by LAWRENCE STAPLES, MBA, Ph.D.
“Guilt With a Twist: The Promethean Way”
LECTURE:
Friday, April 24, 2009 7:00 - 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC, St. Louis, MO
Fee: Friends - $15 Others - $20
Full-time Students - $10 2 CEUs
This lecture presents an unconventional view of the role of sin and guilt in our lives. In common parlance, the words “good” and “guilt” do not belong together. Personal and clinical experience, however, have repeatedly confirmed for Dr. Staples the useful role that sin and guilt can play in our psychological development. Examples might include divorces, giving up family-approved careers, or expressing qualities previously rejected as unacceptable, such as selfishness or the contra-sexual side of ourselves. Dr Staples concludes we MUST eat forbidden fruit and bear guilt if we are to grow and reach our full potential.
“Dealing With Guilt's Contradictions”
WORKSHOP:
Saturday, April 25, 2009 9:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.,
First Congregational Church UCC, St. Louis, MO
Fee: Friends - $55 Others - $65 (lunch included)
Full-time Students - $33 (no lunch) 3.5 CEUs
Guilt is a major cause of depression, anxiety, paranoia and suicide. This view is not widely held among medical and mental health professionals. Long before the advent of the DSM, Lady Macbeth's guilt-induced decline into mental disorder and suicide dramatically and accurately portrayed the psychological damage that guilt can inflict on the human psyche. While the more common presenting symptoms of anxiety and depression can be extremely painful and dangerous, we bear those feelings more easily and with less threat to ourselves than we can bear our feelings of guilt, felt as indisputable evidence that we are bad, that we have somehow sinned. Guilt and self-esteem cannot compatibly share the same house at the same time.
In this workshop, participants will learn to distinguish the psychological from the religious definition of sin and guilt, and will learn ways to detect guilt's presence, understand its meaning, and assuage its pain.
Lawrence H. Staples is a Jungian analyst and licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in Washington, DC. He has a Ph.D. in psychology, and is a member of NAAP, the American Boards for Accreditation and Certification, IAAP, AGAP, and the Jungian Analysts' Association of the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area. His special areas of interest are the problems of midlife, creativity and guilt. Lawrence's publications include Guilt with a Twist: The Promethean Way and The Creative Soul: Art and the Quest for Wholeness.
Available from your local bookstore and from a host of online booksellers:
The Creative Soul ISBN 978-0-9810344-4-7
Guilt with a Twist ISBN 978-0-9776076-4-8
Order your copy right from this blog or at www.fisherkingpress.com
or call +1-831-238-7799.
“Guilt With a Twist: The Promethean Way”
LECTURE:
Friday, April 24, 2009 7:00 - 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC, St. Louis, MO
Fee: Friends - $15 Others - $20
Full-time Students - $10 2 CEUs
This lecture presents an unconventional view of the role of sin and guilt in our lives. In common parlance, the words “good” and “guilt” do not belong together. Personal and clinical experience, however, have repeatedly confirmed for Dr. Staples the useful role that sin and guilt can play in our psychological development. Examples might include divorces, giving up family-approved careers, or expressing qualities previously rejected as unacceptable, such as selfishness or the contra-sexual side of ourselves. Dr Staples concludes we MUST eat forbidden fruit and bear guilt if we are to grow and reach our full potential.
“Dealing With Guilt's Contradictions”
WORKSHOP:
Saturday, April 25, 2009 9:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.,
First Congregational Church UCC, St. Louis, MO
Fee: Friends - $55 Others - $65 (lunch included)
Full-time Students - $33 (no lunch) 3.5 CEUs
Guilt is a major cause of depression, anxiety, paranoia and suicide. This view is not widely held among medical and mental health professionals. Long before the advent of the DSM, Lady Macbeth's guilt-induced decline into mental disorder and suicide dramatically and accurately portrayed the psychological damage that guilt can inflict on the human psyche. While the more common presenting symptoms of anxiety and depression can be extremely painful and dangerous, we bear those feelings more easily and with less threat to ourselves than we can bear our feelings of guilt, felt as indisputable evidence that we are bad, that we have somehow sinned. Guilt and self-esteem cannot compatibly share the same house at the same time.
In this workshop, participants will learn to distinguish the psychological from the religious definition of sin and guilt, and will learn ways to detect guilt's presence, understand its meaning, and assuage its pain.
Lawrence H. Staples is a Jungian analyst and licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in Washington, DC. He has a Ph.D. in psychology, and is a member of NAAP, the American Boards for Accreditation and Certification, IAAP, AGAP, and the Jungian Analysts' Association of the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area. His special areas of interest are the problems of midlife, creativity and guilt. Lawrence's publications include Guilt with a Twist: The Promethean Way and The Creative Soul: Art and the Quest for Wholeness.
Available from your local bookstore and from a host of online booksellers:
The Creative Soul ISBN 978-0-9810344-4-7
Guilt with a Twist ISBN 978-0-9776076-4-8
Order your copy right from this blog or at www.fisherkingpress.com
or call +1-831-238-7799.
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