ISAPZURICH

Ethnology as Mirror - Penelope Yungblut, MA
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Jung traveled to non-Western societies to see himself through the eyes of others. What unrecognized and unexamined aspects of ourselves, our attitudes, values, and norms, might be mirrored back to us from an encounter with another culture? How may thi...

A Holistic Approach to Suffering and Healing - Galina Angelova, MTheol.
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The lecture will begin by exploring suffering and healing in ancient times. Next we will have a closer look at a Biblical story about healing and interpret it symbolically. Finally, we will concentrate on the Jungian unders...

Active Imagination: Working Therapeutically with Images (theory and examples) - Kathrin Schaeppi, MS, MFA
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This is a theoretical overview with examples and is a prerequisite for the experiential seminar.

Demeter's Curse - Dariane Pictet, Ad. Dip. Ex. Psych
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We will explore our relation to the earth, matter, body in the light of the Homeric Myth of Demeter. Food allergies and eating disorders, may be evidence of an increasingly unsustainable attitude to our own nature and to the Earth.

A Question for Answer to Job - Jody Schlatter, Dr. med.
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In his book, Answer to Job, Jung takes a hard look at the God-image and the plight of modern humanity, as well as at "the idea of the creature that surpasses its creator by a small but decisive factor."

Jung in a Matchbox - Nancy Krieger, PhD
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An introductory course presenting the basic concepts of Jungian psychology; consciousness, personal and collective unconscious, complex, archetype and the historic setting in which Jung conceived them.

Balancing your Checkbook: Spirituality and Money - Dariane Pictet, Ad. Dip. Ex. Psych
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This lecture will explore the psychology of money, approaching it as symbol, psychic energy, complex, Shadow. What does it mean to be broke or wealthy and how does money manifest in the clinical setting? We wi...

Listening to the Ancestors—Listening to the Unconscious: On the Archetypal Roots of Jungian Psychology - Peter Ammann, Dr. phil.
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The aim of my lecture is to trace back some major concepts of Jung’s psychology to their primordial indigenous roots, in particular their African ones. Jung’s concept...

Man and Woman in Art - Paul Brutsche, Dr. phil.
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Reflections on gender roles and the archetypal aspects of Anima and Animus as expressed through Art: a psychological interpretation of paintings from ISAP’s slide collection.

Nonlocal Mind 1: History and Evidence - Andrew Fellows, PhD
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The “filter” theory of mind proposed by Frederick W. H. Myers and William James — both known to Jung, and resonant with his concept of the collective unconscious — is attracting renewed interest in many disciplines. We will explore wha...

Nonlocal Mind 2: The New Sciences - Andrew Fellows, PhD
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I will screen the film about the life and ideas of David Bohm Infinite Potential* and then review the impact of the new sciences on current theories of consciousness and beyond. Emphasis will be given to Bohmian thought, the Pauli-Jung con...

On Jung’s Mapping the Psyche: For the Orientation and Containment and For Healing Splits in the Soul - Murray Stein, PhD
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A lecture on how Jung developed his "map of the soul" using his mandala titled "Systema munditotius" as a point of reference.

Our Soul Revealed by our Environment: Psychecological Basics - Brigitte Egger, Dr. sc. nat. ETH
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The ecological crisis has its roots and solutions in the way we think and act. As our time has lost the dimension of the soul, key psychological values appear projected concretely onto the core theme...

Thresholds in the Evening of Life - Diane Cousineau Brutsche, Dr. phil.
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Commenting on the typical psychological needs that correspond respectively to the first and second half of life, Jung talks about a “psychology of the morning and of the afternoon of life.” Deep inner transformations are de...

White Psychotherapy: Symptoms of a Collective Psychology - Bernard Sartorius, lic. theol.
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Sometimes we harbor the illusion that our psychological considerations about the human psyche contain a high degree of objectivity—without realizing that our view is colored and often distorted by the lens...

Yearning to be Known: Individuation and the Broken Wings of Eros - Ursula Wirtz, Dr. phil.
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My lecture is guided by the image of a kaleidoscope, where poetic, philosophical, psychological, and mythopoetic elements emerge and ultimately converge to form a whole. In this way, we will explore the e...