In this four-part lecture series we will revisit and reconsider the work of four seminal figures in the history of Jungian scholarship and research: Erich Neumann, Marie-Louise von Franz, Michael Fordham, and James Hillman. Four visionary scholars and clinicians who “dreamed the dream on” and who each made an invaluable contribution to depth psychology and our understanding of the psyche.
April 2023: Erich Neumann
July 2023: Marie-Louise von Franz
September-October 2023: Michael Fordham
November 2023: James Hillman
Each module includes three lectures, reading material, and a live student seminar.
In this four-part lecture series we will revisit and reconsider the work of four seminal figures in the history of Jungian scholarship and research: Erich Neumann, Marie-Louise von Franz, Michael Fordham, and James Hillman. Four visionary scholars and clinicians who “dreamed the dream on” and who each made an invaluable contribution to depth psychology and our understanding of the psyche.
April 2023: Erich Neumann
July 2023: Marie-Louise von Franz
September-October 2023: Michael Fordham
November 2023: James Hillman
Each module includes three lectures, reading material, and a live student seminar.
Michael Scott Montague Fordham (4 August 1905 – 14 April 1995) was a British child psychiatrist, co-editor of Carl Jung’s Collected Works in English and founder of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. During his lifetime, he became instrumental in the dissemination of Jungian ideas throughout post-war Britain, while his pioneering research into infancy and childhood led to a new understanding of the self and its relations with the ego. His most radical departure from Jung was to describe the actions of the self in infancy and childhood such that the infant, far from being uncentred at birth, as Jung originally thought, is a person with an individual identity. Part of Fordham’s legacy is to have shown that the self in its unifying characteristics can transcend the apparently opposing forces that congregate in it and that while engaged in the struggle, it can be exceedingly disruptive both destructively and creatively.
Course details:
This program includes 1 pre-recorded lecture available on registration with all relevant reading materials, plus 1 Live Lecture on Sunday, October 8th, 2023, at 6 pm Johannesburg, 5 pm London, 12 noon New York, and 1 live student seminar that takes place on Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 6 pm Johannesburg, 5 pm London, 12:00 noon New York. Both the live lecture and the seminar will be recorded for students who are unable to attend.
Fees: Each course is US150, or buy all 4 Masters Series at US 450 (save US150)
Faculty:
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3 Presentations and 1 Student Seminar:
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All recorded lectures remain available for 12-months after the programme.
Certificate of Completion
Michael Scott Montague Fordham (4 August 1905 – 14 April 1995) was a British child psychiatrist, co-editor of Carl Jung’s Collected Works in English and founder of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. During his lifetime, he became instrumental in the dissemination of Jungian ideas throughout post-war Britain, while his pioneering research into infancy and childhood led to a new understanding of the self and its relations with the ego. His most radical departure from Jung was to describe the actions of the self in infancy and childhood such that the infant, far from being uncentred at birth, as Jung originally thought, is a person with an individual identity. Part of Fordham’s legacy is to have shown that the self in its unifying characteristics can transcend the apparently opposing forces that congregate in it and that while engaged in the struggle, it can be exceedingly disruptive both destructively and creatively.
Course details:
This program includes 1 pre-recorded lecture available on registration with all relevant reading materials, plus 1 Live Lecture on Sunday, October 8, 2023, at 6 pm Johannesburg, 5 pm London, 12:00 noon New York, and 1 live student seminar that takes place on Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 6 pm Johannesburg, 5 pm London, 12:00 noon New York. Both the live lecture and the live seminar will be recorded for students who are unable to attend.
Fees: Each course is US150, or buy all 4 Masters Series at US 450 (save US150)
Faculty:
(Read more)
3 presentations and 1 Student Seminar:
(Read more)
All recorded lectures remain available for 12-months after the programme.
Certificate of Completion
Some Reflections on Working with Michael Fordham:
Mentor, Clinician and Theoretician
by Dr. Brian Feldman
I would like to present a view of Michael Fordham based on my personal experience with him over a ten year period during the time of my training as a child, adolescent and adult Jungian analyst, and as a student of the infant observation technique that he thought was an essential part of all analytical trainings. I will discuss my interactions with Fordham around the theoretical and clinical issues that he found to be most important when conducting an analysis, and in his comments during the supervision of my adult, adolescent and child analytical cases. Fordham’s concepts of development involving his theories of integration/deintegration, defenses of the self, and syntonic countertransference will be a focus of my reflections. Fordham had a deep interest in discussing and comparing his concepts with those of Winnicott and Bion which he found most relevant to the practice of analysis, and I will describe his viewpoint concerning these psychoanalysts who he much esteemed. Attention will also be given to his interest in infant observation as a fundamental tool in helping the analyst develop an analytical attitude that focuses on the importance of unconscious communication in the analytical dyad, what he termed syntonic countertransference, and upon primitive/infantile mental states. In this regard, his concept of defenses of the self help us understand early defenses that are differentiated from ego defenses and which can lead to the emergence of autistic states of mind. I will discuss these concepts in the context of my interactions with Fordham and his comments on my questions and dialogues about his theories.
Michael Fordham and the Formation of Analytical Psychology
in Great Britain
***Live Lecture & Discussion***
by Sonu Shamdasani
Sunday, October 8, 2023
6 pm Johannesburg, 5 pm London, 12:00 noon New York
We are pleased to have Professor Sonu Shamdasani joining us for a lecture and discussion exploring Michael Fordham.
