Jungian Psychotherapists Association presents the following public seminar for professionals, with Allan Chinen, M.D.

Consciously or not, life stories govern our experiences. Understanding the deep structure of narratives helps identify and change maladaptive life scripts. This seminar explores fundamental types of stories (for example, myth, legend, and fantasy), and how they cause and resolve problems in living. Stories have different strata, including narrative projects, practices and passions, and psychotherapists require different approaches for each level. These perspectives provide a concise introduction to the anatomy and physiology of narratives and how they can be used to heal broken stories. Such stories about stories include Dracula, Scheherazade, the King and the Ghoul, and Oedipus at Colonus, as well as the emerging story about the neurophysiology of narratives. The seminar will focus on applying their insights to psychotherapy.

Participants will become familiar with:

a) Basic types of stories--myths, legends, facts, fantasies--and how they occur in a specific sequence in psychotherapy and initiation experiences.

b) Common forms of narrative problems in life, e.g. being stuck in a story, betrayed by one, having a life narrative fall apart--and the different therapeutic approaches needed.

c) Different levels of narrative structure--narrative, projects, practices, passions and how different apporaches to therapy affect these narrative strata, e.g. insight, "corrective emotional experiences," cognitive-behavioral therapy, visualization/virtual therapy, medication.

d) The developmental aspects of story modes and narrative strata, extending into midlife and beyond.

When: Saturday, September 15, 2007, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (luncheon provided); bring cushion for hard chairs

Where: Bloedel Hall at St. Mark's Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave. East, Seattle, WA (Capitol Hill). Parking available adjacent to the hall.

Registration:

• Advanced registration, postmarked by 8/30/2007: $75
• On-site registration or postmarked after 8/30/2007: $90
• Students (with ID): $50
• JPA member: $35

Registration form now available.

Allan Chinen, M.D., a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Franciso, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the author of In the Ever After, Once Upon a Midlife, Beyond the Hero, and Waking the World.