Winter Workshop with Rob Tyminski, Jungian Analyst

Jungian Psychotherapists Association
Annual Workshop
with 
Rob Tyminski, Jungian Analyst

Saturday February 28
10:00am to 4:30pm
In-person Only
12:45-1:15 Lunch
(pre-order available online – $25)

Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N
Seattle, WA 98103
Room 202

$145 Members
$185 Non-Members
(plus WA State Tax Effective October 2025)
6 CEs included

Beyond the Binary:
Hybrids and Mosaics

Hybrids put things together in surprising, unanticipated ways and have fascinated people since ancient times. This workshop begins by describing a myth about hybrids, the Chimera. I discuss where Jung refers to the Chimera. His main reference is within a 1942 essay about Paracelsus that Jung gave as a talk to commemorate 400 years since Paracelsus’s death.  I touch on why Paracelsus was an intriguing figure for Jung. I provide examples of hybridity that are contemporary:
1) Adolescents playing with gender fluidity;
2) The collective merger with screens of all kinds that have become like auxiliary selves; and
3) The psychotherapeutic field.
My talk explores the concept of gender expansiveness. Young people, including children and adolescents, more frequently are experimenting with crossing gender lines. This trend can be understood as a sociocultural process for humanizing archetypal forms of gender diversity. A case example illustrates how gender fantasies are worked through within an empathic analytic relationship. I look at the psychological consequences of our increasing dependence on technology, and I discuss ideas about unconscious connections in psychotherapy. All of these hybrids are relevant to psychotherapy with adults as well. Older theories struggle with hybridity because of their binary underpinnings. A new approach would be a model of the psyche as a mosaic that combines many things at once, even when they don’t fit together neatly.

Learning objectives:

• Participants will be able to describe how hybrids manifest within the psyche.

• Participants will be able to give an example for how psychotherapy can create a hybrid field.

• Participants will have an understanding for the shortcomings of binary models of the mind.

Bio:
ROBERT TYMINSKI, D.M.H. is an adult and child analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and past president (2014-16). His books include: The Psychological Effects of Immigrating: A Depth Psychology Perspective on Relocating to a New Place; Male Alienation at the Crossroads of Identity, Culture and Cyberspace; Crooked Lines;  andThe Psychology of Theft and Loss: Stolen and Fleeced. He is a 2025 winner of the Michael Fordham Prize from the Journal of Analytical Psychology. He is working on a new book about analysis and psychotherapy with boys and young men.

Readings:
Tyminski, R. (2022). The Psychological Effects of Immigrating: A Depth Psychology Perspective on Relocating to a New Place. Routledge.
Tyminski, R. (2024). “Humanizing Different Archetypal Expressions of Gender Expansiveness.” Journal of Analytical Psychology, 69, 5, 1-18.
Tyminski, R. (2025). “Looking at the Alhambra.” Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, 19, 1, 34-48.
www.roberttyminski.com