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Peer Consultation

New for 2023

A six-hour case review conversation
with Jonathan Young and Anne Bach

Course Description

This is a group case exchange with emphasis on depth psychology and psychodynamic perspectives. This is the first of several such stand-alone discussions. Each will require a separate enrollment and will offer additional hours. The days will be numbered to indicate different content. They do not need to be done in sequence.

This program is designed to meet the upcoming California Board of Psychology Continuing Professional Development requirement for a second format. This day only counts as Peer Consultation hours. Unlike our other offerings, it is not a sponsored CE class.

We will be engaging in structured and organized live online interaction focused on clinical situations. Attendee questions about their own cases will be given priority. Clips from depictions of therapy, such as the In Treatment series will be studied. We will consider parallels between cases and initiatory journey tales from myth, literature, and film.

This is an opportunity to interact with professional colleagues to gain greater understanding of the nuances of treatment. The purpose of this time together is to broaden professional knowledge and expertise, reduce professional isolation, and directly inform the work of the psychotherapist.

This activity is focused on maintaining, developing, and increasing conceptual and applied competencies that are relevant to clinical practice or training. These skills include navigating the therapist's own emotional reactions to complicated situations.

This day is not supervision. Content goes beyond the level of exploration and theoretical discussion provided in such earlier mentoring experiences. Focus will include Jungian and archetypal perspectives.

This program would mainly be of interest to psychologists renewing under the new CPD model.

Note: Participants are encouraged to email a disguised 100-300 word case vignette in advance, but this is not a requirement. Bringing up clinical situations as we go along will also work. Discussion is open to a wide range of theoretical approaches, but Jungian Analytical strategies will be included throughout.

Each day meets 6 hours of the California Board of Psychology Continuing Professional Development option of Peer Consultation. The new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) model may be used now. If your renewal comes up after 1/1/24, it MUST be used Starting then, BOP will be requiring at least two kinds of CPD. REGULAR CE COURSES will be capped. This series provides hours in a second form. Participation in two of these days, plus 24 regular CE hours will meet the new mandate.

This day only counts as Peer Consultation hours. We are considering offering similar content structured as a continuing education class, but that will be at a future time.

Learning Objectives

  • Specify two techniques to increase client comfort and trust

  • Describe how family developmental crises can impact individual treatment

  • Explain unique contributions of Jungian psychology to clinical work

  • Identify ways treatment can benefit from discussing therapist mistakes

  • Name two interventions to consider when dealing with depression

  • Recognize two behaviors that show respect to culturally different clients

Credit Information

This day only counts as Peer Consultation hours. Unlike our other offerings, it is not a sponsored CE class.

How to Register

  1. Select a seminar location from the Current Seminar Dates and Formats

  2. Register online or call the Center

Instructors

Jonathan Young, PhD is a psychologist (PSY10231) with an international online practice. He teaches at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. His books and articles focus on personal mythology. Dr.Young assisted mythologist Joseph Campbell at seminars and was founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives and Library. He is currently featured in several documentary series on the History Channel.

Dr. Young is the minister of the Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Goleta, a suburb of Santa Barbara. Visitors are welcome Sundays at 10am in-person and on Zoom: LiveOakGoleta.org

Anne Bach, MS, MFT 38891 is a specialist in uses of writing in psychotherapy. She gives presentations on creativity as inner work at major conferences, and lectures widely on psychological dimensions of expressive writing. She also appears in memoir drama performances for various theater groups, including the Marsh Stage in Berkeley. Her clinical background includes poetry therapy with seriously mentally ill patients.

In treatment

Day Schedule

Zoom link goes active at 9:30 a.m. - Seminar 10 a.m. to 5 p.m

10:00 The unique influence of the therapist

11:15 - Break (approximate time)

11:30 Unconscious dynamics of the clinician's role

12:30 - Lunch Break

- Please return on time

1:30 Using reflective practices for self-care

2:30 - Break (approximate time)

2:40 Using counter-transference effectively

3:50 - Break (approximate time)

4:00 Acknowledging progress

5:00 Course concludes - Sign out by completing the evaluation

Muses

Selections from the Reading List

Bolen, Jean Shinoda (2014) Goddess in Everywoman. New York: Harper Collins

Bugental, James F.T. (1992) The Art of the Psychotherapist. New York: Norton and Company

Campbell, Joseph (2004) Pathway to Bliss. Novato, CA: The New World Library.

Campbell, Joseph (2011) A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living. Novato, CA: The New World Library.

Hillman, James (2019) Healing Fiction. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill

Hillman, James (1996) The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling . New York: Ballantine

Hillman, James (1999) The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life. New York: Random House

Hollis, James (1996) Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places. Toronto: Inner City Books

Jung, Carl G. (1953) Two Essays on Analystical Psychology. Princeton University Press.

May, Rollo (1983) The Discovery of Being. New York: W.W. Norton

McWilliams, Nancy (2011)Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process. New York: Guilford

Moore, Thomas (2021) Soul Therapy: The Art and Craft of Caring Conversations. New York: HarperCollins

Perera, Sylvia Brinton ((1986) The Scapegoat Complex: Toward a Mythology of Shadow and Guilt. Toronto: Inner City Books.

Singer, June (1994) Boundaries of the Soul:The Practice of Jung's Psychology. New York: Anchor

Stein, Murray (2010) Jungian Psychoanalysis: Working in the Spirit of Carl Jung. Chicago: Open Court

von Franz, Marie-Louise (1985) Projection and Re-collection in Jungian Psychology. Chicago: Open Court

von Franz, Marie-Louise (1985) Psychotherapy Boston: Shambhala

Woodman, Marion (1985) The Pregnant Virgin. Toronto: Inner City Books.

Woodman, Marion (1996) Woodman, Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness. Boston: Shambhala

Yalom, Irvin (2017) The Gift of Therapy. New York: Harper Collins.

Yalom, Irvin (2017) Existential Psychotherapy. New York: Harper Collins.

Brooke in treatment