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Anthroposophic Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics September 13th - 16th, 2012 Mental illnesses such as severe melancholy or psychosis (“lunacy”, “madness”, etc.) have been observed in all cultures for centuries. Since the 19th century, however, we can ascertain an increasing prevalence of certain kinds of illnesses – neurosis, personality disorders, eating disorders, psychic trauma, attention deficit disorder and much else – that are linked to the challenges of contemporary life. Rudolf Steiner called them “cultural illnesses”. One possibility for countering them, he said, would be for people to return to spirituality, for them to develop impulses for an independent spiritual life within themselves (The Karma of Untruthfulness, lecture of January 1, 1917, Rudolf Steiner Press 1988, GA 174).
The distress found in today’s psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics continues to stem from the insufficiently explained relationship between body, soul and spirit. A viable perspective for future mental health teaching would recognize the entire body as an organ mirroring the life of the soul and spirit, and would regard the “I” as an independent spirit.
At our annual conference this year we would like to tackle the main features of anthroposophic mental health teaching (in lectures), and devote working groups, discussion groups and plenary sessions to fruitful exchanges of therapeutic approaches and experiences.
Your donation can help colleagues from financially and structurally weaker regions to take part in this specialist, interdisciplinary event, the results of which will ultimately benefit their patients. Please indicate as the purpose of your donation: 60445/1267, JK 2012 |
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