Jungian Psychotherapists Association presents the following public seminar for professionals, with Sam Kimbles.

This workshop builds upon Jung's theory of compexes through opening up and exploring another level of complexes that exists within the psyche of the gorup and within the individual at the group level of their psyche. These are cultural complexes.

We will develop four theme: Jung's theory of complexes, Henderson's theory of the cultural unconscious, the theory of cultural complexes and its application to intergenerational transmission of group traumas. Through developing an understanding of cultural complexes we may find the capacity to open up and work with differences within the clinical situation as well as the world at large. The theory of cultural complexes gives us language and a frame for potentially developing cultural sensitivity, and a consciousness capable of holding the tension of their activation.

In the second part of this workshop, we will look at the intergenerational transmission of cultural complexes, as they are expressed in group and individual traumas.

When: Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (luncheon provided)

Where: Northgate Community Center, 10510 5th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98125 (206) 386-4283. Note new location.

For more information, and a registration form, download the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) brochure.

Alternatively, to register online using PayPal, use this form.

Registration:

• Advanced general registration, postmarked by 9/8/2010: $110
• On-site registration or postmarked after 9/8/2010 or onsite: $120
• Advanced student registration (by 9/8/2010): $60
• General student registration after 9/8/2010 or onsite: $80
• 65+ Senior registration: $90
• Advanced JPA member registration (by 9/8/2010): $65
• General JPA registration after 9/8/2010 or onsite: $80

6 CE credits are available.

Sam Kimbles, Ph.D., an analyst member and recent president of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, is a clinical psychologist and organizational consultant in private practice in Santa Rosa and San Francisco. He is an associate professor with the Clinical Faculty at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco; is on the editorial board for the Jung Journal, Culture and Psyche; and has presented nationally and internationally on the topic of cultural complexes at the congress for the Internation Association of Analytical Psychology in Montreal, Quebec in 2010 and in Cape Town, South Africa in 2007.