Join the international Jungian community as we explore how presenting C.G. Jung’s psychology in theological terms can help certain individuals regain their psychological health and pursue their individuation process while maintaining, utilizing, strengthening, and deepening both faith and psyche. 

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Christianity, and specifically Roman Catholicism, has evolved significantly since the mid-1900’s, when Carl Jung and the Dominican priest and theologian, Victor White, began a dialogue between their two professions. Thanks to the current Pope, the Jungian-Christian dialogue is easier now than it was in the 1950s, and it is has become increasingly possible for theologians to discuss the issues which Jung raised with less fear of being silenced as heretics. For those Christians who hesitate to get the psychological help they need, because they fear that psychologists are atheists who will lead them away from their faith, the practice that flows from this dialogue fulfills a cultural need that has gone all but neglected.

Like Jung, most educated Christians today, especially Catholic theologians, place great emphasis on the empirical and the soft sciences. A priest trained in a contemporary Catholic seminary probably reads more Jung and Freud than he does St. Thomas of Aquinas. Join the international Jungian community as we explore how presenting C.G. Jung’s psychology in theological terms can help certain individuals regain their psychological health and pursue their individuation process while maintaining, utilizing, strengthening, and deepening both faith and psyche.

Instructor: Pater Otto Betler
Friday, November 13
5 - 7 pm CST
Saturday and Sunday, November 14 and 15
9am - 1pm CST
10 CE Hours
THIS EVENT IS FREE FOR ALL, BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
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Pater Otto Bettler is a practicing analytical psychologist, an active Catholic priest, and the master of novices for Europe’s largest men’s monastery, the Benedictine archabbey of St. Ottilien in Germany. His abbot sent him to Zurich in 2007 to study analytical psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute, where his diploma thesis was entitled “The Monk and his Symbols”, which is a Jungian explanation of how monks use archetypal symbols to help them progress in the individuation process. Betler has addressed monastic groups on four continents, giving retreats and lectures to both monks and nuns. He has written chapters about the American Trappist Monk Thomas Merton in two books: “Courageous Curiosity” appears in Kontemplativ Leben: Errinerungen an Thomas Merton, and “The True and False Self in Psychology and Theology” in Gegensätze vereinen - Beiträge zu Thomas Merton, both edited by Wunibald Müller and Detlev Cuntz. He is currently working on translating Painting Therapy Based on the Analytical Psychology of C.G. Jung by Ingrid Riedel and Christa Henzler.