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Fairy tales occupy a special place in our lives as early as childhood. Bedtime stories is a tradition that goes back to an ancient way of life, where people would, after a hard day of work, light up the hearth, and gather around the fire as night was approaching, when everyone had eaten, stories were told.
Jungian analyst Marie-Louise von Franz focused much of her life in studying fairy tales. Von Franz demonstrated the psychological wisdom of fairy tales in that fairy tales represent archetypes in their simplest, barest, and most concise form. In this pure form, the archetypal images afford us the best clues to the understanding of the processes of the collective psyche.
In this series of seminars, we will discover the magical world of fairy tales. We explore how the images and symbols that live in the tales are an invaluable repository of the archetypal foundation of the psyche and how this treasure can be available to each of us.
Therapeutics on Neurodiversity will provide an in-depth, Jungian-focused exploration of working with individuals with ADHD and autism for registered mental health practitioners and those in training to become qualified mental health practitioners. There will be discussions on the psychological and philosophical aspects of therapy. We aim to contribute to the theoretical understanding of these subjects alongside the practical experience of working with neurodiversity.
This paper explores the four-year psychotherapeutic journey of a 13-year-old autistic girl diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa, aiming to understand her internal world and the interplay between her neurodivergence and eating disorder. In clinical practice, autistic girls often develop intense special interests; for some, anorexia becomes such an interest, characterized by a compulsion to excel in restrictive behaviours. The fear of relinquishing the anorexic identity raises concerns about how their emotional needs will be addressed by parents, healthcare professionals, therapists, and educators. More profoundly, there exists a certainty that adults may fail to recognize that academically capable adolescent girls might not be psychologically prepared for the responsibilities of adulthood.
Elizabeth Anscombe is a child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist, who trained at the Tavistock and Portman clinic.
"My works are fundamentally nothing but attempts, ever renewed, to give an answer to the question of the interplay between the ‘here’ and the ‘hereafter.’” — C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Sonu Shamdasani, editor of The Red Book, describes how Jung, in 1945, articulated what he described as a critical reformulation of analysis:
The whole goal of analysis is conceived … as the preparation for the detachment of the soul from the body. Not how is your life going, but how is your death coming along, would be the critical question from this perspective. Thus, analysis became reframed as a modern form of the ars moriendi.
This seminar invites a profound reorientation in how we live our lives. It is an invitation to drop into a deeper, more vital current of being— challenging, requiring sacrifice, but also alive with joy.
Catherine Cox is a Jungian Analyst and Supervisor in private practice (WMIP and BJAA), working between London and Norfolk.
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