Ethics and the Inevitable Interface of Our Personal and Professional Selves

Friday, Oct 31
1 - 5 pm
$25 ($20 Jung Center members)
4.0 Ethics CEs (LPC, LMFT, LCSW)
NOTE: Enrollment limited to mental health professionals

Explore how the person of the therapist—whom we often expect to disappear in therapy—deeply influences the therapeutic process. Psychotherapy is an endeavor which places the psychotherapist in a situation that can often feel bizarre and conflictual. The therapist is a practitioner, trained in theory and technique, while also a person, with a complex psychological makeup and personal life that are inevitably evoked in relationship with the patient. Often, the most obscure aspect of therapy is the person of the therapist.

In this workshop, using clips from the film Prime and the HBO series In Treatment, we will discuss the many sides of issues that arise from the interface of the personal and professional selves of the therapist engaged in the therapeutic moment.

Ronald Schenk, PhD, LCSW, Jungian analyst received his Master's Degree in Social Work from Washington University, St. Louis, and initial training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in New Haven. He lived and worked with the Navajo Native Americans before receiving a Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Dallas, specializing in Phenomenological Psychology. He recently served as president of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and continues to serve as a senior training analyst. He is currently in private practice in Dallas and Houston, and his interests are in clinical training, cultural psychology, and post-modernism. He has written three books: The Soul of Beauty: A Psychological Investigation of Appearance; Dark Light: The Appearance of Death in Everyday Life; and The Sunken Quest, The Wasted Fisher, The Pregnant Fish: Post-modern Reflections on Depth Psychology.

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