65th
Annual Conference
Thursday, February 21
All-Day Workshops
10:00 A.M.-1:15 P.M. & 2:45-6:00 P.M.
Workshop
1a
Shakespeare, the Dream, Modern Neuroscience and the Group Therapist
in the 21st Century
Chair:
Walker Shields, M.D., CGP, FAGPA,
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, Massachusetts
Imaginative literature and new
theories in neuroscience may inspire us to find new creative
transformations through use of dream thoughts in our groups. Through
study groups in response to selections from Hamlet and As
You Like It as well as in discussion, we will explore this
hypothesis.
didactic-experiential-demonstration-sharing of work experiences
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Appraise the
recent revival in modern neurobiology of Freud’s early theory of
memory and evaluate the potential in group therapy for memory
re-transcription with change in old, obstructive, and resistant
patterns of perception and behavior.
2. Cite the
importance of affective turbulence as the trigger to open categories
of memory, (Modell; Bion), with associated unconscious yet
influential fantasies and thereby to invite new freedom in
unconscious cognitive metaphoric processes within the self.
3. Describe how
hypotheses about group-as-a-whole phenomena may lead to the
discovery of influential unconscious memory and fantasy with
affective here-and-now significance for individuals within the group
and thereby promote re-contextualization of memory with new creative
solutions for engaging with others.
4. Characterize
the evocative value of metaphors from the imaginative literature of
Shakespeare, and the world of the dream in relation to the theories
of modern neuroscience in the quest for new approaches to the
dilemmas of inter-subjective life in the 21st Century.
Course References:
1. Bloom, H.
(1994). “Freud: A Shakespearian Reading”. In
The Western Canon: The
Books and School of the Ages. (pp. 345-366). New York: Riverhead.
2. Edelman, G. (2004).
Wider than the sky: the phenomenal gift of
consciousness. New Haven: Yale University Press
3. Modell, A.H. (2003).
Imagination and the Meaningful Brain,
Cambridge: Bradford/MIT Press.
4. Shields, W.
(2006). “Dream interpretation, Affect, and the Theory of Neuronal
Group Selection: Freud, Winnicott, Bion, and Modell”. International
Journal of Psychoanalysis 87: 1509-27.
5. Winnicott, D.W.
(1971).
Playing and Reality, New York: Basic Books.
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