Greece, October 2009 (Sold Out)
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We’re pleased to announce our plans and to invite you to join us for our Creativity & Madness—Psychological Studies of Art and Artists Conference, October 11 – 23, 2009 in Athens, Delphi, Nafplio, Santorini, Crete, Rhodes, Mykonos and Patmos Our conference will bring Art and Psychology together in a unique way that will enhance your understanding of the life issues with which the artists struggle, and your appreciation and enjoyment of their achievements. There will be lecture-presentations with discussions by experts who have studied the intrapsychic forces that drive the artist to create.
Conference Objectives
- To understand life issues and problems, such as depression, mid life transition, and psychosis, as revealed in the lives and works of great artists.
- To understand the creative adaptations that are possible for the resolution of conflicts and problems encountered in life.
We will see the artists’ works in the museums and in some cases, where the inspiration and creation took place. There will be time for sight seeing, shopping, and relaxing. We also will arrange, as options, for dinners at the finest restaurants, and if possible, for Opera and Concert tickets. We are doing our best to make this the most enjoyable and intellectually stimulating two-week experience you have ever had.
Itinerary
Sunday October 11, Depart US and Canada for Athens
Sunday 12th arrive Athens and experience its exciting transformation since by the Olympics Games 2004. The city is bursting with energy, art and music. After we arrive we will be met by our agents foe the transfer to the 5 star InterContinental Athenaeum Hotel. The hotel has Athens’ largest guest rooms, award winning fine dining venues and a central location.
Welcoming Dinner. Our stay will include visits to the Acropolis, one of the iconic structures of the world, that immediately defines Greece, The Parthenon, and The Temple of Apollo. The National Archeological Museum is considered one of the great museums in the world. It contains some of the most famous statues in the world: The Aphrodite of Praxiteles, The Lycian Apollo, The Little Jockey on a Horse, the golden Death Mask of Agamemnon. A tour of this magnificent museum is an immersion into the culture and achievements of ancient Greece.
We’ll dine and dance at one of the Plaka’s Tavernas.We will then travel by coach to:
Delphi. October 15-17. We will stay at The Amalia Hotel, which has an exquisite location at the foot of the mountain, giving us a breathtaking view of the valley all the way to the sea and the beautiful village of Galaxid. You will feel and understand that Delphi is one of the power spots of the world. It was considered to be the center of the world. Renowned kings, warriors and philosophers visited the place to see the famous Pythia, the prophetess, to tell them about their future.
Nauplia. October 17-19. Nauplia was Greece’s first capital at the beginning of the 19th century. The old city has an amazing beauty that combines three centuries of history: ancient, neoclassical and modern. This lovely fishing village is on the eastern sea coast of the Peloponnese. Have a drink at one of the seaside cafes and watch the sunset on the Aegean Sea. Our excursions will include the Amphitheater at Epidaurus. Our guides will
demonstrate the remarkable acoustics of The Amphitheater at Epidaurus which permit almost perfect intelligibility of unamplified spoken word from the proscenium to all 15,000 spectators, regardless of their seating.
We will board our ship, the new Cristal of The Louis Cruise Lines the afternoon of October 19th.
Cruise of the Aegean aboard the October 19-23. Our stops will be a Mykonos, a picturesque fishing-village on the bay. All of the buildings are in a stunning white. There will be time for wandering through the shops in the maze of narrow alley ways and streets or to sit at a café on the waterfront and enjoy a glass of wine and the beautiful view across the bay.
We’ll walk on the marble paths of the ancient city of Ephessus which contains the largest collection of Roman ruins East of the Mediterranean. The Library of Celsus, whose façade has been carefully reconstructed from all original pieces once held nearly 12,000 scrolls. The Theater with an estimated 44,000 seating capacity, is believed to be the largest outdoor theater in the ancient world.
Patmos, is the island where St John wrote his divinely inspired Revelation the Apocalypse, the last book of the New Testament. It is a place of pilgrimage for both Orthodox and western Christians, as well as sun and sand worshippers.
