Date

Jun 24 2023
Expired!

Time

UTC+1
10:30 am - 1:00 pm

Local Time

  • Timezone: America/New_York
  • Date: Jun 24 2023
  • Time: 5:30 am - 8:00 am

Cost

£30.00
John F Miller

Location

Online-Zoom

Organiser

Society of Analytical Psychology
Society of Analytical Psychology
Website
https://jungian.directory/iaap-organisations/sap/

Updated 03 Sept 2021. Jungian Trauma part 3 (2022)

Do You Read Me?

Learning disabilities and emotional problems in the child population are rising exponentially. The Children’s Society estimates that in one in six children have significant mental health problems. Over a thousand children are permanently excluded from state primary schools because they are uncontrollable or unteachable, yet there are no educational facilities or treatments for them. But although lack of resources and denial of the problem are significant contributory factors, there is a much deeper problem embedded in our culture: the denial of psychic reality and of meaning.

This is particularly evident in the response to children with difficulties in acquiring basic skills of reading and writing. My thesis is that concepts such as dyslexia and ADHD are both conceptually flawed and unscientific and are unconsciously motivated by the general desire not to try and understand the individuality of each child by treating them as if they were electronic devices with a faulty circuit.

I illustrate my discussion with examples from 40 years of practising educational psychology as well as analysis of adolescents and adults.

The event is finished.

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