Jungian Analysis
Jungian theory belongs to the field of Depth Psychology. In its foundation stands the psychic deepest layer, that of the collective unconscious, which is universal, archaic, and common to mankind. In different from the personal unconscious which is made of an individual's life experiences (as theorized by Freud), the content of the collective unconscious are the archetypes, the patterns of behavior and symbols of experiences, created by the human experience throughout historical time.
Jung saw analysis, as an alchemical process of transformation, during which, the analyst walks the analysand through the slow and careful unfolding and "reading" the massages sent by the unconscious. These are either of spiritual nature, or more concrete and related to earthly everyday life. The analyst helps the analysand read and decode these massages which the unconscious sends in symbolic form, by means of dreams, associations, synchronicities and more. In relating to the collective unconscious layer, a Jungian Analyst uses the symbolism embedded in mythology, folktales, and fairytales, as well as poetry and visual art. Jungian Analysis is therefore, a joined venture of the analyst, as the person trained in reading the decoded psychic maps, with an analysand who is learning to read his map. Jungian Analysis is conducted as a conversation, in which both analyst and analysand are siting facing one another. If you feel called to embark on the Jungian Self-exploration journey with me as your guide, do reach out.
Dr. Lidar Shany
My Jungian Path
I began walking on the Jungian path years ago, when I came across Jung's small book, Modern man in search of soul.
I was amazed to find a psychological theory that speaks a language that my psyche could
understand. Shortly after I submitted my application to Pacifica Graduate Institutes in CA, for the MA/PhD program, in Jungian psychology. My doctoral dissertation is focused on the psychological development from infancy to adulthood and the zenith of life.
I am also a Jungian analyst, trained in the original Jung Institute in Kusnacht Zurich. There I undertook the four years of training, after completing a three years program as a Jungian psychotherapist in Bar Ilan university in Israel. In most cases, a pre-request of the analytical training is a prior psychotherapeutic training, therefore, a diploma of an analyst in the therapeutic domain, is equivalent to a PhD in the scholarly domain. I serve as core faculty and supervisor in the Jungian psychotherapy program in Ruppin Academic Center in Israel, and also teach in Jung institutes around the world.   I work with clients in private practice, remotely and in-person with both man and women, adults and adolescence. I work in-person only with children, and with babies and infants in the dyad with their mother (or main care giver).  If you feel called to embark on the Jungian Self-exploration journey with me as your guid, do reach out.
Dr. Lidar Shany
Tools and Methods of Jungain Analysis
Dream
Work
"The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into the cosmic night that which was psyche long before there was any ego-conscious. ."
C. G. Jung
Active
Imagination
×´Active fantasy is one of the highest forms of psychic activity"
C. G. Jung
Myths & Fairytale
"Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious psychic processes. . .they represent the archetypes in their simplest, barest, and most concise form"
M. L. von Franz
Sand Play
"The Sandplay method takes the limited therapeutic possibilities of language into account with great seriousness and offers alternative means of psychic expression."
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Dr. Martin Kalff
Symbolism
"It is an irrational life- process which expresses itself in definite symbols. It may be the task of the analyst to stand by this process with all the help he can give."
C. G. Jung
Archetypal
Perspective
"Not only does the archetype represent, as an image, some content more or less accessible to consciousness, but it also has an emotional and dynamic effect upon the personality"
Erich Neumann