Rhodes famous worldwide for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The medieval Old Town of the City of Rhodes has been declared a World Heritage Site.
Crete is the home of the Minoan civilization with important archeological finds at Knossos, Phaistos and Gortys.It is an island with an exquisite 1,000-kilometer-long coastline dotted with numerous coves, bays and peninsulas, which afford a multitude of soft, sandy beaches along the beautifully blue Mediterranean Sea. We’ll visit the Temple of Lindos perched high on the ancient Acropolis.
Our farewell dinner aboard the ship will be the opportunity to review, rejoice and share our memories of this astounding culture with its beauty, magnificent art, and its history of giving so much to all of us in Western civilizations.
About our Program & Speakers
Odysseus & the Quest for Self
Sharon Delgado,
RN
Mood Disorders in Ancient Greek Poets & Playwrights
Diane Marsh,PhD.
Tragedy, Loss, and Transformation within Bruce Springsteen’s Work
Lorraine Mangione, PhD
A Psychoanalyst Interprets a Dream of Zorba (Anthony Quinn) the Greek
Marlene Paley, PhD & Jacques Winter, MD
Greek Gods and Modern Archetypes
Barry M Panter, M.D. Ph.D.
Maria Callas: Attachment Disorder, Mood Disorder, or Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Jo Kennedy, Psy.D. Clinical Psychologist
Please let us know if you are interested in being a speaker. Speakers receive a significant discount off the land cost of the trip.
Cost and Registration
The cost is $3295 + airfare per person double occupancy. Single Supplement (one person in a room) is $775. SOLD OUT
Cost includes breakfasts, welcoming and farewell dinners, deluxe hotel accommodations, deluxe air conditioned motor coach, baggage handling, admission to museums visited as a group, local guides where indicated, and admission to the lecture presentations. Not included: personal expenses, passport and visa fees, round trip airfare US to Athens. Please call The Travel Station (800 990 2282) for discounted group airfare.
If you are travelling singly, we will try to match you with another registrant if you wish. Please advise.
We reserve the right to make changes as necessary. AIMED is not responsible for loss, delay, inconvenience, accident, death, or other untoward events.
The American Institute of Medical Education
Fall Conference – GREECE
Athens, Delphi, Nauplia and Aegean Cruise
October 11 – 23, 2009
COMMERCIAL DISCLOSURE INFORMATION
The American Institute of Medical Education wishes to advise all participants of this conference that none of the presenters has a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any corporate organization that has offered financial support or educational grant for their presentation. Signed faculty disclosure forms are on file in the AIMED corporate office. Further, our faculty is aware of the responsibility to inform participants of off-label uses if discussed during any presentation.
Needs, Objectives & Outlines
Tuesday, October 13
Grand Bretagne Hotel, Athens
8:30 – 9:30 am
TITLE: The Greek Muses: Inspiration for Artists and Implications for Therapists
NEEDS: Many patients who seek psychotherapy suffer from a mood disorder, such as major depression or bipolar disorder. Researchers have found that writers, visual artists, and musicians have a relatively high incidence of mood disorders. Thus, clinicians need special knowledge and skills to work with such patients. Practitioners can benefit from an understanding of the creative process, of issues that arise in therapy with creative individuals, and of strategies for resolving creative block.
OBJECTIVES: At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
• Describe the nine Greek Muses
• Understand their role in Greek culture
• Appreciate their continuing impact on art through the ages
• Explain the link between creativity and mood disorders
• Articulate creativity-related issues in therapy
• Identify and resolve problems with creative block
SPEAKER: Diane T. Marsh, PhD
FORMAT: Didactic lecture enhanced by PowerPoint presentation
EVALUATION: Standard Evaluation Form
ABSTRACT: The nine Greek Muses were goddesses of various branches of the fine arts. Throughout history, the Muses have provided inspiration for artists, who often call upon their personal muse when undertaking creative work. Initially, the Muses will be described, including their origins, domains, and symbols. Additional topics include the role of the Muses in Greek culture and their portrayal in ancient and contemporary works of art. Implications for therapists will also be discussed, including the association between mood disorders and creativity, the issues that arise conducting therapy with creative individuals, and strategies for overcoming creative block. Video and audio clips will enrich the PowerPoint presentation.
