Jungian Alchemical Healing

with author Thom F. Cavalli, Ph.D.

VIDEO SEMINAR SERIES

5 Sessions
9+ Hours

Alchemical Healing - Dr. Thom Cavalli will present five seminars with wide-ranging topics from history to methods of using alchemical psychology for healing the mind, body and soul. Not only will these seminars appeal to therapists and coaches but is offered as a praxis for self-healing. By aligning with nature and archetypal gods, we not only heal ourselves but also contribute to healing collective wounds.

It is a supreme paradox that at the very moment of our birth the death process begins. Alchemy is a way of understanding this process and participating in the ongoing cycle of death and rebirth. Some alchemists worked to produce an elixir of immortality, an effort that continues in the form of Jungian alchemical healing. This course will review the history of healing and introduce Jung’s psychology as an alchemical means of healing the soul, that eternal part of human nature. Active imagination, dream healing, shadow work, mythic medicine, and transference therapy are some examples of Jungian alchemical healing. Using the alchemical method of imaginatio, we will embody healing gods and goddesses who are essential in the curing process. To complete our healing journey, we will also consider how religion, science and mysticism help heal the soul by enriching our lives with meaning and miracles.

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Presented by:

Thom F. Cavalli

Thom F. Cavalli, Ph.D. is a Jungian psychotherapist, author and coach who provides services throughout the world. He has authored two major books, Alchemical Psychology, Old Recipes for Living in a New World (Putnam 2002) andEmbodying Osiris, the Secrets of Alchemical Transformation (Quest 2010) as well as many articles in Psychological Perspectives and The Alchemical Journal. He is a yearly contributor of book reviews and film criticism for The Jung Journal. He gives a wide range of workshops and seminars at Jungian Institutes, mystery schools, and conferences.  

His website is: AlchemicalWorks.com 

JUNGIAN ALCHEMICAL HEALING

with author Thom F. Cavalli, Ph.D.

5 Sessions / 9+ Hours

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COURSE OUTLINE

1.    History of Healing  

• Death and Disease

• Sympathetic Magic

• Shamanism (vision quest)

• Egyptian Medicine (spells)

• Greek Medicine

• Hippocrates and Humoral Healing

• Allopathy and Homeopathy

• Alchemy and Psychology

• Gnosis (where things went wrong)

• Paracelsus (making medicines)

• Jungian Alchemy

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2.    Jungian Alchemical Healing 

• How Jung was healed

• The Ambivalent Psyche

• How alchemy heals

• Basic tenets of Jungian therapy

• Individuation as a healing process

• Stages of Therapy

• Differentiation and Integration

• Projection in the healing process

• Psychology of the Transference

• Liberation, illumination and enlightenment

3.    Healing Archetypes

• Giving Voice to the Unconscious

• Role of Soul in Healing

• The Core Wound

• Trauma and Crisis

• Healing gods and goddesses

• Iron John and the Wild Woman

• The Alchemical Trickster

• Healing images (mandalas)

4.    Alchemical Tools 

• Meeting the Wounded Healer

• Active Imagination and Summoning the gods

• The Vessel of Healing (psychotherapy)

• Dream Healing

• Elemental Healing

• Shadow Work

• Psychological Type in healing

• Symbolic Healing (imaginatio)

• Healing Recipes (Rx)

5.    Healing Help and Happiness

• Protection – Isis to Dion Fortune

• Allies, Elementals, Daemons

• Leveraging Crisis

• Role of Darkness

• Prayer, chants, sound medicine

• The Psychoid and re-creation

• Synchronicity and Meaning-making

• ECT and DMT

• Miracles and the Royal Marriage

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Thom is hosted by JUNG Archademy faculty member Chantal Powell, Ph. D..

Chantal Powell is an UK-based artist, educator and curator. Her art practice explores the symbolic language of the unconscious and is informed by a PhD in social psychology and an ongoing study of Jungian theory and inner alchemy.

Check our Faculty page for upcoming offerings from Chantal.