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Emotion in Jung‘s Clinical Perceptions and Contemporary Neurosciences (Beverley Zabriskie, LCSW) (November 07, 2026)

Sat, 07 Nov 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Emotion in Jung ‘s Clinical Perceptions and Contemporary Neurosciences

Presenter: Beverley Zabriskie, LCSW/Jungian Analyst

Saturday November 7, 2026, at 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central time

By ZOOM ONLY

Speaker:

Beverley Zabriskie LCSW is a Jungian Analyst in New York City, where she is a founding faculty member and past president of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA, founded in 2004) where she now teaches She is a past president of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP ) She served as vice president of the Philemon Foundation which produces the unpublished works of C. G. Jung She has been Assistant Editor for the Journal of Analytical Psychology (London) and the San Francisco Jung Journal. She is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation, housed at the New York Psychoanalytic Association. Her most recent presentations explore how Dreams of Scientists have impacted their science, in the mind-matter spectrum of synchronicity.

Description:

Jung said “it is the duty of the doctor” to accept and mirror analysands’ emotion. Today emotion is seen as a source of cognition, as the stuff of actions and reactions, of memory, and imagination. It functions as the link between instinct and those basic, species wide patterns we deem archetypal. This talk synthesizes modern neuroscience and Jungian psychology, demonstrating that biological brain functions align with Carl Jung's concepts of the unconscious and the transcendent function (how the brain resolves internal conflict by integrating unconscious and conscious). The research indicates that the brain internally generates reality through narrative and metaphor while physically synchronizing nervous systems during interpersonal interactions. This presentation bridges the gap between neuroscience findings and Jung's observations.

Agenda:

First hour, presentation
Second hour, audience questions and discussion

Learning Objectives

After attending this session, participants should be able to:

Describe personal and archetype types of emotion with regards to the consciousness and unconscious.
Describe another ’s as well as one ’s one emotions and their mingling in interpersonal fields using a clinical example from the presentation or from one ’s own clinical practice.
Explain how Jung ’s sense of biochemical inductions, projections, and transference are unpacked through the evidence of neuroimaging of internal and interpersonal dynamics.

Continuing Education Credits are offered exclusively to Society members in all membership categories and those intending to join.

The presenter, Beverley Zabriskie, LCSW, and the organizer, Lisa Karaitis, PsyD, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to report.

Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the American Psychoanalytic Association and The Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credits Available:

Physicians: 2.0 Credits
Psychologists: 2.0 Credits
Social Workers: 2.0 Credits
PAs: 2.0 Credits
Nurses & NPs: 2.0 Nursing Contact Hours
Pharmacists/Pharmacy Technicians: 2.0 Credits
Pharmacists must claim credits within 30 days and provide their eProfile ID and Birthdate. APsA will not report credits claimed after 30 days or with incomplete information.
Interprofessional Continuing Education: 2.0 Credits

Other Profession Types

Other profession types will receive a certificate of attendance upon completion of the activity and online evaluation confirming their participation. Participants may claim credit for recertification; however, their professional organization/institute hold the final say on which accredited activities they accept.

Disclosure Statement

None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. There is no commercial support for this activity. APsA verifies that all materials generated by AI are accurate, including cited publications and posttests.

*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

“At Ease Within My Own Skin”: A Meeting Place of Psychoanalysis and Buddhism (Jeffrey Rubin, PhD) (January 12, 2027)

Wed, 13 Jan 2027 01:00:00 GMT

“At Ease Within My Own Skin”: A Meeting Place of Psychoanalysis and Buddhism

Presenter: Jeffrey Rubin, PhD

Tuesday, January 12, 2027, at 7:00PM Central time

By ZOOM ONLY

Speaker:

Jeffrey Rubin, PhD practices psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy in New York City and North Salem, NY. He teaches at The Object Relations Institute of NY, The American Institute of Psychoanalysis, and the C. G. Jung Institute of NY. He has authored eight books (Psychotherapy Case Studies: Escaping the Prison You Didn’t Know You Were In; Meditative Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Pathways to Healing and Transformation; A Psychoanalysis for Our Time; The Good Life; Psychotherapy and Buddhism; The Art of Flourishing; Meditative Psychotherapy; and Practicing Meditative Psychotherapy), and has taught at various psychoanalytic institutes and meditation and yoga centers and lectured around the country and abroad on psychoanalysis and psychoanalysis/ Buddhism/ meditation. Jeffrey is most interested in a pluralistic psychoanalysis that respects the genuine insights and practices from each analytic tradition and draws on the best that has been thought and said from all psychoanalytic schools as well as history, art, literature, anthropology and anything that illuminates the human condition. His pioneering approach to therapy was featured in the New York Times Magazine in April of 2009 titled “Enlightenment.”

Description:

This presentation explores what becomes possible when meditative presence and psychoanalytic attention to meaning are brought into dialogue. Drawing on four decades of integrating Buddhist meditation and psychoanalytic practice, Dr. Rubin examines how meditation can deepen attentiveness and receptivity, while psychoanalysis can illuminate unconscious, biographical, and relational meanings that meditative awareness alone may not reveal. Their meeting may make possible a quality of clinical relationship he calls liberated intimacy: one in which previously unsayable things can be said, previously invisible experience can be seen, and patients can begin to inhabit lives more fully their own. At the heart of the presentation is a clinical paradox: a Zen master who had spent decades learning how to let go of the self discovered, in relationship, that there was also a self he needed to reclaim.

The session will include brief clinical presentations illustrating the difference between listening to and listening for; an experiential meditation exercise with group discussion; and an exploration of how psychoanalysis can address dimensions of suffering that meditation alone may not resolve—particularly the need to be seen and understood by another person.

Agenda:

First hour, presentation
Second hour, audience questions and discussion

Learning Objectives

After attending this session, participants should be able to:

Demonstrate meditative attentiveness from psychoanalytic attention to meaning and describe how each can contribute to clinical listening.
Explain how to listen to a patient versus listening for confirmation of a theoretical formulation and describe the clinical implications of that distinction.
Apply the concept of non-self-centered subjectivity to clinical listening by identifying ways an analyst can be fully present without becoming self-preoccupied.

Continuing Education Credits are offered exclusively to Society members in all membership categories and those intending to join.

The presenter, Jeffrey Rubin, PhD, and the organizer, Lisa Karaitis, PsyD, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to report.

Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

Credits Available:

Physicians: 2.0 Credits
Psychologists: 2.0 Credits
Social Workers: 2.0 Credits
PAs: 2.0 Credits
Nurses & NPs: 2.0 Nursing Contact Hours
Pharmacists/Pharmacy Technicians: 2.0 Credits
Pharmacists must claim credits within 30 days and provide their eProfile ID and Birthdate. APsA will not report credits claimed after 30 days or with incomplete information.
Interprofessional Continuing Education: 2.0 Credits

Other Profession Types

Disclosure Statement

*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.