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We're excited for our next Jung Society event in just a few short weeks! Join us on  Friday, May 11th for a special event with  Russell Delman on  Finding Our Way In Challenging Times. See the second text box below for more information.

Read part one of our conversation with Russell HERE on the Jung Society blog, and stay tuned for part two next week!


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Join Jung Platform and Dr. Aaron Kipnis for a   six-class course on psychopaths. Enroll before April 22nd and receive an early-bird discount.

Read a fascinating blog interview with Dr. Kipnis on this chilling topic HERE. See the fourth text box below for more information.


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Finding Our Way In Challenging Times 
Russell Delman

May 11th
Finding Our Way In Challenging Times
Exploring the Interface Between Embodiment, Psychology and Spirituality

May 11th, 7:00 - 8:30pm

In this talk, Russell will explore the following questions:

- How do I manifest and express my deepening personal insights into all of my relationships, including the intimate, as well as the larger social and political worlds?

- How can I use the environmental and societal conflicts as food for Self-realization/actualization?

- How do the physical, psychological, spiritual (transcendent), relational worlds interact?

As we explore these questions, we will also investigate a fairly unique perspective based in two premises: 

-Perhaps learning to be more fully present for all our life situations is the central modus operandi for all that we seek.

-Perhaps our embodiment is a key "missing link" for both psychological and spiritual development AND a reliable doorway to this deepening presence.
 

About the speaker:  Russell Delman's dedication to the study of awareness and human potential began in 1969 as a college undergraduate in psychology. The main influences on his teaching are over 40 years of Zen meditation, his close relationship and training with Moshe Feldenkrais (he has helped to train over 2500 Feldenkrais teachers worldwide), a deep study of somatic psychology including Gestalt training under Robert Hall, and Focusing training and practice with his close friend, Gene Gendlin, work with Mother Theresa in Calcutta, along with 40 years of marriage with his wife, Linda. In 2007 he created The Embodied Life School.
 
Day: Friday, May 11th
Time: 7:00 - 8:30pm (with mingling before and after)
Location: Library downtown, 210 E 400 S
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Cost: free (please become a member)
Includes 1 free CEU
From the Jung Society of Utah blog:

Growing Embodied Awareness, Finding Imagination: 
A Conversation with Russel Delman - part one
In preparation for 
Russell Delman's May lecture  and workshops, I was grateful for the opportunity to converse with this pioneer in Somatic Psychology, and founder of The Embodied Life. Read part one of our interview where we discuss spiritual bypass, finding present awareness, trauma, and more.

Andrea Jivan: You sent us some conversation topics that were fascinating. Because it provides so many access points, what initially grabbed me was this broad question: how do the physical, psychological and spiritual worlds intersect? Could we start there?

Russell Delman:  Yes, it's a very open place to start. First, I feel I've been very blessed in this life from a young age to learn that all we're really longing to experience in this world, whether it's a mental understanding, whether it's being alive in our bodies, congruent in our feeling, having deeper relationships; all the things that human beings long for from a very early age, share a common denominator. That is, unless one was present in this moment in their living experience, and I would even say integrated living experience, there was a sense of incompleteness, the sense of not quite being in harmony. Then, with this recognition I understood that being present in ourselves, we could experience four things: our thoughts, our feelings, our bodily sensations, and our relationships. These four elements are always present and to have all of them alive in the moment was key. That started this whole journey, a path that came out of a broken heart and came out of a recovery. Being exposed to Zen meditation when I was 18 years old. Being interested in psychology, it was co ngruent from the very beginning. Through luck and blessings, grace really, back in 1969 or 70, I got exposed to what we call Somatic Psychology, that one could recognize the connection of body, mind, and spirit as a unit. In a way it was kind of early for that integration. And then I went to the Esalen Institute in 1971 and that brought all this together. When I taught my first classes in 1971 until now, it's been the same basic subject matter: how do we get present with ourselves, and the way to do that has been evolving.


