The APT-Birmingham Public Lecture
Saturday 17 January 2026
ACORN INTO OAK TREE: GENDER TRANSITION AND INDIVIDUATION
Adina Davidson
Adina Davidson
This paper will discuss Dr. Davidson’s experience that gender transition, in all its many forms, functions as an
agent of individuation. In addition, the paper explores the contrast between our cultural attitudes of widespread acceptance of many kinds of medical transformation of our bodies and the shadow projection that seems to often be constellated by medical changes to bodies that impact gender. We will look at an appropriate analytic attitude toward analysands who are exploring gender. Finally, the paper will lay out the possibility that Jung’s thesis -beginning with the Red Book – that we all have all the archetypes offers a uniquely Jungian lens into gender expansiveness.
Adina Davidson got her Ph.d from Case Western Reserve University in 1993. She was a family therapist in private practice and the Clinical Services Director at a social service agency in Cleveland, Ohio for 25 years. She began analytic training in 2012 and became an analyst and member of the CSJA in 2019. She co-created (with Dan Ross and Andrea Gaspar) the online course Memories, Dreams and Reflections. She has co-directed the 2-year certificate program called Jungian Psychotherapy Program/Jungian Studies Program for the past 4 years. In addition to her analytic practice she co-hosts a podcast on Fairytales and Mythology called Jungian Ever After.
APPLICATION DETAILS
These lectures will be held via Zoom Video Conferencing only – from 1:30pm – 4pm (GMT)
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Sue Harford, Administrator to the Training Committee,
telephone: 07789 545908, email: aptc@wmip.org
The APT-Birmingham
Public Lectures
For enquiries contact Sue Harford,
Administrator to the Training Committee
Unit 1A, West Stockwith Park,
Stockwith Road, Misterton,
Nottinghamshire DN10 4ES.
Telephone: 07789 545908
Email aptc@wmip.org
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