This seminar will involve a detailed study of Chapter IV, Mysterium Coniunctionis,CW14 §349-543 selecting and examining some of most significant paragraphs.

There will be discussion of the symbols of King and Queen and consideration of why Jung devoted so much of this book to the subject of the King and Queen in Alchemy.  Thought will be given to the relevance of this material to the treatment of psychological illness, the maturation of the human personality and an understanding of the structure and workings of the Collective Unconscious. This seminar will aim to inform and assist our clinical work.

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Gillian Kind is a Senior Training Jungian Analyst, living in Fulham, London.  She is a member of IGAP, GAP and the UKCP. She is interested in the overlap of psychiatry, psychology and religion.

‍Nan Parry is a Jungian Analyst and Training Supervisor with GAP.  She read Modern and Medieval Languages atJesus College, Cambridge, where she was awarded a Foundation Scholarship.  She then worked as a journalist and editorbefore taking her MA in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies at the University ofEssex.  After completing her trainingwith GAP, she set up her private practice in Central London, where she sees amixture of private patients, trainees and supervisees. She has taught widely onthe GAP Diploma Course, Foundation Course and as Honorary Lecturer on theJungian MA at the University of Essex.

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Jung, C.G., Mysterium Coniunctionis CW14 §349-543

Edinger, E., Mysterium Lectures

Von Franz M.L., Anything from her Fairy Tale books

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