To Self and to Suffer: Clinical Underpinnings from Boss, Heidegger, Freud, Sartre, and Buddha
Date: Wednesday, January 15: 7:30pm-9pm
Credits: 1.5 CE
Speaker: Scott D. Churchill, Ph.D., Angelica Tratter, Ph.D. and Nathaniel R. Strenger, Psy.D.
Meeting is both on Zoom & in-person at:
The Center for Integrative Counseling & Psychology
4305 MacArthur Ave.
Dallas, TX 75209
Featuring an imagined dialogue between Medard Boss, Martin Heidegger, Sigmun Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Buddha enriched with case studies and clinical material, this seminar bears down to the Eastern and Western philosophical underpinnings of the self and its social situation. With a clinical eye towards suffering and its psychoanalytic-existential treatment, the presented reading offers opportunity for a critical review of the assumptions underlying contemporary models of treatment.
Learning Objectives:
Compare and contrast the Eastern and Western philosophical underpinnings grounding contemporary clinical conceptions of the self, its social situatedness, and its suffering.
Apply foundational principles drawn from Boss, Heidegger, Freud, Sartre, and the Buddha to psychoanalytic clinical practice.
Demonstrate greater critical capacities in drawing upon varying conceptions of self when tailoring clinical interventions
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.
Nathaniel R. Strenger, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist and the Director of Clinical Advancement at The Center for Integrative Counseling and Psychology in Dallas. He is also the current president to the Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (DSPP). In these roles he provides a variety of clinical services, supervises training therapists, and develops continuing education opportunities for clinicians and the broader public alike. His present administrative duties include regular clinical consultation for licensed staff and the curation and organization of continuing education programs. He is a past recipient of the Randall Sorenson Award for a paper on relational trends in psychoanalysis, an honorable mention for the 2019 Schillinger Memorial Essay prize for a paper on jazz and psychoanalysis, and a Young Scholars award with Division 39 of the American Psychological Association.
References:
Presenter/References/Reading (as applicable):
Bindeman, S. L., Khong, B. S. L., Churchill, S., Hersch, E. L., & Sundararajan, L. K. (2015). Medard Boss’s dialogue with Heidegger, Freud, Sartre, Buddha, and Jung: On being authentic. Hakomi Forum, 27, 3-11.
Bindeman, S. L., Khong, B. S. L., Churchill, S., Hersch, E. L., & Sundararajan, L. K. (2011). An imaginary dialogue with Boss, Heidegger, Freud, Sartre, and Buddha: On being human. Hakomi Forum, 23, 1-9.
Cavell, M. (2016). Freud and the Buddha: The couch and the cushion. Edited by Axel Hoffer. Londond: Karnac, 2015. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 85, 793-800.
Lehtonen, J., (2023) Heidegger and Freud: A comment on the paper “Turth, Anxiety, and the Contribution of Heidegger’s Phenomenological Ontology to Psychoantlyci Coneptualization and Practice” by Shoshani et al.. Scandinanvian Psychoanalytic Review, 46, 68-73.
Tolini, D., Muller, F., & Aires, B. (2015). Sartre and Lacan: Considerations on the concepts of the subject and of consciousness. Psychoanalysis and History, 17, 87-105
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This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
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