9:30 –10:30 am
TITLE: The Psychotic Element in Everyday Group Thinking
NEEDS: We are often shocked to hear of groups that are said to take irrational actions, radically undermining the basic values on which they had previously relied. This is what some believe to have happened in the recent incidents of brutality by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib Prison and torture at Guantanamo Bay. The Holocaust and the Inquisition have been described as related acts of group irrationality. These events, however, can be explained another way. According to a Kleinian analysis of group dynamics, these group behaviors can be linked to a pre-existing form of psychotic-like thinking that already tends to characterize our social groups, thinking that stubbornly fends off members’ inquiry into the underlying principles of the group’s operation. Extreme incidents such as those at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay can then be seen to occur not because unusual events have led the group to suddenly become irrational, but rather because these events have led to an increase in the dimensions of psychotic-like thinking which already tends to characterize our social groups. The primary issue, then, is not that extraordinary conditions have led to a situation where things have gotten out of hand, but rather the unchecked existence of psychotic-like processes in the everyday operation of our social groups.
A larger question is: Can these psychotic tendencies in everyday groups be harnessed for creative rather than destructive purposes? Of particular interest to mental health professionals is the possibility that psychotic like processes operate in psychiatric hospital settings. These processes characterized by splitting, denial and projective identification exhibited by staff towards patients may undermine psychological treatment and perpetuate the psychotic process in patients. It may be these systems operate to sustain the overt expression of the psychotic process in so called “sick” individuals as a way of avoiding recognizing the psychotic potential in all groups (including hospital staff).
OBJECTIVES: At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
• Have a clear understanding of Kleinian theories of group process.
• Understand how psychotic process can emerge in everyday groups.
• Recognize how staff operating in psychiatric hospital settings may be particularly vulnerable to these processes.
• Have an understanding for how psychotic group processes in hospital settings can undermine the treatment of psychiatric patients.
• Understand strategies for reducing the psychotic process in everyday groups and harnessing its potential creative power.
SPEAKER: Diana Semmelhack, Psy.D., Associate Professor
Larry Ende, Ph.D., MSW, Writer and Therapist
FORMAT: Didactic lecture enhanced by PowerPoint presentation
EVALUATION: Standard Evaluation Form
OUTLINE:
I. What is the psychotic process and how does it operate in groups?
A. Overview of Kleinian Theory as it relates to the psychotic process in groups as defined by:
- Bion
- Jaques
- Menzies-Lyth
II. Clinical Vignettes from Real Psychiatric Hospital Settings
A. An Application of Theory:
- Bion
- Jaques
- Menzes-Lyth
III. Conclusion: How can groups avoid the psychotic
Process and can it be harness for creative rather than destructive purposes
-Winnicott and the Transitional Space
10:45 –11:45 am
TITLE: Hysteria Through The Ages
NEEDS: Exceedingly stressful environmental or personal circumstances may produce physical and neuropsychiatric symptoms without objective correlates. Hysterical afflictions are immensely costly and time-consuming, yet have been quite common in day-to-day clinical practice during the five millennia of the history of medicine. Although these syndromes have risen to the level of “diagnoses”, they have remained nebulous and controversial, with ubiquitous, expensive and ineffectual pharmaceutical treatments. While some clinicians may debate the existence of hysterical disorders, these vague and mostly subjective conditions have been vexing to scores of generations of physicians.
