Do you ever wish you had stronger technical skills to bring to your creative process? This is the class for you!  Art therapist and drawing instructor Pat Otto provides a structure for the creative impulse to build upon and grow, teaching a greater vocabulary for self-expression by guiding participants through exercises on the basic fundamentals of art (such as line, value, form, shape, composition). Non-traditional, meditative drawing tasks are given to stimulate the imagination as well as demonstrate the basic concepts.  For beginners and those with experience in the creative arts.  Held at Blue Lotus Art Studio, 912 Sherman Ave., Evanston, IL  60202.



This clinical case seminar will focus on the integration of art and other creative therapies in treating the effects of trauma. The creative process will be discussed not only as a tool for accessing encoded memories, regulating emotions and increasing resilience, but also as a metaphorical means of recognizing both internal resources and unhealthy patterns developed in response to traumatic events.   Examples of client artwork will illustrate methods of exploring visual and written images with clients, including both personal and archetypal meanings.  Discussion will emphasize how to respond empathically to clients' images and efforts to make the trauma more visible - in order to restore their connections to self, others and community.   For clinicians and students only please.



In this (complicated) romantic comedy, life becomes rather complicated for Jane (played by Meryl Streep) when, after many years of being a single, divorced woman, she begins two relationships with different men-one of whom is her ex-husband!  Nancy Meyers (director of "Something's Gotta Give") again gives us a modern romantic comedy in which the main characters are all well over 40, but certainly not over the hill in spirit.  Come explore the Jungian themes of individuation in the second half of life, the dynamics of anima and animus in relationships, the impact of secrets, and others, while watching Ms. Streep, Steve Martin, and Alec Baldwin light up the screen with their snappy and insightful dialogue that harkens back to the best screwball comedies of the past.

This is our space for reflections on quotes from Jung.  We invite you to share a favorite quote along with your thoughts by e-mailing us at jung@cgjungcenter.org

In 1955 the journalist Stephen Black interviewed Jung for a radio and television broadcast on the BBC; this is an excerpt from that interview. 

Stephen Black:  Professor Jung, there's a body of opinion in the world today that all is not well with the technique of psychoanalysis, that it takes too long, it uses up too many medical man-hours, it costs too much money.  Have you felt that about your technique of analytical psychology?

Jung:  That is perfectly true.  It takes time, it costs money, it takes the right people are there are too few.  But that is foreseen.  That is in the nature of the thing.  Man's soul is a complicated thing and it takes sometimes a half a lifetime to get somewhere in one's psychological development.  You know it is by no means always a matter of psychotherapy or treatment of neuroses.  Psychology has also the aspect of a pedagogical method in the widest sense of the word. . . .  It is an education.  It is something like antique philosophy.  And not what we understand by a technique.  It is something that touches upon the whole man and which challenges also the whole of man-in the patient . . . as well as in the doctor. (C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, ed. by W. McGuire & R.F.C. Hull, 1977; pg. 255)

I agree that "man's soul is a complicated thing" and therefore the process of education and development take a long time.  As well, since analysis is "something that touches upon the whole man and which challenges also the whole of man" it is necessarily a lengthy process, not just a technique that is applied to every client in the same way. Our June Singer Clinic provides therapy from that standpoint along with the opportunity to continue that process as long as one wishes, and with the fee adjusted to the financial resources of the client.  These things make the clinic unique in the entire Midwest.