Unlock the synergy of philosophy and psychology in a transformative webinar workshop series designed for psychologists and mental health professionals.
Psychology, psychotherapy, and philosophical reflection highlight the role that moods and emotions play in developing insight and managing personal transformation.
Just as psychologists and psychotherapists deal with moods of anxiety, depression, and feelings of low self-worth, different philosophers can offer a rich understanding of the role of emotions in responding to mental health challenges. Starting with Plato and running through the history of philosophy, a pattern emerges indicating how moods of anxiety, perplexity, despair, confusion, curiosity, and wonder, are triggers for philosophical reflection. Working effectively with these moods, philosophical reflection provides frameworks for enabling clients to transform these moods into opportunities for them to see, do, and be, in the world in much more fulfilling ways.
Each philosopher, just as each psychotherapy, provides a process for working with healing and transformation. Socratic questioning, for example, is a process of dealing with perplexity and Martin Heidegger shows how phenomenology and hermeneutics provide processes for working with questions of meaning, anxiety, and the point of existence.
This series of online workshops aims to provide psychologists and psychotherapists with a framework and added set of skills for working effectively with the disruptive moods that clients bring into therapy.
