FACULTY: JOHN BEEBE, MD; FRANCIS LU, MD; KHENU SINGH, MD; PATRICIA SPEIER, MD
Hear from psychiatrists who are also Jungian analysts how they approach, understand, and treat religious or spiritual problems in their practices.Their integration of Jung's seminal contributions will be of especial interest to psychiatrists and other mental professional encountering such problems as a patient's chief complaint or primary concern.
It is not always clear to readers of Jung how his understandings of spiritual or religious problems apply to patients who are struggling with these issues. This event will enable practitioners who have been exposed primarily to psychiatric perspectives that link such issues to other conditions to see what is added by focusing on the spiritual or religious problem that is of primary concern to the patient. Spiritual or religious problems can be thought of as conditions in their own right, worthy of psychiatric treatment without being subsumed as an epiphenomenon of some underlying neurotic, psychotic, or personality issue. The role of both relational and symbolic approaches to helping the patient articulate the problem that was so central to Jung's "medical psychology" will be emphasized by the speakers, who are working with children, adolescents, and adults in both private practice and prison settings, using dream analysis, Sandplay, and typology and who may require or seek medication both to encounter and manage the archetypal issues at the core of their struggles with faith, belief, and religion.
Date: Feb 8, 2025 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Fee
CE Hours
Registration closes on Feb 07, 2025 04:00 PM
Activity Type
- Extended Education
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Francis Lu, MD Brief Bio : FRANCIS G. LU, MD, is the Luke & Grace Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry, Emeritus, at University of California, Davis. As an American Psychiatric Association Distinguished Life Fellow, Dr. Lu has contributed to cultural psychiatry, psychiatric education, film and psychiatry, and psychiatry/religion/spirituality. Since 1987, he has led or co-led 36 film seminars at the Esalen Institute; 28 were with Brother David Steindl-Rast. |
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John Beebe, MD Brief Bio : is a past president of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is the author of Integrity in Depth and of Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness. He has written the preface to the recent Routledge Classics edition of Jung’s 1921 book, Psychological Types. His eight function, eight-archetype model of type is widely studied and applied. |
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Khenu Singh
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Patricia L. Speier, MD Brief Bio : Patricia L. Speier, MD is a Child, Adolescent and Adult analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and a Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Speier teaches both locally and nationally on play therapy and the treatment of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents. Other expertise includes creativity and play in adults. She has a private practice in Berkeley and San Francisco. |