Practicing Dream Analysis

Practicing Dream Analysis
For Mental Health Professionals
(All Welcome)

Each two-hour class will be divided into two parts. The first hour will cover an advanced theme in Jungian dream analysis. In the second hour, we will practice dream analysis by looking at two dreams, which participants bring from their therapy practices (either dreams from the patient or their dreams about a patient), spending a half-hour working on each dream.

I will ask participants to propose dreams ahead of time each week and I will choose two that we will work on during that week’s class.

Themes to be covered include:

1. Adaptive and typological themes in dreams

2. Archetypal approaches to dreams

3. Working with nightmares

4. Themes of death and death anxiety in dreams.

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Practicing Dream Analysis
For Mental Health Professionals

with Jungian Analyst JOHN R. WHITE, Ph.D.

Live-Video Jungian Psychology Seminar Series

Wednesdays

March 18, 25, April 1 and 8
4-6 pm Pacific / 7-9 pm Eastern
Live Via Zoom
+ Video recording will be made available

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ALL WELCOME

Required Reading:

Hillman, J., & Moore, T. (2013). The Essential James Hillman: a Blue Fire. Taylor and Francis, Chapters 1, 3, and 10.

Roscher, W. H., & Hillman, J. (2000). Pan and the nightmare (New rev. ed). Spring Publications.

JOHN R. WHITE, Ph.D.

John R. White, Ph.D., is a certified Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. He received his M.A. In counselling from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2011, and his diploma as a Jungian psychoanalyst from the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts in 2017.

He is currently the Coordinator of the C. G. Jung Institute Analyst Training Program of Pittsburgh as well as the President-Elect of the Board of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.

John has more than forty publications in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and organizational theory. He is the author of the book Adaptation and Psychotherapy. Langs and Analytical Psychology, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) and co-editor of Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire. At the Nexus of Individual and Collective Trauma (Routledge, 2024).

Suggested Readings:

Jung, C. G. 2010. Dreams, (from the Collected Works of C. G. Jung). Princeton: Bollingen

Von Franz, Marie-Louise 1984 On Dreams and Death. Shambala

White, J. R. 2023 Adaptation and Psychotherapy. Langs and Analytical Psychology. Rowman & Littlefield