Joseph R. Lee, LCSW, Certified Jungian Analyst
Joseph R. Lee is a certified Jungian Analyst and licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Virginia Beach, Virginia at DepthPsychotherapy.net. He works with adults and teens. He is currently the president of The Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts, www.cgjungphiladelphia.org, which provides a public seminar and trains Jungian Analysts. He is accredited by the I.A.A.P., and received his Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. He lectures nationally on the Hermetic Kabbalah with a focus on its reinterpretation through modern idioms.

Lisa Marchiano, LCSW, Certified Jungian Analyst
Lisa Marchiano is a licensed clinical social worker and certified Jungian analyst in private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her MSW from New York University and completed analytic training at the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She is also a mom. Lisa is on the faculty of the Philadelphia Jung Institute. Her writings have appeared in Quillette,the journal Psychological Perspectives and in PSYCHED She blogs on parenting for Psyche Central at Big Picture Parenting, and on Jungian topics at www.theJungSoul.com. Lisa is building an online community where mothers can explore the profound changes that motherhood brings. Please come by and visit at motherhoodtransformation.com.

Deborah Stewart, LCSW, Certified Jungian Analyst
Deborah Stewart is a Jungian Analyst and Licensed Clinical Social Worker who is relocating her private practice from Brooklyn, NY to Cape Cod in June 2018 at DeborahCStewart.comShe is a member of the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts, where she co-chairs and teaches in the seminar and contributes to the Association’s blog. She is an active member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and participates in other professional organizations. She has a special interest in trauma and is the author of Encounters with Monsters: The Significance of Non-Human Images of Trauma in the Psyche.

 The Three Dreams From Listeners We Analyzed in This Session

 Dream #1

 Female, 45, artist – journalist
Dream: I am in session with my female psychologist. I am telling her something and she does not know the answer or is unsure of it. So she gets out her black cell phone and makes a call, to a mentor or superior I assume. The next thing we are standing on a spiral stairs, my psychologist is one or two steps higher than me, we are both around the middle. On top of the stairs there is a black woman, probably in her 60s, very smartly dressed in black. She seems serious but not stern, like someone with natural authority / gravitas. She has a black cell phone and I gather that she is the person my therapist called. She says (the answer is) blue bird (blue jay?). Then I look down my hands and I see I am holding a blue bird in them.

Context: I’m not in therapy so I have no therapist. My older children (18, 20) have left home and we have had a few losses in our lives. I am married and feel like my life has been in transition for the past five years.

Feelings: it wasn’t emotionally charged. Mostly surprise to see the bird in my hands.

Needs explaining: I’m not in therapy now (never did Jungian therapy). I do love Marion Woodman’s work and am re reading The Pregnant Virgin

 Dream #2
Female, 54, varied jobs
Dream: I was hiking in the mountain up and down a valley and kept running into bears. I made it back to my cabin and the bears were in my yard, and in my house. They were in my daughters room, and she was small. I approached to see what might have happened, for the bear seemed to be sitting with her in a play area…..then I awoke.

Context: There bears were protective mothers, or they consumed her….the dream repeated itself. My daughter is a grown woman. I think I was reviewing my situation raising her as a single mom, and how dependent I was on my mother whom I have a bad relationship with, she is overbearing. Also, her other caretakers, daycare..and lack of family support, and much shame and difficulty..

Feelings: terror, exhaustion, trying, strife, unstableness

Needs explaining: I think it may be warning, or awareness of what women can be in ones life?

Dream #3

Female 51 translator, private English teacher
Dream: I am running through dark unknown desert like terrain. Falling down on and getting up and running again, feeling danger behind. I’m short of breath and I have to run up the steep hill, but I slip to the bottom every time without reaching the top. Though I have the feeling that if I do reach the top I’ll find the important answer.

Context: My personal health issues, not terminal. Mt father was diagnosed lung cancer.

Feelings: Anxiety, fear, exhaustion, unsecurity

Needs explaining: Dark, desert-like terrain

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