The Art of Jungian Couples Therapy: An Introduction
October 7, 2025
Author Spotlight | Offered Live via Zoom
Program Description
In one accessible volume, Nelson and Delmedico introduce Jung’s foundational concepts to invite readers into new ways of thinking, imagining, and being with troubled partners. The Art of Jungian Couples Therapy complements rather than replaces current mainstream approaches to couples therapy, emphasizing Jung’s notion of tending soul: the soul of each partner, the soul of their relationship, and therapist’s own soul.
In concise and well-annotated chapters, The Art of Jungian Couples Therapy introduces readers to:
- The importance of individuation for couples.
- How to work with psychological complexes that underpin couples’ discord.
- How archetypes can create entrenchment and repetitive patterns of conflict.
- Typology and its impact on relationships.
- The shadow, persona, and the emergence of shadow vows that create upheaval.
- Alchemy and the unconscious processes transforming the partners and the relationship.
- Anima, animus, and affirmative therapy with diverse couples.
- The soul of the therapist and care of the Self.
The Art of Jungian Couples Therapy will appeal to readers wanting to deepen into the mysteries of relationship and explore the complications that arise in coupled life. Students, educators, therapists, as well as intimate partners will benefit from this elegant, readable introduction to Jung’s pioneering work on relational dynamics.
Program Details
Dates
October 7, 2025, 12-1pm PT
Author Spotlight with Dr. Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson and Dr. Anthony Delmedico
Registration
- Free
About the Author
Dr. Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson, Ph.D. has served on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute near Santa Barbara, California since 2003. She teaches scholarly writing, research methodology, and dissertation development, as well as courses in archetypal psychology, technology, literature, and cultural studies. In all her teaching, Elizabeth helps her students cultivate an embodied partnership with the creative psyche.
Dr. Nelson, an international speaker and teacher, has published several papers in scholarly journals as well as book chapters on subjects including feminism, film, dream, somatics, technology, and research. Elizabeth is on the board of the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies, served as General Editor of its peer-reviewed Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies for five years, and has recently inaugurated a Somatics-themed volume of the journal.
Dr. Nelson’s books include Psyche’s Knife (Chiron, 2012), the third expanded edition of The Art of Inquiry (Spring Publications, 2017), coauthored with Joseph Coppin, and The Art of Jungian Couple Therapy, coauthored with Anthony Delmedico (Routledge, 2025). She has been a professional writer and editor for more than 40 years, coaching aspiring authors across a variety of genres and styles. www.elizabethnelson-phd.com
Anthony Delmedico is a depth psychotherapist and licensed marriage and family therapist working in private practice in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is also an AAMFT-approved supervisor.
Anthony has a master’s and doctoral degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He has written and spoken about the trauma of sexual abuse, marriage, fatherhood, and divorce. He is the author of Tending the Wound of Sexual Abuse, and is the founder of First Haven, a non-profit organization providing psychological self-help resources to those who have experienced sexual abuse.
In addition to the Art of Jungian Couples Therapy, in 2023, he and Elizabeth Nelson also co-authored “When Left Hands Touch: Shadow Vows and Jung’s Quaternity” which is available in the Journal of Analytical Psychology.
General Information
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Registration Details
October 7, 2025
- Number of Classes: 1 Class
- Class Length: 1 hour
- Class Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM PT
- CECs: 0