AJ: What a beautiful path. I'm lucky to get to talk to you right now. It sounds to me like you're a pioneer in the field of Somatic Psychology, though I don't think you spell it out that way in your promotional material. What grabbed me while I was listening is that you mentioned this process emerged out of a broken heart. I suddenly got this sense that when we're working with the body and when we're working with resistance points in life, then we're able to find a way into healing through what we are calling broken. Am I on the right track?

RD: Yes, yes. I recognize two, seemingly paradoxical on the surface, discrepancies of people's bias. On one side there are people who are really committed to not feeling their suffering, not feeling their pain, not feeling their grief, not feeling the challenges and they get into avoidance behavior or what is beautifully called in newer spiritual communities, spiritual bypassing. In the Focusing world, which is one of the psychological orientations that I've been influenced by, they call it process skipping, you don't go through the whole process. That's on one side. The other side, we're living in what I call a therapeutic culture where people, especially those of us who have the privilege of this kind of inner looking-which is really a socioeconomic, sometimes racial, cultural etc. privilege. We can get trapped in our own culture of looking for problems and dwelling on problems while a very important element of anybody's life work is-how do we grow our capacity for joy, how do we grow our capacity for love? How do we grow our capacity out of being present to recognize how our thought patterns keep alive many of our old painful states in ways that aren't helpful? So, how do we live between both of these? I've got a lot of psychologists who study with me and part of their deep learning is "I'm always focusing on problems, how can I teach myself and my clients not to be seduced by problems?" There are always problems. Then, I'm working with a lot of meditators and spiritual folks who say, "Well, you know, if I just entered my bliss state everything will work," but their relationships are still in trouble. So I'm very observant of this dichotomy between spiritual bypassing and therapeutic culture.

Read more on the Jung Society of Utah blog HERE.
Six-class course on Psychopaths 
Dr. Aaron Kipnis

April 24th
Psychopaths
Psychopathic Society: How to Find More Sanity in an Insane World    
Enroll for early bird discount  HERE
 
In his book,  Without Conscience , Robert Hare argues that we live in a camouflage society, in which some psychopathic traits- egocentricity, lack of concern for others, superficiality, style over substance, being "cool," manipulativeness, and so forth- increasingly are tolerated and even valued. Cold-blooded and remorseless psychopaths who blend into all aspects of society have little difficulty infiltrating the domains of business, politics, law enforcement, government, academia and other social structures and have devastating impacts on people around them.
This webinar course discusses many facets of the psychopathic personality and explores how we might live better in a world where people with this condition seem to be gaining prominence.

Topics each week
 
Week 1: What is a Psychopath? 
  
The word psychopath, of course, is quite loaded. All kinds of psychological traits and behavioral theories hitchhike on this human condition. We will discuss them. Here are a few quick terms to help orient webinar attendees:
Asocial Person: self-involved to the exclusion of others.
Narcissistic Person: self-involved yet needs to be seen and admired by others.
Antisocial Person: harmful to the welfare of others.  
Sociopath: aggressively anti-social.
Psychopath (Malignant Narcissist): the most dangerous predators on earth-lacking in empathy and incapable of imagining the common good.
 
We will discuss causes and conditions that may support the growth of psychopathy and explore various ways to identify people who have this condition in order to gain greater understanding of it.
 
Week 2: Psychopath Nation
Symptoms of psychopathology can be found throughout societies, particularly during periods of accelerated transition and socioeconomic strain. At certain junctures in history, entire nations have been grabbed by the psychopathy of a single charismatic leader. Psychopathic tyrants stay in power because most others are deterred from speaking the truth. Psychopathic epidemics can flare up in that silence. It is important for us to have a greater understanding than the social sciences have thus far provided about the power of psychopathy to move nations. Some psychopathic nations gained infamy for their aggression on other states, others for the treatment of people inside their borders. In most places, people knew what was happening but could or would not try to stop their nation's tyranny.
 
