Pre Congress Workshops
Anomalous Experiences from the Perspective of C. G. Jung's Complex Psychology
Anahy Fonseca (AJB), Lionel Corbett (CGJIC), Walter Boechat (AJB) & Joel Giglio (CGJIC)
This paper will describe a range of ways in which the objective psyche may manifest itself in the form of numinous experiences. These include numinous dreams, visionary experiences in the waking state, through the body, and through the natural world. Although these kinds of experiences are regarded as anomalous by mainstream psychology and psychiatry, we see them as eruptions of the objective psyche into personal levels of consciousness.
Dr. Lionel Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He is a professor of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, in Santa Barbara, California. He is the author of six books: Psyche and the sacred: The religious function of the psyche; The sacred cauldron: Psychotherapy as a spiritual practice; The soul in anguish: Psychotherapeutic approaches to suffering; Understanding Evil: A guide for psychotherapists, and The God-image: From antiquity to Jung. He is the co-editor of four volumes of collected papers: Psyche's Stories; Depth psychology, meditations in the field; Psychology at the threshold; and Jung and aging.
Walter Boechat, MD, PhD, is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute- Zurich. Founding-member of Jungian Association of Brazil – (AJB- IAAP). Past Representative of AJB at the Executive Committee of IAAP from 2007 to 2013. PhD at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Walter Boechat is part of the staff in charge of the Brazilian edition of the C. G. Jung Books: THE RED BOOK and THE BLACK BOOKS, as the reviewer of the translation from the original German version to Portuguese. He wrote: The Red Book of C. G. Jung: A Journey to Unknown Depths. (London: Routledge, 2017) Also a comprehensive study on myth: Mitopoese da Psique; Mito e Individuação. Petrópolis, Vozes, 2021 5a ed. [Mythopoieses of the Psyche: Myth and Individuation.]
Anahy Fonseca, MD Psychiatrist, member of the Psychiatric Association of Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil, coordinator and founding member of its Department of Psychiatry and Spirituality. Analyst of the Jungian Institute of Rio Grande do Sul (IJRS) and coordinator of the Department of Analytical Psychology and Spirituality of the Jungian Association of Brazil (AJB). Member of the Section of Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and of the Commission of Studies and Research in Spirituality and Mental Health of the Brazilian Psychiatric Association (ABP).
Joel Sales Giglio, MD, PhD Physician and Psychiatrist- USP: State University of São Paulo. Pos doctoral studies: University of Kansas and Menninger Foundation. USA Jungian analyst - AJB: Jungian Association of Brazil / IAAP: International Association of Analytical Psychology Associate professor - Psychiatry Department – UNICAMP: State University of Campinas Musician - violinist. Ex Professor of The Arts Institute - UNICAMP