Date and Learning Objectives
Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Pacific time
Location: The Ark Lodge Theater, 4816 Rainier Ave. S, Seattle, WA 98118. The concession stand will be open for purchase of food and drink.
Cost: Please register at: Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study – Distinguished Speaker Series
PsychoCinematics Goal
- To identify how the art of film and the art of psychotherapy can enrich and inform one another in ways that will be useful to clinical practice
Objectives for the Series
Through film, discussion, and readings, participants will gain greater knowledge of
- The spiritual, philosophical, environmental, historico-political, gender and cultural themes that currently affect our world and practice
- How keystone concepts in psychoanalysis are being rethought and sometimes challenged by contemporary, interdisciplinary thinking, which film allows us to see in a unique way.
About our Facilitator
Jason Wirth, PhD, is professor of philosophy at Seattle University and works and teaches in the areas of Continental Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Environmental Philosophy. His recent books include Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy (Indiana 2019), Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis (SUNY 2017), a monograph on Milan Kundera (Commiserating with Devastated Things, Fordham 2015), Schelling’s Practice of the Wild (SUNY 2015), and the co-edited volume (with Bret Davis and Brian Schroeder), Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (Indiana 2011). He is the associate editor and book review editor of the journal, Comparative and Continental Philosophy. He is currently completing a manuscript on the cinema of Terrence Malick as well as a work of ecological philosophy called Turtle Island Anarchy.
For information, please contact:
Elizabeth Sikes (interconnectedcounseling@gmail.com) or John Allemand (jallemandpsych@gmail.com)