This lecture will be recorded for those unable to attend live.
Student Seminar
***Live Q&A Session***
Saturday, October 14, 2023
6 pm Johannesburg, 5 pm London, 12:00 noon New York
hosted by Dr. Brian Feldman
In this session, Dr. Feldman will open the discussion with some additional thoughts on concepts explored in this series, and field your questions and thoughts.
The seminar session will be recorded for anyone unable to attend live and for later viewing.
Some Reflections on Working with Michael Fordham:
Mentor, Clinician and Theoretician
by Dr. Brian Feldman
I would like to present a view of Michael Fordham based on my personal experience with him over a ten year period during the time of my training as a child, adolescent and adult Jungian analyst, and as a student of the infant observation technique that he thought was an essential part of all analytical trainings. I will discuss my interactions with Fordham around the theoretical and clinical issues that he found to be most important when conducting an analysis, and in his comments during the supervision of my adult, adolescent and child analytical cases. Fordham’s concepts of development involving his theories of integration/deintegration, defenses of the self, and syntonic countertransference will be a focus of my reflections. Fordham had a deep interest in discussing and comparing his concepts with those of Winnicott and Bion which he found most relevant to the practice of analysis, and I will describe his viewpoint concerning these psychoanalysts who he much esteemed. Attention will also be given to his interest in infant observation as a fundamental tool in helping the analyst develop an analytical attitude that focuses on the importance of unconscious communication in the analytical dyad, what he termed syntonic countertransference, and upon primitive/infantile mental states. In this regard, his concept of defenses of the self help us understand early defenses that are differentiated from ego defenses and which can lead to the emergence of autistic states of mind. I will discuss these concepts in the context of my interactions with Fordham and his comments on my questions and dialogues about his theories.
Michael Fordham and the Formation of Analytical Psychology
in Great Britain
***Live Lecture & Discussion***
bySonu Shamdasani
Sunday, October 8, 2023
6 pm Johannesburg, 5 pm London, 12:00 noon New York
We are pleased to have Professor Sonu Shamdasani joining us for a lecture and discussion exploring Michael Fordham. This lecture will be recorded for those unable to attend live.
Student Seminar
Saturday, October 14, 2023
6 pm Johannesburg, 5 pm London, 12:00 noon New York
hosted by Dr. Brian Feldman
In this session, Dr. Feldman will open the discussion with some additional thoughts on concepts explored in this series, and field your questions and thoughts. The seminar session will be recorded for anyone unable to attend live and for later viewing.
Registration now closed.
For more information email anja@appliedjung.com.
All students who purchase the complete series will have access to:
- the Michael Fordham materials and live sessions;
- the previously issued materials for Marie-Louise von Franz and Erich Neumann; and
- the upcoming James Hillman installment.
Brian Feldman, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist (UC Berkeley), and served as chief psychologist in the Department of Child Psychiatry @ Stanford Medical Center where he received the distinguished teaching award. He trained as a child analyst with Michael Fordham over a ten year period, and teaches Fordham’s work in a number of Jungian Institutes world-wide. He is a certified child, adolescent and adult analyst (CGJISF, IRS-JA), and is a founding and training member of the International Association of Infant Observation (AIDOBB). He has held visiting professorships and has lectured @ the University of Dakar, Senegal; the Institute of Psychology, State University for Humanitarian Sciences in Moscow; the City University of Macau, and the University of Campinas, Brazil. He has published extensively in the areas of infant observation; the psychic skin; attachment; and child, adolescent and adult Jungian analysis. His work on the psychic skin and attachment was honored by the Psychoanalytic Consortium of Washington, D.C. in 2013. He maintains a private practice in Palo Alto, California.
Professor Sonu Shamdasani is Vice-Dean (Health) and Co-Director of the Health Humanities Centre at University College London. He is the General Editor of the Philemon Foundation, and has authored and edited over a dozen volumes which have been translated into many languages, including Michael Fordham’s Analyst-Patient Interaction: Collected Papers on Technique.
Brian Feldman, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist (UC Berkeley), and served as chief psychologist in the Department of Child Psychiatry @ Stanford Medical Center where he received the distinguished teaching award. He trained as a child analyst with Michael Fordham over a ten year period, and teaches Fordham’s work in a number of Jungian Institutes world-wide. He is a certified child, adolescent and adult analyst (CGJISF, IRS-JA), and is a founding and training member of the International Association of Infant Observation (AIDOBB). He has held visiting professorships and has lectured @ the University of Dakar, Senegal; the Institute of Psychology, State University for Humanitarian Sciences in Moscow; the City University of Macau, and the University of Campinas, Brazil. He has published extensively in the areas of infant observation; the psychic skin; attachment; and child, adolescent and adult Jungian analysis. His work on the psychic skin and attachment was honored by the Psychoanalytic Consortium of Washington, D.C. in 2013. He maintains a private practice in Palo Alto, California.
Professor Sonu Shamdasani is Vice-Dean (Health) and Co-Director of the Health Humanities Centre at University College London. He is the General Editor of the Philemon Foundation, and has authored and edited over a dozen volumes which have been translated into many languages, including Michael Fordham’s Analyst-Patient Interaction: Collected Papers on Technique.
