Offered online through The Jung Center of Houston
What do we accomplish in our work with others? How do we know when we have been useful? Deeply embedded in mental health training and culture are assumptions about what and how we see. The labels we use, expressed in our diagnoses and theoretical assumptions, create psychic structures – and barriers – even as we believe they impartially describe reality. And when we imagine the destination of the work in terms of disorder and cure, we risk trapping those in our care within constricted realities and impossible futures. In this workshop, we will explore the ethical implications of some of the most basic assumptions in contemporary mental health practice through film, lecture, and discussion.