C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, Seattle Lecture: Friday, May 18, 2007, 7 to 9 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$15 members, $25 nonmembers
2 CEUs
In the last ten years, both analysts and neuroscientists have begun to challenge the analytic community to explore the analytic view of the mind in relation to knowledge emerging from the field of neuroscience. I find that Jung’s understanding of the mind, the human condition, and the self, is most compatible with the insights that are emerging from neuroscience today. In this paper I present work with patients whose early experience has diminished their capacity to be “in mind” and with it their capacity for reflective self-function, whose defences are dissociative, whose need has been to keep unbearable experience at bay, out of mind. This paper uses insights from contemporary neuroscience and attachment theory to explore the profound dissociative defences associated with trauma. I discuss the effects of trauma on the emotional, intellectual, and imaginative life of the individual and on the development of the self. Based on work with patients with very different experiences of trauma I use insights from neuroscience to illustrate how dissociative defences may be undone in order to bring about change.
Margaret Wilkinson is a professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology, London, and an assistant editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. She lectures internationally on contemporary neuroscience and its relevance to clinical practice. She is the author of numerous papers. Her book Coming Into Mind. The Mind-Brain Relationship: A Jungian Clinical Perspective was published by Routledge in January 2006. She is in private practice in North Derbyshire, England.
This program has been approved for 2 CEUs by the Washington Chapter, National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Provider number is #1975-157. The cost to receive a certificate is as follows: 2.0 units for the Friday lecture $10.
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