What is a case report, a thesis in Jungian Depth Psychology, an alchemy essay or an annual review and how do you go about writing such things which are ephemeral, symbolic, expansive and expanding? Do you and should you include personal or subjective reflections? Is there a methodology for writing about dreams? Where is the ‘evidence’ and how will you gather and articulate it in a way that is communicable to your reader?  

Over the course of these two seminars we will explore what is most often referred to as ‘research methodologies’ in academic circles, and is here re-framed and conceptualised to suit a Jungian Analytic training.  We will briefly explore research methodologies from other fields - particularly practice as research in the arts, heuristic and ethnographic research and action researching education - and then more specifically delve into the world of depth psychology and symbolic thinking as tools and skills for research.

Wherever you are in your writing process, bring your ideas and be ready to spend some dedicated time for writing with/from/as psyche. There will be time to write, reflect and share thoughts, questions and concerns.

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Indicative Reading

Alvesson M & Skoldberg K (2000)  Reflexive Methodology.  New Vistas for Qualitative Research.  London: Thousand Oaks/Sage.

Bacon, J. (2021).‘Creative Articulations Process: ‘Ground Form’ audio score as a way to frame and support embodied research(ers)’, (with Vida Midgelow). in Doing Arts Research in a Pandemic: A Crowd Sourced Document Responding to the COVID19 Pandemic, The Culture Capital Exchange, compiled by Vida Midgelow.  pp.13-16. https://www.theculturecapitalexchange.co.uk/publications-and-resources/tccepublications/,  

________. (2019). Reconsidering Research and Supervision as Creative Embodied Practice: Reflections from the Field  by Jane Bacon and Vida Midgelow, Artistic Doctorates in Europe.

https://www.artisticdoctorates.com/2019/04/01/reconsidering-research-and-supervision-as-creativeembodied-practice/

________. (2019). ‘Processual Attention in Somatic Practice as Research / Artistic Research’, in Resources for the embodied researcher: Artistic Doctorates in Movement and Choreographic Practices, Conceived by

Artistic Doctorates in Europe– www.artisticdoctorates.com (eds Bacon, J.,Midgelow, V., Hilton, R., Kramer, P.).Helsinki, Fi: Nival.  

________(2019).Researching (in/as) Motion: A Resource Collection, Artistic Doctorates in Europe, Theatre Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki: Nivel 10. Open access https://nivel.teak.fi/adie/ (eds Jane Bacon, Rebecca Hilton, Paula Kramer Vida L Midgelow (eds.).

_______. (2017). ‘Informed by the goddess: Explicating a processual methodology’, Dance, Movement & Spiritualities,4:1, pp. 41–55, Bristol: Intellect.  doi:10.1386/dmas.4.1.41_1 (also as a book chapter in edited collection Herstory (A. Williamson), Intellect

Cryer P (2006)  The Research Student’s Guide to Success. Third Edition. Maidenhead: Open University Press & McGraw Hill Education.  

Denzin NK & Lincoln YS (ed) (2011)  The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research.  London: Sage Publications.

Etherington K (2004)  Becoming a Reflexive Researcher.  London: Jessica Kingsley.

Keller W, Westhoff G, Dilg R, Rohner R, Studt H H, & the study group on empirical psychotherapy research in analytical psychology.  On the Effectiveness and Efficacy of Outpatient (Jungian) Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.  Unpublished paper from Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Benjamin Franklin, Free University of Berlin.

Mattanza G, Hurt J, Jacobson Th, Schwandt S, Wilke S, Jagmetti E,Junghan M, Fischer P (2004)  Concerning the Effectiveness of Analytical Psychology. From International Association of Analytical Psychology website file://F:\IAAP\IAAP.  

May, T. & Perry, B. (2022) Social Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McLeod, J. (2010). Case Study Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy. London: Sage.

Moustakas, C. (1994) Phenomenological Research Methods. London: Sage

Nelson, R. (2022) Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles, Processes, Contexts, Achievements. 2^nd Edition. London: Palgrave.

Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles, Processes, Contexts, Achievements

Roesler, C. (2022) Development of a Reconceptualization of Archetype Theory, report to the IAAP. https://iaap.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Report-Archetype-Theory-Roesler-1.pdf

Romanyshyn R. D. (2007) The Wounded Researcher: Research with soul in mind. New Orleans: Spring Journal Books.

Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies (Samuels, A. Series Editor) https://www.routledge.com/Research-in-Analytical-Psychology-and-Jungian-Studies/book-series/JUNGIANSTUDIES#

Research on the effectiveness of Jungian psychotherapy, www.iaap.org/resources/research

Rowland, S (2021) Jungian Arts-Based Research: How Creative Practice becomes a new research methodology with Depth Psychology. Webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLeYjDJZFD4

‍Journals

Harvest

International Journal for Jungian Studies

Journal of Analytical Psychology

Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche

Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies

Psychotherapy Research (Journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research)

Spring

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Individuals with neurodiversity have been present in our practices for many years, often unrecognised for the issues they bring into analysis. This event’s seminars will explore the clinical experience of working therapeutically with neurodiverse individuals. Therapeutics on Neurodiversity will provide an in-depth, Jungian-focused exploration of working with individuals with ADHD and autism. There will be discussions on the psychological and philosophical aspects of therapy. We aim to contribute to the theoretical understanding of these subjects alongside the practical experience of working with neurodiversity and build upon the material presented at the AJA/IGAP/GAP conference On Neurodiversity: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects, which took place in November 2025.

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Zoom link and schedule for the day will be emailed to you.

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Gail Bennett (GAP, UKCP, IAAP) is a Jungian Analyst with the Guild of Analytical Psychologists in private practice in East London. Prior to training as an analyst, she was a psychiatric nurse in acute and forensic settings, a senior lecturer in mental health for nursing and social work programmes, and later an associate lecturer at Birkbeck. She has practiced as a psychotherapist both in the NHS and privately for 25 years. She is the editor of Harvest, the journal of the C. G. Jung Club, London, which was first published in 1954 and is the oldest Jungian journal in the UK. She has a particular interest in working with trauma, neurodiversity and eating disorders as well as the value of poetry, sound, music and image in psychological healing.

Spyros Karvounis (IGAP, UKCP, IAAP) is a Jungian Analyst, Cognitive Analytic Therapist, and Consultant Psychiatrist. He has extensive experience in the NHS in North London, where he served as the Clinical Director of a therapeutic community Day Hospital, led a Mentalization-based intensive outpatient service for personality disorders, and managed a Complex Needs service. Dr. Karvounis co-developed psychological therapies for the Enfield Directorate and introduced a researched CBT-based psychological approach for inpatient wards and community teams. Currently, he is in private practice, teaches, and is a UKCP-registered supervisor

What is a case report, a thesis in Jungian Depth Psychology, an alchemy essay or an annual review and how do you go about writing such things which are ephemeral, symbolic, expansive and expanding? Do you and should you include personal or subjective reflections? Is there a methodology for writing about dreams? Where is the ‘evidence’ and how will you gather and articulate it in a way that is communicable to your reader?  

Over the course of these two seminars we will explore what is most often referred to as ‘research methodologies’ in academic circles, and is here re-framed and conceptualised to suit a Jungian Analytic training.  We will briefly explore research methodologies from other fields - particularly practice as research in the arts, heuristic and ethnographic research and action researching education - and then more specifically delve into the world of depth psychology and symbolic thinking as tools and skills for research.

Wherever you are in your writing process, bring your ideas and be ready to spend some dedicated time for writing with/from/as psyche. There will be time to write, reflect and share thoughts ,questions and concerns.

Indicative Reading

Alvesson M & Skoldberg K (2000)  Reflexive Methodology.  New Vistas for Qualitative Research.  London: Thousand Oaks/Sage.

Bacon, J. (2021).‘Creative Articulations Process: ‘Ground Form’ audio score as a way to frame and support embodied research(ers)’, (with Vida Midgelow). in Doing Arts Research in a Pandemic: A Crowd Sourced Document Responding to the COVID19 Pandemic, The Culture Capital Exchange, compiled by Vida Midgelow.  pp.13-16. https://www.theculturecapitalexchange.co.uk/publications-and-resources/tccepublications/,  

________. (2019). Reconsidering Research and Supervision as Creative Embodied Practice: Reflections from the Field  by Jane Bacon and Vida Midgelow, Artistic Doctorates in Europe.

https://www.artisticdoctorates.com/2019/04/01/reconsidering-research-and-supervision-as-creativeembodied-practice/

________. (2019). ‘Processual Attention in Somatic Practice as Research / Artistic Research’, in Resources for the embodied researcher: Artistic Doctorates in Movement and Choreographic Practices, Conceived by

Artistic Doctorates in Europe– www.artisticdoctorates.com (eds Bacon, J.,Midgelow, V., Hilton, R., Kramer, P.).Helsinki, Fi: Nival.  

________(2019).Researching (in/as) Motion: A Resource Collection, Artistic Doctorates in Europe, Theatre Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki: Nivel 10. Open access https://nivel.teak.fi/adie/ (eds Jane Bacon, Rebecca Hilton, Paula Kramer Vida L Midgelow (eds.).

_______. (2017). ‘Informed by the goddess: Explicating a processual methodology’, Dance, Movement & Spiritualities,4:1, pp. 41–55, Bristol: Intellect.  doi:10.1386/dmas.4.1.41_1 (also as a book chapter in edited collection Herstory (A. Williamson), Intellect

Cryer P (2006)  The Research Student’s Guide to Success. Third Edition. Maidenhead: Open University Press & McGraw Hill Education.  

