Santa Fe Jung

Accepting the Other: What Does “Inclusion” Mean? [LECTURE]
2024-09-20 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver)
By Joseph Wakefield

How do we process our experience of encountering someone who has different experiences than ourselves? What if the other person comes from a different culture? When considering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), what is meant by inclusion? There are uses of the word inclusion that broaden our understanding and knowing of another. There are other, darker uses that deny the other’s subjective reality and harm both parties.

In the Friday evening talk, I will first describe several different ways that our minds use to know another person. Next, I will describe some cross-cultural misunderstandings and learnings from mistakes. Then I will consider how we may improve our empathic understanding of others in our everyday lives, be it in the consulting room or with our neighbors.

The Saturday workshop, “The Archetype of the Wounded Healer: Uses and Misuses of Countertransference in Depth Analytic Therapy,” is an exploration of the use of countertransference in depth analytic therapy. The thesis is that our personal wounding can be useful to inform us when we become the therapist of others. We will explore both how countertransference may be useful and how it may be dangerous if the analytic container is broken, i.e. should ethical boundaries not be recognized. Prior to the workshop, participants are strongly encouraged to read The Wounded Healer: Countertransference from a Jungian Perspective, by David Sedgwick (Routledge, N.Y., 1994, 166 pages).

JOSEPH WAKEFIELD, MD, is a Jungian analyst (retired) residing in Austin, Texas. He has an interest in cross-cultural psychiatry, which has taken him to live and work among the American Navajo Indians and within an Israeli kibbutz. From 1977 until 1980, he and his family lived in El Salvador, Central America. As a member of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts he has advocated expanding cultural awareness beyond the European basis of the Society’s origins.

Get Tickets to Register

Online preregistration for this program has ended (as of Friday, September 20, 2024 at 9:00 am Mountain Time). If you want to attend in-person, tickets will also be available at the door. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

If you register to attend via ZOOM, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, September 20, 2024 by Noon Mountain Time.

This lecture will be recorded. Everyone who registers for the event will receive access to the video recording one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — IN PERSON or via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In Person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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The Archetype of the Wounded Healer: Uses and Misuses of Countertransference in Depth Analytic Therapy [WORKSHOP]
2024-09-21 09:00 - 13:30
How do we process our experience of encountering someone who has different experiences than ourselves? What if the other person comes from a different culture? When considering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), what is meant by inclusion? There are uses of the word inclusion that broaden our understanding and knowing of another. There are other, darker uses that deny the other’s subjective reality and harm both parties.

In the Friday evening talk, I will first describe several different ways that our minds use to know another person. Next, I will describe some cross-cultural misunderstandings and learnings from mistakes. Then I will consider how we may improve our empathic understanding of others in our everyday lives, be it in the consulting room or with our neighbors.

The Saturday workshop, “The Archetype of the Wounded Healer: Uses and Misuses of Countertransference in Depth Analytic Therapy,” is an exploration of the use of countertransference in depth analytic therapy. The thesis is that our personal wounding can be useful to inform us when we become the therapist of others. We will explore both how countertransference may be useful and how it may be dangerous if the analytic container is broken, i.e. should ethical boundaries not be recognized. Prior to the workshop, participants are strongly encouraged to read The Wounded Healer: Countertransference from a Jungian Perspective, by David Sedgwick (Routledge, N.Y., 1994, 166 pages).

JOSEPH WAKEFIELD, MD, is a Jungian analyst (retired) residing in Austin, Texas. He has an interest in cross-cultural psychiatry, which has taken him to live and work among the American Navajo Indians and within an Israeli kibbutz. From 1977 until 1980, he and his family lived in El Salvador, Central America. As a member of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts he has advocated expanding cultural awareness beyond the European basis of the Society’s origins.

Get Tickets to Register

Online preregistration for this program has ended (as of Friday, September 20, 2024 at 9:00 am Mountain Time). If you want to attend in-person, tickets will also be available at the door. Doors open at 8:30 am.

This 4-hour workshop is in-person only and runs from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm with a 30-minute break.

In Person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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