Basic Course in Analytical Psychology
under the collegial guidance of Natalia Zhdanova, Olena Kovalenko, and Viktoriia Roslik.
Inspired by this idea, we have combined professional experience, knowledge, and vision to create a foundational course in Jungian analysis — a course where collegiality is not only a teaching principle but also a way of transmitting the living tradition of analytical psychology.
We have created a space where you can encounter the experience of many masters and, amidst the diversity of their styles, discover your own path.
We invite you on a three-year journey into the depths of the human psyche, where every step is supported by the collegial experience of the Ukrainian Jungian community.
The program meets IAAP requirements for the theoretical training of analytical psychologists and is recommended by the Ukrainian Jungian Association as a foundational theoretical and practical course in the fundamentals of C. G. Jung's analytical psychology.
Who is this course for
This course is designed for practicing psychologists, psychotherapists, and helping professionals who:
• are interested in depth psychology and seek to master methods of working with the unconscious;
• want to structure and deepen their knowledge within the Jungian approach;
• seek to integrate analytical tools into their own clinical practice.
Admission requirements
To participate in the course, you need:
- A complete higher education degree (in psychology or medicine).
- Age 26 or older.
- Successful completion of a preliminary individual interview with the course authors to determine professional readiness and motivation.
What awaits participants?
The program combines classical theory and contemporary approaches in Jungian analysis. The training aims both at acquiring theoretical knowledge and developing practical skills for conducting analytical therapy.
The acquired competencies will enable effective work in the field of individual psychotherapy with adults.
Prospects for graduates
The certificate obtained opens the way for further professional development within the Ukrainian Jungian Association. Upon fulfilling all qualification requirements of the program, UJA standards, and current legislation, graduates can obtain the official status of “Jungian Psychotherapist”.
About the authors and instructors
The project is implemented under the guidance of experienced professionals in cooperation with lecturers and analysts of the UJA / IAAP.
Contacts for registration
Curriculum of the basic program in analytical psychology under the collegial guidance of N. Zhdanova, O. Kovalenko, V. Roslik
List of theoretical and practical training topics
I. Jungian Understanding of Personality and Psychopathology.
- Structure of personality according to C.G. Jung (concepts of consciousness and the unconscious, theory of psychic defenses, theory of development).
- Theory of the individual psyche: Persona, Ego-complex, Personal Shadow (theory of complexes, Jung’s association test).
- Theory of the collective psyche: archetype theory. Concept of the collective unconscious and the collective Shadow.
II. Basic Concepts of Analytical Psychology and their Clinical Application.
- Theories of development.
- Archetype of the Mother and the mother complex.
- Archetype of the Father and the father complex, archetype of the hero.
- Anima.
- Animus.
- Archetype of the couple.
- Self, bodily self, child archetype, work with self-esteem.
III. Specifics of Organizing Jungian Analysis:
- Analytical setting: determining fees, session frequency, disclosure of personal information by the analyst, work with codependency.
- Stages of analysis. Identifying and developing the client’s capacity to work with images, imagination, and symbols.
- Ethical principles. Maintaining an analytical and ethical stance in work with clients.
IV. Practice of Analytical Psychology. Methods of Activating and Interpreting Unconscious Material.
- Theory of transference and countertransference. Working with transference.
- Theory of dreams and their interpretation.
- Special approaches to dream work: Bosnak, Eisenstadt, Mindell, Hillman.
- Active imagination (transcendent function), amplification,
- Interpretation, reductive, dynamic and synthetic interpretation. Interpretation of images. Timing for comments and other interventions.
- Work with fairy tales and myths.
- Sandplay therapy.
- The analytical process through the lens of Alchemy.
- Body work in Jungian analysis.
V. Jung’s Typological Model of Consciousness.
Concepts of extraversion and introversion. Functions of consciousness: rational and irrational functions. Type mandala: superior, auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior functions. Principles of classifying types of consciousness. Clinical application of typology in practice.
VI. Psychopathology
- Psychoanalytic diagnosis
- Specifics of working with patients with narcissistic personality disorder
- Specifics of working with borderline personality disorder.
- Working with psychotic disorders.
- Working with depressive disorders.
- Specifics of working with psychosomatic illnesses.
- Trauma as a path to soul healing, viewing the issue through the lens of analytical psychology.
- Death, grief work, termination of analysis
- Individuation
VII. Preparation and defense of the certification thesis.
Seminars 33, 34: Defense of certification theses, farewell.