Linda Carter, MSN, CS, IAAP

Linda Carter is a Jungian analyst and psychiatric-mental health nurse clinical specialist in private practice in Carpinteria, California. A third-generation nurse from a medical family, she regards the two vocations as a single identity: her work as an analyst is, in her own words, “inseparable from identity as a psychiatric-mental health nurse.” She has been in clinical practice since 1978, working with children, adolescents and adults, and continues to write, teach, supervise and present internationally.

Professional Profile

Linda Carter, MSN, CS, IAAP, has practised in New England and, since moving west, in Carpinteria, California, with a longstanding private practice in both Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts, behind her. Her work brings together analytical psychology, psychoanalytically oriented infant research, neuroscience, psychoanalysis and art. Her theoretical grounding in Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) and theories of emergence have been central to her thinking since graduate school at Yale in 1976; this view of interaction and resonant pattern match, no matter the scale, has strongly influenced her approach to analytic practice and writing as well as her leadership and project development for the Art and Psyche Working Group (since 2008).

She is active internationally as a teacher, supervisor, analyst and presenter, with sustained commitments to the IAAP router programme in China and to conferences and training programmes across Europe and the United States.

Education and Clinical Training

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1976.
• Master of Science in Nursing, Yale University, 1978, in the Child and Family Mental Health Program.
• Diploma graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute–Boston, admitted to the International Association for Analytical Psychology in 1997.
• Extensive training in Sandplay Therapy some forty years ago with Edith Sullwold, Director of the Hilde Kirsch Children’s Center at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, who had herself trained with Dora Kalff in Zurich. Carter has practised, taught and written about the method, particularly with traumatised people who have no words for their experiences.
• Seven years of personal psychoanalysis with a Kohutian psychiatrist, five of them concurrent with her Jungian training.
• Ongoing training in psychopharmacology. Although eligible, she has chosen not to seek DEA certification to prescribe as a nurse practitioner, preferring psychotherapy.
• She also has seven years’ experience in the therapeutic use of ketamine. With the Jungian analyst, psychiatrist and anaesthesiologist Joseph McFadden she has developed the “combination method,” the use of ketamine as an adjunct to analytic treatment, published in Psychedelics and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts (2024) and presented at the joint IAAP/Pacifica conference (2023). From their observations as peer supervisors, ketamine “anesthetizes” the dominant “trauma complex” making other aspects more accessible for analytic engagement.

Early Career

Carter’s clinical formation was in child and family mental health, in inpatient and community settings across Massachusetts and Rhode Island:

• Psychotherapist, Children’s Services, West-Ros-Park Mental Health Center, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1978–1979.
• Psychotherapist, Framingham Youth Guidance Center, Framingham, Massachusetts, 1979–1981.
• On-call Staff Nurse, Inpatient Child Psychiatry, New England Memorial Hospital, Stoneham, Massachusetts, 1979–1983.
• Nursing Coordinator, Child Mental Health Unit, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, 1981–1983, responsible for staff and patients on an eight-bed inpatient diagnostic unit for children from infancy to the age of fifteen.
• Psychotherapist, Pastoral Counseling Center of Greater Providence, Rhode Island, 1983–1985.
• Consultant, Rhode Island Hospice, weekly support group for nursing teams, 1992–1996.
• Consultant, Carmelite Monastery, Barrington, Rhode Island, 1993–1998.

Private Practice

Carter has been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 1984 and as a Jungian analyst since 1997, first in Providence, Rhode Island, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts and now in Carpinteria, California. Her practice has encompassed all ages including infants and parents, children, adolescents and adults, with an emphasis on depth psychology and on symbolic work through image, story and art.

Teaching and Supervision

China

Carter has worked intensively with Chinese candidates through the IAAP router programme from 2015 to the present, as analyst, supervisor, examiner, teacher and conference presenter, in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Dali as well as online. Before the pandemic she travelled to China for a month each year, seeing supervisees and analysands two hours a day so that candidates could accumulate the face-to-face hours the IAAP required prior to Covid. She has led an ongoing supervision group, the “Mushrooms,” since 2022.

