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Ann Ulanov Workshop In Praise of Projection Saturday, September 23 10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. EDT via Zoom
to you to watch at your convenience.
Cost: members: $50; non-members: $60; students $25
3 CEUs offered: $25 (LPC, LMSW, LMFT)
Projection is as basic to your psyche as breathing is to our body. It establishes a network of relationships to our world and to each other. And “we always see our unavowed mistakes in our opponent” (CW 8, para 507). Left undissolved, the two-way traffic of projection can cause divisiveness. If dissolved and related to, projection expands bonds to each other, to our deeper psyche and to greater reality beyond the psyche. With lecture and discussion this workshop will explore six meanings of projection among psychoanalytic theorists emphasizing Jung’s unique contribution to understanding this phenomenon.
The six kinds of projections to be addressed are: projection as defense (Freud, Klein), as projective identification (Klein, Betty Josephs, Ogden, Jung’s “imago”), projection as noticing (Winnicott, “imago” again), integrative projections of the good (Jung God-image), projections as gifts from God (Nicholas of Cusa, Jung).
Ann Belford Ulanov, M.Div., Ph.D., L.H.D. is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Emerita Professor of Psychology and Religion at Union Theological Seminary, a psychoanalyst in private practice New York City, a member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, and the International Association for Analytical Psychology. With her late husband, Barry Ulanov, she is author of six books, including Cinderella and Her Sisters: The Envied and The Envying, The Healing Imagination.
3 Day Sale! 40% off all von Franz Titles!
We would like to offer our entire collection of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz at a 40% discount. Be sure to make your purchases by Sunday night to be eligible for the full discount.
The Wizard, the Egg and Fitcher’s Bird: Returning Spiritual Life to Nature in the Individuation of Women
The animus remains a baffling, misunderstood force in women’s psychology, but the fairytale “Fitcher’s Bird” brings his ambivalent, wizardly power and his psychic aims as the spirit of individuation into view, reaching into rich alchemical symbolism to do so. The tale and its alchemical background are illuminated with dreams and psychic images from several women’s lives, whose stories help us understand the profound personal and archetypal value of engaging creatively with the animus.
Like the alchemical nature God, Mercurius, the animus is a life force, an archetype with two sides. His negative side is symbolized in “Fitcher’s Bird” by a wizard’s longtime ability to abduct maidens from their parental homes with barely a touch by dressing as a beggar and appealing to their charity. He displays a perverse dominance over the feminine that has built up in our traditional attitudes over the millennia and takes hold of women through their own participation in those attitudes. Taking them to his great house in the forest, the wizard promises young women riches for their obedience. But the maidens, like the wives of Bluebeard, predictably enter the one forbidden room and end up slaughtered—in “Fitcher’s Bird” they are hewn limb from limb.
Only one maiden is clever enough to pay attention to the gift the wizard’s positive side offers—a simple egg, symbolizing the process of individuation when an ego nurtures a relationship with the unconscious. Switching her focus to the egg, the heroine redeems her sisters and at the end of the tale makes an appearance as the wondrous Fitcher’s bird—an image for the archetypal feminine redeemed from dismemberment and disappearance.
1955-2023
Murray Stein’s 80th Birthday Celebration Video!
This Festschrift celebrates Murray Stein, a man whose life and influence within Analytical Psychology has spanned several continents, wildly different cultures, several sweeping societal shifts, and now enters his ninth decade. He was forged in an American crucible, strengthened in Europe, and eventually matured into a world-wide phenomenon.
And don’t miss the remarkable collectiion of essays published in his honor now available from Chiron Publications! These essays explore individuation in varied ways and reveal Dr. Stein’s extensive impact on the world of Jungian psychoanalysis. An ambassador for post-Jungians, his own writings and the publication of others through his founding of Chiron Publications added valuable and novel insights bout subjects as wide-ranging as Christianity, masculine psychology, and the practice of Jungian analysis.
