Through literature, art, myth, fairy tale, dream and case material the course  will explore the dynamics and the archetypal web of destructive and facilitating complexity of parent-child histories.

Reading List:

Jung, C.G., Collected Works, Vol. 8  Stages of Life , 1930/1.

Jung, C.G. Memories, Dreams, Reflections.  (Revised) Any edition.

 Frey-Wehrlin, Toni, “Oedipus in Gethsemani: Archetypal Aspects of   Homosexuality”, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 37 (1992): 173-185

 Hillman, James,  The Soul’s Code: Search for Character and Meaning, Warner Books, (1996)

 Miller, Alice, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self (London: Virago Press, 1979) Re-issued in 1987 as The Drama of Being a Child: The Search for the True Self (London: Virago, 1987)

 Evetts-Secker, Josephine: Mother and Daughter Tales, Father and Son, Mother and Son, Father and Daughter, Barefoot Books. Bristol, UK and Cambridge, US

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Josephine graduated from the University of London and the Jung Institute, Zürich. She was in psychoanalytic practice in Canada while teaching at the University of Calgary. She is now in private practice in Yorkshire. She has worked with the IGAP training programme since1997 and the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP) Zürich.  She has lectured for Jung societies in UK, Canada USA and Russia. She has published poetry, articles, lectures and book chapters, and edited collections of fairy tales. She serves as semi-retired priest in the Anglican church.