Europe

Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Switzerland. She has presented at many IAAP congresses including Cambridge, UK; Barcelona, Spain; Cape Town, South Africa; Montreal, Canada, Copenhagen, Denmark; Kyoto, Japan; Vienna, Austria and Zurich.

United States

• Adjunct Faculty, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014–2020, teaching across programmes and bringing together Complex Adaptive Systems theory, neuroscience, infant research, depth psychology and art.
• Visiting Analyst, C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, January 2019.
• Visiting Analyst, C.G. Jung Institute–Boston, May 2019.
• Teaching and seminars for the C.G. Jung Institute–Boston, the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association of New York, the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, the C.G. Jung Society of Atlanta, the C.G. Jung Society of New Orleans, the Seattle Jung Society, the Rhode Island Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (Division 39, APA), the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Educators and the New York Center for Jungian Studies, among other national and international groups.

Editorial Work

Carter has held three successive positions at the Journal of Analytical Psychology, the London-based clinical journal:

• US Book Review Editor, 2006–2010.
• US Editor-in-Chief, March 2010–2015.
• US Editor, Film and Culture Section, 2018–2021.

She has also served as:

• Editorial Board, The Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, 2005–present.
• Editorial Board, Enkelados, the Italian Jungian journal, 2010–present.
• Editor, ARAS Connections, the online journal of the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism.
• Consulting Editor, The Jungian Journal of Theory and Practice, 2006.
• Editor and curator, “Art in a Time of Global Crisis: Interconnection and Companionship,” 2020.
• Co-Editor with Jan Wiener, special issue on child analysis, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2022.
• Freelance editor, 2015–present.

Her editorial work sits at the meeting point of clinical practice, culture and the arts — a position her essays on Matisse and Picasso, Leonardo, Pierro della Francesca, Bill Viola, Richard Blanco, Sanae Kawai and the Spielrein literature make explicit.

Art and Psyche

Carter is Founder and Chair of the Art and Psyche Working Group, established in 2008, an organisation that develops and produces conferences and projects bringing members of the arts communities together with psychoanalytic communities worldwide for creative, emergent experiences. It has mounted four international conferences, the fourth of these, The Illuminated Imagination, at the University of California, Santa Barbara in April 2019. Like her writing, all of the Working Group’s projects are grounded in Complex Adaptive Systems thinking. A short history of the group appears in her 2018 Film and Culture essay for the Journal of Analytical Psychology.

In 2020 she initiated and designed a daily image service outreach project, “Art in a Time of Global Crisis: Interconnection and Companionship,” developed and curated by Art and Psyche and produced in part by partnership between the Art and Psyche Working Group and the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS). The intention was to reduce isolation and to offer accompaniment for the general public who could sign up free of charge and receive an image and commentary 5 days a week via the ARAS mailing list. Fifty offerings, selected from over 100 international contributors, were published between April 2020 and June 2020 and continue to remain available in a virtual gallery on the ARAS website: https://aras.org/special-feature/art-time-crisis

Carter, as the primary editor and curator, worked in collaboration with the Art and Psyche Working Group as an emergent system that, in retrospect used a kind of “group active imagination and amplification” method to tune into what might meet and match the needs of viewers during that difficult period in our history. On May 12, 2020, the bicentenary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, she added her own brief reflections honoring her grandmother, who was a nursing student during The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920, along with giving thanks to all frontline caregivers to that date.

In addition, for the Journal of Analytical Psychology (2021), she commissioned and edited essays by six international Jungian analysts who were editorial board members called “Empathy and Aesthetics in Titanic Times.” In her introduction to the essays, she noted the following: “The hope is that through art, image, and metaphor, threads of commonality and difference will emerge and help create a network of plural perspectives, opening our community to an expanding worldview…through art.”