The diverse topics contained in these essays reflect the fertile, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective that has characterized Dr. Stein’s unique blend of scholarship, personal warmth, and far-reaching vision. From the times of the Delphic Oracle psychotherapists have illuminated the inner landscape where psyche dwells. Dr. Stein has witnessed countless developments and challenges in the decades after Jung’s death. His gentle, wise stewardship reflects what Guindi says about individuation, it is “a testimony of the inner process”. And Dr. Stein’s lifework succeeds at re-enchanting a world stripped of mystery and meaning by modernity as Roderick Main and Len Cruz observe.
After more than five decades of remarkable contributions, Murray Stein’s lifework remains relevant and through his impact on the K-pop band BTS, he has appealed to a new generation of seekers after inner gold. This is a testament to a highly individuated man who fully demonstrates an ongoing individuation, and we are eager to see what his next decade will bring.
Announcing the Release of The Letters of Hope Street!
Celebrate this Saturday with Murray Stein on his 80th Birthday!
These essays explore individuation in varied ways and reveal Dr. Stein’s extensive impact on the world of Jungian psychoanalysis. An ambassador for post-Jungians, his own writings and the publication of others through his founding of Chiron Publications added valuable and novel insights about subjects as wide-ranging as Christianity, masculine psychology, and the practice of Jungian analysis.
The diverse topics contained in these essays reflect the fertile, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective that has characterized Dr. Stein’s unique blend of scholarship, personal warmth, and far-reaching vision. From the times of the Delphic Oracle psychotherapists have illuminated the inner landscape where psyche dwells. Dr. Stein has witnessed countless developments and challenges in the decades after Jung’s death. His gentle, wise stewardship reflects what Guindi says about individuation, it is “a testimony of the inner process”. And Dr. Stein’s lifework succeeds at re-enchanting a world stripped of mystery and meaning by modernity as Roderick Main and Len Cruz observe.
After more than five decades of remarkable contributions, Murray Stein’s lifework remains relevant and through his impact on the K-pop band BTS, he has appealed to a new generation of seekers after inner gold. This is a testament to a highly individuated man who fully demonstrates an ongoing individuation, and we are eager to see what his next decade will bring.
-Introduction – Prima Materia: A Tale of Two Urinals by Steven Buser, Co-Editor
-Introduction – From Adherent to Individualist to Sage: Observations on C.G. Jung and Murray Stein by Len Cruz, Co-Editor
On Individuation
-Chapter 1 – Individuation Psychology: A Testament to “The Outer Reaches of Individuation” by Joe Cambray
-Chapter 2 – Individuation As Testimony of Inner Process by Magi Guindi
-Chapter 3 – Individuation as Re-enchantment by Roderick Main
-Chapter 4 – In the Still World of the Heart (In des Herzens stille Welt): Reflections on Goethe and Individuation Psychology by Paul Bishop
-Chapter 5 – Active Imagination and Testament: A Window on the Other Side of Life by Chiara Tozzi
-Chapter 6 – Seeking the Divine: Reflections on Steinbeck’s “To a God Unknown” by Robert Mercurio
-Chapter 7 – An Interview with Murray Stein in Celebration of his 80th Birthday by Jan Wiener
-Chapter 8 – Jung’s Dream of the Arab Prince by John Beebe
-Chapter 9 – “Love…can unite opposites and reverse the paradox”: The Individuation Process of the Medieval Mystic Hadewijch by Maria Grazia Calzà
-Chapter 10 – Schopenhauer: The Grand Disabuser by Ann Casement
-Chapter 11 – Individuation, Soul Making, and Cultural Complexes by Thomas Singer
-Chapter 12 – Balancing: Weight, Wings, and Wind by Linda Carter
-Chapter 13 – Psychological Types and the Individuation of Unique Personality by James Johnson
-Chapter 14 – Who is a Friend?: Friendship in the Process of Individuation by Henry Abramovitch
Crossing Borders
-Chapter 15 – The Transformative Plumbed Serpent of the Americas: Quetzalcoatl by Nancy Furlotti
-Chapter 16 – Individuation and Pre-Hispanic Mythology: A Tribute to Murray Stein by Patricia Michan
-Chapter 17 – The Self and the Heart, Individuation Psychology and Chinese Culture by Heyong Shen
-Chapter 18 – “Let it happen”: Wei Wu-Wei for Individuation by Ann Chia-Yi Li
-Chapter 19 – Approaching Zen Buddhism via Individuation Psychology by Mari Yoshikawa
-Chapter 20 – Individuation Theory and Practice: The Promising Emergence of a Nonbinary Transcendent “Third” Between Temporal Depth Psychology and Non-Temporal Dzogchen Psychology by Jim Manganiello
-Biographies
“Murray has helped unlock the significance of Jung for making sense of (and responding to) the challenges of the twenty-first century. It is therefore an honour as well as a great pleasure to contribute to this Festschrift for Murray Stein, and to join with Chiron in celebrating his work as a Jungian who is a scholar—and a gentleman.”