Neurology and psychiatry have embraced, albeit reluctantly, the management of these unfortunate people, but there is still much to be learned about them and medical “testing” is not the answer, because some tests have risks. Pharmacological misadventures are common in this population. Rogerian support and acceptance-based care of these people is essential for satisfactory outcomes. Often, the visit with “the doctor” is the only form of socialization these patients may have in their day, but an abundance of caution is necessary with this population. A review of the history of the concept of hysteria will be presented, from early Egyptian diagnoses, to Sappho and Hippocrates in Greece, to the “modern” formulations of Charcot and Freud. Anatomic and physiologic review of underlying mechanisms validating common hysterical symptoms will be discussed. Post-modern classification and management of prototypic manifestations of hysteria will be discussed (post-traumatic stress disorder, fibromyalgia, chronic latent tetany, chronic fatigue syndrome, pseudoseizures and VOMIT syndrome, among others).
OBJECTIVES: At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
• Have a clear understanding that hysteria has been present throughout recorded history and is still a significant factor in medical practice
• Have a grasp of common hysterical diagnoses
• Have an understanding of the anatomic and physiologic substrates of hysterical symptoms
• Have an accepting attitude toward hysterical patients
SPEAKER: Randall J. Bjork, M.D.
FORMAT: Didactic lecture (PowerPoint)
EVALUATION: Standard Evaluation Form
OUTLINE:
I. History of hysteria
II. Cultural influences
III. Conflict-based symptoms
IV. Importance of language, vocabulary and expression
V. Common clinical syndromes
VI. Management
VII. Pitfalls
11:45 – 12:45
TITLE: Maria Callas: Attachment Disorder, Mood Disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder?
NEEDS: According to John Bowlby, father of Attachment theory, “our lives from cradle to grave, revolve around intimate relationships.” Patients enter therapy with issues concerning relationship to others and to themselves. Maria Callas’s preverbal attachment experiences and her stance toward them provide an example of how early attachment patterns, such as abandonment, rejection, and emotional abuse can influence later relationships, feelings, and thinking. Understanding Maria’s life and these disorders from an Attachment Theory perspective can help the clinician/mental health professional gain a deeper understanding of the impact of early patterns of attachment on later life and functioning. A relational Attachment Theory perspective may also provide a focus upon which therapeutic goals may be considered.
OBJECTIVES: At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
• Identify basic Attachment Theory precepts
• Understand how initial patterns of preverbal relationships can impact an individual’s later ways of relating and habits of thinking and feeling.
• Have an initial understanding of how an Attachment Theory-based, relational approach to therapy may increase the individual’s awareness of their own stance toward their early experiences, ongoing ways of relating to others, and routine ways of feeling and thinking.
SPEAKER: Josephine. (Jo) B. Kennedy, Psy.D
FORMAT: Didactic lecture enhanced by Power Point presentation
EVALUATION: Standard Evaluation Form
OUTLINE: I. Introduction
A. Overview
B. 5 brief film clips:
1. Callas sings “O Mio Babbino Caro (Oh My Dear Pappa);
2. Franco Zefferilli, dir./prod., introduces Maria in an excerpt from a 1968 BBCinterview with Lord Harwood;
3. she is railing at reporters who are trying to get an interview;
4. backstage at Dallas Opera, where they had honored her requests for new production designs and costumes, she is a sarcastically reading a telegram from Rudolph Bing of the NY
Met, who refused to do the same. He and Maria were having a standoff. This telegram is canceling her contract;
5. In the last film clip, Maria is angrily responding to comments about her canceling her opera performance in Rome due to illness.
II. Maria Callas Life story
A. Definition – Three Tenets of Attachment Theory B. Chapter 1 – Childhood
C. Chapter 2 – Early studies and career in Greece
D. Chapter 3 – Peak career years & marriage
E. Chapter 4 – Onassis affair, decline in her career, his death
F. Chapter 5 – Reclusive years, her death
III. Clinical Implications
A. Attachment Disorder
B. Borderline Personality Disorder
C. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
D. Acute Depression Episodes
IV Summary and Conclusions
Wednesday, October 14
3:30 – 6:30 pm – Meeting Place – to be announced
TITLE: Afternoon Discussion Group
NEEDS: These interactive discussion group will give the participants an opportunity to share and discuss on a deeper and more detailed level the important psychosocial lessons taught in the morning lectures and so help them remove obstacles they might face in treating their patients. The Discussion Groups will be used to actively involve the participants in handling the concepts and principles presented, and to allow for greater elaboration and refinement of points made earlier
Friday, October 16
Amalia Hotel, Delphi
8:30 – 9:30
TITLE: Orpheus and Elvis: A Study of Cults and Cultures
NEEDS: We live within a culture that shapes us, often without our realizing it.