Theoretical Contribution

Complex Adaptive Systems and emergence run through the whole of Carter’s work, profoundly influencing her commitment to here-and-now engagement in the present moment. Since 1978, she has followed the psychoanalytically oriented infant researchers whose studies are grounded in CAS and who have applied their empirical findings to adult treatment; these clinician/researchers include Stern, Beebe, Sander, Trevarthen, Tronick and the Boston Change Process Study Group. Between 2001 and 2021 she undertook twenty years of case consultation with Columbia University based psychoanalyst and infant researcher Beatrice Beebe, focusing on countertransference, nonverbal communication and bidirectional influence. Beebe supported Carter’s life’s work which has focused on integrating ideas from analytical psychology with infant research, psychoanalysis, neuroscience and the arts. “Amazing Grace,” which she wrote in an inspired four days, marked the conclusion of their life-changing collaboration.

Her 2008 paper on bidirectional influence in the Matisse/Picasso relationship was the first to bring analytical psychology, infant research and art together in this way, and everything since has extended that weave.

Carter is currently writing a clinical book based on her “Three-tiered Systems Model of Interaction and Mutual Influence,” a synthetic account that treats art as a form of amplification and that revisits Jung’s methods of amplification and active imagination in the light of perspectives from across fields, as noted above. She offers a window into this model: “As with a mandala, I have put together a three-dimensional model that is useful clinically and in teaching because it maps out correspondences within and between systems, and is a way of seeing into often invisible, hard to grasp energies that shape and influence not only psychotherapy but life itself.” Further, she says, “Each individual is a system, embedded within concentric circles of multi-directional influence with ongoing movement of energy, from neuronal microcosms to macrocosmic constellations and back again. We can look at the details of a specific personal dyadic interaction, the intrapsychic interrelationships of dream figures, and locate similar patterns embedded within mythological motifs, works of art, or large group behaviors. Each affectively conveys corresponding universal human struggles. Jung himself was a systems thinker. He states, ‘Even the most individual systems are not absolutely unique, but offer striking and unmistakable analogies with other systems’ (1914/1915/1972, para. 413). This is the guiding principle behind his method of amplification and one that resonates with current day ideas about self-similar patterns as observed in present moments, present moments of the past and present moments of the mythic past.”

The model was initially set out in two companion pieces: The first one, “The Flux and Flow of Free-Play and Paradox” (2022) discusses a clinical case as embedded within our global culture where free-play is rapidly diminishing to the detriment of all; followed by a more theoretical paper called “Going the Full Circle: From Microcosm to Macrocosm and Back again…” (2023) that provides an image of the “Three-tiered System” accompanied by an explication of its interwoven elements. For the 70^th Anniversary of the Journal of Analytical Psychology conference (November 2025), Carter presented an abbreviated version of this systems approach that includes the small-scale nonverbal implicit layer along with the transference/countertransference layer and the large-scale mythopoetic layer held together metaphorically by Hermes and Hestia. She has used these theoretical ideas as an axis for teaching and supervising candidates and as a launch point for expanding therapeutic awareness of nonverbal communications which shape all verbal content, including transference and countertransference dynamics throughout the lifespan.

For the April 2026 IAAP Bulletin, Carter offered a piece, “Image and Non-image: Waiting on the Precipice of Uncertainty” that considered Jung’s courageous capacity to seek expansion in the face of probable childhood trauma. She affirms Jung’s deeply held belief in the fundamental necessity of the religious function of the psyche as essential for any true healing.