– Paul Bishop
– Linda Carter
– Ann Casement
– Nancy Furlotti
– Dr. Jim Manganiello
Audiobooks Available for Volumes 1 – 5
Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich (ISAP-ZURICH). He is a founding member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (1977) and of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts (1980). He was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) from 2001 to 2004 and President of ISAP-ZURICH from 2008 to 2012.
Celebrate with Murray Stein on his 80th Birthday!
These essays explore individuation in varied ways and reveal Dr. Stein’s extensive impact on the world of Jungian psychoanalysis. An ambassador for post-Jungians, his own writings and the publication of others through his founding of Chiron Publications added valuable and novel insights about subjects as wide-ranging as Christianity, masculine psychology, and the practice of Jungian analysis.
The diverse topics contained in these essays reflect the fertile, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective that has characterized Dr. Stein’s unique blend of scholarship, personal warmth, and far-reaching vision. From the times of the Delphic Oracle psychotherapists have illuminated the inner landscape where psyche dwells. Dr. Stein has witnessed countless developments and challenges in the decades after Jung’s death. His gentle, wise stewardship reflects what Guinid says about individuation, it is “a testimony of the inner process”. And Dr. Stein’s lifework succeeds at re-enchanting a world stripped of mystery and meaning by modernity as Roderick Main and Len Cruz observe.
After more than five decades of remarkable contributions, Murray Stein’s lifework remains relevant and through his impact on the K-pop band BTS, he has appealed to a new generation of seekers after inner gold. This is a testament to a highly individuated man who fully demonstrates an ongoing individuation, and we are eager to see what his next decade will bring.
-Introduction – Prima Materia: A Tale of Two Urinals byvSteven Buser, Co-Editor
-Introduction – From Adherent to Individualist to Sage: Observationsbon C.G. Jung and Murray Stein by Len Cruz, Co-Editor
On Individuation
-Chapter 1 – Individuation Psychology: A Testament to “The Outer Reaches of Individuation” by Joe Cambray
-Chapter 2 – Individuation As Testimony of Inner Process by Magi Guindi
-Chapter 3 – Individuation as Re-enchantment by Roderick Main
-Chapter 4 – In the Still World of the Heart (In des Herzens stille Welt): Reflections on Goethe and Individuation Psychology by Paul Bishop
-Chapter 5 – Active Imagination and Testament: A Window on the Other Side of Life by Chiara Tozzi
-Chapter 6 – Seeking the Divine: Reflections on Steinbeck’s “To a God Unknown” by Robert Mercurio
-Chapter 7 – An Interview with Murray Stein in Celebration of his 80th Birthday by Jan Wiener
-Chapter 8 – Jung’s Dream of the Arab Prince by John Beebe
-Chapter 9 – “Love…can unite opposites and reverse the paradox”: The Individuation Process of the Medieval Mystic Hadewijch by Maria Grazia Calzà
-Chapter 10 – Schopenhauer: The Grand Disabuser by Ann Casement
-Chapter 11 – Individuation, Soul Making, and Cultural Complexes by Thomas Singer
-Chapter 12 – Balancing: Weight, Wings, and Wind by Linda Carter
-Chapter 13 – Psychological Types and the Individuation of Unique Personality by James Johnson
-Chapter 14 – Who is a Friend?: Friendship in the Process of Individuation by Henry Abramovitch
Crossing Borders
-Chapter 15 – The Transformative Plumbed Serpent of the Americas: Quetzalcoatl by Nancy Furlotti
-Chapter 16 – Individuation and Pre-Hispanic Mythology: A Tribute to Murray Stein by Patricia Michan
-Chapter 17 – The Self and the Heart, Individuation Psychology and Chinese Culture by Heyong Shen
-Chapter 18 – “Let it happen”: Wei Wu-Wei for Individuation by Ann Chia-Yi Li
-Chapter 19 – Approaching Zen Buddhism via Individuation Psychology by Mari Yoshikawa
-Chapter 20 – Individuation Theory and Practice: The Promising Emergence of a Nonbinary Transcendent “Third” Between Temporal Depth Psychology and Non-Temporal Dzogchen Psychology by Jim Manganiello
-Biographies
“Murray has helped unlock the significance of Jung for making sense of (and responding to) the challenges of the twenty-first century. It is therefore an honour as well as a great pleasure to contribute to this Festschrift for Murray Stein, and to join with Chiron in celebrating his work as a Jungian who is a scholar—and a gentleman.”