Denzin NK & Lincoln YS (ed) (2011)  The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research.  London: Sage Publications.

Etherington K (2004)  Becoming a Reflexive Researcher.  London: Jessica Kingsley.

Keller W, Westhoff G, Dilg R, Rohner R, Studt H H, & the study group on empirical psychotherapy research in analytical psychology.  On the Effectiveness and Efficacy of Outpatient (Jungian) Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.  Unpublished paper from Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Benjamin Franklin, Free University of Berlin.

Mattanza G, Hurt J, Jacobson Th, Schwandt S, Wilke S, Jagmetti E, Junghan M, Fischer P (2004)  Concerning the Effectiveness of Analytical Psychology. From International Association of Analytical Psychology website file://F:\IAAP\IAAP.  

May, T. & Perry, B. (2022) Social Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McLeod, J. (2010). Case Study Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy. London: Sage.

Moustakas, C. (1994) Phenomenological Research Methods. London: Sage

Nelson, R. (2022) Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles, Processes, Contexts, Achievements. 2^nd Edition. London: Palgrave.

Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles, Processes, Contexts, Achievements

Roesler, C. (2022) Development of a Reconceptualization of Archetype Theory, report to the IAAP. https://iaap.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Report-Archetype-Theory-Roesler-1.pdf

Romanyshyn R. D. (2007) The Wounded Researcher: Research with soul in mind. New Orleans: Spring Journal Books.

Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies (Samuels, A. Series Editor) https://www.routledge.com/Research-in-Analytical-Psychology-and-Jungian-Studies/book-series/JUNGIANSTUDIES#

Research on the effectiveness of Jungian psychotherapy, www.iaap.org/resources/research

Rowland, S (2021) Jungian Arts-Based Research: How Creative Practice becomes a new research methodology with Depth Psychology. Webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLeYjDJZFD4

Journals

Harvest

International Journal for Jungian Studies

Journal of Analytical Psychology

Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche

Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies

Psychotherapy Research (Journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research)

Spring

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This seminar explores  the many different ways in which  endings are experienced in analysis, by both patient and analyst.  Any session may end in anger, relief or elation.  The last session of all may seem timely or premature.  What can endings tell about the analytic task and the complexes which may be at work?  

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Much of the focus today in therapy is on transference and countertransference which privileges the interpersonal/objective aspect of analysis. Of course, this is important but the interpretation of dreams deepens the work by the mutual exploration of the inner world of our analysands and the intrapsychic/subjective relationship. Let’s also bear in mind that for Jung the dream is a spontaneous, creative expression of the unconscious psyche.

In this colloquium you will have the opportunity to hone your interpretative skills by using various traditional techniques as taught by Jung and his colleagues and addressing any specific questions you might have arising from your own clinical practice. One area I should like to explore is how to identify archetypal symbols in what appear to be ‘ordinary’ dreams.

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Some other areas we shall be covering include:

· The history of dream interpretation

· The basic structure of dreams

· The initial dream (prognosis and diagnosis)

· When is a dream personal and when is it archetypal?

· How to ‘solicit’ dreams and how are they presented?

· Different types of dreams and which merit interpretation?

· What can we do when no dreams are remembered?

· How might we work when there are too many dreams?

· What can we do if the dreamer has no associations to the dream images?

· When to use amplification?

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Reading-list

Fraser Boa, Conversations on Jungian dream Interpretation with M-L von Franz (1992)

Wolfang Giegerich, Working with Dreams (2021)

Michel Jouvet, The Paradox of Sleep; the story of dreaming (1999)

C. G. Jung, Dream Analysis; notes of the seminar given in 1928-30 (1984)

“ Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern; notes from the seminar 1936-41

“ CW 8, ‘On the Nature of Dreams’ (1945/48)

“ CW 12, ‘Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy’ (1936)

“ Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Martin Hammond, trans. Artemidorus: The Interpretation of Dreams (2020)

Harry Wilmer, Practical Jung; nuts and bolts of psychotherapy pp. 209-253 (2015)

I suggest you refresh yourselves on archetypal theory – Jung’s CW9 (i) is an obvious choice, as well as certain chapters in CW7 and 8 and I also recommend Jolande Jacobi Complex/Archetype/Symbol

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Detailed schedule will be provided prior to seminar.