We need to question it and know the impact that it has on us, our patients and our children. The stories of Orpheus and Elvis have common elements though separated by centuries. Looking at the commonalities, we can understand more about our worship of celebrity and the impact it has on musicians and the women who worship them.
OBJECTIVES: At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Identify archetypal themes in Greek mythology, specifically
in the stories and cults related to Orpheus.
2. Apply archetypal themes from Greek culture to the lives
of patients.
3. Understand the importance of musicians in the psyche of
of adolescent girls and boys.
4. Have an additional tool in clinical work with adolescents.
SPEAKER: Mary Gresham, PhD
FORMAT: Didactic with A/V
EVALUATION: Standard Evaluation Form
OUTLINE:
I. Greek Mythology and archetypes
II. Greek Cultural themes applied to patients lives
III. Musicians, Mythology and adolescents
9:30 – 10:30
TITLE: Goddesses in Every Woman: Powerful Archetypes in Women’s Lives
NEEDS: The first important link I saw between mythological patterns and women’s psychology was provided by Jungian psychoanalyst, Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., in her book Goddesses in Every Woman. She maintained that women are influenced by powerful inner forces or archetypes which can be personified by the Greek goddesses. These archetypal goddesses are a useful shorthand for describing and analyzing many behavior patterns and personality traits. The complex characteristics of the Greek goddesses Artemis, Athena, Hestia, Hera, Demeter, and Aphrodite will be discussed.
OBJECTIVES: At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
Identify the characteristics of 6 Greek goddesses in order to illuminate their psychological strengths and weaknesses.
Have an understanding of feminine psychology using the insights provided by these goddesses.
Present a modern representation of these 6 archetypes.
Discuss the clinical application of understanding feminine archetypes.
SPEAKER: Vicki Dellaverson, LCSW, Ph.D.
FORMAT: Didactic lecture
EVALUATION: Standard Evaluation Form
OUTLINE:
I. Overview
II. Description of the Characteristics of the Greek Goddesses:
Artemis
Athena
Hestia
Hera
Demeter
Aphrodite
III. Modern Representation of the Greek Goddess Archetypes
IV. Clinical Examples
V. Summary and Conclusions
VI. Discussion
10:45 – 11:45
TITLE: The Peloponnesian War – How Could So Many Brilliant Minds Have Gotten It So Wrong?
NEEDS: The civil war of ancient Greece from 431 to 404 B.C. can be reviewed in several phases. The focus will be primarily from the Athenian perspective of supremacy, including the attitudes and decisions of its leaders. The time between 460 and 431 B.C., will be discussed as this was when the preliminary competition between Athens and Sparta for dominance of Greece began to take shape. The first phase of the war began with Athens attacking an ally of Sparta. The war raged on to 418 B.C. punctuated by periods of truce or peace, times just as critical as the periods of active conflict. Second from the Athenian attack on Syracuse in Sicily, led to the ultimate surrender of Athens to Sparta. This war reshaped Ancient Greece. Patterns revealed in the phases of this war will be explored along with the idea of Athenian narcissism and the interplay with their leaders over time, all contributing to the ultimate demise of Athens, the greatest civilization of its time – all in less than 40 years.
OBJECTIVES At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
• Better understand clients and how they resist treatment and healing. What does their resistance reveal?
• Understand the role of narcissism and how a health professional can use clues of this in treating patients.
• Understand how concepts we either hold too sacred or do not question at all, can lead to a life of chaos.
• Learn how to seek out alternate courses to viewing symptomology in order to find more effective ways to treat patients.