– Paul Bishop
– Linda Carter
– Ann Casement
– Nancy Furlotti
– Dr. Jim Manganiello
Audiobooks Available for Volumes 1 – 5
Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich (ISAP-ZURICH). He is a founding member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (1977) and of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts (1980). He was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) from 2001 to 2004 and President of ISAP-ZURICH from 2008 to 2012.
Individuation Psychology: Essays in Honor of Murray Stein A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Stein’s 80th Birthday
These essays explore individuation in varied ways and reveal Dr. Stein’s extensive impact on the world of Jungian psychoanalysis. An ambassador for post-Jungians, his own writings and the publication of others through his founding of Chiron Publications added valuable and novel insights about subjects as wide-ranging as Christianity, masculine psychology, and the practice of Jungian analysis.
The diverse topics contained in these essays reflect the fertile, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective that has characterized Dr. Stein’s unique blend of scholarship, personal warmth, and far-reaching vision. From the times of the Delphic Oracle psychotherapists have illuminated the inner landscape where psyche dwells. Dr. Stein has witnessed countless developments and challenges in the decades after Jung’s death. His gentle, wise stewardship reflects what Guinid says about individuation, it is “a testimony of the inner process”. And Dr. Stein’s lifework succeeds at re-enchanting a world stripped of mystery and meaning by modernity as Roderick Main and Len Cruz observe.
After more than five decades of remarkable contributions, Murray Stein’s lifework remains relevant and through his impact on the K-pop band BTS, he has appealed to a new generation of seekers after inner gold. This is a testament to a highly individuated man who fully demonstrates an ongoing individuation, and we are eager to see what his next decade will bring.
-Introduction – Prima Materia: A Tale of Two Urinals byvSteven Buser, Co-Editor
-Introduction – From Adherent to Individualist to Sage: Observationsbon C.G. Jung and Murray Stein by Len Cruz, Co-Editor
On Individuation
-Chapter 1 – Individuation Psychology: A Testament to “The Outer Reaches of Individuation” by Joe Cambray
-Chapter 2 – Individuation As Testimony of Inner Process by Magi Guindi
-Chapter 3 – Individuation as Re-enchantment by Roderick Main
-Chapter 4 – In the Still World of the Heart (In des Herzens stille Welt): Reflections on Goethe and Individuation Psychology by Paul Bishop
-Chapter 5 – Active Imagination and Testament: A Window on the Other Side of Life by Chiara Tozzi
-Chapter 6 – Seeking the Divine: Reflections on Steinbeck’s “To a God Unknown” by Robert Mercurio
-Chapter 7 – An Interview with Murray Stein in Celebration of his 80th Birthday by Jan Wiener
-Chapter 8 – Jung’s Dream of the Arab Prince by John Beebe
-Chapter 9 – “Love…can unite opposites and reverse the paradox”: The Individuation Process of the Medieval Mystic Hadewijch by Maria Grazia Calzà
-Chapter 10 – Schopenhauer: The Grand Disabuser by Ann Casement
-Chapter 11 – Individuation, Soul Making, and Cultural Complexes by Thomas Singer
-Chapter 12 – Balancing: Weight, Wings, and Wind by Linda Carter
-Chapter 13 – Psychological Types and the Individuation of Unique Personality by James Johnson
-Chapter 14 – Who is a Friend?: Friendship in the Process of Individuation by Henry Abramovitch
Crossing Borders
-Chapter 15 – The Transformative Plumbed Serpent of the Americas: Quetzalcoatl by Nancy Furlotti
-Chapter 16 – Individuation and Pre-Hispanic Mythology: A Tribute to Murray Stein by Patricia Michan
-Chapter 17 – The Self and the Heart, Individuation Psychology and Chinese Culture by Heyong Shen
-Chapter 18 – “Let it happen”: Wei Wu-Wei for Individuation by Ann Chia-Yi Li
