Biography

Beaty Popescu completed a doctoral level Diploma of Analytical Psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland in 2023. This 5 year post graduated training involved the study of: analytical psychology, psychoanalytical theory, developmental psychology, psychiatric theory, dream analysis, mythology and fairytales, ethnology, comparative science of religions. The training included: a psychiatric internship, 2.5 years of clinical supervision, comprehensive examinations, an academic thesis and its defence, and in-depth training analysis.

Popescu’s thesis focuses on the psychology of creativity and explores: the ‘Mystery of Creation’ and its connection to the creative drive, ‘Play’ as a goalless creative dynamic which brings the light of consciousness to unconscious material, ‘Creation and Destruction’ as a cycling of psychological death and rebirth, ‘Suffering and its Creative Purpose’ and how dis-ease can be meaning-producing and lead to transformation, and ‘Human Communing with the Unconscious’ as a symbol-creating dynamic. Popescu specifically discusses the use of visual creativity in the process of communing with the unknown mystery, via the personal and the collective, archetypal unconscious.

Popescu completed her last three years of high school and first three years of University in Germany (Heidelberg University, Stuttgart Kunst Akademie). After completing an honours Bachelor of Fine Art (York University), a Bachelor of Education (University of Toronto), a Master of Fine Art (NSCAD University), Popescu had a successful university teaching career as an associate professor in the Fine Arts Department of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador (1990-2000). Her teaching career and studio practice took her to be a visiting artist and lecturer in numbers of Canadian and American universities, and to exhibit her creative work in many solo and group exhibitions across Canada as well as in the United States and Europe.

Since completing her training in Analytical Psychology (1998-2003), Popescu has given numerous lectures and workshops on various topics relating to Jungian Depth Psychology in Calgary, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, St. John’s and Corner Brook Newfoundland, Zurich Switzerland, and in the United States in Denver, Boulder and Chicago.

The main trainings Popescu has taken since establishing herself in private practice are: Mindfulness Stress Reduction (Jon Kabat-Zinn), Voice Dialogue (Hal and Sierra Stone), Internal Family Systems (Dick Schwarz), and the study of meditation, contemplation and of various spiritual philosophies and practices.