The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of The Contemporary Freudian Society
Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
Six-Session Program
Instructor: Jeffrey B. Rubin, PhD
Dates: September 14, 21, 28
October 5, 19, 26, 2015
Times: 10:30am – 12:00pm
Location: Upper West Side, NYC
We live in a world where increasing numbers of mental health professionals meditate, and in which meditators, including Buddhist teachers, avail themselves of psychotherapy. There is a burgeoning interest in the relationship between these two disciplines of transformation.
Both psychoanalysis and Buddhism are concerned with alleviating suffering and illuminating human identity. Each has a “treatment plan” as well as a diagnosis of what truly afflicts us. And both can help us lessen anguish through cultivating clarity and equanimity, while exploring what it means to be fully human. Each can aid us in more completely inhabiting our lives and experiencing greater intimacy and wisdom. The relationship between the Western psychotherapeutic and Eastern meditative traditions, several decades old, has been a wonderful gift to the world – illuminating the causes of human suffering, as well as offering paths to healing and transformation. Increasingly, practitioners of each are using – even blending – insights and practices from both, leading to mutual enrichment. For example, therapists who meditate consistently report that it cultivates greater self-awareness, compassion, and wisdom. The “marriage” of Western psychotherapeutic and Eastern contemplative disciplines promises a drug-free way of addressing painful and stubborn psychological conditions – from anxiety and depression to personality disorders and drug addictions.
In this program we will explore potentials and obstacles to integrating psychoanalytic and meditative perspectives on listening and working with emotional conflicts and trauma.
Jeffrey B. Rubin, PhD practices psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy and teaches meditation in New York City and Bedford Hills, New York. Considered one of the leading integrators of the Western psychoanalytic and Eastern meditative traditions, he is the author of six books and has presented on psychoanalysis, psychoanalysis and Buddhism, and meditation throughout the United States and abroad.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this program participants will be able to:
1. Define the differences in goals and methods between psychoanalysis and Buddhism.
2. Delineate how meditation can enrich psychoanalytic listening.
3. Articulate how psychoanalytic understandings of unconscious meaning and communication can enrich the meditative process.
Continuing Education Contact Hours:
The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0087. Contact Hours are granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program and completed evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking Contact Hours to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of this program and evaluation form, participants will be granted 9 Contact Hours.
Program Fee:
CFS Members – $270
Non-CFS Members – $320
Candidates and Students with Valid ID – $100
Full refund 30 days prior to program date
For further information regarding this course, please contact Vivian Eskin, veskinphd@me.com or 212-724-4785
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