May 12, 2010

Music as Metaphor: Harmony and Discord in Analytic Process
Presented by: Carolyn Bates, PhD
1.5 CE Credit

From Debussey to Deep Purple, Haydn to Jimi Hendrix, the language of music makes “an aural impact and in so doing may allow us to hear affective resonances in the echo of what is fundamentally inaudible.” This presentation will explore the language of music as metaphor for the harmonic and disharmonic movements of affective states within the analytic process, with emphasis on the dynamics of nonverbal transference and countertransference.

Carolyn Bates is a Diplomate Jungian analyst with special interests in depth psychology and the expression of cultural mythologies and folklore in clinical material. She has an analytic practice in Austin and has offered presentations, workshops and classes on dream interpretation, the psychological meanings of pilgrimage, and synchronicity and trauma, to the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA), the Jung Societies of Waco, New Orleans, Memphis, and Austin, and the Jung Educational Center of Houston. She currently serves as a senior training analyst in the IRSJA and is both a faculty member and the Training Coordinator of the Texas Seminar of the IRSJA.

Learning Objective: Participants will increase their understanding of how metaphors serve as experiential and symbolic translators of analytic dynamics.

Free parking is available in the Seton parking garage across Medical Parkway next to Austin Medical Plaza.  You may park in the main Seton garage for a fee.