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DO WE HAVE FANTASIES, OR DO THEY HAVE US? ETHICS AND THE IMAGINATION IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 2019
9AM - 12:30-PM
FACULTY: SEAN FITZPATRICK, PHD, LPC
3.5 Possible Continuing Education Credits Approved for MD, PHD, MFT, LCSW, LPCC, LEP & RN
TUITION: $75 | $100 INCLUDES CEUS
Are there right and wrong ways to imagine, things we should or should not feel, think, desire?
Our greatest innovations, works of art, and acts of compassion emerge from the human imagination as do our horrific atrocities. How we imagine matters. But the imagination is not a tool at our ready disposal, to direct as we will. Therapists work in an intersubjective imaginal field. C.G. Jung suggested that, “Every psychic process is an image and an imagining.” Our imaginations fill with the experiences, conscious and unconscious, of our clients. Those experiences interact with our own in ways that are mysterious and as potentially destructive as they are potentially transformative--for them and for us. Our imaginings of our clients, our fantasies of and with them, come unbidden. Rather than attempting to ignore or control those fantasies, however, we can learn how to host them in ways that honor the potential for growth and healing in both therapist and client. In this workshop, we will use lecture, film, and discussion to explore the ethical dimension of the imagination in the practice of psychotherapy.
SEAN FITZPATRICK, PHD, LPC, is the Executive Director of The Jung Center in Houston, TX. He has master’s degrees in religious studies and clinical psychology, and he completed his doctorate in psychology, with a concentration in Jungian studies, at Saybrook University. He is also a psychotherapist in private practice. His research interests include psychology and spiritual experience, ethics and the imagination, and whiteness and the psychological dynamics of race.
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Date: Jan 19, 2019 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Fee
CE Hours
Registration closes on Jan 21, 2019 01:00 AM
Activity Type
- Extended Education
Requirements for CE Credit
Registration closes on Jan 21, 2019
at 01:00 AM
Registration Closed
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Sean Fitzpatrick Brief Bio : SEAN FITZPATRICK, PHD, LPC, is the Executive Director of The Jung Center in Houston, TX. He has master’s degrees in religious studies and clinical psychology, and he completed his doctorate in psychology, with a concentration in Jungian studies, at Saybrook University. He is also a psychotherapist in private practice. His research interests include psychology and spiritual experience, ethics and the imagination, and whiteness and the psychological dynamics of race. |