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Topics: Archetypes, Religion and Spirituality.
Common Territory Different Maps: The Archetypal Underpinnings of Religious Practice
Jung described the world religions as the “great therapeutic systems” developed by humankind to mediate and contain the profound experience of encounter with the numinous. Jung believed that every religious tradition finds its roots in the archetypal realm, wherein lies the diversity of patterns that give expression to the “religious instinct” which evolves into religious practice.
This set, led by Jungian analysts who teach from their own religious orientations, explores the evolution and meaning of the tenets of a variety of world religions. Through careful consideration of various central themes common to religious experience (for example, methods of practice, the role of authority, gender roles, attitude toward the material world), this course offers the listener an insightful viewing of the ways in which the religious impulse has taken form and shaped culture and individuals alike.
This set includes the following lectures (click on the individual lectures to listen to samples):
Thomas Patrick Lavin, PhD is a Zürich-trained Jungian analyst who holds a PhD in clinical psychology and a PhD in theology. He was formerly chief clinical psychologist for the U.S. Army in Europe and is a founding member of the CG Jung Institute of Chicago. He is in private practice in Wilmette, Illinois, and consults internationally on typology, spirituality and addictions.
Gender
Male
Treatment Types
Individuals and couples
Age Groups
Adults
Specialty Areas
Dream Interpretation
Typology
Spirituality in a Clinical Context
Contact
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847.251.3579
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Martin, Diane
Diane Martin, PhD is a clinical psychologist and
Jungian analyst in private practice in Milwaukee and Evanston. She has
studied Buddhism in general, and Zen in particular, for twenty-five
years. She facilitates meditation groups in Evanston and Milwaukee.
Vasavada, Arwind
Arwind U. Vasavada (1912-1998) was born and raised in India. In
the 1950’s, he traveled to Zurich to study at the Jung Institute and to work in analysis with C.G. Jung. Although he had only a few sessions with Jung, he considered him his guru, a title which Jung himself did not accept in the
Indian sense but gave Vasavada nevertheless some important “transmissions,” to put it in the terminology of Hindu tradition. After finishing his training in Zurich, Vasavada returned to India to open an analytic practice. June Singer visited him in India in the early 1970’s and invited him to come to Chicago, an invitation that he gladly accepted. Vasavada lived and worked as a Jungian analyst in Chicago through the 1970’s and 1980’s, and he was a founding member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts. He had a strong and dedicated following of students in Chicago until he retired in the early 1990’s and moved to his son’s home in the state of Washington. After that he visited Chicago intermittently until his death (in India) in 1998.
Wittekind, Olga
S. Olga Wittekind, OSF, PhD
Dr. Wittekind is a Franciscan Sister from Oldenburg, Indiana. She has taught clinical psychology for 28 years at Marian College, Indianapolis, IN. Olga loved working with students and helping them with their research projects. In 2000 she joined the administrative team for the Sisters of St. Francis at their Motherhouse in Oldenburg, IN. After filling her term in this position (2000-2006), Olga had a sabbatical in Italy. She loved the Italian scenery, history and wine! From January to May 2007, she was in New Orleans offering counseling, workshops and retreats to those who needed a word of hope. It was a very challenging time for her but very graced. She returned to Indiana in May 2007. Currently, Olga is doing Jungian analysis, psychotherapy, spiritual direction, retreat work and giving workshops on all things Jungian, and Spirituality and Psychology.
Education
DIPLOMATE ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY: C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. (1993)
JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY: C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, Switzlerland (1986-87)
PH.D. IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: St. Louis University. (1975)
Professional Organizations
C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago
American Psychological Association
Age Groups
Adults
Adolescents/Teens
Children
Treatment Types
Individuals
Couples
Specialty AReas
Typology Testing
Diagnostic Testing
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812.212.0371
Main Office
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Oldenburg, IN 47036
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