SPEAKER: Morris Kace, M.D.
FORMAT: Didactic lecture enhanced by PowerPoint presentation
EVALUATION: Standard Evaluation Form
ABSTRACT: The theme of narcissism will be explored and how it relates from ancient times to current day applications with our clients and patients. How resistance serves as a flag to where clients are stuck in their lives and what may be holding them in place. How patterns revealed in the Peloponnesian War have played out in modern society, politics, war and relationships. How we can gain clarity by applying them to our lives and our practices.
Sunday, October 18
Amalia Hotel, Nauplia
8:30 – 9:30 am
TITLE: Creativity and Neurological Disorder
NEEDS: Creativity is a unique gift in some individuals be it in the field of art or
science. It is an ability to create something extraordinary, and original from one’s imagination. It is the most fascinating of all human achievements. Creativity is the most magnified expression of the highest brain function. Unlike various known eloquent areas of the brain, which subserve specific functions such as speech, vision, sensory perception, emotion, memory and intellectual function, there is no center for creativity in the brain. Creativity is most likely an expression of global brain function and the mechanisms which account for it are poorly understood. This presentation will attempt to discuss the possible mechanisms of creativity. Neurological disorders of the brain which might alter creativity will be briefly enumerated and the possible mechanisms discussed.
OBJECTIVES: Following the presentation, the participants should:
• have a better understanding of the possible mechanisms underlying creativity,
• have a basic idea about the various centers subserving brain functions, and the brain mechanisms involving compensation and control of various brain functions,
• realize that neurological and psychiatric disorders alter creativity in various ways, sometimes destroying it, sometimes modifying it, sometimes enhancing it and sometimes leading to a de novo development of creativity in previously untrained individuals.
SPEAKER: Asok Lahiri, M.D.
FORMAT: Didactic lecture
EVALUATION: Standard Evaluation Form
ABSTRACT: Knowledge of this will be helpful for health care professionals who care for patients and family when dealing with neurological disorders, because in the face of apparently devastating brain disorders causing depression and despair, recognizing persistent creativity and de novo creativity potentials may be of some solace to the patient and the family.
9:30 – 10:30 am
TITLE: The Use of Creativity in the Treatment of Dissociative Patients
NEEDS: Treating Dissociative Disorders is a complex process that involves numerous t reatment modalities. Often the dissociative patient lacks the words to express the history and emotions that surrounds the traumatic past. Consequently the trauma therapist must utilize other avenues to obtain the information and discharge the affect from the patient. Creative media such as art, music, poetry and novellas are alternative methods to facilitate the unraveling of the patient’s psychodynamics and to move the therapy forward toward a successful resolution of the traumas that created the dissociative disorder. Knowledge and understanding of these adjunctive treatment methods will assist the clinician in advancing the therapy with dissociative patients.
OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
• Have a defined understanding of the importance of alternative treatment methods with dissociative patients
• Understand how adjunctive treatment methods build and strengthen the therapeutic alliance
• Recognize how adjunctive treatment methodologies can strengthen and actually advance “talk therapy”
• Learn how to recognize salient psychological material imbedded in the creative productions of dissociative patients
SPEAKER: Joyce H. Vesper, Ph.D.
FORMAT: Power Point Presentation in Workshop format
EVALUATION: Standard Evaluation Form
OUTLINE: Explanation of Dissociative Disorders
A Creative work
1. Poetry
2. Art
3. Prose
II Emotional impact of unresolved trauma
A Creative work
1. Art
2. Music
3. Poetry
III Determinants of Cognition
A Creative work
1. Art
2. Poetry
B Thinking patterns
1. Art
2. Poetry
IV Beginning the integration process
A Creative work
1. Poetry
2. Music
3. Art
V Integration of differentiated processes
A Creative work
1. Poetry
2. Music
10:45 – 11:45
TITLE: The Patriotism and Courage of Woman Warrior: Manto Magdalena Mavrogenous 1796-1848
NEEDS: Extraordinary times and events can create/provoke unexpected reactions in an ordinary individual to undergo extraordinary change. One’s background and familial and social role models can heavily influence clients in their behaviors, in the choices they make. Presented with the circumstance of impending war, Manto Magdalena Mavrogenous of Mykonos, Greece chose to become deeply and profoundly involved in The Greek Revolution against Turkish rule. It required enormous self-sacrifice, persistence, and determination far beyond what others usually encounter in their lives. Her strength of character and emotional resources will help the clinician in inspiring their clients to use her as a model of change in a positive direction despite the costs.
