Emotion in Jung ‘s Clinical Perceptions and Contemporary Neurosciences

Presenter: Beverly Zabriskie, LCSW/Jungian Analyst

Saturday November 7, 2026, at 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central time

By ZOOM ONLY

Speaker:

Beverley Zabriskie LCSW is a Jungian Analyst in New York City, where she is a founding faculty member and past president of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA, founded in 2004) where she now teaches  She is a past president of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP ) She served as vice president of the Philemon Foundation which produces the unpublished works of C. G. Jung She has been Assistant Editor for the Journal of Analytical Psychology (London) and the San Francisco Jung Journal. She is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation, housed at the New York Psychoanalytic Association. Her most recent presentations explore how Dreams of Scientists have impacted their science, in the mind-matter spectrum of synchronicity.

Description: 

Jung said “it is the duty of the doctor” to accept and mirror analysands’ emotion. Today emotion is seen as a source of cognition, as the stuff of actions and reactions, of memory, and imagination. It functions as the link between instinct and those basic, species wide patterns we deem archetypal. This talk synthesizes modern neuroscience and Jungian psychology, demonstrating that biological brain functions align with Carl Jung's concepts of the unconscious and the transcendent function (how the brain resolves internal conflict by integrating unconscious and conscious). The research indicates that the brain internally generates reality through narrative and metaphor while physically synchronizing nervous systems during interpersonal interactions. This presentation bridges the gap between neuroscience findings and Jung's observations.

Agenda:

First hour, presentation
Second hour, audience questions and discussion

Learning Objectives

After attending this session, participants should be able to:

1. Describe personal and archetype types of emotion with regards to the consciousness and unconscious. 
2. Describe another ’s as well as one ’s one emotions and their mingling in interpersonal fields using a clinical example from the presentation or from one ’s own clinical practice. 
3. Explain how Jung ’s sense of biochemical inductions, projections, and transference are unpacked through the evidence of neuroimaging of internal and interpersonal dynamics.

Continuing Education Credits are offered exclusively to Society members in all membership categories and those intending to join.

The presenter, Beverly Zabriskie, LCSW, and the organizer, Lisa Karaitis, PsyD, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to report.

Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the American Psychoanalytic Association and The Chicago Psychoanalytic Society.  The American Psychoanalytic Association is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credits Available:

• Physicians: 2.0 Credits
• Psychologists: 2.0 Credits
• Social Workers: 2.0 Credits
• PAs: 2.0 Credits
• Nurses & NPs: 2.0 Nursing Contact Hours
• Pharmacists/Pharmacy Technicians: 2.0 Credits
  Pharmacists must claim credits within 30 days and provide their eProfile ID and Birthdate. APsA will not report credits claimed after 30 days or with incomplete information.
• Interprofessional Continuing Education: 2.0 Credits

Other Profession Types

Other profession types will receive a certificate of attendance upon completion of the activity and online evaluation confirming their participation. Participants may claim credit for recertification; however, their professional organization/institute hold the final say on which accredited activities they accept.

Disclosure Statement

None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. There is no commercial support for this activity. APsA verifies that all materials generated by AI are accurate, including cited publications and posttests.