Most recently at the XXIII International Congress of Analytical Psychology, Zurich (2026), in “The Emergence of Play and Creative Imagination through Slowing Down and Doing Nothing: From Neuroscience to the Arts,” she brought together systems views with neurobiological research about the value of “doing nothing” as conducive for optimal creative brain functioning in the default mode network. She used the slow-motion video art of Bill Viola as means to reveal and “amplify” the rapidly moving nonverbal affective patterns that are usually outside conscious awareness become more apparent. Similarities to the slow motion micro-processed infant research videos were emphasized. By slowing down, a co-created field between mother and baby or the emotional interactions amongst characters in an artistic drama such as Viola’s The Greeting come into consciousness. Shifting from focused conscious attention to free and open time and space for playful meanderings opens opportunities for healthy restoration and novel manifestations. Patterns previously overlooked move from “fuzziness” to “specificity. Art such as Viola’s potentially expands awareness of subtle cues, affective expressions and states of match and non-match (essential for all human relationships from birth onward.).

Collaborations

Carter describes herself as drawn to collaborative, emergent projects. Alongside the Art and Psyche Working Group, she has worked since 2019 with the psychoanalyst and historian Billy Brennan, a Ferenczi scholar, on the early development and practice of active imagination; meets regularly with Caterina Vezzoli to discuss art and analytical psychology; and maintains a peer supervision relationship with Joseph McFadden around shared interests in Bion, pharmacology and psychoanalysis. Brennan and Vezzoli are both core members of the Art and Psyche Working Group.

Awards and Honours

• 1976 Georgetown University School of Nursing Leadership Prize; Dean’s List; Sigma Theta Tau, National Nursing Honor Society.
• 2019 Gradiva Award, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP), art category, for the exhibition The Illuminated Imagination: The Art of C.G. Jung.
• 2021 Gradiva Award, NAAP, digital media category, for “Art in a Time of Global Crisis: Interconnection and Companionship.”
• 2022 Gradiva Award nominee, best article category, for “Amazing Grace,” Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche.

Professional Affiliations and Credentials

• Jungian Analyst, Certified Diplomate, International Association for Analytical Psychology, 1997.
• Dual American Nurses Association certification for the practice of psychotherapy: Child and Adolescent Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist, and Adult Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist.
• Registered Nurse and Clinical Nurse Specialist, California Board of Registered Nurses; Registered Nurse and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Clinical Specialist, Rhode Island Department of Health.
• Founder and Chair, Art and Psyche Working Group.
• Founding Member, Jungian Psychoanalytic Association.
• New England Society of Jungian Analysts.
• C.G. Jung Institute–Boston, Admissions Committee, 2003–2006.
• Roazen Group for Psychoanalytic History.
• American Nurses’ Association; California State Nurses’ Association.

Community Outreach

In May and June 2017, following the fire, flood and mudslide disasters in the region, Carter planned, organised and supervised storytelling and expressive arts support groups for children at the Boys’ and Girls’ Club in Carpinteria, delivered by Pacifica students.

Personal

Carter’s sense of vocation reaches back through her family. The short essay she wrote for the Nightingale bicentenary turns on her grandmother’s experience as a student nurse during the 1919 pandemic, and her 2025 essay for Hektoen International considers Agatha Christie’s nursing during the First World War. An interest in art has been with her since childhood.

She is a practising Quaker and finds in Meeting the same principle that organises her clinical and theoretical work: “an emergent process of spiritual flow within the group sitting for meditation.”

For the past eleven years she has lived quietly in Carpinteria, in a house with a garden by the Pacific — something close to a hermit’s life, as she puts it, and a paradox she is happy to acknowledge in someone so drawn to collaborative work. After forty-six years she remains, in her own words, passionate about analytical psychology and grateful for its ongoing and unfolding presence in her life, professional and personal.

Research and Publications

Carter, L. 2000a. Journal Review: “The Analyst’s Personality: Winnicott analyzing Guntrip as a Case in Point” by Margaret Crastnopol. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 45:3, p. 487.

Carter, L. 2000b. Book Review: Why Did Freud Reject God? A Psychodynamic Interpretation by Ana-Maria Rizzuto. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 45:4, 651-652.

Carter, L. 2001. “Night Terrors: A Titanic Experience,” Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress for Analytical Psychology, Cambridge, UK. Daimon Verlag: Einsiedeln, Switzerland.

