Existential Anxiety, Guilt, and Self-Deception: Bringing Heidegger into the CliniC
Date: Wednesday, February 19: 7:30pm-9pm
Credits: 1.5 CE
Speaker: Angelica Tratter, Ph.D.
Meeting is both on Zoom & in-person at:
The Center for Integrative Counseling & Psychology
4305 MacArthur Ave.
Dallas, TX 75209
Integrating the influences of psychoanalytic conceptions of human and social nature and the philosophical works of Martin Heidegger, this training situates clinical suffering within the context of socially available meaning-making structures. Heidegger’s “existential guilt” and “existential anxiety,” as they play out in the face facticities and established social norms, are employed to provide attendees with alternative ways of conceptualizing cases and formulating psychoanalytic interventions.
Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate the clinical relevance of transcending a narrow symptom focus to understand the two existential emotions of “anxiety” and “guilt’ as core dimensions of human experience.
Summarize the existentially grounding and enabling function of human beings’ ontological relationality and its relevance to psychoanalytic processes.
Prepare clinical interventions addressing the role of two prevalent variants of existential defenses and their connection to societal norms versus subjectively perceived freedom
Review the therapeutic challenges of “authentic living” within the context of contradictory contemporary value and meaning influences
Presenter Biography:
Angelica M. D. Tratter, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice specializing in existential-analytic psychotherapy. She is a consulting psychologist for Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine, and has served for many years as a clinical volunteer faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Educated in Continental philosophy and depth psychology, she has taught numerous existential and psychoanalytic courses at University of Dallas, presented her ideas at national and international conferences, and published on Heidegger and existential analysis. Closer to ‘home’, she also taught for the Postgraduate Program in Psychoanalytic Psychology, serves as the DSPP Arts Chair, and is a past president of DSPP.
References:
Presenter/References/Reading (as applicable):
Heidegger, M. (1962) Being and time. Harper: New York.
Stolorow, R. (2007). Anxiety, authenticity, and trauma: The relevance of Heidegger’s existential analytic for psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 24, 373-383.
Stolorow, R. D. (2022) Faces of finitude: Death, loss, and trauma. Psychoalaytic Inquiry, 42:135-140.
Lehtonen, J. (2023) Heidegger and Freud: A comment on the paper “Truth, Anxiety, and the Contribution of Heidegger’s Phenomenological Ontology to Psychoanalytic Conceptualization and Practice” by Shoshani et al., Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, 46, 68-73
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