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About this event

"This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known."

(M. Woodman and J.Mellick, Coming Home to Myself)

In this talk, Wendy will show how engaging with disease as “shadow in the body” can enable us to make changes in our lives and find meaning in our suffering. Since disease is located in the body, if we want to engage with this aspect of shadow, we must delve deeply into the unconscious memories which are stored in the body. Jung appreciated the depth of connection between mind and body. Between 1934-9 he gave a series of lectures to colleagues where he warned of the dangers of becoming too intellectual and ignoring the body. Jung said, “The body is merely the visibility of the soul, the psyche: and the soul is the psychological experience of the body. So, it is really one and the same thing.” Wendy will look at the link between mind and body and focus on Jung’s concept of the psychoid psyche, together with some recent insights from neuroscience and outline some clinical examples.

Wendy Bratherton is a retired Jungian Analyst (SAP London) and a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist (CSTA). She was an Infant Observation Seminar Leader for 25 years and trained with Marion Woodman in BodySoul work. She has run Body Soul workshops with Marian Dunlea and helped with her online BodyDreaming Modules. She is a safe and Sound Protocol Provider, using sound to help heal trauma. She has contributed to Contemporary Jungian Analysis, ed. I.Alister & C. Hauke, Routledge 1998, and Jung’s Shadow Concept ed. C.Perry and R. Tower, Routledge 2023.

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