WORKSHOP: Alan G. Vaughan, "Imagining the Good Society"

Description

Theory of Analytical Psychology and Active Imagination are the focus of this workshop. We will define the concept of Active Imagination in Analytical theory and explore the application of this concept in an experiential exercise. In an epoch of polarization, fragmentation and even dystopia, the topic for us to consider through agency of active imagination, is the “Good Society”. What are the essential elements of the Good Society? What are the impediments to achieving the Good Society? Are there already existing models of the Good Society? With the addition of didactic material, the group experiential will be "Imagining the Good Society”.

Brief Biography.

Alan G. Vaughan, Ph.D., JD, is a certified Jungian psychoanalyst, clinical and consulting psychologist, and an analyst - member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. There he serves on the Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and the Editorial Board of the Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, published by the Taylor Francis Group.

He received his doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from New York University and interned in Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF). He received his Juris doctorate from the University of Virginia, School of Law, with concentration studies in International Trade Law and Law and Psychiatry. Advanced studies in Private and Public International Law were completed in The Hague Academy of International Law, Den Haag, Netherlands; and post-doctoral training in higher education administration at U.C. Berkeley.

His presentations, scholarly interests, and publications are at the intersections of Analytical Psychology, U.S. Constitutional Jurisprudence, and African Diaspora Studies. His forthcoming book,  Journey to the Self: C. G. Jung in the African Diaspora, is to be published by Routledge, Fall 2025.