist;
2. Understand the convergence of depth psychology and another perspective, in this case, the
Blackfeet experience of soul and soul pain, as they play out in the therapeutic process; and
3. Understand the process of depth therapy and individuation as they manifest in dreams and
memory images that transcend any particular individual or culture.
Fr. Fred Fleischer, M.Div., is the Founding Jungian Analyst of the Center for Jungian
Studies of South Florida. He is a senior training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of
Jungian Analysts, and with the Florida Association of Jungian Analysts. He has a practice in
Miami and the Bahamas, and serves as the Assistant Pastor, Music Minister, and Organist of
the Church of the Resurrection at Biscayne Park in Miami.
February 28, 2015
Saturday 10:00 am – 3:30 pm (Lunch included)
Registration limited to 25 CJSSF Members
Reading, Seminar & Lunch–$100; Book from CJSSF – $20
The Duncan Center, 15820 Military Trail, Delray Beach, FL 33484
THERE IS PSYCHOLOGICAL PROGRESS.
CAN THERE BE PROGRESS OF PSYCHOLOGY?
From The Soul Always Thinks, Collected English Papers, Volume 4
By Wolfgang Giegerich, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst
Facilitated by Santo Tarantino, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst
Considered one of the most rigorous, substantive, and brilliant Jungian thinkers, Wolfgang
Giegerich has produced a fourth book in his Collected English Papers series in which he
places the notion of the soul at the center of his discussions. He summons the soul back to the
interiority of the psyche, and emphasizes its creative and yet logically unfolding nature.
Giegerich cautions against a purely archetypal, psycho-logical, or imaginal conception of the
soul. He suggests the importance of understanding the rational steps of the soul’s movement
in personal and cultural myth-creation, through the life cycle from childhood to adulthood,
and from natural oneness to differentiation and subsequent integration. In this work,
Giegerich underscores the significance of the thinking soul, clarifies misconceptions about
the relation between thought and soul, and highlights the significance of the thinking soul for
the development of psychology.
Attendance requires the reading of three papers in The Soul Always Thinks: “There is
Psychological Progress. Can there be Progress of Psychology?”; "The Dignity of Thought: In
Defense of the Phenomenon of Philosophical Thought"; and a third paper to be announced.
Additionally, it is requested that attendees prepare questions for Dr. Tarantino.
Santo Tarantino, Ph.D., is a Jungian Analyst with a Diplomate in Jungian Psychoanalysis
and a doctoral degree in Social Psychology. He served as president of CJSSF from 1992 –
1994. He is a retired Associate Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University, has
published and presented internationally to Jungian organizations, and was formerly Chair of
the Executive Committee of the International Society for Psychology as the Discipline of
Interiority (ISPDI).
March 14, 2015
Saturday 10:30 am – 3:30 pm (Brunch included)
Movie, Discussion & Brunch – $40
The Riverside Hotel, 620 E. Las Olas Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
HER: PROJECTION, VOICE, AND BEING ALONE
Dominic Callahan, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist
Her (2013), the Oscar award-winning movie by Spike Jonz, is a thoughtful examination of
how technology both creates and assuages the loneliness of living in a world where people
are increasingly isolated through privatized digital communication. Joaquin Phoenix plays
Theodore Thumbley, a man deeply wounded from a failed marriage. Drawing on his capacity
to imagine Eros, he composes aphoristic love letters for people unable to write them on their
own. Longing for connection in the absence of a clearly defined personal myth, he
downloads an Operating System (OS-1) that promises a digital companion built from the
files of his own computer. Naming herself Samantha, this system, wonderfully voiced by
Scarlett Johansen, effortlessly relates to Theodore. To his amazement, he falls in love. She, in
turn, uses their connection to evolve into an increasingly discerning psychic/digital being. As
she becomes more self-aware, they enter into a struggle all human relationships experience.
The film poignantly depicts how projection and the human voice are essential in spurring on
relationship, consciousness, and myth-making, how we try to humanize technologies that can
easily colonize our lives, and how the Internet may offer a transitional space for wounds to
the soul. (3 CEUs, $9)
Learning Objectives: Following the completion of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Explain the role of projection and the voice in the cultivation of relationships,
development of consciousness, and in the discovery of resonant personal myths;
2. Understand the association between loneliness and the need for Ero-tic connection, even
to the point of personalizing technological creations; and
3. Appreciate the way in which technological innovations may offer psychological comfort
for the very interpersonal isolation they often foster, both for oneself and for one’s clients.
Dominic Callahan, Ph.D., is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Coral
Springs, FL. A former President of the Center for Jungian Studies, he has presented often for
the Center, the most recent being the film Adam Resurrected in April of 2011 and The Descendants in 2013.
