Art and Psyche

The 2008 conference on Art and Psyche, held in San Francisco, revolved around the mutual influence of the visual arts and psychoanalysis, especially Jungian analysis.  At the conference, members of the analytic/psychotherapy and art/art history communities explored Jungian-inspired notions of psyche and its visual representations as it manifests in artistic expressions emergent both in the studio and in the consulting room.  Common to all was the centrality of image.   We are pleased to present a growing collection of papers from the conference.

The Abstract Unconscious
by Michael Evans
 
The Abstract Unconscious in Painting
by David Parker
 
Art, Love and Psyche
by Penelope Dinsmore
 
On Articulating Affective States Through Image-Making in Analysis
by Mary Dougherty
 
Birds of Prophecy: Images from ARAS
by Ami Ronnberg, Managing Editor and Curator - ARAS New York
 
Following Seeker: Landscape, Music, Myth and Transformation
by Deborah O'Grady
 
Jung's "Art Complex"
by Sylvester Wojtkowski, Ph.D.
 
Labyrinth of the Shadow: History and Alchemy in Adolph Gottlieb's The Prisoners
by Michael J. Landauer and Bruce Barnes
 
The Mandala in Tibetan Buddhism
by Martin Brauen
 
The Mirror of Art: Reflections on Transference and the Gaze of the Picture
by Joy Schaverien
 
The Palette of Anselm Kiefer: Witnessing our Imperiled World
by Jacqueline J. West, Ph.D. and Nancy J. Dougherty, M.S.W.
 
Permeability
by Margot McLean and James Hillman
 
Reflections on Bidirectionality of Influence in the Matisse/Picasso Relationship
and in Clinical Practice from a Dynamic Systems Perspective

by Linda Carter, MSN, CS, IAAP
 
The Visible and the Invisible in Art: the Secret Space of the Image
by Diane Fremont