Community Events (non-Alliance)

We live in the grip of a form of anxiety unknown to Freud, Jung, and Lacan. It is not anxiety over the self, but anxiety over the world without which there would be no selves to worry about. Nature has become an issue for us, whether it be in the form of climate change, mass extinction, or the disturbing possibility that nature is over. At the same time, we despair for humanity: there appears to be no way to move from our knowledge of the current precarious state of the earth to a practice and politics that would rectify it.

Saturday: Keynote Speaker Dr. Eric Green - "Jungian Play Therapy: Guiding Children Toward the Undefended Heart"

Sunday: Breakout Sessions

Morning Sessions (choose 1):

This coming February, the Center for Object Relations and The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology will proudly welcome psychoanalyst Avedis Panajian back to Seattle for another memorable exploration of the deeply human endeavor that is psychoanalysis. In this year’s visit, Dr. Panajian will focus on grief, mourning and pathological mourning and the ways in which particular psychoanalytic theorists can help us understand the complex and contradictory nature of the painful, creative, and indelibly human experience of loss. Dr.

In anticipation of his visit to Seattle in February 2019, the Center for Object Relations is excited to offer a clinically-focused webinar with Dr. Avedis Panajian that will explore the issues of mourning and grief as they manifest in the consulting room between therapists and patients. 

The Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Margaret Crastnopol are proud to sponsor an evening of clinical conversation with Sandra Buechler, PhD, on working with patients’ “Problems in Living”

This dialogue is about Bion, the man, the psychoanalyst, the theorist, the philosopher, an unassuming man with a lot to say, a fine sense of humor, a deep stillness amid deep turmoil; one whose “sins remembered” reverberate through a panoply of feelings for the reader. The dialogue will begin between two practitioners, an experienced psychoanalyst with deep connections to Bion’s thinking, and a psychologist, with younger roots in Bion . Although the dialogue begins between two, it is hoped that it will soon grow to a broad conversation among many.

***PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE FROM MAY 3 TO APRIL 26***

“How do we interpret a fairy tale? —or stalk it, rather, because it is really like stalking a very evasive stag.” Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, p. 37

Please join us for a 5-week study and discussion of fairy tales. This educational series will be co-facilitated by Jungian analysts Suzan Rood Wilson, Stephanie Gierman and James Max Gossett.

Balint group can infuse your practice with mind and heart-opening case consultation.  These groups are for therapists who are at a stage in their work where they aren’t looking for direction and/or technical guidance in their practice but recognize the value of developing and deepening empathic emotional connection with their patients.  Balint groups help cultivate your imaginative comprehension of the patient’s whole experience, which in turn expands your creative options for engaging.