Meditation and Psychotherapy Seminar
Leader(s):
Rudy Bauer, Ph.D.This course is offered through a series of two hour sessions both onsite as well as on the internet. CEU Credits for mental health professionals is only offered on site. The course includes the following:
- Understanding and experiencing the meditative awareness state in light of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott's concept of transitional relatedness.
- The qualities of the meditational awareness field and their relationship to the support and organization of the personality.
- The spaciousness dimension of the field of meditative awareness and its relation to the thinking and affective functions of the mind.
- The energetic dimension of the field of meditative awareness and its relation to depression and states of collapse.
- The integrative capacity of the meditative state and its usefulness in integrating disassociative states and the cognitive affective functions.
- The multidimensionality of the meditative awareness field and its relationship both to the self object function and the archetypal dimension described by the Jungians.

