Jung’s Perspective on The Psychology of Aging
2 CE Hours available for
NY Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs
Dr. Fogarty will explore aging as it arises in clinical process from a Jungian perspective. For Jung our experience of embodied psychic life is purposive, not simply an extension of reductive repetitions of the past. When we are faced with the archetypal drama of the “Second Half of Life”, the arc of existence felt within the horizon of death, patterns operate in tension with newly emerging potentials – loss, mourning, rebirth, “new wine in new wineskins”, or not. Working relationally within multiple self-states, we engage such possibilities within the treatment matrix. Emergent patterns may be amplified through archetypal, collective, personally experienced motifs known in images, stories and events that open up the transference-
Harry W. Fogarty, MDiv, PhD, LP is a Jungian Analyst maintaining a practice in NYC. He serves as a Faculty Member and Supervisor for the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association and the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. He has presented papers at various conferences, and taught, serving as Lecturer in Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary, NYC (1991-2014). In recent years, a particular interest has been working with experiences of the collective psyche as it manifests in the relational analytic field, as well as with motifs of personal and intergenerational trauma, of the embodied psyche, and of the generative dynamics of aging, including illness. Recent papers include: “Blind Spots in Western Mentality: Imposition vs. Universalism”, “Without Words or Thought: Psyche as Only Incarnate, Or on Working Analytically with Embodied Awareness”, and “More to Come: Clinical Studies of Analytical Process with Older Analysands.”