Mohandas K. Gandhi considered these 7 traits to be most perilous to human society:
  1. Wealth without Work
  2. Pleasure without Conscience
  3. Science without Humanity
  4. Knowledge without Character
  5. Religion without Sacrifice
  6. Commerce without Morality
  7. Politics without Principle 
His commentary depicts some of the essential conditions for a psychopathic nation to flourish and lays foundations for this week's webinar.

Week 3 (1st half): Homopsychopathus: A Variant Species?
Are psychopaths a variant species? Do people who are incapable of developing a moral conscious conscience represent a specific strain or somewhat different variety of human being? It is possibly so. Their behavioral characteristics, brain functioning, information, sensory and emotional processing, "feeding" habits, and moral playbooks are different from the rest of us. They inhabit human society as naturally as sharks dwell in the sea. And they are just as dangerous. From the dawn of recorded history we have images of monsters, which seem to embody psychopathy. We will explore contemporary mythologies to add insight to our ongoing attempt to understand this problem through our collective imagination.

Week 3 (2nd half): Psycho Killers, Qu'est que c'est? Vampires, Mobsters, Blood-thirsty Aliens and Other Celebrities
In the second part of Week 3, in light of Part 1, we will discuss the prevalence of psychopathic characters in film and other media and explore our cultural fascination with them.

Week 4 (1st half): Dangerous Liaisons: Sexual Predators and Their Prey
People whose lives are turned inside out by a psychopathic lover, mate or intimate acquaintance are often shocked when they realize the full extent of the damage done to them. Someone whom they felt to be trustworthy and witnessed their most intimate selves, betrayed them. Victims of psychopaths are not simply naïve. The best clinically trained professionals are often taken in. We will discuss how to clearly recognize a psychopathic lover and what to do when you find yourself in relationship with one.

Week 4 (2nd half): Caution: Psychopaths at Work
Just as psychopathic personalities are more highly concentrated in the criminal underworld, they also occur more frequently in certain professions. Psychopathy affects people in all races and cultures and across the spectrum of economic and social status. Soulless, predatory people blend into all aspects of society often with devastating impacts on the institutions and the people around them. Some arenas attract psychopaths to places and positions where prey is more abundant. In certain professions, such as litigation, the stock market, corrections, combat sports, politics or warfare, psychopaths can be more highly rewarded. We will discuss strategies for dealing with psychopaths in the work place.

Week 5: Psychopathic Healers And Saviors
Something that has surprised me in recent years is how many of my clients and graduate students report having been violated by others who held a position of intimate trust in their lives. These perpetrators were often professionals as such as clergy, therapists, financial consultants or other personal advisors. As with a child molested by an adult caretaker, when a person held in high regard betrays someone, it can leave a particularly severe wound in their psyche. In Freud's era, the prevalence of incest was kept in the closet. In a similar manner, abuse by priests and others who society holds to higher moral standards have often been suppressed by powerful organizations allied against victims' best interests. Psychopathic healers are charismatic individuals who charm us only to exploit us.
We will discuss cults and other spiritual and religious institutions to learn how to better identify psychopathic saviors and what to do when they are unmasked.

Week 6: Radical Altruism: Care of the Soul of the World   
This final webinar will examine a range of positive, pro-social, anti-psychopathy trends in our culture. It will focus on hope and underscore the opposite end of the psychopathic spectrum. This could be called something like: extreme altruism, radical philanthropy or conscious compassion. Many people today are resisting despair and fear through creating powerful and inventive initiatives to counter the influence of others who are destroying the natural environment, unraveling the social fabric, undercutting the national economy and eroding our political trust. This talk will examine the philosophy of leaders who are making contributions toward others feeling more empowered to improve the conditions of their individual, familial and community lives.
 