Carter, L. 2003. Journal Review: “Some Contributions of Empirical Infant Research to Adult Psychoanalysis. What Have We Learned?” by Frank Lachmann. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 48:4, 130-134.

Cambray, J. and Carter, L. (Eds.) 2004. Analytical Psychology, Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Analysis. New York: Brunner-Routledge.

Cambray, J. and Carter, L. 2004. “Analytic Methods Revisited.” In Analytical Psychology, Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Analysis, Eds. J. Cambray and L. Carter. New York: Brunner-Routledge.

Carter, L. 2008a. Book Review: The Neurobehavioral and Social-Emotional Development of Infants and Children by Ed Tronick. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 53(1), 136-140.

Carter, L. 2008b. “Reflections on Bidirectional Influence in the Matisse/Picasso Relationship and in Clinical Practice from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective (CAS).” Quadrant, 38(1), 2008.

Carter, L. and Vezzoli, C. 2008. Book Review: Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 by C. G. Jung edited by Lorenz Jung and Maria Meyer-Grass. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 53:5, 714-719.

Carter, L. 2009a “Reflections on Bidirectionality of Influence in the Matisse/Picasso Relationship and in Clinical Practice from a Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) Perspective.” ARAS title: “Matisse, Picasso, and Intertwined Psyches.” See: ARAS Connections: Image and archetype, Issue 1. https://aras.org/newsletters/aras-connections-image-and-archetype-2009-issue-1

Carter, L. 2009b. “Archetypal Perspectives in Art and Analytic Interaction,” Journeys-Encounters: Clinical, Communal, Cultural Proceedings for the Seventeenth International IAAP Congress for Analytical Psychology, Cape Town, South Africa.

Carter, L. 2010a. “Countertransference and Intersubjectivity.” In Jungian Psychoanalysis, Ed. M. Stein. Chicago: Open Court Press.

Carter, L. 2010b. “The Transcendent Function, Moments of Meeting and Dyadic Consciousness: Constructive and Destructive Co-creation in the Analytic Dyad,” Journal of Analytical Psychology, 55 (2).

Carter, L. 2010c. “Amplification as a Form of Cross-Modal Matching in Early Relational Trauma and Disorganized Attachment.” In Dialghi D’Infanzia, Ed. F. Bisagni. Torino, Italy: Anitigone Edizioni.

Carter, L. 2010d. “Night Terrors: A Titanic Experience Considered from Science, Art and Psychology.” In Sacral Revolutions, Ed. G. Heurer. London and New York: Routledge.

Carter, L. 2011a. “A Jungian Contribution to a Dynamic Systems Understanding of Disorganized Attachment.” Journal of Analytical Psychology, 56:3, 334-340.

Carter, L. 2011b. Book Review: The Dictionary of Symbols by Ed.-in-Chief, A. Ronnberg and Ed., K. Martin. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 56:5, 717.

Carter, L. 2015. Book Review: Martha’s Mandala by Patty Oliver Smith. ARAS Connections.

Carter, L. 2016. Book Review: Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis, 2^nd Edition by Eds. C. Covington and B. Wharton and Sex versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein by J. Launer. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 61:4, 522-527.

Carter, L. (2016). “Art and Intersubjectivity,” The Unconscious Roots of Creativity. Ed. K. Madden. Asheville, NC: Chiron.

Carter, L. 2017. Book Review: Structure and Continuity in Clinical Prose: A Writer’s Guide for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists by S. Naiburg, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 62:1, 166-167.

Carter, L. 2018. Film and Culture Essay: “Art and Psyche: The Illuminated Imagination.” Journal of Analytical Psychology, 63 (5), 688-691.

Carter, L. 2019. “Jung as Craftsman.” In The Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul Under Post-Modern Conditions, Vol. 3. Eds. M. Stein and T. Arzt. Asheville, NC: Chiron Publications.

Carter, L. 2020. Film and Culture Review: “Sarah, Sabina, Gradiva: Three Women ‘Splendid in Walking.'” Companions piece to: “Sabina Spielrein: Her extraordinary destiny,” written and performed by S. Berry-Tschinkel. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 65:2, 431-439.

