Carl Gustav Jung certainly needs no introduction. His ideas and theories profoundly influenced 20^th century psychology, religion, literature and the arts, and remain highly influential today. In the popular mind, he is often characterized as a ‘disciple’ of Freud, yet this is clearly inaccurate. During the intense seven years (1906-1913) that they were friends and colleagues, Jung was already known for his research and writings; for a time, he willingly aligned himself with Freud’s ambitions, but his thinking was always independent. The influence of the dissociation pioneers Pierre Janet and the Swiss psychologist Theodor Flournoy on Jung’s ideas ultimately won out.

Though volumes have been written by Jung and about Jung, here we will focus on only one aspect of his work and life, albeit a most important one – Jung’s role as a pioneer in the field of trauma and dissociation. We will trace his life and work in three areas: 1) Biographical and autobiographical writings focusing particularly on his early life and sense of himself as divided into more than one part, 2) Jung’s concept of the complex, its relation to trauma and dissociation and its influence on Bleuler’s (1911) construct of schizophrenia, and 3) Jung’s view of normal personality as characterized by personality types and as being inherently dissociative, with the concept of archetypes complementing the concept of complexes. This final section will discuss Jung’s views on the Self and the process of individuation, and will include a review of contemporary ‘multi-mind’ theories of personality directly influenced by Jung, such as Hal and Sidra Stone’s Voice Dialogue and Dick Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems therapy.

Series Learning Objectives:

At the end of the three-webinar series, participants will:

1. Appreciate the personal struggles Jung experienced as he confronted the disparate parts of himself and his allegiances with Janet, Freud and Bleuler.

2. Understand the emergence of Jung’s concept of the complex through his development of the word association task and its influence on Bleuler’s concept of Schizophrenia.

3. Appreciate Jung’s concepts of personality types, archetypes and the collective unconscious and the implications for a perceived division between oneself and the world.

4. Understand Jung’s concept of the Self (as opposed to the Persona and other archetypes) and the therapeutic process of Individuation.

5. Appreciate Jung’s influence on contemporary therapeutic movements, including Voice Dialogue and Internal Family Systems.

Individual sessions (90-minute) learning objectives

Saturday, 8th of March, 2025 (Session 1): Jung in context: Bleuler, Janet, Freud & Flournoy.

By the end of the session, participants will appreciate:

1. Jung’s early life experiences, including his recognition that there was more than one part to his personality.

2. Jung’s intense and conflictual relationships with Bleuler and Freud, and the formative influence of his meetings with Janet and the Swiss psychologist Flournoy on his developing ideas about dissociation and personality.

Saturday, 12th of Apil, 2025 (Session 2) : Jung’s word-association task, complexes and Schizophrenia.

By the end of the session, participants will appreciate:

1. The development of Jung’s word-association task and its impact on his ideas about complexes.

2. The importance of Jung’s ideas on Bleuler’s concept of Schizophrenia, particularly the role of complexes and ‘splitting.’

Saturday, 10th of May, 2025 (Session 3): Jung on ‘normal’ personality, archetypes and individuation.

By the end of the session, participants will appreciate:

1. Jung’s understanding of personality as influenced by forces or energies outside of the individual self, which he called archetypes and the collective unconscious.

2. Jung’s concepts of individuation and the Self as having particular import in the 2^nd half of life, and the influence of his ideas on the contemporary healing movements of Voice Dialogue and Internal Family Systems.

Venue: Online on Zoom. Includes access to video recording for 30 days.

Dates: Saturday, 8th of March, 2025, 12th April, 2025 & 10th May, 2025 (Three Sessions)

Time: 1000hrs to 1130hrs (Sydney/Melbourne Time)

Cost: 149.99 For all the three sessions (Early bird Special!! Expires 19.01.25). Discount automatically applied at checkout. 

CPD Certificate: 4.5 hours. 

About Prof Andrew Moskowitz: Andrew Moskowitz, Ph.D. is director of the Forensic Psychology graduate program at George Washington University in Alexandria, Virginia, former president of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation and a core member of the WHO ICD-11 dissociative disorders diagnoses task force. He is a renowned expert in the trauma/dissociation field, who, for the past 20 years, has used this perspective to inform our understandings of psychosis and violent behavior. As a clinical and forensic psychologist, Dr. Moskowitz has performed therapy and conducted forensic evaluations in the United States, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, in both prison and forensic mental health settings. As an academic, he has taught undergraduate and graduate psychology and medical students in the United States, New Zealand, Scotland, Denmark and Germany, and was the lead editor of both editions of the influential book Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation (Wiley, 2008, 2019).

About eiseEducation: eiseEducation delivers exceptional webinars, short courses, and professional development training to the mental health, social services & community services sector across Australia & New Zealand. Find out more at eiseeducation.com

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