THE JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
IXth INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

The Transcendent Function Today
Imagination and Psychic Transformation in Analysis

Friday 29 May to Sunday 31 May 2009
Hotel Kabuki
Japantown, San Francisco

One of the defining features of Jungian analysis is the significance given to symbolic images as vehicles of psychic transformation. Jung’s concept of the transcendent function provides a theoretical explanation for this emphasis linking psychic development with the use of imagination and the emergence of higher levels of symbolic functioning. In clinical work, this manifests as an attentive openness to the imaginative processes taking place in and between analyst and patient.

• Mardy Ireland - A Bridge Between …
• Toshio Kawai - Union and Separation in the Therapy of Developmental Disorders

Plenary Panels
• Problems of Symbolization in Children and Adolescents - Gustav Bovensiepen, Linda Carter, Marica Rytovaara
• The Transcendent Function in Society – Betty Meador, Andrew Samuels, Tom Singer

Workshop Presentations
• A question of vitality – Ann Addison
• Infant observation – Beth Barmack & Virginia Humphrey
• The emerging feminine in gay men – Jeffrey Benevedes
• The emergence of the symbolic out of the conflict of opposites – Alison Clark
• Dynamics experienced within the consulting room – Maggie Cochrane
• Desire in the Song of Songs and psychoanalysis – Betsy Cohen
• Countertransference, reverie and imagination – Gus Cwik & Jan Wiener
• Attacks on imaginal sight – Amanda Dowd
• Working with autistic states – Brian Feldman & Francesco Bisagni
• Longing, surrender and the transcendent function – Donnamarie Flanagan
• Embodied female experience – Sharon Green
• Activating the transcendent function through EMDR & Homeopathy and psychic transformation in analysis – Honor Griffith & Anita Barzman
• Transcendent function in Melville’s Moby Dick – Steven Herrmann
• The enigmatic signifier – Ladson Hinton
• The self in contemporary conceptual art – Michael Horne
• Transcendent function in treatment of women in pre- and postnatal periods – J. Lee
• The Pledge & The Straight Story: family and the transcendent function – J. Palmer
• Contact barrier & the transference – Barry Proner
• True & false imagination – Patrizia Michan
• Treatment of psychosomatic disorders – Denise Ramos & Richard Kradin
• The myth of analysis: symbols, spirit & substance – Susan Rowland
• Symbolic objects, gifts & talismans in analysis – Joy Schaverien & Warren Colman
• Silence: descending to the nothingness – Megumi Yama

REGISTRATION
Registration will begin at 08.30 on Friday 29th May and the conference will start at 09.15 and end at 12.30 on Sunday 31st May.

VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION
The Conference venue is the Hotel Kabuki, Japantown, San Francisco. Participation does not mean necessarily staying at the Kabuki. However, a small room block has been secured and so limited accommodation is available there at special rates through the Journal; allocation will be on a first come, first served basis. A list of other hotels in the area, covering a range of prices, is available on request.

FEE
- Including accommodation for 3 nights (28th, 29th, 30th May 2009) at Hotel Kabuki with breakfast, admission to all lectures and discussions, with refreshments and dinner on the 30th and brunch on Sunday 31st May 2009:

Single: £650/$1280 pre-31st March 2009 / £675/$1325 post-30th 2009
Double: £930/$1820 pre-31st March 2009 / £960/$1870 post-30th March 2009
[Accommodation availability at the Kabuki is limited, so early booking is advised.]

- Without accommodation and including admission to all lectures and discussions, with refreshments and dinner on the 30th and brunch on Sunday 31st May 2009

Per Participant: £320/$630 pre-31st March 2009 / £350/$680 post-30th March 2009

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Participants will be eligible for Continuing Professional Development Certifiactes / Continuing Education Credits.

Conference Registration Form

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CANCELLATIONS
Cancellations will be accepted up to 31st March 2009 with a refund less a US $120/£60 administrative fee. No refunds will be made after that date.