Carter, L. 2020. Special Edition: In Celebration of Nurses and Caregivers Worldwide. Tuesday, May 12^th, the 200 Anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s Birthday. Art in a Time of Global Crisis: Interconnection and Companionship Project.

Carter, L. 2021a. “Introduction: Empathy and Aesthetics in Titanic Times” and editor for this collaborative overview including the following authors: Schmitt, A. and Wahba, L. L.: Shen, H; Wimmer, R.; Michan, P. G.: Melik-Akhnazarova, K.; Zabriski, B. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 66, 2, 345–361.

Carter, L. May 12, 2021b. “Art in a Time of Global Crisis: Interconnection and Companionship Project: In Celebration of Nurses and Caregivers.” Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association. https://pgiaa.org/special-topics/voices/special-edition-daily-image-in-celebration-of-nurses-and-caregivers-worldwide/ (Expansion of daily image project posting)

Carter, L. 2021c. “Amazing Grace,” Jung Journal, 15:3, 6-35. To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19342039.2021.1942753

Carter, L. 2022. “Richard Blanco: The Luminescence of Poets and Fireflies.” Journal of Analytical Psychology, 67:2.

Carter, L. 2022. “The Flux and Flow of Free-Play and Paradox,” Journal of Analytical Psychology, 67:4.

Carter, L. 2023a. “Going the Full Circle: Pattern Resonance from Microcosmic interactions to Macrocosmic Amplifications,” Jung’s Red Book for Our Time, Volume V, Eds., M. Stein and T. Artz. Asheville, NC: Chiron.

Carter, L. 2023b. Book Review: The Psychological Effects of Immigrating: A Depth Psychological Perspective on Relocating to a New Place by R. Tyminski. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 68, 2.

Carter, L. 2023c. “Balancing Weight, Wings and Wind,” (S. Buser and L. Cruz). “Balancing Weight, Wings and Wind.” In Individuation Psychology: Essays in Honor of Murray Stein. Eds. S. Buser and L. Cruz. Asheville, NC: Chiron Publications.

Carter, L. and McFadden, I. J. 2024. “The Combination Method: Use of Ketamine as an Adjunct to Analytic Treatment,” Psychedelics and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts, Eds. L. A. Stein and L. Corbett. Asheville, NC: Chiron.

Carter, L. 2024. “Response to Sanae Kawai’s Ripples of Physis,” Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, Vol. 18, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1080/19342039.2024.2377045

Carter, L. 2025a. “Agatha Christie: Nurse,” Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities, Winter 2025.

Carter, L. 2025b. “The Emergence of Play and Creative Imagination through Slowing Down and Doing Nothing: From Neuroscience to the Arts, Experiences of the non-understandable: Jungian explorations and contributions,” XXIII International Congress of Analytical Psychology IAAP Congress Proceedings, Daimon-Verlag, Einsiedeln, Switzerland.

Carter, L. April 2026. “Image and Non-image: Waiting on the Precipice of Uncertainty,” IAAP Bulletin.

Presentations

Carter, L. 2001. “Night Terrors: A Titanic Experience,” Fifteenth International Congress for Analytical Psychology, Cambridge, UK.

Carter, L. 2004. A Response to John Haule on “Archetypal Memory and the Darwinian Paradigm.” Edges of Experience: Memory and Emergence, Sixteenth International IAAP Congress for Analytical Psychology, Barcelona, Spain.

Carter, L. 2006. “Sandplay and Psychotic Process: Re-emergence of the Self.” Psyche: Ethics and Wisdom, Third International Conference of Analytical Psychology and Chinese Culture, Guangzhou, China.

Carter, L. 2007a. “The Influence of Implicit Processes within Dynamic Systems as evident in the Matisse/Picasso Relationship and Clinical Practice.” Centro Italiano di Psicologia Analitica, Milan Italy.

