Wendy Selene is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Evanston, Illinois, working with both individuals and couples. She serves on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute and supervises clinicians for the June Singer Clinic for Depth Psychotherapy. Ms. Selene has been in practice for thirty years, specializing in early parent loss, blocked mourning, trauma and attachment issues, and finding meaning in life after significant losses of all kinds. She has lectured nationally on the topic of Desire, the Nature of Love, and What Depth Psychology has to Teach us About Faith and Despair. In addition, she is an instructor in Aikido, a form of moving Zen.
“In a major matter no details are small.” That quote, by Paul de Gondi, a French Cardinal from the 1600’s, was not originally referring to depth psychology. Yet, we hold transformation as a major matter, and the smallest of human interaction has the potentiality within it to transform us. This lecture and sharing of clinical case notes is about how we find the detailed moments that hold the seeds of transformation in our work with patients, and also in all of our most important personal relationships. Observations and examples about how to pay attention to the moment-by-moment of spoken words, feeling states, body language, insights and intuitions can be clinically useful for therapists and also for anyone who holds human relatedness as essential to a life well lived.
The evening will consist of lecture and sharing of clinical process notes where moments of detailed relatedness leading to transformative experience can be seen. There will also be time for questions and discussion of the material, as it pertains to the participants' clinical experience or to life in general.
