by Tom Keener
Explore the depths of your soul and subconscious with Dallas clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst Dr. Donna Cozort, 7 p.m. Thursday, June 9. Dr. Cozort is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst in Dallas, TX. Committed to helping people find meaning in life and connection to others, Dr. Cozort guides her clients through different paths of inquiry—psychological, philosophical and spiritual. This free program is sponsored by Bach To Books.
Dr. Cozort will lead participants into the world of image, metaphor, and myth to explore those places of reverie, imagination, and dreams. She will follow metaphor from our earliest experience (primary process), and share how it forms the basis of meaning, communication, and thus language (secondary process). This process bridges the gap from the conscious to the unconscious world and to our dreams. In addition, the symbolic language of dreams will be explored with dream examples presented to demonstrate how they compensate and inform our conscious life. This is an opportunity to discover your personal myth.
While searching for meaning in the healing arts, Dr. Cozort traveled to the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. She studied and lived in Zurich for six years. After retruning to the United States in 1998, Dr. Cozort found that one of her greatest challenges was working with a traumatized combat nurse. Her story is documented in Dr. Cozort’s book, Out of the Whirlwind: PTSD and the Archetype of Job, which documents the long journey through the pain, suffering and final transformation of a Navy nurse veteran of the Viet Nam War. Dr. Cozort notes, “As we traveled the path together, I realized along the way the truth in Jung’s statement that ‘healing in the client can only occur when there is healing in the analyst.’ Therefore, this is our story.”
An active member of the Dallas Institute of Jungian Analysts and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, Dr. Cozort is the former training coordinator for the Texas Seminar. She has lectured and led groups focused on symbolic manifestations of the psyche both at home and abroad.
Take the journey with Dr. Cozort and learn more about your path through discovery.
The Allen Public Library is located at 300 N. Allen Dr., 75013. For more information, call 214-509-4911.
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