Burnout: Death and Rebirth

Coined in the 70s, burnout has been increasing in popularity and prevalence in the modern world.

The number of people experiencing burnout continues to grow, despite increased awareness of self-care and coping strategies, indicating these are not enough to combat such a widespread and debilitating condition.

From a Jungian perspective, burnout is a call for change, an initiatory event where the individual has no option to return to their old life attitude.

Jung saw potential positivity in neurosis and identified its “function,” such as neurotic symptoms being efforts at self-healing in the process of individuation.

Both symptoms and dreams will symbolically convey the person’s story; burnout becomes something not happening outside of us, but arising from internal conflict that has reached its limit. Suffering then gains meaning, making it more bearable.

In this two-week course, we’ll explore burnout from two perspectives: Jung’s Psychological Types (week 1) and the structure of the psyche (week 2).

Course Outline:

Week 1: Burnout and Psychological Types

• Introduction to Psychological Types

• How can Typology help us understand burnout?

Week 2: Structure of the Psyche

• Persona & shadow in burnout

• One-sided ego orientation and the self-regulatory aspect of the psyche

• Working with dreams and symptoms

“Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions, and like every fire, it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.”

– C.G. Jung

Burnout: Death and Rebirth

with Jungian analyst Begüm Gürses-Sulzer

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Live-Video Seminars

SUNDAYS

Nov 30 & Dec 7

10am-12:30pm Pacific / 1-3:30pm Eastern
5-7:30 pm GMT / 6-8:30 pm Zurich
+ Video recording will be available

Begüm Gürses-Sulzer, MSc., IAAP 

Begüm Gürses-Sulzer, originally from Istanbul and now based in Switzerland, is a Jungian analyst. She trained at the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP). She is a member of IAAP, an executive member of AGAP, and a member of ISAP’s Council. She gives lectures and seminars at ISAP, as a faculty member, she regularly teaches at the JUNG Archademy.

Her work centers on the psychology of altruism/helping, the unconscious dynamics in helping professions, co-dependency, addiction, and burnout.

In her practice, she considers the body and its symptoms just as important as dream analysis, both communicating messages from the unconscious.

You can find out more about her work on www.begumgurses.com