January 2020 Scientific Meeting

 
'Intuition,’ from its Latin, intueri, is defined as ‘to look at or into.’ Can this evocative idea lead to a deeper, more useful understanding of intuition as a quite natural way that we work as psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists? Is intuition an irrational function not reliant upon reason or a psychic process that "sees around corners", as Jung would say? Does intuition encompass the capacity to see endless, emerging levels of being and "the truth of things", as Heidegger conceived of it? The presenter does not presume to have answers—only questions by which to survey the group’s own unique experiences with intuition, in and outside of the clinical hour. The presenter's observations of personal clinical phenomena and facilitation of the group’s questions and discussion about clinical vignettes aims to deepen the community conversation.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will enlarge upon their understanding of intuition and the part it plays broadly in psychotherapy, in the arts, in philosophy, and in scientific invention.

2. Participants will acquire an experiential understanding of intuition from participation in a group discourse 'thought experiment'.

3. Participants will engage in bringing psychoanalytic awareness to temporal barriers to intuition that impinge upon thinking, emotional life, and relationships.


About the Presenter:

Kenneth Kimmel, LMFT, Jungian Analyst, has been in private psychotherapy practice in Seattle for thirty-five years. He is a founding director of the New School for Analytical Psychology, former chair of the InterInstitute Committee of Seattle, and author of Eros and the Shattering Gaze: Transcending Narcissism (Fisher King Press, 2011).

Location - NPSI at 2701 First Avenue, Suite 120; Seattle, WA 98121 (next door to Chase Bank).

Please enter through the side (north) door adjacent to the small street level parking lot.

7:00 - 7:30 pm - Socializing
7:30 - 9:00 pm - Presentation and Discussion

Continuing Education Credits - 1.5 Hours

NPSI Candidates are welcome to attend meetings at no charge. However, preregistration is encouraged, as space is limited, by sending an email to admin@npsi.us.com.