Jungian Studies Istanbul held the online seminar “The Body Imagines: Soma in the Intersubjective Field” on June 6, 2026, led by Dr. Mark Winborn.
The seminar welcomed international participants from countries including Canada, the United States, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. In this respect, the event offered an international space for learning and exchange around Jungian analytical psychology, the body, imagination, and clinical thought.
The seminar explored the imaginal function of the body, the concept of soma, and the clinical significance of the intersubjective field within the framework of Jungian analytical psychology. Dr. Winborn presented a comprehensive perspective on how bodily experience may be understood not only as a physiological phenomenon, but also as a carrier of psychic processes, unconscious images, transference-countertransference dynamics, and relational experience.
The seminar content focused particularly on the body’s capacity to generate images, the place of soma in the analytic process, embodied imagination, sensory experience, mutual influence within the therapeutic field, and the clinical implications of intersubjective relatedness. Participants had the opportunity to consider how the body may become a site of meaning-making in analytic work through the connections between image, sensation, relationality, and unconscious processes.
Dr. Winborn’s presentation offered a significant contribution to the contemporary reading of Jungian theory, particularly through the lenses of embodiment, intersubjectivity, and the therapeutic field. The seminar provided a theoretically and clinically rich learning environment for professionals working in analytical psychology, psychotherapists, mental health practitioners, and participants interested in Jungian thought.
As Jungian Studies Istanbul, we continue to organize international educational programs that bring Jungian psychology into dialogue with contemporary clinical approaches, body-oriented perspectives, and depth psychology.
We extend our sincere thanks to Dr. Mark Winborn for his valuable contribution and to all participants who joined the seminar.
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