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Sat, Sep 07
|Bailey Island Library Hall
Recent Discoveries in Early Childhood Trauma and the Renewal of Jungian Psychology with Donald Kalsched
Clinical Psychologist and Jungian Psychoanalyst Donald Kalsched welcomes analysts, psychologists, and students to an all-day seminar at the idyllic Bailey Island Library, where he will present his most recent work on Recent Discoveries in Early Childhood Trauma and the Renewal of Jungian Psychology.
Time & Location
Sep 07, 2024, 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM EDT
Bailey Island Library Hall, 2167 Harpswell Islands Rd, Bailey Island, ME 04003, USA
About the event
Recent Discoveries in Early Childhood Trauma and the Renewal of Jungian Psychology with Donald Kalsched
In 1936, C. G. Jung traveled to America and gave a ground-breaking series of lectures at Bailey Island on the subject of “Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process” which was based on the dreams of the nuclear physicist Wolfgang Pauli. In 1944, he reworked this material into Psychology and Alchemy, which became Volume 12 of the Collected Works.
Over the intervening 90 years, much has been discovered in the area of early developmental theory and the companion disciplines of attachment theory, affective neuroscience, early infant studies, and body-centered healing methods for early trauma. These new discoveries present us with a dissociative system of defensive powers (as in the Blake image above) that complicates the healing process by resisting the patient’s experience of vulnerable feelings.
The role of these archetypal defenses in early trauma work provides…