How do we tend to perceive and respond to human suffering, both in its general everyday forms as well as in situations after being exposed to seriously traumatising events and circumstances? What makes us conceptualise these situations in the way we do? How much are our personal factors involved in this process, and how much wider, collective factors? What is the relevance of Jungian insights in these matters? To begin with, how did Jung really understand these phenomena? How can Jungian ideas about suffering, alchemy and individuation be of relevance to everyday life as well as inform Jungian professional analytical practice?

These are the main questions that these seminars will address, endeavouring to revisit them from new perspectives.

Renos K Papadopoulos, PhD., FBPsS, is Professor of Analytical Psychology, Founder Director of the Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees and of the MA /PhD Programmes in Refugee Care at the University of Essex, as well as Honorary Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic. He is a practitioner, trainer and supervisor Jungian Psychoanalyst, Clinical Psychologist, and Systemic Family Psychotherapist. As a consultant to the United Nations and other organisations, he has been working with refugees, tortured persons, trafficked people and other survivors of political violence and disasters in many countries. He lectures and offers specialist trainings internationally, and his writings have appeared in 18 languages. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the IAAP for several years, inter alia, setting up the Developing Groups within IAAP as well as the Academic and the Publications Sub-committees. He was the editor of ‘The IAAP Newsletter’ for 8 years, of 'Harvest: International Journal for Jungian Studies' for 14 years, the founder editor of the 'International Journal of Jungian Studies', and co-founder of the 'International Association for Jungian Studies'. Among the honorary accolades that he has received are Lifetime Achievement awards by the International Association of Jungian Studies (the ‘C.G. Jung 2022 Award’), by the European Family Therapy Association, by the University of Essex for the ‘Best International Research Impact’, and by two Mexican Foundations for ‘exceptional work with vulnerable children and families in Mexico’. His last three books are on Moral Injury, on Involuntary Dislocation, and The Second Handbook of Jungian Psychology (2026).

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In Answer to Job, Jung uses ‘even means I find reprehensible to deliver myself from God the Father’. This angry, petulant and sarcastic outburst was the one piece of writing he later said he would not want to edit. The aim of the seminar is to look closely at this essay and other writings to elucidate Jung’s concept of the transformation of the western God image from Yahweh to Christ to its modern psychological form, in which we are enjoined to hold the tension of the opposites of Good and Evil in ourselves. The inner work of the withdrawal of shadow projections may transform human consciousness and therefore behaviour. The Job images of William Blake will take us into a creative engagement in the final session of these seminars.

Laura Martin is an IGAP-trained Jungian therapist with a private practice in Glasgow. She is Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow, where she taught for over 30 years.

The UK Jungian Umbrella Group are delighted to present this in-person event for candidates and members of AJA, BJAA, GAP, IGAP, SAP and WMIP.

Candidates/trainee analysts of the six organisations, which make up the Umbrella Group, are warmly invited to attend this special Jungian event for no charge. Please note spaces are limited but candidates of the six organisations now have priority booking for tickets for this exciting in-person event.

To reserve a free place for the Feb 27th event, students, trainees and candidates of AJA, BJAA, GAP, IGAP, SAP and WMIP please email Afua Pierre at membership@analyticalpsychology.org by 12pm on Friday, July 31st. After this date the invitation to this event will be extended to qualified Jungian Analysts.

Please note, the evening before Marian will be giving a hybrid public talk on Friday, Feb 26th, with details of how to buy tickets to follow.

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Marian Dunlea (MSc, ICP, IAPA, ISJA, IAAP) is a Jungian analyst and somatics practitioner, an international speaker, and an author. She is the creator of BodyDreaming® (an embodied practice) and is Director and Teacher of the BodyDreaming training programme. BodyDreaming incorporates developments in neuroscience, trauma therapy, and attachment theory with Jungian psychology, and the phenomenological standpoint of interconnectedness. Marian is Head of Training for the BodySoul Europe organisation, which is sister to the Marion Woodman Foundation, where she is core faculty.

