Workshop: This format will allow for the in-depth presentation and discussion of an actual case (a depressed and suicidal patient). Participants will learn how the egocide and transformation model is applied and how it works. The patient, guided by the analyst, symbolically kills (or analyzes to death) negative aspects of the ego and shadow (egocide and shadowcide) and the related depressive and suicidal state is transformed through the creative arts.

Suicide is literally a dead end. Whereas, egocide involves a symbolic death and rebirth experience. Egocide and transformation allows the suffering melancholic individual to live, heal the soul through creativity and find meaning in life.

David H. Rosen, M.D., is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and McMillan Professor of Analytical Psychology at Texas A & M University. Both the lecture and workshop will be based on his book Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity published in paperback by Penguin in 1996. He is also the author of The Tao of Jung: The Way of Integrity, likewise published in paperback by Penguin in 1997.

More than a meditation on illness, Bone offers insights into healing and the role of art and poetry in the soul's journey toward balance and wholeness. Woodman is extraordinarily honest about the factors she feels led her down the path to cancer, physically and spiritually, over the course of her early life. She also details the harrowing aspects of her journey and how she ultimately returned to health. Filled with art, line drawings, quotations from Rumi, Emily Dickinson, William Blake and others, Bone is a unique and sensitive testament to the human spirit and to the courage of this extraordinary woman.

Marion Woodman, Ph. D. Hon., is a Jungian analyst and a leader in exploring the deeper levels of the feminine. She is the author of many acclaimed books which bridge the fields of analytical psychology and feminine psychology including, Addiction to Perfection and Leaving My Father's House.

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Workshop: Building on the basic premises of the lecture, this workshop will explore in greater depth the relationships between mythology, politics and psyche. Drawing from several essays in The Vision Thing: Myth, Politics and Psyche in the World, we will explore the complex intermingling of mythological themes, psychological forces and political conflicts in contemporary life. Everywhere we look -- be it politics, sports, economics or entertainment -- the experience of our individual and collective lives is permeated by the interplay of myth and psyche. The workshop will examine several "case studies" that tease out these relationships. Some of the material includes: the feminine in politics; race relations in America; ethnic conflict in Bosnia and Pol Pot's Cambodian genocide; the relationship between myth and vision in leadership; the link between Alexander the Great and cyberspace; and the challenge of practicing politics in the economic myth. Even the Wizard of Oz has an honored place in the exploration of The Vision Thing.

Thomas Singer, M.D. is a Jungian analyst, Chair of Extended Education at the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco and author. Educated at Princeton University and the Yale Medical School, Dr. Singer's most recent book, The Vision Thing: Myth, Politics and Psyche in the World (Routledge), is a collection of essays that features an essay by Senator Bill Bradley on the role of vision and myth in leadership. His other books are Who's The Patient Here? Portraits of the Young Psychotherapist and A Fan's Guide to Baseball Fever: The Official Medical Reference.

Workshop: We will explore more intensively examples of ancient image-making and experiment with our own creative image-making efforts around personal experience of the mysterium. We will also use a fairy tale to examine a more modern expression of the age-old search for the healing connection of ego and Self.

Alden Josey, Ph.D., educated at the University of Illinois and at Cornell University, was awarded a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in l957. He retired in 1985 after a 27 year career in chemical research with the DuPont Company. In 1989 he received his Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich and is a past Director of Studies at the C.G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia and a Training Analyst of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He is in private practice in Wilmington, Delaware.

Workshop: Warrior, Priestess, Lover, Androgyne. The variety and potency of the images of the Divine Feminine in Mesopotamia suggest that these ancient people had access to energetic expression long since stifled in men and women in the west. Because the divine beings of Mesopotamia are direct precursors of Judaism and Christianity, they are latent in the western psyche as the shadow of an overly exclusive masculine god. We will explore through slide images, text and discussion such shadow figures as the ecstatic priestess, the warrior goddess, the divine life force as sexuality, and the androgyne, all of whom carry a balancing potential for the traditional western individual and offer the possibility of a greatly expanded consciousness.

Betty De Shong Meador, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst in Berkeley, California, and a past president of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Her translations of myths and songs to the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna appear in her book Uncursing the Dark. The Inanna poems of the first poet of record, the high priestess Enheduanna, are featured in her forthcoming book Inanna: Lady of Largest Heart to be published by the University of Texas Press, 2000.