Using active imagination, Katherine Sanford did the slow and steady psychological work on the early loss of her mother and her responses to that loss. Her resultant paintings and writings represent a dialogue with the soul and document a heroic psychic struggle to understand and relate to some of the darkest elements of the personal and collective unconscious. In this presentation, we will see slides of her stirring archetypal paintings completed over the course of thirty years of active imagination.
Katherine M. Sanford, MA, MFT, studied at the Jung Institute in Zurich in the mid-1950’s and trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles where she received her certification as a Jungian analyst in 1978. She is a founding member of Friends of Jung, San Diego and has a practice in Del Mar. Her new book, The Serpent and the Cross, was published during her 89th year and will be for sale at the event.
Part of the Basic Jung Series “Transforming the Psyche with Active Imagination and Sandplay”
“If we look inward, the ‘other’ looks at us too, but with a strange faraway eye.”
~ Marie-Louise von Franz
“The greatest use of active imagination is to put us… into harmony with the Tao, so that the right things may happen around us instead of the wrong.”
~ Barbara Hannah
How do the classical Jungian methods of Active Imagination and Sandplay bring us into harmony with the Self? Sharing the experience of these three esteemed senior Jungian analysts, this lecture series will explore how these methods assist in the process of healing, growth and the transformation of the psyche.