She has been leading workshops for over 30 years integrating body, mind and soul and Marian’s book, BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An Embodied Therapeutic Approach, was the winner of the 2019 Gradiva Award, NAAP (the World Organization and Public Education Corporation of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis); and co-winner of the IAJS Book Award for Best Book published in 2020 (International Association for Jungian Studies Awards Program). She lives in Ireland close to the sea.

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Part 1 is being offered to IGAP Candidates and Advanced Candidates.

Carl Jung discovered Medieval alchemy as a rich, symbolic mirror reflecting all he had experienced in his descent into the unconscious - the journey that enabled him to forge ‘The Red Book’. This alchemical mirror is central to understanding the depth of his psychology of Individuation. The Spirit Mercurius is the central, symbolic figure of alchemy - the archetype of totality in the natural realm. This seminar will open a door of entry into this subtle world and its Mysteries through images, reflective thought, feeling exploration and physicality. Alchemy is best understood through personal experience - time will be available throughout the weekend for ‘alchemical journaling’.

Reading List:

CG Jung, Collected Works

Vol 12, paras  1 - 43

Vol 13, paras  284 - 303

Vol 14, paras  738-780

This seminar forms part one of this year’s Special Case Colloquium which is a requirement for Advanced Candidates. Part 2 (for Advanced candidates only) will take place on 7/8 May.

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Catherine Bygott is a senior member of IGAP, a supervisinganalyst with AJA, and holds a diploma from the Faculty of Astrological Studies.She has been in private practice for 38 years, given lectures, numerousseminars and workshops on alchemy, active imagination, folktales, Jung’s ‘RedBook’, the structure and dynamics of the psyche, supervision and the bodyand the shadow of supervision. Her Canadian roots provide the ground for herinterest in indigenous cultures, the psychological interface between cultures,and ancestral/cultural unfolding through migration. Her published work includes: ‘The Red Book and Clinical Practice’ (JAP)and “Mysterium Coniunctionis: Fabric of Life” in ‘Alchemy and Analysis’(Routledge).

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Part 1 is being offered to IGAP Candidates and Advanced Candidates.

Carl Jung discovered Medieval alchemy as a rich, symbolic mirror reflecting all he had experienced in his descent into the unconscious - the journey that enabled him to forge ‘The Red Book’. This alchemical mirror is central to understanding the depth of his psychology of Individuation. The Spirit Mercurius is the central, symbolic figure of alchemy - the archetype of totality in the natural realm. This seminar will open a door of entry into this subtle world and its Mysteries through images, reflective thought, feeling exploration and physicality. Alchemy is best understood through personal experience - time will be available throughout the weekend for ‘alchemical journaling’.

Reading List:

CG Jung, Collected Works

Vol 12, paras  1 - 43

Vol 13, paras  284 - 303

Vol 14, paras  738-780

This seminar forms part one of this year’s Special Case Colloquium which is a requirement for Advanced Candidates. Part 2 (for Advanced candidates only) will take place on 7/8 May.

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Catherine Bygott is a senior member of IGAP, a supervisinganalyst with AJA, and holds a diploma from the Faculty of Astrological Studies.She has been in private practice for 38 years, given lectures, numerousseminars and workshops on alchemy, active imagination, folktales, Jung’s ‘RedBook’, the structure and dynamics of the psyche, supervision and the bodyand the shadow of supervision. Her Canadian roots provide the ground for herinterest in indigenous cultures, the psychological interface between cultures,and ancestral/cultural unfolding through migration. Her published work includes: ‘The Red Book and Clinical Practice’ (JAP)and “Mysterium Coniunctionis: Fabric of Life” in ‘Alchemy and Analysis’(Routledge).

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The presenters will talk about their experiences as clinical executors of an analyst who was seriously ill and died, including the challenges both practical and emotional. This was especially hard as one of the executors was a dear friend of the deceased.

Marzia Santori - https://psychotherapysw.com/

Gillian Kind is a Senior Training Jungian Analyst, living in Fulham, London.  She is a member of IGAP, GAP and the UKCP.

She is interested in the overlap of psychiatry, psychology and religion.

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