The Couples Cauldron: A Jungian Approach to Relationship - Lecture

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The Couples Cauldron: A Jungian Approach to Relationships

Relational pressures play out over a lifetime as archetypal struggles that show up as recurring themes in individual therapy and couples work. Join Elizabeth Nelson and Anthony Delmedico, authors of The Art of Jungian Couples Therapy: An Introduction, to explore the depths of relationships from a Jungian perspective.

This event is for individuals and couples who want to understand their relational dynamics as well as for therapists looking to broaden their clinical skills when addressing the wounds of love.

Friday Evening Lecture:

This presentation offers participants fresh ways of thinking about what happens between people in relationship. The central premise—emotionally-committed relationships are difficult, profound, meaningful, and full of soul—means that individuals and couples who bravely explore relational patterns and dynamics, and the therapists who guide them, are working on behalf of soul regardless of the outcome.

Participants will learn how Jung's foundational concepts of the Self, individuation, the archetypes, the shadow, typology, and complexes influence patterns of thought and behavior in relationships.

Brief Bios

Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson, PhD

Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson, Ph.D. has served on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute since 2003. She teaches scholarly writing, research methodology, and dissertation development, as well as courses in archetypal psychology, technology, literature, and cultural studies.

Dr. Nelson, an international speaker, 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 is now the general editor of the journal’s Somatics-themed volume.

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, PhD, LMFT

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.