John R White, PhD, LPC, Jungian Diplomate

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Curious About Jungian Training? Join This Open House A Zoom Open House Dialogue with Jungian Analysts from the Pittsburgh Training Seminar For those Interested in Learning More About Jungian Psychology

https://mailchi.mp/5aa11e2154c3/fall-programming-14644038?e=9b01d026ca

Curious About Jungian Training? Join This Open House A Zoom Open House Dialogue with Jungian Analysts from the Pittsburgh Training Seminar For those Interested in Learning More About Jungian Psychology

Practicing Dream Analysis For Mental Health Professionals with Jungian Analyst JOHN R. WHITE, Ph.D. Wednesdays starting March 18

Each class will cover an advanced theme in Jungian dream analysis and look at how to practice dream analysis with clients.

Register / More info: https://www.jungarchademy.com/practicing-dream-analysis

https://www.academia.edu/130441069/The_Jungian_Analyst_in_between_Life_and_Death_Clinical_Ethics_in_an_Age_of_Pandemic

This is a proof of a chapter I wrote for Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire (Routledge 2024). It focuses on death anxiety, signs of widespread death anxiety in the US collective during the COVID pandemic, and some ethical implications that therapists might want to keep in mind when death anxiety running high in the collective.

The Jungian Analyst in between Life and Death. Clinical Ethics in an Age of Pandemic. This is the proof of a book chapter, which links key ideas on death anxiety from both psychoanalytic and philosophical traditions, as a way of interpreting psychological states and behaviors prevalent during the climax of the COVID-19 pandemic in the

🛑 People often mistake DENIAL for stubbornness, self-deception, or moral failure.

Denial is actually a primal psychological defense that attempts to regulate which aspects of reality are permitted to reach awareness.

It can be viewed as a benevolent survival strategy, yet (like most defenses) it must ultimately be set aside for us to make full contact with ourselves and the world.

🎧 Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or via the link in the first comment on this post.

Teaching About the Dynamic Mind: Then and Now with Jonathan Shedler, PhD (San Francisco) A new podcast episode 194 produced by Harvey Schwartz for the IPA ipaoffthecouch.org

Online talk - Wednesday 10th December 6-7.30pm (GMT)

Explore the lives and work of early female analysts who shaped the development of psychoanalysis, highlighting their impact and contemporary relevance.

Via Freud Museum London

https://www.freud.org.uk/event/early-women-psychoanalysts-history-biography-and-contemporary-relevance/

"Michael Balint thought that without reaching the core of the doctor-patient relationship and understanding its context, the doctor’s work is nothing other than what he termed 'apostolic zeal'. This refers to the health care worker’s conviction that only they, the medical professionals and specialists, are knowledgeable enough to help the sick. Such an attitude destroys communication, hinders cooperation in the treatment as a result renders the therapeutic encounter ineffective. It is then impossible to use the medicine i.e. the doctor himself and his relation with the patient. The key objective of the doctor according to Balint, is contact with the patient."*

Remembering Michael Balint, born today in 1896! 🎉

Quote from “Balint Group Training Theory and Application” by Bohdan Wasilewski and Lilianna Engel (2015).

Main Image / Balint Group, France.