Skip to main content

ETW25-26 Cultural Complexes


Section 12: Cultural Complexes Operating in the Overlap of Clinical and

Cultural Space

Instructors: Samuel Kimbles, PhD

Dates: April 29, 2026

Description: This course explores how the emergence of Cultural Complexes in the clinical setting is related to personal complexes and affects the relationship between patient and clinician. We will combine two concepts: the cultural unconscious and cultural complexes as they are encountered in our clinical work. We will look at how cultural complexes live in the psyche of individuals and takes on and manifest in the suffering of our clients and clinical dynamics in our work.

Main Teaching Points, Learning Objectives, and Reading Assignments

April 29, 2026

Main Teaching Point: the seminar is oriented to increase clinicians’ competence in dealing with issues around diversity. To increase clinicians’ awareness of the impact of cultural context on both clinicians and patients. A clinician’s awareness of diversity and cultural context is associated with feeling understood by patients and clinicians better expression of empathy by clinicians. Participants will learn to differentiate between personal and cultural complexes. Participants will learn how these complexes come alive in the transference and countertransference and are expressed in the personal histories, dreams and fantasies of the other.

Learning Objective: Participants will be able to describe their development of greater cultural sensitivity and be able to name an example of their own implicit biases and a cultural complex about cultural difference.

 

Reading: Assignments:

Kimbles, S. (2014) Chapter 3: Phantoms Travel-Journey to Africa, Cultural Melancholia in Black and White., in Phantom Narratives: The Unseen Contributions of Culture to Psyche. Rowman & Littlefield, N.Y.

Kimbles, S. (2021) Chapter 3: Phantoms at the Cultural Level, in Intergenerational Complexes in Analytical Psychology: The Suffering of Ghosts Routledge, NY .

 

 

Date: Apr 29, 2026 07:00 PM - 09:15 PM

Fee

$90.00

CE Hours

2.00

Registration closes on Mar 20, 2027 12:00 AM

Accreditation(s)

CAMFT-5-Year
The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco (57022) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco maintains responsibility for the program and all its content. 
CMA - California Medical Association
The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco is accredited by the California Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
Clinical psychologists are also eligible to receive CME credit, which is accepted by the APA and the California Board of Psychology. 
 
The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate  with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 

 

April 27th, 2026
 

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Sam Kimbles, PhD

Activity Number

ETW25
Date: 04/27/26
Time: 07:00 PM - 09:15 PM

CE Hours

2.00