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I am not a famous Jungian analyst, I have not created a new theory, I have not written a book. The only thing that makes me stand out is that there has been a war in my country for almost three years – a war in which Russia is killing my people day after day, trying to destroy Ukraine and everything Ukrainian. I live and work in Zaporizhzhia, 30 km from the front line, in a city that is constantly bombed and shelled. But I LIVE AND WORK, and sometimes I wonder how I manage to do it. This is what I will talk about: my personal experience, my vision of this war, and above all my work with my clients. On the one hand, it is a unique experience, and on the other hand, it is an experience I share with my people.
Svitlana Shevchenko, MA, holds a master’s degree in psychology and is a Jungian analyst, a medical psychologist, and a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) and the Ukrainian Development Group for Analytical Psychology (UDG IAAP). She has been working with adults, children, support groups and dream groups for over 20 years. She is especially interested in dream interpretation, the alchemy of transformation, myths, and shadow work, and she conducts training seminars on these and other important Jungian topics.
Currently, as President of the Ukrainian Association for Analytical Psychology, she is especially focused on the creation of a new Jungian community. She recently helped her British colleagues conduct a series of webinars titled “With Ukrainian Jungians.” Like most of her Ukrainian colleagues, she is facing a great challenge – conducting analysis and psychotherapy in the context of war.
Learning objectives:
- Identify and explain the archetypal roots of war.
- Distinguish collective dreams from personal dreams, as exemplified by the occurrence of collective dreams before and during significant world events.
- Identify the unique challenges in providing psychotherapy to a community during a time of immense trauma.
Image: ““Anticipation,” by Irenaeus Yurchuk