Course Description:
As social, cultural and political conflicts are rising in the US and the world at large, like all citizens psychoanalysts, too, are confronted to define their role and responsibilities in their respective societies. Clinical psychoanalysts, generally, have remained focused on their individual clinical practices and patient care separating it from their role as a citizen.
Do psychoanalysts have something to say about understanding and resolving these broader conflicts drawing on their ability in working through intrapsychic and interpersonal conflicts? What is the ethical and moral duty of psychoanalysts in these times of turmoil? This essay responds to these questions by engaging in a comparative analysis between the Freudian ideas and Gandhian ideas for the change processes in an individual through psychoanalysis and the society through social activism. It will provide a relevant review of Freud inspired psychoanalytic “movement” along with Gandhi inspired social activism movements over the last seven decades. The presenter will show similarities between these two perspectives in these otherwise seemingly incongruent endeavors. By raising the question 'Can a society be put on the couch?’ The presenter will offer some methodological and technical recommendations to address intractable conflicts and effect a change at micro and macro levels.
Course http://zoom.us/my/michiganpsychoanalysis
CE Value (credits): 2
CE Type: Standard
Sponsor Name:
Michigan Psychoanalytic Society
Contact Information:
Monica Evans
248-851-3380
monicasimmons@ix.netcom.com