Individuals with neurodiversity have been present in our practices for many years, often unrecognised for the issues they bring into analysis. This weekend's seminars will examine the predispositions, dynamics, essential elements, and hierarchy of needs when working with neurodiverse individuals. The sessions will provide an in- depth, Jungian-focused exploration of ADHD, autism, and dyslexia. There will be discussions on the psychological and philosophical aspects of diagnoses as well as an exploration of psychiatric classifications. Additionally, the seminars will address differential diagnoses of presentations, which is crucial for our practice. We aim to contribute to the theoretical understanding of these subjects alongside the practical experience of working with neurodiversity.

Friday, November 28, 7:00-9:00pm and Sunday, November 30, 10:30am - 12:30pm will be hosted via zoom, links to be provided by AJA prior to event to those registered.

Saturday, November 29th, 10:30am - 4:30pm will be a hybrid event at AJA (27 Delancey Street, Camden, London NW1 7RX) with limited in-person tickets available. For those attending online, zoom links will be provided by AJA.

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Members are invited to attend the weekend seminars online at the special preferential price of £20.

Candidates are invited to the attend the weekend online free of charge.  

(Please note that there are 10 in-person tickets available for Saturday's seminars, these are first come first serve and are being offered to Candidates first, if interested please book the in person Saturday tickets by September 7th, 2025. After this date these tickets will be opened up to Members.)

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BIOGRAPHIES

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 Vice Chair of the C. G. Jung Club and co-ordinates their Grassroots Seminar series as well aa helping to plan the certificate and diploma seminar programmes for GAP. 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.

Prof. Michael Craig is Professor of Translational Reproductive and Neurodevelopmental Sciences at King’s College London. He is dual-trained in Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Psychiatry, and Clinical Lead of the National Autism Unit at Bethlem Royal Hospital (2007-2023) and the National Female Hormone Clinic at Maudsley Hospital (2008-present). His main research focuses on the biological determinants of brain development and the effects of sex hormones on brain and behaviour.

Linda Freeman (IGAP, UKCP, IAAP) is a Clinical Psychologist and Jungian Analyst who trained at the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich and in London. She helped to develop the training in CBT at Middlesex Hospital. Her experience and training range from CBT to in-depth work with dreams and creative processes. She has 40 years’ experience in private practice. Linda is a Training Analyst with IGAP and is qualified to Supervise at all levels. She works globally with neurodiversity (both diagnosed and suspected).

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.

Leigh Money (SAP, BPC, IAAP) is an analyst member of The Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP). She has a private practice in London and also works with Immigrant Counselling and Psychotherapy (ICAP), a charitable organization supporting Irish people in Britain. She is a books review editor for the Journal of Analytical Psychology and on the training faculty for the psychodynamic psychotherapy training at the SAP. She has a particular interest in digital technology; specifically, the ways in which it is re-shaping human communication and connection.

Arthur Niesser (AJA, BPC, IAAP) grew up in southern Germany. He studied medicine and went on to train as a general practitioner. His commitment to his patients’ psychological needs led him to further training, first at the C. G. Jung Institute in Stuttgart and then with the Association of Jungian Analysts (AJA) in London where he was Chair of the organisation from 2014 to 2018. He has since returned to live in Germany and is co-editor in chief (Europe) for the Journal of Analytical Psychology. Arthur also has a special interest in transcultural issues.

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Money matters are treated by civilised people in the same way as sexual matters – with the same inconsistency, prudishness, and hypocrisy. The analyst is therefore determined from the first not to fall in with this attitude, but in his dealings with his patients, to treat money matters with the same matter-of-course frankness to which he wishes to educate them in things relating to sexual life. (Freud ‘On the beginning of treatment’ 1913)

Money is indeed a complex topic which analyst and patient are often reticent to face. Many of us have a disturbed relationship with money. Money can be associated with power, control, display of wealth and status. There can be a lot of shame and secrecy around money. A social taboo. Money is what is projected on to it. It is this that gives it its value. From the Latin currere ‘to run’ or ‘flow’ money is currency, psyche’s currency in the form of libidinal energy. This implies fluidity, movement and exchange. The fee is the exchange for the service of analysis. This transaction is a major boundary of the analytic relationship. Several cases from clinical practice will be explored.

Reading:

Lockhart, Hillman, Vasavada, Weir Perry, Covitz, Guggenbühl-Craig   Soul & Money   Spring Publications (1982)

David Genty is a Jungian Analyst trained at the C G Jung Institute Zürich, where he is a Training Analyst and Supervisor. He is a member of the IAAP, the UKCP, and is a senior Analyst at the London training school IGAP. He is currently the president of the C G Jung Foundation Zurich. He has an academic background in Philosophy & Theology (Jesus College, Oxford) with a focus on Gnosticism, and the language of religious experience. Further studies in Art History (Kent, Canterbury) led to an international career in the art world before training in Analytical Psychology. David has a particular interest in the ‘practice of the image’, using pictures and sandplay.

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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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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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.