About the speaker:
Aaron Kipnis, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is author of  The Midas Complex: How Money Drives Us Crazy and What We Can Do About ItKnights Without Armor and Angry Young Men; coauthor of What Women and Men Really Want (1995), and contributor to many anthologies. Aaron is a licensed clinical psychologist in California. He spends most of his time on Salt Spring Island, B.C.
For contact:  akipnis@shaw.ca

April 17 - Free webinar

Class 1:  April 24
Class 2:  May 8
Class 3:  May 15
Class 4:  May 22
Class 5:  June 5
Class 6:  June 12
 
Length each class: 60 min
Time:  6pm PST /  9pm EST
 
Location: online webinar (incl. a recording of the live event)
Cost: no risk policy. Money back one week after the first live event. $150 and only $125 before April 22nd


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Notes of Interest      

 


The Chilling Truth About Psychopaths
Psychopaths:
Six-week course with Dr. Aaron Kipnis

JSOU Blog
"What is it that makes psychopaths so compelling?" I asked Dr. Aaron Kipnis - psychotherapist, professor, and author of four books - during a recent conversation.

I last spoke to Aaron Kipnis about the psychology of money - a fascinating conversation with a meticulous teacher, one who is able to probe the depths of our shadows with expertise and light. So I was delighted to have the opportunity to speak to him again. And to find out why, when asked to write a blog post about psychopaths, I couldn't hit the keyboard fast enough to reply YES!

"Why?" I asked him straight away. "What's the intrigue about?"

Aaron Kipnis looked at me and smiled. We were speaking on Skype.

"Just sometimes," he said slowly, "wouldn't you also like not to give a damn?"

And so another captivating conversation began. Here are some snippets from our chat:

"Psychopathy is a personality disorder that is located at the far end of the Narcissist spectrum," he explains. It's the point where Narcissism becomes malignant. But whilst a Narcissist is annoying, a psychopath is dangerous.

Psychopaths do not give back, they only take, whether it be your attention, your time, energy or money, whatever they can get away with. In some cases, this can be your life. Serial killers fall into the most extreme edge of this category and even kill for pleasure. 

Read more on the Jung Platform blog HERE.
Psychopathic Society: How to Find More Sanity in an Insane World    

Enroll for the early bird discount  HERE

In his book,  Without Conscience, Robert Hare argues that we live in a camouflage society, in which some psychopathic traits- egocentricity, lack of concern for others, superficiality, style over substance, being "cool," manipulativeness, and so forth- increasingly are tolerated and even valued. Cold-blooded and remorseless psychopaths who blend into all aspects of society have little difficulty infiltrating the domains of business, politics, law enforcement, government, academia and other social structures and have devastating impacts on people around them.
This webinar course discusses many facets of the psychopathic personality and explores how we might live better in a world where people with this condition seem to be gaining prominence.

Class 1: April 24
Class 2: May 8
Class 3: May 15
Class 4: May 22
Class 5: June 5
Class 6: June 12

Length each class: 60 min

Time: 6pm PST / 9pm EST

Location: online webinar (incl. a recording of the live event)

Cost: no risk policy. Money back one week after the first live event. $150 and only $125 before April 22nd

Enroll HERE

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Jung, Introversion, and Self-Acceptance  

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
-  C. G. Jung

While Carl Jung was mentioned briefly in my undergraduate psychology courses, my first real contact with Jung's theories came many years after that. In 2014, I began seeing an acupuncturist for help with fatigue, depression, and anxiety. During the course of my treatment, the acupuncturist recommended that I read The Highly Sensitive Person, by psychologist  Elaine Aron. According to Aron, highly sensitive people (HSPs) are the 15-20 percent of individuals in a population who have a nervous system that is more sensitive to stimulation than average. I strongly related to the information in the book and finally felt like my experiences of being "easily overwhelmed when you have been out in a highly stimulating environment for too long" made sense. This book cited Jung frequently, especially with regard to his ideas on introversion.  

The many mentions of Jung throughout the book intrigued me and I wondered if his work could be of help to me as well.

Read more on the JSOU blog HERE.



 


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