1. Spirituality and C.G.Jung Integrating light and “shadow” in psychotherapy Presented by Petra Meedt

2. Some Ideas on Spirituality

4. “cognitive map of the world” that aids orientation and gives meaning to the world (Saucier & Skrzypinska)

5. derived from the Latin word “spirare” which means “to breathe” (Wullf)

6. “inner religious passion” (Jung)

7. “primal religious hunger” (Jung)Spirituality is…

8. Jung’s Personal Approach to Spirituality

9. “The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact is that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy.” (C.G. Jung)

11. Sigmund Freud

12. Psychiatric patients

13. Priests and Monks

14. Eastern spirituality

15. Mysticism1. Personal and Professional Influences

17. “I don’t believe there is a God; I know there is a God.”

18. “Jung teaches us to live with mystery” (King)

19. “One must first discover one’s own hunger for God beyond all concepts to recognize the hunger in another.”2. C.G. Jung on Spirituality

20. Spirituality in Analytical Psychotherapy

22. Creative Art work

23. Mandala

24. Active Imagination Therapeutic strategies

26. Only through facing the “dark side” of ourselves, making our shadow (= potential for evil) conscious, we can overcome denial, recover our primal “religious passion” and enter in contact with our true self

27. This process of reconnecting with our soul starts with taking responsibility for our shadow (“mea culpa”)Therapeutic Process

28. Modern Currents in Spiritual Psychology

29. Parts-Therapy (Price) “The way to God is down” (Parker J. Palmer) “I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.”

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