The APT-Birmingham Public Lecture

Saturday 7th November 2026
(In-Person only)

VII SERMONS TO THE DEAD AS THE CORNERSTONE OF JUNG’S INDIVIDUATION PROCESS:
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TEXT AND ITS MEANING

Speaker: Katerina Sarafidou

Katerina Sarafidou

The VII Sermons to the Dead appears in the closing chapters of the Red Book and presents a cosmological framework that underpins the entire undertaking of Jung’s Liber Novus. It provides the foundation of Jung’s notion of individuation and reveals the full nature and purpose of the individuation process. It is the formulation of Jung’s own myth which he set out to discover when he embarked on his experimentation with the inner figures in 1913, and then documented in his Black Book diaries. This lecture will give an introduction to the text of the VII Sermons in the context of the Red Book and Black Books, it will explain its role in individuation, and its implications for the work of analytical psychology.

Katerina Sarafidou is the Head of Research and former Director of the MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development run by Birkbeck College and the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She is an honorary member of the British Jungian Analytic Association and one of three founders of The Circle of Analytical Psychology, which offers a 2-year course on Jung’s Liber Novus.

Imagining the Universe: Jung’s Cosmological Mandalas

Speaker: Diane Finiello Zervas

Diane Finiello Zervas

Beginning with Jung’s early interest in cosmological systems and images, this lecture will explore the series of sketches, paintings and other representations of the new cosmology, man’s place within it, and the new god image that Jung made in Black Book 5, his agenda, the Red Book and other related visual images. Taken as a whole, they form an integral part of his ongoing engagement with the unconscious and the development of his conceptual ideas about the Self and the individuation process between 1913 and 1928.

Diane Finiello Zervas, PhD is an art historian and a senior analyst with IGAP. She has written extensively on art, analytical psychology, and Jung’s visual imagery. Her most recent book is ‘Enchanting the Unconscious’: Jung’s Reception in Great Britain, The Red Book, and his English Seminars, 1919 and 1920 (Routledge, 2025). She is presently working on a book themed around the visual images in Jung’s Red Book.

APPLICATION DETAILS

This lecture will take place in-person only at St Paul’s Convent, 94 Selly Park Road, Selly Park, Birmingham B29 7LL and will be held between 10.15am and 3:00pm (GMT). The cost for the lecture is £95.00 or £47.50 (trainee psychotherapists). Refreshments and a buffet lunch are also included.

Please refer to the application form for further details on reduced fees offered

Bookings should be made/confirmed as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

PAYMENT DETAILS

Please make BACS payments as follows:

Bank: Barclays, Sort Code: 20-08-44, Account No: 03737950
Account Name: The Training in Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy
(Please use your name as a reference)

For further details and queries contact:

Sue Harford, Administrator to the Training Committee,
telephone: 07789 545908, email: aptc@wmip.org