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Canberra Jung Society

A non-profit organisation, which aims to provide a contact for people interested in the psychological insights of Carl Gustav Jung.

Through monthly meetings, workshops, other activities and our library, we seek to help people to understand their own inner journey and the world today - from a Jungian perspective.

We normally meet at 8pm
on the first Friday of each month
at MacKillop House Conference Centre,
50 Archibald Street, Lyneham (See map)

   Next Meeting:

Friday 1 June 2012  8pm

"The Human Experience of the Divine:
C.G. Jung on Psychology & Spirituality"

Dorothea Wojnar

“Among all my patients in the second half of life - that is to say over thirty-five - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook. This, of course, has nothing whatever to do with a particular creed or membership of a church.”
(C G Jung, Psychotherapists or the Clergy,
from the Collected Works Vol 11 paragraph 509)

As shown in his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C. G. Jung had a lifelong interest in the spiritual life, as expressed not only in established religious traditions but also in a wide variety of other forms, including the great Western heresies, Gnosticism and alchemy. During his active life as a psychologist, he wrote extensively about many of the world religions, and especially in later years about his own background religious tradition, Christianity.  His practice of psychoanalysis was bent toward achieving a spiritually sound attitude for the individual, especially in the second half of life when issues of meaning, generativity and personal wholeness become critically important.
This presentation explores Jung’s spiritual journey including his midlife crisis which he called “the spirit of the depths” and his belief that all people share a native psychological tendency towards finding a spiritual basis known as the “religious instinct.”

Dorothea is a psychotherapist, currently training as a Jungian analyst with the C G Jung Institute of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts. She has training and experience in Analytical Psychology, Transactional Analysis, Gestalt therapy, Solution Oriented Psychotherapy, Family therapy, Self Psychology and Psychodrama.

Dorothea has extensive experience as a group leader and therapist across a range of people and issues, working in both a public health facility as well as in private practice.

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Entrance to meetings for non-members is $12 or $6 concession (members free). Everyone is welcome. Yearly membership is $60 (or $30 concession),
to be paid in March each year, entitling members to attend 10 meetings plus receive 2 newsletters.

We normally meet at 8pm on the first Friday of each month
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham. ACT.