2026 Schedule

May

The Omaha Friends of Jung Presents:

A presentation by Tom Svolos, M.D. Lacanian Psychoanalyst

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosis

 

Schedule and Admission

This spring we are honored and excited to host Tom Svolos, M.D. Lacanian psychoanalyst for a presentation on May 29th from 12:30-3:30 PM (CST) at our downtown location. Seating is limited so please sign up now by emailing timswisher@aol.com. Once you register you will be sent the suggested readings. (see below)

On-site location:

Burlington Place
1004 Farnam, Suite 204
Omaha, NE 68102

We will offer 3 CEU for Master level therapists and this provides 3 of the 6 hours needed for Severe Mental Disorders and Treatment for the state of Nebraska.

The cost is $60.00 at the door. Please make your checks out to the Omaha Friends of Jung
 
To register call 402-390-6044 ext 4 or email timswisher@aol.com
Upon registration you will be sent the suggested readings for this videoconference
Any questions please contact Tim Swisher. 
 

Suggested Readings

Upon registration you will be provided the paper, “Fink Clinical Introduction chapters 6 and 7” An excerpt from the book by Bruce Fink, A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Harvard University Press), chapters 6-7, pages 75-111.
 

Learning Objectives

At the end of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Apply diagnostic approach of Lacanian psychoanalysis in distinguishing neurosis and psychosis
  2. Differentiate a clinical approach to a patient with psychosis and a patient with neurosis

Presenter

Thomas Svolos practices psychoanalysis in Omaha, Nebraska. He is a member of Lacanian Compass, the New Lacanian School, and the World Association of Psychoanalysis. Svolos received his BA in History from Duke University and his MD from the University of California, San Francisco. He completed a psychiatry residency at the Creighton University School of Medicine, where he currently serves as Executive Vice Dean and Professor of Psychiatry.

Svolos is the author of “Starting Analysis” (in press, 2026), “Culture and Politics on the Couch: Lacanian Interventions” (Palgrave, 2024), “The Aims of Analysis: Miami Seminar on the Late Lacan” (Midden Press, 2020), and “Twenty-first Century Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2017). His writings have appeared in ten languages.

 
Hope to see you there!

February

The Omaha Friends of Jung Presents:

A videoconference with Erik Goodwyn

New Developments in Archetype Theory

 

Schedule and Admission

This winter we are honored and excited to host Erik Goodwyn, Jungian psychoanalyst and author for a video conference on February 6th from 12:30-2:30 PM (CST) at our downtown location. Seating is limited so please sign up now by emailing timswisher@aol.com. Once you register you will be sent the suggested readings. (see below)

On-site location:

Burlington Place
1004 Farnam, Suite 204
Omaha, NE 68102

Joining through Zoom is also available.

We will offer 2 CEU for Master level therapists.

The cost is $50.00 at the door. Please make your checks out to the Omaha Friends of Jung
 
To register call 402-390-6044 ext 4 or email timswisher@aol.com
Upon registration you will be sent the suggested readings for this videoconference
Any questions please contact Tim Swisher. 
 

Details

This presentation will focus on combining evolutionary science, spontaneous thought and metaphor theory to create a coherent model of archetype..
 

Suggested Readings

Upon registration you will be provided the paper, “The  Human  Body  is  the  Collective Unconscious:  Archetypal  Images  as  Innate
Embodied  Metaphors“
 

Learning Objectives

  1. Identify the characteristics of the concept of the archetype
  2. Identify the qualities and functions of spontaneous thought, as they relate to Jungian theory
  3. Identify the features of evolutionary psychology as they relate to Jungian theory
  4. Identify the features of metaphor theory that are applicable to Jungian theory
  5. Learn the definition of archetype that incorporates all of these, in a manner which is non-reductive and in agreement with analytical psychologists surveyed world-wide.
 

Presenter

Erik Goodwyn, MD has authored numerous publications in the field of consciousness studies, Jungian psychology, neuroscience, mythology, philosophy, anthropology, and the psychology of religion. He is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Jungian Studies, and his published books include: The Neurobiology of the Gods: How the Brain Shapes the Recurrent Imagery of Myth and Dreams (Routledge, 2012), A Psychological Reading of the Anglo-Saxon Poem Beowulf: Understanding Everything as Story (Mellen, 2014), Healing Symbols in Psychotherapy: a Ritual Approach (Routledge, 2016), Magical Consciousness, co-authored with anthropologist Susan Greenwood (Routledge, 2017), Understanding Dreams and Other Spontaneous Images: the Invisible Storyteller (Routledge, 2018—Finalist in the 2019 International Association for Jungian Studies Book Award), Archetypal Ontology, with philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills (Routledge, 2023), and A Jungian Analysis of Toxic Modern Society (Routledge, 2024) and a fantasy novel, King of the Forgotten Darkness (Roundfire Books, 2025). He has delivered over eighty lectures, workshops, and essays in peer-reviewed journals on the above topics and has been invited to present at conferences on these topics at sites in the US, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland.
 
Hope to see you there!