Approaching Infinity: Contemporary Analytic Work with a Spiritual Perspective

Mark Sullivan
Independent study
Online

Overview

Where Sigmund Freud oriented to helping patients achieve psychic “health”, Carl Jung and Wilfred Bion both looked more to helping patients become who they really are. Both thinkers thought in terms of an ever-present struggle within each person to come more fully into being. In this seminar, we look at the way Jung and Bion, in different ways, each have contributed to an emerging contemporary approach to analytic work, where the task is less about developing insight into one’s issues than it is about wresting oneself from the infinite into a more incarnate form that expresses one’s truer, deeper self.

  1. Identify and describe in detail 4 specific spiritual movements commonly seen in both patients as well as therapists seeking more emotional wholeness.
  2. Identify in specific and concrete ways factors in the transference/countertransference that prevent patients from advancing in psychotherapy.
  3. Compare and contrast the differences between a left brain and right brain framework as a client is working on such areas as imagery, poetry, and music.
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