For Jung, the symbolic study of alchemy provided a model for viewing the autonomy of the unconscious and the transformation of the personality. This lecture will provide a brief history of his work, while grounding and illustrating these ideas with clinical interactions and real life processes. In this talk we will describe and name the psychological process that moves toward its own goal within a person’s psychological development, we will recognize the autonomous nature of the unconscious as it manifests in clinical material and finally explore the application of this material in life and clinical practice.
Paul Gabrinetti, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist on the faculty in the Analyst Training Program at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and is a former instructor at the University of Southern California. He is in private practice in Woodland Hills
Part of the series Basic Jung – Three Essentials: The Religious Function, Alchemy & Synchronicity