CEUs: 2

Instructor: Mary Ellen O’Hare-Lavin

Both Freud and Jung recognized the importance of mythology in the study of psychology. We are our stories and we often find our stories replicated in an ancient myth or fairytale – they are part of our psychic DNA. While learning about myths from ancient times, participants will be encouraged to discover their own myth in relationship to their own story beginning with “Once upon a time. . .”

About the Instructor
Mary Ellen O’Hare-Lavin, PhD has her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a Jungian psychotherapist, an educator, and a writer. She has lectured nationally and in Ireland on addiction, women’s spirituality, alchemy, the Red Book, and Jung’s concept of typology. She has a private practice in Wilmette, Illinois.

Recommended Reading
Goddesses in Every Woman by Jean Bolen
Gods in Every Man by Jean Bolen
A Twice Told Tale by Hans Dieckmann
An Instruction to the Psychology of Fairy Tales by Marie Louise von Franz
The Use of Enchantment: The meaning and importance of fairy tales by Bruno Bettelheim