BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:250@thesap.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250614T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250614T180000 DTSTAMP:20250317T143015Z URL:https://www.thesap.org.uk/events/integrity-in-analytic-work/ SUMMARY:Integrity in Analytic Work DESCRIPTION:with Dr John Beebe\n\n16:00 – 18:00 London\n\n(17:00 Paris\, Berlin\, Warsaw\; 11:00 New York\; 08:00 San Francisco)\n\nThe Journal of Analytical Psychology is pleased to offer an online (Zoom) workshop\, led by Dr John Beebe. Part of the work of an analyst is to help clients see th at it is possible to negotiate ambiguous\, conflictual situations without doing unnecessary harm. In this seminar\, John Beebe will discuss with par ticipants how the analyst’s integrity is also challenged within the anal ytical relationship itself and point out some stars we can steer by in the darker waters of deep work\, when complexes emerge on both sides of the i nteraction.\n\nThis seminar will build upon insights to be found in John ’s 1992 book\, Integrity in Depth\, which suggest how integrity applies to the way we work with patients in Jungian analysis. There he points out that for an analysis to be lastingly therapeutic\, it will often have to d epend upon the degree to which integrity is able to emerge and be felt on both sides of the therapeutic interaction. The following passages from his book remind us that this can still happen even when the field of the anal ytic relationship is also\, as in other human interactions\, shadowed by c omplexes stubbornly taking up defensive positions:\n\n…The dialectic of integrity depends\, as Socrates knew\, upon an endless self-questioning\, driven by an uneasiness at the core of the questioner. In the language of psychoanalysis\, this uneasiness is both signal anxiety\, telling us the s elf is in danger\, and separation anxiety\, indicating that a vital relati onship is at risk. It is the sign of an unconscious perception of separati on from the self. Pursuing this uneasiness is the most frequent way that w e stumble upon the fact that there is something there to lose….\n\nThe r eality of the shadow provides ample occasion for such anxiety. Jung once s ummarized the findings of depth psychology in an arresting image\, when he pointed out that any of the individual complexes of our unbidden emotiona l life—greed\, ambition\, lust\, resentment—can “set up a shadow gov ernment of the ego”. What Jung calls a shadow government of the ego\, th e psychoanalyst Leo Rangell has called a compromise of integrity\, pointin g to the superego failure involved. Because of the continuous activity of the complexes\, integrity cannot survive without an attitude of vigilance\ , and we are always\, in effect\, restoring our integrity from some attemp t at compromise. For this reason\, Confucius\, like Socrates\, urged that we continually question ourselves.\n\nYet many of us find it irritating to sustain the vigil. It is hard not to resent the anxiety that is integrity ’s method. Who wants to heed a warning light that is always going on in the control panel of the car? It is easier to assume that the signal is wr ong—a sign of immaturity\, fatigue\, or “mental illness”. More peopl e today label and treat integrity’s signal with this quasi-medical think ing than ever before. They need perhaps to consider that the part of ourse lves that worries may be the healthy part\, the strength of our moral fibe r. When this part suffers anxiety\, the signal is not wrong\, it is tellin g us that our integrity is somehow at risk.\n\n…Our moral sense seems be st to express itself nowadays in symptoms like shame and anxiety\, and psy chotherapy has been right to realize that we need to befriend these sympto ms of integrity with the attention and respect that is their due.\n\n exc erpts from Integrity in Depth\,\n\nTexas A&\;M University Press. (pp. 3 4–35\, 40\, 69)\n\nOne of John’s aims in this workshop will be to expl ore with analytical colleagues how similar insights of their own can effec tively guide the way moral and ethical questions that hover over a therape utic analysis are taken up so that they may be faced and consciously lived within the analytical relationship. There\, the patient is already able t o feel\, and should be freed to discuss\, the limitations as well as the m oral strengths of the analytical process. The quality of the therapeutic i nteraction that ensues can then bear its own witness to the ethical charac ter of the process\, so that analyst and analysand alike will begin to fin d\, with enthusiasm and moral creativity\, an integrity in the analytical enterprise that releases this part of its healing potential from the shado w of suspicion.\n\nJOHN BEEBE\, MD\, analyst\, author\, editor\, and teach er\, is a past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco\, an d also on its teaching faculty. Lecturing on many topics in analytical psy chology\, including typology\, dreams\, and the individuation of integrity has taken him in person and over the internet to Jungian training centres in North and South America\, Western and Eastern Europe\, the Middle East \, Africa\, and Asia. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Ps ychiatric Association\, and the author of Integrity in Depth and Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness.\n\nCos t: £65\n\nA concessionary rate of £45 is available for candidates in tra ining/routers and students.\n\nFees can only be refunded (less 25% adminis tration charge) if a written notice of cancellation is received no less th an 14 days before the event. No refund can be made after that time. 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