Since its inception, psychoanalysts and analytical psychologists have used the reductionistic methods of science to explain both human development and analytic practice. The most recent iteration of this tendency uses attachment as the explanatory principle. This disposition has created theories that understand the human solely as an organism. While this is a satisfactory way to view human development, it is not appropriate for the practice of analysis. In this context, the human must be viewed as a person that is explicable in his/her own terms. Interpretation based on reductionism eliminates personhood. Humans appear as persons in “the feeling of what happens” or of “being there”, and, on the basis of this experience, develop stories in which their personhood evolves. See the related paper by Michael Horne (Word format).

In this workshop the psychoanalytic, philosophical and neuroscientific basis for this view of the human as person in the work of Jung, Winnicott, Klein, Bion, Heidegger and Damasion will be discussed, and its relevance for analytic practice will be considered.

When: Saturday, April 24, 10:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Where: Seattle Art Museum

Fees:

• $35.00 for full and associate members
• $70.00 for supportive members and guests of members
• 6 CEUs available
• Note: Two-hour members-only consultation on Sunday, April 25th — $20 fee, 2 CEUs, time and place to be announced.

Michael Horne, M.D. is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Seattle. He is a member and the training director in the NPIAP, and an assistant editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. He is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UW where he teaches contemporary psychoanalysis. He is interested in using philosophy and theology to explicate psychoanalytic metapsychology and processes of psychic transformation.

Directions to Seattle Art Museum, 100 University Street, Seattle, WA

From 1-5 heading south, take the Union exit. Turn left. on 2nd and right at Seneca. Turn right again at 1st Ave. From 1-5 heading north, exit at Seneca and turn right on 1st Avenue.