OBJECTIVES: At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to
• Have a clear understanding of the ability of an individual to develop confidence and clarity about their chosen actions.
• Understand how these traits can emerge in a person.
• Recognize the emotional and genetic components of courage/patriotism.
• Have an awareness of how place influences one’s life choices.
• Have an awareness of adaptive and maladaptive aspects of the elements of courage and love of country.
• Have a better understanding of treatment modalities for a client who lacks assertiveness and self-confidence.
SPEAKER: Ruth G. Fowler, M.Ed., LPC, MCC
FORMAT: Didactic lecture enhanced by PowerPoint presentation
EVALUATION: Standard Evaluation Form
OUTLINE:
I. Definitions of Courage- ability to act according to one’s beliefs
• Self-esteem
• Self-confidence and assertiveness
I. Brief biography of Manto Mavrogenous
II. Influence of Place on the character of Manto Mavrogenous
III. Clinical Aspects
• Treatment for the non-assertive, anxiety-ridden client
• Psychotherapy and pharmacological possibilities
IV. Summary and conclusions
Tuesday, October 20
Cristal Cruise Ship
10:00 – 11:00 am
TITLE: Poetry and the Evocation of Empathy
NEEDS: Poetry hears
Poetry speaks
How do we listen?
What do we hear?
What do we learn?
Why do we care?
Empathy, the ability to share in the emotional world of another, is vital to overcoming isolation and misunderstanding. Having the awareness and direct experience that others can empathize with us can be healing. The reading and writing and sharing of poetry can encourage empathy through a witnessing of the self as part of the human condition across all time and space. Poetry as a therapeutic modality is health promoting, readily available and allows creativity to help address mental health problems.
OBJECTIVES: At the end of the presentation participants will be able to:
• Have a clear understanding of the concept of empathy,
how empathy develops, and its importance
• Be aware of the mythic and spiritual origins of poetry,
and the relationship between poetry and medicine/healing
• Have an awareness of poetry as a therapeutic modality,
with knowledge of skills and methods utilized
• Be able to describe how poetry therapy encourages the
development of empathy
• Experience poems across time and place that can be powerful
agents of self growth and transformation
SPEAKER: Diane Kaufman, MD.
FORMAT: Didactic lecture enhanced by Power Point presentation.
EVALUATION: Standard Evaluation Form
OUTLINE:
I. Origins of Empathy
II. Origins of Poetry
III. Poetry and Therapy
IV. Person as Poet
V. Witnessing Self and Others
VI. Healing Through Poetry
VII. Poetry Therapy Resources
VIII. Concluding Remarks
11:00 – 12 noon
TITLE: Dream Interpretation as Illustrated by a Dream of
Anthony Quinn (Zorba The Greek)
NEEDS: As mental health professionals, we use many tools to help unlock and untangle the numerous emotional and psychological knots binding our clients to self-destructive patterns of behavior. A useful technique for exploring the unconscious mind is dream interpretation. Intriguing new work suggests possible links between dreams and creativity. In addition to indications that dreams may help ordinary people find creative solutions to everyday problems, recent research shows that they may also contain the seeds of actual creation.
OBJECTIVES: At the end of the presentation, participates
will be able to:
·
* Have a clear understanding of the psychoanalytic technique of
dream interpretation
* Know how to draw on historical information and personal
comments to accurately understand both the manifest
content and the latent meanings of a dream.
