“The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing”: Lecture by Richard Kradin, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

“The Herald Dream”: Workshop by Richard Kradin, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30.

Both events will take place in the Adamson Wing Auditorium, Baker Hall 136A • Carnegie Mellon University• 100 Frew Street • Pittsburgh, PA

in co-sponsorship with the Greater Pittsburgh Psychological Association

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“The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing”: Lecture
The placebo response plays a critical role in the history and efficacy of both medical and psychological therapeutics. Despite this and occasional references to its curious nature in the literature, little effort has been directed towards explicating its mode of action. This lecture will explore the characteristics of placebo responses, their role in the history of therapeutics, and their neurobiological underpinnings. The importance of the placebo response as an innate and likely genetically determined capacity that is molded during early attachment dynamics in response to early stressors will be examined. The importance of the Jungian complex as a bridge between psyche and the body and in the construction of self will be explored as an explanatory model for how placebo responses act. Finally, techniques that are likely to promote placebo effects will be discussed

“The Herald Dream”: Workshop
Dreams play a critical role in depth psychology and assume a prominent role in Jungian psychotherapy. This seminar will examine the importance of the structural model of the psyche and attitudes towards the potential meaning of unconscious process via an exploration of the first dream presented in psychotherapy. It will be demonstrated that in virtually all cases, the herald dream encapsulates the core psychological conflict of the patient and when properly examined is highly indicative of psychological diagnosis, prognosis, and the likely trajectory of the treatment. How to work with herald dream within transference/counter transference dynamics will be emphasized. Examples of herald dreams will be offered based on the speaker’s text (Herald Dream, Routledge 2006) and attendees are invited to bring their own examples for discussion by the group.

Richard L. Kradin, M.D., MS (Chemical Physics), MLA (Religion, Harvard University), DTMH ( London School of Tropical Medicine), IAAP, is a member of the Departments of Medicine, Pathology, and Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Training Analyst at the CG Jung Institute-Boston. He has authored over 200 articles in the medical and psychoanalytical literature, and four texts including The Herald Dream (2006, Karnac) and The Placebo Response (2008, Routledge). A text on psychosomatic disorders will be released in 2012 (Routledge). He is the recipient of the Gradiva Award in psychoanalysis and lectures internationally on a variety of topics. He maintains a private practice in Jungian analysis in Boston.

DONATIONS:
Friday: Member $20 • Non-Member $25 • Senior/Full-time Student $15
Saturday: Member $35 • Non-Member $45 • Senior/Full-time Student $25
Both: Member $50 • Non-Member $60 • Senior/Full-time Student $35

Continuing Education for Psychologists: The lecture is offered for 2 hours continuing education credit. The workshop is offered for 3 hours continuing education credit. $5.00 additional fee per credit. The Pittsburgh Jung Society is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Pittsburgh Jung Society maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Grievances can be directed to Steven T. Hesky, Ph.D., Chair, PJS Continuing Education Committee, 401 Shady Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA • 412-361-2850.

The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing Objectives: 1) To define and identify placebo responses; 2) To be able to list and describe clinical effects of the placebo response; 3) To be able to explain and describe the neurobiological basis of the placebo response, and explain the impact of personal relationships and personal psychology upon the placebo response

The Herald Dream Objectives: 1) To understand how to use the first dream in treatment in order to deepen the therapist’s understanding of the patient and his or her reasons for seeking help. To be able to give reasons as to why this first dream is particularly important; 2) To be able to give clinical examples of the use of the Herald Dream to make diagnoses and prognoses for treatment; 3) To become able to show how dreams are useful and relevant to making interpretations about the patient’s patterns of behavior, thinking, feeling, and relating to others, including the patient’s way of relating to the therapist.

This program is appropriate for psychologists at all skill levels and for others who are interested in psychology.

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