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What My Psychosis Taught Me about Post-Jungian Theory

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More than a century ago, Freud gathered colleagues for Wednesday meetings that opened the world of psychoanalysis to a wide range of powerful ideas. Psychosocial Wednesdays are modeled on those Wednesdays and on Jung´s meetings at the Psychological Club, and feature speakers from various psychoanalytic traditions, schools, and associated fields.

Our next digital salon with be Wednesday, 13 July 2022, at:

8 pm London - 9 pm Berlin - 3 pm New York - noon San Francisco - 10 pm Moscow

The presenter’s journey with bipolar I disorder – bearing the burden of a medical diagnosis in a depth psychological world – has brought her to a crossroads thus far bypassed by post-Jungian discourse. The quantum world, with vast archetypal patterns of an emergent universe, sits on one side of post-Jungian exploration. Remnants of a deeply individualized psychoanalytic psychology, with new momentum using data from the hard sciences on trauma and attachment, sits on the other. In ultimate irony, the post-Jungian era has used this reductive scientific data to disprove so-called problematic aspects of Carl Jung’s initial constructs (the collective unconscious). It has also used psychoanalytic theory to discard the fruitfulness of this same data for medical approaches to mental health treatment. I will use personal experience to bring form to a liberating intersection of medical approaches and the archetypal universe which, if it remains untraveled, leaves analytical psychology without the means to transcend its own diversity or remain relevant within the undeniable efficacy of medicalized treatments.