Basic course in Analytical Psychology by Elena Pozdeeva
Jung wrote: “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both elements are transformed.”
One such meeting marked the beginning of the author’s foundational course in analytical psychology.
- The program meets the IAAP (International Association for Analytical Psychology) standards for foundational programs and is recommended by the Ukrainian Jungian Association as an author’s foundational program on the basic theory of C.G. Jung’s analytical psychology.
- The program includes: lectures, practical classes, and supervision. It is held once a month for 2.5 years (368 hours). The program concludes with the writing of a graduation thesis.
- The program’s goal is to introduce classical and contemporary trends in analytical psychology and to acquire practical skills in analytical therapy.
- The knowledge gained can be used for psychotherapy, individual, family, and group counseling. Graduates of the “Foundational Program” will have the opportunity to continue their professional development.
We invite psychologists and psychotherapists (over 25 years of
age).
Course Author:
Olena Pozdieieva
- IAAP Jungian Analyst
- Supervisor in the Esther Bick method “Infant Observation” (Tavistock, London)
- Member of the Ukrainian Jungian Association (UJA / GM of IAAP)
- Member of the Ukrainian IAAP Development Group (UGD)
- Ex-President of the Professional Association of Child Analytical Psychologists (PACAP).
The program is conducted in collaboration with colleagues – IAAP
analysts.
Course Program
Seminar 1
- C. Jung’s life path and significant dreams. Important encounters, main ideas, and publications. Mutual influence of the ideas of S. Freud and C. Jung.
- Development and institutionalization of analytical psychology today.
- Jungianism as an inexhaustible source of personality development.
- Jung and Post-Jungians.
- Main schools of analytical psychology.
Seminar 2
- Basic concepts of analytical psychology.
- Jung’s personality structure.
- Theory of the individual psyche. Persona, Ego-complex, and Shadow (theory of complexes, C. Jung’s association test).
- “Inner Universe” or the theory of complexes.
Seminar 3
- Forms of work. Literal and symbolic. The meaning of time and money in the analytic consulting room.
- Working with the contract in analytical psychology.
- Formulating the request. Diagnostic interview.
Seminar 4
- Planets of the inner universe or ways of Libido transformation.
- Instincts and archetypes, the concept of the collective unconscious.
- The concept of the collective Shadow.
Seminar 5
- C. Jung’s Typology.
Seminar 6
- The Creation Myth.
- Manifestation of the Self and Individuation.
- Separation of the Universe’s Primordial Parents: the principle of opposites.
Seminar 7
- The Mother Archetype.
- The Child Archetype.
- The Mother Complex.
- Manifestation of the bodily Ego. Individuation in the process of experiencing closeness and separation.
Seminar 8
- The Father Archetype.
- The Hero Archetype.
- The Father Complex.
Seminar 9
- Anima and Animus or the path into the depths of the soul.
- Development of the Anima concept.
- Contemporary views and trends.
- Animus in service of the Ego.
Seminar 10
- Psychological stages of personality development:
- Symbiosis and separation;
- Fragmentation of archetypes;
- Equilibrium and crisis of consciousness.
Seminar 11
- The Death Archetype and the healing fiction.
Seminar 12
- Theories of child development:
- The significance of the first years of life for personality development;
- Emotional development in the first years of life;
- Symbiosis and the subphase of the separation-individuation process.
Seminar 13
- Development of thinking and the capacity for symbolization.
- Methods of working with the symbolic in the analytical tradition.
- Working with dreams.
- The myth of personal history – as a branch of the family tree.
- Alchemy and psychotherapy.
Seminar 14
- Ethics – a fundamental component in the analytic consulting room.
- Possibilities and limits of free thought in the space of new ethics.
Seminar 15
- Transference as the axis of the analytic process.
- Theory and practice of working with transference and countertransference.
- Transference as a form of active imagination.
- The danger of unrecognized countertransference.
Seminar 16
- The dream as a diagnostic tool.
- Dream work techniques.
- Ego images and complex images in dreams.
- Dreams and individuation.
Seminar 17
- Analytical methods of working with unconscious material.
- Active imagination (transcendent function).
- Amplification. Reductive, dynamic, synthetic interpretation. Interpretation of images.
Seminar 18
- Timeliness of interpretations and interventions.
Seminar 19
- Levels of psychic functioning: neurosis, psychosis; boundaries and defenses.
Seminar 20
- At the bottom of the well, or working with depressive states.
Seminar 21
- Orpheus and Eurydice. Journey through the underworld. Encounter with the borderline personality.
- Early relational trauma.
- Traumatic defenses.
Seminar 22
- Trauma as a path to healing the soul.
- A look at the issues of psychosomatics through the lens of analytical psychology.
Seminar 23
- Defense of certification theses.
Total: 368 hours.
Participation in the program requires an interview with the program author, either in person or online.
Contact for registration:
Olena Pozdieieva