Celebrating the Danielsen Institute’s 60th Anniversary – The 2012 Merle Jordan Conference
The Skillful Soul of the Psychotherapist
Master Clinicians and Theologians in Dialogue
October 7-8, 2012, Times TBD, Boston University School of Management, 595 Commonwealth Avenue
What are the core personal, religious, and spiritual values and beliefs of the master psychotherapist and what role do these play in their clinical work and identity? Please don’t miss the opportunity to take part in a rich and extensive conversation that looks at this topic through the personal experiences and clinical case material of three master clinicians, with responses from a renowned group of clinicians, scholars, and theologians. Join us in person or online with free live webcast.
Featured speakers for the event will be:
Nancy McWilliams – Visiting Professor, Clinical Visiting Faculty at Rutgers University, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. Author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process (1994), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner’s Guide (2004). Past president of Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the APA
Salman Akhtar – Director, Adult Outpatient Services; Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College. Author and editor of titles including: Listening to Others: Developmental and Clinical Aspects of Empathy and Attunement (2007), The Crescent and the Couch: Cross-Currents Between Islam and Psychoanalysis (2008), and Turning Points in Dynamic Psychotherapy: Initial Assessment, Boundaries, Money, Disruptions and Suicidal Crises (2009).
David Wallin – Clinical psychologist. Author of Attachment in Psychotherapy (Guilford, 2007) and coauthor (with Stephen Goldbart) of Mapping the Terrain of the Heart: Passion, Tenderness, and the Capacity to Love (Jason Aronson, 1996)
Respondents include:
Celia Brickman, Director of Education at the Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago and practicing clinician. Author of Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis (2003)
Thomas Cottle, Professor of Education, Boston University. Sociologist and licensed clinical psychologist. Author of A Sense of Self: The Work of Affirmation (2003) and When the Music Stopped: Discovering my Mother (2004)
Marie Hoffman, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology (Adjunct) in the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Brookhaven Center for Counseling and Development in Allentown, PA. Author of Toward Mutual Recognition (2010)
Chris Schlauch, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology and Religion and Psychology of Religion, Boston University. Author of Faithful Companioning: How Pastoral Counseling Heals (1995).
Daniel Shaw, Teacher and supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Licensed social worker and certified psychoanalyst. Author of Enter Ghosts: The Loss of Intersubjectivity in Clinical Work With Adult Children of Pathological Narcissist.
Phillis Sheppard, Associate Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Theology, Boston University. Certified psychoanalyst. Author of Self, Culture and Others in Womanist Practical Theology (2011)
This event will include an opportunity for audience questions, live and remote viewing, and a cocktail reception with speakers and respondents. The conference is sponsored by the Danielsen Institute, through generous gifts to the Dr. Merle Jordan Fund, and in partnership with the John Templeton Foundation and Metanexus Institute.