Are the struggles, grieving process, losses different from daughters? Who is the current father with sons and what does he inherit transgenerationally. Poor self-connection, body issues, addictions, internet pornography can result. The emotional and/or physical absence becomes internalized. Jungian analytical psychology, focusing on search for the self, assists in compensating the personality through the unconscious coming to consciousness.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- identifying effects of the absent father figure on sons
- recognizing the grief and loss of father figures who do not embody relatedness to self or others
- finding the father and daughter figures in dreams
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- therapists and general public all who face the absence and loss personally and culturally
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- heighten awareness of the psychological effects of father absence
Course Content
Presenter
Susan E. Schwartz, Ph.D. trained in Zurich, Switzerland as a Jungian analyst is also a clinical psychologist and member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology. She presents to numerous Jungian conferences and teaching programs in the USA and worldwide.
Susan has articles in many journals and chapters in books on Jungian analytical psychology. Her book The Absent Father Effect on Daughters, Father Desire, Father Wounds is translated into several languages. In 2023 The Imposter Syndrome and The ‘As-If’ Personality: The Fragility of Self and in 2024 will appear Girl Unfolding—Puella’s Emergence: A Jungian Exploration, all published by Routledge. Her Jungian analytical practice is in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
