Houston Psychoanalytic Society
Evening Speaker Series
The Other Made Visible:
Creative Methods, Inner Figures and Agents of Change When Working Through Early Childhood Trauma in Adulthood
Nora Swan-Foster, MA, ATR-BC, LPC, NCPsyA  
Thursday, January 11, 2024
7:30PM – 9:00PM Central Time

Live via Zoom
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This event will not be recorded

Registration Fees
HPS Full Members: Free
HPS Student Members: Free
Non-Members: $30

1.5 CME/CEU/CE Credits

Instructional Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Jung used creative methods such as picture-making and active imagination to work with complexes and in particular trauma and dissociation. A clinical example of a 60-year-old woman demonstrates the benefits of using creative methods to work with issues linked to early life, such as somatic intrusions of early childhood trauma. Significant inner figures were delineated, including the original figure associated with the infantile dissociative split. The figures illustrated Jung’s complex theory by making visible the nonverbal inner states that were initially feared and experienced as Other. Within an analytic relationship that included a working through, an innate creative process unfolded that permitted inner figures to become agents of change within her psyche. This paper highlights the value of Jung’s complex theory and the use of creative methods when working with dissociation, regression and unformulated infantile states, even when the analysand is in the later stages of adulthood.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After attending the program in its entirety, attendees will be able to:
  1. Identify two examples of how the use of creative methods facilitated the integration of dissociated states.
  2. Explain how inner figures become agents of change within the psyche. 
  3. Name three key features of a therapeutic relationship that support the working through of dissociation, regression and unformulated infantile states.  
Presenter
Nora Swan-Foster, MA, ATR-BC, LPC, NCPsyA is a Jungian psychoanalyst and art therapist in Boulder, Colorado where she now works primarily with adults. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in English Literature and Creative Writing, and earned her Masters from Lesley College in Expressive Arts Psychotherapy (1986) where she focused on child art psychotherapy with high risk and autistic children. Nora earned her analytic diploma from the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA) in 2010. Since 1994 she has been a teaching member of the Graduate Art Therapy Program at Naropa University. She currently is a training and supervising analyst with the IRSJA and a faculty member of the Memphis/Atlanta Jung Seminar (MAJS). Nora recently served as the North American Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Analytical Psychology. She has published two books: Jungian Art Therapy and Art Therapy and Childbearing Issues along with several papers, and presents internationally on Jungian art therapy and analytical psychology. Her first paper in 1989, entitled “Images of pregnant women: Art therapy as a tool for transformation," established her curiosity in the ways in which creative methods can capture the invisible and unexpressed psychic aspects of early and situational trauma. The paper for this presentation was published in the Special Issue on The Child in the September 2022 Journal of Analytical Psychology.

REFERENCES
1) de Rienzo, A. (2021). The day the clock stopped. Primitive states of unintegration, multidimensional working through and the birth of the analytic subject. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 66(2): 259-280.
2) Kalsched, D. (2017). Trauma, innocence and the core complex of dissociation. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 62(4): 474-500. 
3) Lagutina, L. (2021). Meeting the orphan: Early relational trauma, synchronicity and the psychoid. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 66(1): 5-27.

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The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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