Jerome Bernstein spoke in Port Townsend on November 14, 15, and 16, 2008.
His presentation was jointly sponsored by
The Edinger Society (now The Jung Society of Port Townsend)
and Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (QUUF).
His topic on Friday and Saturday was “Living in the Borderland: Healing the Split Between Psyche and Nature.”
On Sunday, November 16, 2008, his sermon at QUUF was entitled: “Where Have We Come to and Where Might We Be Trying to Go.”
The text of Jerome’s sermon is available upon request by using contact link on this website. An audio recording of Jerome’s sermon is available from QUUF.
3 copies of Jerome Bernstein’s book (see below) remain from his presentation in November 2008. If you would like one, please let us know. Call 385-3622.
Want to contact Jerome? Want to see his website?
www.borderlanders.com
Want to see Jerome speak again? Here’s his schedule for 2009-2010.
Upcoming Jerome Bernstein Lectures
August 2010
IAAP Congress Montreal Presentation: The Borderland Patient: Reintroducing Nature as the Missing Dimension in Clinical Treatment-What I learned from Navajo Medicine Men
Panel Discussion: Healing in a Multicultural World
About the book:
Living in the Borderland:
The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma
by Jerome S. Bernstein, Publication Date: August 9, 2005
In three sections, this book charts the evolution of Western consciousness, examines the psychological and clinical implications and looks at how Borderland consciousness bridges the mind-body divide.
It challenges the standard clinical model, which too often views normality as an absence of pathology and equates normality with the rational, and abnormality with the transrational. Jerome Bernstein describes how psychotherapy itself can contribute to the alienation of many Borderland personalities by misdiagnosing the difference between the pathological and the sacred and uses case studies to illustrate the potential such misdiagnoses have for causing serious psychic and emotional damage to the patient.
This challenge to the orthodoxies and complacencies of Western Medicine's concept of pathology will interest "Borderlanders" (whether they know they are or not), Jungian Analysts, Psychoanalysts, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Environmental Physicians, and early childhood educators. Ecopsychologists, those in the media, the environmental movement, and policy makers in the public and private sectors will find the book of unique interest.
The Jung Society of Port Townsend has 3 copies left over from Jerome Bernstein’’s presentation in November 2008. If you would like one, so we can look for a smaller return box, please let us know.
Our Flyer from Jerome’s Port Townsend presentation in November 2008:
The Edward Edinger Society &
Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship present
LIVING IN THE BORDERLAND:
Healing the Split Between
Psyche and Nature
with
Jerome Bernstein
Jungian Analyst, Santa Fe, NM
Public Lecture--Friday, November 14, 2008
7:00-8:30 pm -- Price at Door: $10.00
Open Public Workshop--Saturday, November 15, 2008
10:00 am to 4:00 p.m. (1½ hour lunch break) – Price at Door: $50.00
Place: Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Avenue, PT
- CG Jung said: “Our world has become dehumanized through [its] scientific understanding. Our salvation may rest on a different kind of understanding or consciousness.”
- In his highly praised 2005 book “Living in the Borderland” Jerome Bernstein wrote: “The Western psyche [is now] being reconnected to nature as an evolutionary compensation in the name of protection from species suicide and ecological genocide.”
- Building on Jung’s ideas, Bernstein argues that a greater openness to the transrational reality experienced by Borderland personalities (“canaries” in a suffocating world) allows new possibilities for understanding and healing and offers new implications for how we define reality, differentiate the pathological from the sacred, and bridge the mind-body split.
- Borderlanders (our ”canaries” in a suffocating world) are often wrongly labeled psychotic or pathologized in other ways because of their transrational experiences.
- Many Borderland personalities (our “canaries” in a suffocating world) suffer from environmental illness or auto-immune disorders.
- Hear why Jerome Bernstein suggests Borderland Consciousness may become the prevalent consciousness in the next 100 years and why Western medicine has much to learn from Navaho religion and medicine.
About Jerome Bernstein: A Jungian Analyst since 1974 and author of two books, Jerome Bernstein has been a consultant to the President of the Navaho Nation in Arizona and to many teaching and economic institutions in Washington, DC. For more information see Jerome’s website www.borderlanders.com