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Marion Woodman, in an interview with Tina Stromsted said

I was in analysis, but my analyst was outraged at the thought of body movement. His attitude, was, ‘If you can’t transform your dreams there’s something wrong with the way you’re handling your dreams.’ I know that I could have a wonderful time with my dreams because I had been through two years of that, but it didn’t change my body. In fact, I got higher and higher into spirit, so my body became more and more exhausted. (Tina Stromsted, (2005).Cellular Resonance and the Sacred Feminine Marion Woodman’s Story. Body and Soul, Honoring Marion Woodman, Spring A Journal of Archetype and Culture, 72. New Orleans, LN’ Spring,pp.1-30. 2005,p.13)

What might it mean for dreams to change our body or our bodies to change our dreams? What stories do our bodies tell through their gestures and actions that are asyet untold ways of coming to know oneself? How might a curiosity about disease as symbol be a helpful way of encountering that which is, as yet, unconscious?

Setting out from Jung’s position that ‘I restrict myself to the observation of phenomena’(Jung, §§2, CW 11) we will explore ways in which psyche and matter are one and the same thing and the ways in which working from this premise informs our work.

Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairy probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing. On the Nature of the Psyche, Jung, 1947, §418 CW8, Princeton Uni Press

Aims

·      understand Jung’s concepts relating to psyche and matter

·      explore, in theory and practice, working with the body and dreams

·      begin to develop a personal approach to working with psyche and matter

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Suggested Reading (please feel free to dip into whatever calls you rather than seeing this as a list of reading tasks to be completed):

Bacon, J. (2017). ‘Informed by the goddess: Explicating a processual methodology’, Dance, Movement &Spiritualities, 4:1, pp. 41–55, Bristol: Intellect.  doi: 10.1386/dmas.4.1.41_1 (also as a book chapter in edited collection Herstory(A. Williamson), Intellect

_________. (2017). ‘Authentic Movement as wellbeing practice’, in Dance and Movement for Wellbeing. (eds. Karkou, V., Oliver, S. and Lycouris, S.), Oxford: Oxford University Press,  pp.149-164.

_________. (2015). ‘Authentic Movement: a field of practices’ Introduction to guest edited special issue of journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, vol 7.2, pp.205-216.

_________. (2012). ‘Her body finds a voice in an imaginal world’ in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy Journal, An International Journal for Theory, Research and Practice, Palgrave. 7:2, 115-127.

_________.(2007). ‘Psyche Moving: ‘Active Imagination’ and ‘Focusing’ in movement-based performance and psychotherapy’ in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, London: Routledge, 2 (1), pp.17-28

Brinton Perera, S. (1981). Descent of the Goddess, A Way of Initiation for Women. Toronto: Inner City Books.

Chodorow, J. (1978/1999). Dance Therapy and the Transcendent Function. In Authentic Movement: Vol 1. London: Jessica Kingsley. pp.236-252.

Dunlea, M.(2019). Body Dreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma, An Embodied Therapeutic Approach. London: Routledge.

Gendlin, E. (1978) Focusing, New York: Bantam

Holifield, B. (2024). Being with the Body in Depth Psychology, Development, Trauma, and Transformation in the Unspoken Realm. London: Routledge.

           Jung, C. G. (1947) ‘On the Nature of the Psyche’, vol. 8, p. 159-234 -236

           ________.(1958) The Transcendent Function. The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche.CW8:67-91.2^nd Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University. 1969.

           _______. (1966). The Tavistock Lectures: on the theory and practice of analytical psychology.CW18:5-35. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.

Kalsched,D. (2013). Trauma and the Soul, a psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption. London: Routledge.

Keltner, D.(2023). Awe, The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder. London: Allen Books

McGilchrist, I. (2021) The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World. London: Perspectiva.

Morrissey B. & Sager, P.(2023). Intimacy in Emptiness, An Evolution of Embodied Consciousness, Collected Writings of Janet Adler, Vermont: Inner Traditions.

Otto, Rudolf (1923/1958). The Idea of the Holy. London: Oxford University.

Van der Kolk, Bessel (2014) The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma, New York: Allen Lane 

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Jane Bacon, Senior Analyst

https://www.janebacon.net/

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It is almost impossible to conduct research into the psyche and the psychological process because of its individual and collective nature, both conscious and unconscious. Jung sought to understand this further after his Red and Black Book experiences.

My interactive seminars will show why alchemy is so helpful, whether for psychotherapy, analysis, or individuation, as well as looking at alchemists’ (mostly unconscious) efforts to discover the ’spirit’ in matter and the effect this has on our exploration of the God image.

We will discuss the different stages and operations, examining how they can be seen in ordinary life issues and difficulties. We will also look at the process that may be needed to develop our selves, psychologically and spiritually.

We will end with an exploration of the nature of the Lapis Philosophorum and Christ parallel that Jung put so much emphasis on.

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Gillian Kind is a training analyst in South West London, interested in the overlap of psychotherapy, psychiatry, religion and individuation, and how we can help our clients/patients to cope with their lives, relationships, and illnesses.