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The Serpent's Path: A Case Study Of Feminine Development From Jung's Clinical Practice

  • The Serpent's Path: A Case Study Of Feminine Development From Jung's Clinical Practice
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Presented by Elizabeth Leuenberger-Kajs, M. A. & Petra von Bechtolsheim, Mag. Art.

Attendance:  Zoom Only

Continuing Education: 3 APA CE Credits Available

This seminar examines serpent imagery as a clinically observable symbolic pattern in dreams, artwork, and analytic process, drawing on archival material from the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich and contemporary perspectives on self-regulation and embodiment. Participants will learn to identify and clinically assess serpent imagery as it relates to affect regulation, symbolic integration, and psychosomatic processes. Through a documented case example, participants will learn to apply evidence-informed imaginal and creative interventions to support psychological integration within depth-oriented psychotherapy.
 
Learning Objectives:
  • Identify how materials from the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich Picture Archive can be used as a research source for understanding symbolic imagery, creative processes, and imaginal practices in clinical contexts.
  • Describe key psychological and symbolic features of the serpent motif—drawing on Jung’s engagement with Kundalini yoga—and explain how this motif can be applied in clinical work to support self-regulation, integration of opposites, and psychosomatic balance.
  • Analyze a clinical case example to recognize symbolic and transformative processes emerging through dreams, active imagination, and artistic expression, and discuss how such processes may be worked with therapeutically in depth psychotherapy.
Elizabeth Leuenberger-Kajs, M.A., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Zurich.  She is a member of the Board of Training of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, where she curates the CGJIZ Picture Archive, lectures, and leads dream groups. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Susan Bach Foundation, which supports research in areas related to Susan Bach’s work with the spontaneous drawings of seriously ill children, informed by analytical psychology and clinically relevant to symbolic and psychosomatic processes. Her most recent article, "Of Dreams, Ladybugs, and Mother Mary:  Imagery and the Unconscious" was published in the Jung Journal, 2025.
 
Petra von Bechtolsheim, Mag. Art., is a Jungian analyst and Swiss federally recognized psychotherapist in private practice in Zurich. She completed her training in Analytical Psychology at the C. G. Jung Institute Zürich, where she has worked in program management and, since 2021, collaborates with the Institute’s Image Archive in exhibition development and research. Her work is transdisciplinary, integrating religious studies, image science, philosophy, cognitive archaeology, and analytical psychology, with a particular focus on symbolization and the image dimension of human consciousness. Her most recent publications include Resonances to an Unusual Soul Atlas and The Garden of the Unconscious, published in 2025.

Attendance: 

Please select if you will attend on Zoom (a link will be emailed a few days before the event) or in person at 

The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles    
10349 West Pico Blvd    
Los Angeles, CA 90064

Continuing Education:      

Psychologists, LCSWs, MFTs, LPCCs: The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Nurses: The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is an accredited provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing. Registered Nurses may claim only the actual number of hours spent in the educational activity for credit.

Refund:

Requests must be emailed to administration@junginla.org at least 48 hours before the program begins. No refund will be issued otherwise.


 
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The Serpent's Path: A Case Study Of Feminine Development From Jung's Clinical Practice
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Presented by Elizabeth Leuenberger-Kajs, M. A. & Petra von Bechtolsheim, Mag. Art.

Attendance:  Zoom Only

Continuing Education: 3 APA CE Credits Available

This seminar examines serpent imagery as a clinically observable symbolic pattern in dreams, artwork, and analytic process, drawing on archival material from the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich and contemporary perspectives on self-regulation and embodiment. Participants will learn to identify and clinically assess serpent imagery as it relates to affect regulation, symbolic integration, and psychosomatic processes. Through a documented case example, participants will learn to apply evidence-informed imaginal and creative interventions to support psychological integration within depth-oriented psychotherapy.
 
Learning Objectives:
  • Identify how materials from the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich Picture Archive can be used as a research source for understanding symbolic imagery, creative processes, and imaginal practices in clinical contexts.
  • Describe key psychological and symbolic features of the serpent motif—drawing on Jung’s engagement with Kundalini yoga—and explain how this motif can be applied in clinical work to support self-regulation, integration of opposites, and psychosomatic balance.
  • Analyze a clinical case example to recognize symbolic and transformative processes emerging through dreams, active imagination, and artistic expression, and discuss how such processes may be worked with therapeutically in depth psychotherapy.
Elizabeth Leuenberger-Kajs, M.A., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Zurich.  She is a member of the Board of Training of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, where she curates the CGJIZ Picture Archive, lectures, and leads dream groups. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Susan Bach Foundation, which supports research in areas related to Susan Bach’s work with the spontaneous drawings of seriously ill children, informed by analytical psychology and clinically relevant to symbolic and psychosomatic processes. Her most recent article, "Of Dreams, Ladybugs, and Mother Mary:  Imagery and the Unconscious" was published in the Jung Journal, 2025.
 
Petra von Bechtolsheim, Mag. Art., is a Jungian analyst and Swiss federally recognized psychotherapist in private practice in Zurich. She completed her training in Analytical Psychology at the C. G. Jung Institute Zürich, where she has worked in program management and, since 2021, collaborates with the Institute’s Image Archive in exhibition development and research. Her work is transdisciplinary, integrating religious studies, image science, philosophy, cognitive archaeology, and analytical psychology, with a particular focus on symbolization and the image dimension of human consciousness. Her most recent publications include Resonances to an Unusual Soul Atlas and The Garden of the Unconscious, published in 2025.

Attendance: 

Please select if you will attend on Zoom (a link will be emailed a few days before the event) or in person at 

The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles    
10349 West Pico Blvd    
Los Angeles, CA 90064

Continuing Education:      

Psychologists, LCSWs, MFTs, LPCCs: The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Nurses: The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is an accredited provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing. Registered Nurses may claim only the actual number of hours spent in the educational activity for credit.

Refund:

Requests must be emailed to administration@junginla.org at least 48 hours before the program begins. No refund will be issued otherwise.


 
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