This July, at the elegant Belvedere Mansion just south of Rhinebeck, the New York Center for Jungian Studies offers its 13th annual Jung on the Hudson seminar series with two weeklong seminars: "Needing to Belong: The Archetype of Family and Community" (July 16-21) and "Mind, Memory, and Meaning: How We Heal" (July 23-28). The center, based in New Paltz, offers this and other programs (including "Jung in Ireland" and a study tour of Celtic mythology) for people of diverse interests to explore Carl Jung's ideas as they relate to today's world.

"Jung on the Hudson is one of the major Jungian programs in the United States," explains Aryeh Maidenbaum, a Jungian analyst who started the New York Center for Jungian Studies in 1993 and is its co-director with Diana Rubin, a clinical psychotherapist. "People come literally from all over the world. What's unique about it is that it's geared for the general public as well as mental health professionals. A lot of Jung's ideas are relevant to so many different fields—literature, philosophy, theology, as well as psychology. Jung in his writings said that 'if a farmer in a field can't understand my psychology, then my psychology isn't worth a thing.' We do our workshops the same way."

Typically a third of attendees are interested members of the public: teachers, doctors, lawyers, businesspeople, students. The rest are mental health professionals in private practice, at governmental or private institutions, schools, or religious or spiritual settings. Each week, participants and faculty create a dynamic community through sharing of ideas, inspiration, experience—and gourmet meals in the historic mansion.

The first seminar, "Needing to Belong: The Archetype of Family and Community" (July 16-21), centers on Jung's view that one cannot individuate in a vacuum; that connectedness with others supports a strong self-identity. At the same time, groups have the potential to subsume personal identity and integrity when allegiances, exclusivity, and unhealthy dynamics emerge. "These are things we all struggle with," says Maidenbaum. "Where do we belong, and how do we fit into our family, our community, our region?" This is relevant not just in terms of our individual lives, but on a larger social scale. "Organizations are split—synagogues, churches, training groups—even our countries can't hold things together as communities. The seminar explores how to hold opposites together, to be in a community and still be an individual." The faculty includes:

· Robert Moore, PhD: "Our Ambivalence About Belonging: Archetypal Oppositions in the Struggle Toward Individuation." Moore is a Jungian analyst, a faculty member at C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality at the Chicago Theological Seminary, and author of many books, including The Archetype of Initiation and The Magician and the Analyst.

· Ann Belford Ulanov, PhD: "Losing, Finding, Being Found." Ulanov is a Jungian analyst, Professor of Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary, and author of numerous articles and books including Spiritual Aspects of Clinical Work and, with Barry Ulanov, Cinderella and Her Sisters: The Envied and the Envying.

· Aryeh Maidenbaum, PhD: "Do I Need to Belong? Family and Community as Catalysts." In addition to being founder and co-director of the New York Center for Jungian Studies, Maidenbaum is a Jungian analyst, author of Jung and the Shadow of Anti-Semitism and numerous articles, and contributing author to Current Theories of Psychoanalysis; he was on the faculty of New York University for over 18 years.