The Nature and Use of Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities)
While Working with Patients in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Full-Day Workshop on Saturday, October
1st, 2011 (10am
- 4pm)
Workshop Leader: Gibbs
Williams, PhD
Address: 41 Fifth Avenue, # 11A; NY, NY, 10003
Fees: Pre-registration: $75 regular/ $40 students/ retired. At the door: $85
regular/ $50 students/retired. Please RSVP - Limited Seating!
A rising number of analysts are reporting an increasing frequency of coincidence
prone patients in their practice. These seemingly inexplicable phenomena are
often experienced with awe and a sense they may contain a coded message from
some mysterious transcendent spiritual source. This workshop will describe
various alternatives in explaining their nature and use in the clinical setting.
Jung's theory, which has been the nearly unchallenged authority in this field
for the past fifty four years, will be critically evaluated.
Those who attend this workshop can expect to:
• Explore perplexing issues associated with patients reporting
synchronicities including: the meaning of meaning, how meaning is generated, and
the role of spirituality, the occult, philosophy, the uncanny, chance, luck,
karma, serendipity, creativity, and consciousness.
• Identify challenging issues in working with synchronicity prone
patients.
• Exploring alternative theories including Jungian, Object Relations,
Self and Freudian
• Focus on the role of resistance, transference, and the unconscious
(collective and personal) in working with synchronicity prone patients
• Assess therapeutic progress or lack of it over time.
• Learn about decoding both your own and your patient's
synchronicities.
Psychoanalyst Gibbs Williams Ph.D. has been researching these fascinating
events for 50 years, and will draw from speculative philosophy, depth
psychology, esoteric occult and spiritual traditions to explore the profound
relevance synchronistic events have on our patient's lives; and the
revolutionary impact a serious study of so called a-causal phenomena could have
on our scientific understanding. Gibbs is the author of: Demystifying
Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, The Personal
Unconscious, and The Creative Process.
To maximize your experience of this workshop, you are invited to start a
personal journal. Refer to Gibbs' article on keeping a personal journal on
his website: gibbsonline.com.
Date each entry. Make sure you detail any of the meaningful coincidences you
have between now and the workshop. Additionally describe any meaningful
coincidences you might remember and bring them with you. Lastly identify those
issues preoccupying you at the time of your recorded synchronicities.
For more information, please visit
www.ORINYC.org (click on “Workshops” tab); call 212-254-1084 (Dr.
G. Williams) or 646 - 522-0387 (ORI
Administrator); email to
GWilliamsNY11@aol.com or Admin@ORINYC.org.
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