* Gain a greater understanding of the process of dream
interpretation.
SPEAKERS: Marlene Gershman Paley, PhD. and Jacques Winter, MD.
FORMAT: Didactic presentation
EVALUATION: Standard Evaluation Form
OUTLINE:
I. Discussion of Creativity
II. Use of dream interpretation in psychoanalysis
III. Plot of “Zorba the Greek”
IV. Biography of Anthony Quinn
V. Dream of Anthony Quinn
VI. Dream Interpretation
12:15 – 1:15 pm
TITLE: A Jungian Interpretation of Psychic Disintegration in Alessandro Striggio’s and Claudio Monteverdi’s First Opera, Orfeo (1607)
NEEDS: The ability to integrate conflicting emotions and find a balance between emotional extremes is a basic function of a well-balanced personality. In Jungian psychology, the individual must undertake this task from the vantage point of his or her personality type and make use of the unconscious as a means of dealing with severe emotional strain in order to find unanticipated solutions to that emotional stress and grow into a deeper sense of awareness of the Self and its ability to cope with the events of one’s life. The failure to find a reasonable balance between emotional extremes and the inability to gain a deeper understanding of oneself and one’s possibilities for adapting to new, unwanted circumstances (what Jung called “Individuation”) can lead to severe emotional disorder and even psychic disintegration. The mythological story of Orfeo, as set to words and music by Alessandro Striggio and Claudio Monteverdi in 1607, is an archetypal example and demonstration of these psychological failures and the resulting psychic disintegration, made concrete through text and music.
OBJECTIVES: At the end of this presentation, participants
will be able to:
Understand the basic concepts of Jungian psychology (unconscious, psychological types, anima, projection of the unconscious, individuation)
Relate to them in the context of a concrete example, the opera Orfeo Monteverdi.
Gain powerful tools for assisting distressed patients to find within themselves the ability to cope successfully with that distress.
SPEAKER: Jeffrey Kurtzman, PhD., Professor of Music, Washington
University in St. Louis & Barry Panter MD PhD
FORMAT: Lecture with video examples drawn from the opera.
EVALUATION: Standard evaluation form
OUTLINE:
1. Synopsis of Story of Orfeo
2. Basic concepts in Jungian psychology—Unconscious,
psychological typology, anima, projection, individuation
3. Description of Orfeo as introverted thinking type with
intuition
4. Explain inability to come to grips with emotional extremes
as failure of inferior function
5. Example of conscious emotional expression—Musical Ex. 1
6. Euridice as product of Orfeo’s anima projection
7. Euridice’s response to Orfeo –Musical Ex. 2
8. Reversal of fortune and introduction of disorder by
Euridice’s death—Musical Exx. 3 & 4
9. Orfeo’s rationalization of emotion and plan of action—
Musical Ex. 5
10. Orfeo’s use of conscious skill to try to gain access to the
Underworld—Musical Ex. 6
11. Orfeo’s outburst of instinctive emotion and response of
Persephone—Musical Ex. 7
12. Orfeo’s encounter with the unconscious as represented
by the Underworld
13. Orfeo’s reaction to winning back Euridice and failure
at individuation—Musical Ex. 8
14. Orfeo’s second loss of Euridice and psychic disintegration—
Musical Ex. 9
15. Summary of Orfeo’s psychological challenges and failures
16. Apollo as Deus ex Machina, moral of story and Jung’s
“Third Way” to resolving psychological dilemmas
2:00 – 4:00 pm Meeting Room – to be announced
TITLE: Afternoon Discussion Group
NEEDS: These interactive discussion group will give the participants an opportunity to share and discuss on a deeper and more detailed level the important psychosocial lessons taught in the morning lectures and so help them remove obstacles they might face in treating their patients. The Discussion Groups will be used to actively involve the participants in handling the concepts and principles presented, and to allow for greater elaboration and refinement of points made earlier
GROUP LEADER: Chosen from the faculty
FORMAT: Interactive Group Discussions
EVALUATION: Standard Evaluation Form