Carter, L. 2007b. “Archetypal Perspectives in Art and Analytic Interaction.” Journeys-Encounters: Clinical, Communal, Cultural, Seventeenth International IAAP Congress for Analytical Psychology, Cape Town, South Africa.

Carter, L. 2008. “Archetypal Images and the Emergent self, Following Early Relational Trauma,” The Body from -1 to 6 Years: Drive, Phantasy, Emergence, First International Congress, Interschool Forum on Child Analysis, Milan, Italy.

Carter, L. 2009a. “Active Imagination, Trauma and Sandplay.” The Image in Jungian Analysis: Active Imagination as a Transformative Function in Culture and Psychotherapy, Fourth International Conference of Analytical Psychology and Chinese Culture, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Carter, L. 2009b. “The Transcendent Function, Moments of Meeting, and Dyadic Consciousness: Constructive and Destructive Co-creation in the Analytic Dyad.” The Journal of Analytical Psychology, IX International Conference, The Transcendent Function Today: Imagination and Psychic Transformation in Analysis. Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco, CA.

Carter, L., Samuels, A. Sedgwick, D. 2012. “The Analyst is as Much ‘in the Analysis’ as the Patient.” International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 10^th International Conference, New York, New York.

Carter, L. 2013a. “Art and the Intersubjective Experience.” Journal of Analytical Psychology Conference, Intersubjectivity and Attachment, Boston, MA.

Carter L. July 27, 2013b. “Art and Psyche: A Case Study with Amplification from Art, Science and Memory.” Ashville Webinar.

Carter, L. 2016a. “From Andre Green’s ‘Dead Mother Complex’ to the ‘Dead Child Complex’ as Evident in Mothers Whose Children are Mentally Ill or Drug Addicted.” IAAP International Congress, Kyoto, Japan.

Carter, L. 2016b. “The Handshake,” The Lifson Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Conference, Boston, MA.

Carter, L. 2018. “Hands in the Sand,” Eighth International Conference on Analytical Psychology and Chinese Culture, Xian, China.

Carter, L. 2019a. Respondent to Raphael Ornstein’s “Healing the Psychic Split: The Process of Working Through,” The Lifson, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Conference, Boston, MA.

Carter, L. 2019b. “The Importance of Free Play and Paradox for the Emergence of Imagination and Creativity.” IAAP International Congress, Vienna, Austria.

Carter, L. 2020. “Art and Psyche: Jung’s Method of Amplification for Meeting the Soul.” Seattle Jung Society, Seattle WA.

Carter, L. 2021a. “Dreams, Amplification and Art.” Round Table Discussion, Red Book: Women’s Dreams Transformed into Art Guided by a Jungian Perspective, Sponsored by the LA Mexican Consulate.

Carter, L. April 3, 2021b. “On Longings for Protection,” Vision 2021: IFPE Virtual Conference, International Forum for Psychoanalytic Educators.

Carter, L. 2021c. “Seeing Through to Resonant Patterns from Microcosm to Macrocosm…and Back: Longings for Protection.” Rhode Island Association for Psychoanalytic Psychologies: Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association.

Carter, L. June 6, 2021d. “The Nurse Archetype: Wounded Healer with a Thousand Faces.” Pacifica Graduate Institute, Retreat Center, Online program specifically for nurses.

Carter, L. 2021e. Jung’s Method of Active Imagination and Amplification with Reflections on The Red Book: Clinical Applications.” Memphis/Atlanta Seminar, Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.

Carter, L. 2021f. “Art and Psyche: Expressive Arts Therapy and Depth Psychology Healing.” 12th National Conference of Analytical Psychology and Sandplay Therapy. Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, November (26-28) 2021.

Carter, L. 2022a. “Imitating Jung, Going the Full Circle: Pattern Resonance from Microcosmic Interactions to Macrocosmic Amplifications” presented at the Eranos Conference, Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul in the 21st Century, Ascona, Switzerland, April 28-May 2022.