May 3, 2015
Sunday, 3:00 – 7:00 pm (Dinner included)
Film, Discussion, Dinner, & Annual Meeting – $75
The Riverside Hotel, 620 E. Las Olas Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
27TH ANNUAL EVENT: WISDOM OF CHANGES –
RICHARD WILHELM AND THE I CHING
Richard Wilhelm’s granddaughter, Bettina, documented this film about the life and work of
the most distinguished translator and mediator of classical Chinese culture for the West. Ms.
Wilhelm traveled throughout China asking some of the same questions her grandfather had.
Remarkably, and as a Christian missionary to China from 1899-1920, Wilhelm regarded his
work not as conversion but as ministering to the needs of those he encountered. In the
process, he became fascinated with classical Chinese literature and culture, translating into
German not only the I Ching but also many other Eastern works of religion and philosophy.
Jung met Wilhelm in the early 1920s during a meeting of Darmstadt’s School of Wisdom.
Immediately recognizing Wilhelm as a kindred spirit intrigued with the notions of both
alchemy of acausal parallelism (or what Jung subsequently referred to as synchronicity),
Jung invited him to speak on the I Ching at the Zurich Psychology Club in 1923. This
relationship fueled Jung’s burgeoning enchantment with Oriental thought, and introduced
him to The Secret of the Golden Flower, a meditation manual that ignited Jung’s interest in
alchemical literature. Jung reflected, “Fate seems to have assigned us the role of being two
pillars that support the weight of the bridge between East and West,” two pillars who sought
the universal truths of mankind in both cultural and personal myth exploration.
Please join us for our final event of the year as we will explore Wilhelm’s work through this
documentary. A discussion with the audience follows the film, facilitated by Constance
Avery-Clark, Ph.D. An elegant dinner will complete the annual meeting. (3 CEUs, $9)
Learning Objectives: Following the completion of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the relationship between Jung and Richard Wilhelm, and the influence of
Wilhelm’s writings on Jung’s thinking;
2. Identify the ways in which Jung’s concept of synchronicity is similar to, and supported by,
Wilhelm’s understanding of the I Ching’s emphasis on the connection between psychic
and physical sequences; and
3. Appreciate the relation between Wilhelm’s introducing Jung to The Secret of the Golden
Flower and the development of Jung’s interest in alchemy, all of these as they pertain to
one’s own psychological development and/or the development of one’s clients.
Constance Avery-Clark, Ph.D., is a Jungian-oriented, licensed Clinical Psychologist who
recently completed her second Ph.D., this one in Jungian Studies, with James Hollis, Ph.D.,
and through Saybrook University. She has presented for CJSSF, most recently on her
dissertation topic, Sex, Jung, and Photographs: The Nature of Yearning. Dr. Avery-Clark is
an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and served as Research and Clinical Associate at
Masters & Johnson Institute. She has been in private practice for 26 years, specializing in
sexual, intimacy, and relationship difficulties from both cognitive-behavioral and depth
psychological perspectives. She is CJSSF’s Vice-President and Program Chair.
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CJSSF BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT: Pamela Heider, PhD, LMHC
CHAIR: Brenda Astor, RN, DCN
PRESIDENT EMERITUS & MEMBERSHIP: Ann Q. Lynch, EdD, LMHC
VICE-PRESIDENT, PROGRAM CHAIR, & SECRETARY: Constance
Avery-Clark, PhD
TREASURER: Patrick Parham, MA
COMMUNICATIONS: Jeannette Sullivan, MA
CONTINUING ED: JeanValdes-Fauli Duda, MS, LMHC, CT, &
Hilary Israch, MS, LCSW
BOOKSTORE: Richard Chappell, BA
TREASURE COAST CHAPTER: Teresa Oster, MS, LCSW
HOSPITALITY: Yehudis Levitin, BFA
MEMBER-AT-LARGE: Joanna DeAngelo, MA, LMHC, ATR, CAP
JUNGIAN ANALYST: Fred Fleischer, MDiv
JUNGIAN ANALYST ADVISORS
Santo Tarantino, PhD; Linda van Dyck, MDiv, PhD; Danila Crespi, MPsy, LMHC; Rick
Overman, PsyD; Judith Moscu, PhD, LMFT;Kaitryn Wertz, MEd, LMHC, NCPSYA
FRIENDS OF THE BOARD
INFORMATION SERVICES: David Shah, JD
EVENTBRITE COORDINATOR: Kristin Rosebrock, BFA
WELCOMING: Shaira Shah, CHt, JD
SPECIAL ASSISTANCE: Elise Crohn, BA
MEET-UP MASTER: Peter Detore, BA
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