"Music Therapy and Consciousness - a Jungian Perspective"

Friday 12th June, 2020
Kirstin Robertson-Gillam, PhD, RMT, CMPACFA, CMAMTA:
"A Jungian Approach to Therapy using Music and Creative Arts"
Music, with its own special vocabulary of rhythm, harmony, pitch and tone, speaks directly to the unconscious. It makes the connection with deeply held feelings and emotions by reaching the layers of the psyche that are cut off from normal states of consciousness.

Carl Jung believed that our psyche yearns to evolve and transcend. He wrote in his "Letters" that music expresses the movement of feelings that cling to unconscious processes. Rudolph Steiner went on to elaborate on these ideas by explaining the evolutionary trajectory of music intervals.

Everybody experiences these intervals differently but, overall, the feelings that arise do so within the archetypes identified by Jung. Kirstin will illustrate these phenomena with case studies and musical examples.

In terms of psychotherapy, music, and the analysis of the feelings it induces adds a new dimension to word-based psychotherapy.

Dr Kirstin Robertson-Gillam is passionate about empowering people to achieve their potential. She has a private practice specialising in communication disorders and issues of trauma, dementia, Parkinson’s Disease, and general and EAP counselling. She developed her unique psychotherapeutic approach using imagery and visualisation, mindfulness meditation, visual arts, music making and singing from her own research. She underpins her work with psychological theories and current research.

Kirstin completed a psychology major in her BA along with ethnomusicology and musicology majors at the University of New England. She then studied a Master of Counselling at Western Sydney University followed by research in a Masters degree which focused on reducing depression in severe dementia with a choir therapy and reminiscence program. Her PhD is focused on reducing depression in mid-later life with a community choir therapy program.

You can contact Kirstin directly:
  P: (0409) 533 466
  E: kirstinrg@bigpond.com
  W: www.kirstinrg.com

Dr Kirstin Robertson-Gillam is passionate about empowering people to achieve their potential. She has a private practice specialising in communication disorders and issues of trauma, dementia, Parkinson’s Disease, and general and EAP counselling. She developed her unique psychotherapeutic approach using imagery and visualisation, mindfulness meditation, visual arts, music making and singing from her own research. She underpins her work with psychological theories and current research.

Kirstin completed a psychology major in her BA along with ethnomusicology and musicology majors at the University of New England. She then studied a Master of Counselling at Western Sydney University followed by research in a Masters degree which focused on reducing depression in severe dementia with a choir therapy and reminiscence program. Her PhD is focused on reducing depression in mid-later life with a community choir therapy program.

You can contact Kirstin directly:
  P: (0409) 533 466
  E: kirstinrg@bigpond.com
  W: www.kirstinrg.com

While prevented fom meeting face-to-face at Lyneham, we are meeting on-line via Zoom.
The Guest Speaker's presentation is at 8 pm for an hour or so,
then we resume for questions and discussion, finishing by 10pm.

Cost: Jung Society members free, All guests $10 (plus booking fee).
(When you pay, you'll receive an email with link to tickets, which has a link to the on-line meeting!)

or pay via bank transfer:
to Canberra Jung Society, BSB: 012 951 Account: 2141 58567
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