Carter, L. 2022b. “Reflections on Child Therapy,” Poland Child Therapy Training Program, Online.

Carter, L. 2023a. “Amazing Grace” presented for the Art, Psyche and the Creative Imagination program, The Technological University of Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUS), Limerick, Ireland.

Carter, L. 2023b. “Dreaming and Art-making: Paths of Expression, Healing and Transformation,” Psyheart Group, China.

Carter, L. 2023c. “Meeting the Soul through Art and Interaction,” The C. G. Jung Society of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA.

Carter, L. 2023d. “Tracking the Mystery of the Transcendent Function and The Mysteries of Transcending Processes,” Transcendent Function Conference for CIPA-Sicily Candidates and Analysts, Palermo, Italy.

Carter, L. 2023e. “Art and Psyche: Heartfelt Influence and Transformation, the Centrality of Free-Play. Heartfelt Influence and Transformation, the Wisdom of I Ching and Analytical Psychology, The Centrality of Free-Play. Qingdao, China.

Carter, L. 2023f. “The Combination Method: Use of Ketamine as an Adjunct to Analytic Treatment” Psychedelics and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts. Book launch and conference sponsored by Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA.

Carter, L. 2024a. “New Perspectives in Post-Bionian Theory by Giuseppe Civitaresse: Response from a Post-Jungian View,” Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP), Boston, MA.

Carter, L. 2024b. “Concentric Circles of Influence: Knowing Through Play & the Arts,” Jung in Ireland: Dreams, Synchronicity and Other Non-Verbal Pathways to Healing, Galway, Ireland.

Carter, L. 2024c. “Ketamine and Analytic Process: The Combination Method,” Psychedelics and Psychology, Centre for Applied Jungian Studies and Jungian Mystery School, Zurich, Switzerland.

Carter, L. 2024d. “Response to Sanae Kawai’s Film: Ripples of Physis,” Donors’ Lecture, The C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

Carter, L. 2024e. “What Constitutes a Jungian Approach to Clinical Work?” Clinical Evening, The Jungian Association of Psychoanalysis, New York, NY.

Carter, L. 2025a. “The Emergence of Play and Creative Imagination through Slowing Down and Doing Nothing: From Neuroscience to the Arts,” C. G. Jung Society of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA.

Carter, L. 2025b. “Going the Full Circle: Pattern Resonance from Microcosmic Interactions to Macrocosmic Amplifications,” Budapest, Hungary 2025.

Carter, L. 2025c. “The Emergence of Play and Creative Imagination through Slowing Down and Doing Nothing: From Neuroscience to the Arts, Experiences of the non-understandable: Jungian explorations and contributions,” XXIII International Congress of Analytical Psychology, Zurich, Switzerland.

Carter, L. 2025d. “Pattern Resonance and Disruption from Microcosm to Macrocosm and Back Again…” Panel: The Role of Affectivity, Implicit Memory and Attachment. Controversies and Contemporary Trends in Analytical Psychology: JAP 70^th Anniversary Online Conference.

Carter, L. 2025e. “Myths, Legends, Fairytales and Jung’s Method of Clinical Amplification,” The Knowledge of the Heart: The Symbolism and Significance of Myths and Fairy Tales in Analytical Psychology, Psyheart, China.

Carter, L. 2026a. “Odin’s Ravens: Learning to Carry Grief and Sorrow on One Shoulder and Joy and Pleasure on the Other,” Facing Mortality and the Unknown, Jung in Ireland, County Kilkenny, Ireland. New York Center for Jungian Studies.

Carter, L. 2026b. “The Value of “Doing Nothing to Open Creative Process,” Facing Mortality and the Unknown, Jung in Ireland, County Kilkenny, Ireland. New York Center for Jungian Studies.

Carter, L. 2026c. “Art and Psyche: Clinical Practice using the ‘Three-tiered Systems Model of Interaction'” Contemporary Analytical Psychology and Neo-Jungian Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute Extension Program.