-Chapter 19 – Approaching Zen Buddhism via Individuation Psychology by Mari Yoshikawa
-Chapter 20 – Individuation Theory and Practice: The Promising Emergence of a Nonbinary Transcendent “Third” Between Temporal Depth Psychology and Non-Temporal Dzogchen Psychology by Jim Manganiello
-Biographies
“Murray has helped unlock the significance of Jung for making sense of (and responding to) the challenges of the twenty-first century. It is therefore an honour as well as a great pleasure to contribute to this Festschrift for Murray Stein, and to join with Chiron in celebrating his work as a Jungian who is a scholar—and a gentleman.”
– Paul Bishop
– Linda Carter
– Ann Casement
– Nancy Furlotti
– Dr. Jim Manganiello
Audiobooks Available for Volumes 1 – 5
Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich (ISAP-ZURICH). He is a founding member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (1977) and of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts (1980). He was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) from 2001 to 2004 and President of ISAP-ZURICH from 2008 to 2012.
The Power of Stories: Mythodrama: Conflict Management and Group Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents Using Stories
Often lips are sealed, and delicate topics avoided, when children or adolescents are in a conflict situation or have experienced a trauma. Psychologists, psychotherapist, teachers are challenged and must find alternative ways to connect to the individual or group. Talking alone is not sufficient.
In this book by Allan Guggenbühl—Volume 7 of the Zürich Lecture Series—a therapeutic method and conflict management approach is presented, which is successfully employed in group work with children and adolescents in despair or in a conflict situation. Mythodramas main focus are specially selected stories, which mirror the issues of the respective group, connect to the issues of the group, and serve as an entrance to the imaginal. The book describes how the stories are selected, told, enacted, and linked to the issues and concerns of the group or individual.
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Allowing semichaos: The Core of Group Therapy
- Chapter 2 Phase One: Preliminary Work: Staging the Community
- Chapter 3 Phase Two: Fun and Play
- Chapter 4 Phase Three: The Power of Stories
- Chapter 5 Phase Four: Being Carried Away by Fantasies — The Imagination
- Chapter 6 Implementation of Inner Images
- Chapter 7 The Step into Reality: the Transfer
- Epilogue
Eva Pattis Zoja explores the psyche’s astonishing capacity and determination to regulate itself by creating images and narratives as soon as a free and protected space for expression is provided. A variety of examples from analytic practice with adults and from psychosocial projects with children in vulnerable situations illustrate how sandplay can be used in different therapeutic settings.
We don’t know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air?
This book does not claim to reveal this secret. It does not attempt to reduce creativity to a “nothing but,” for example to explain it as a special ability of certain creative individuals with special abilities. On the contrary, it is about exploring the fullness and variety of this amazing power, which is the basis of all cultural, artistic, scientific and spiritual activity of man, without attributing it to a simple cause.
One of the most powerful narratives gripping scientists, intellectuals, and the general culture in Europe during the early decades of the twentieth century was that the world had become disenchanted: stripped of genuine mystery, lacking inherent meaning, and unrelated to any spiritual or divine reality.
In Breaking the Spell of Disenchantment, Roderick Main examines various ways in which C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology, developed during this same period, can be seen to challenge that dominant narrative.
by Keiron Le Grice
Eternal Echoes: Erich Neumann’s Timeless Relevance
