A workshop presented by Jacob Waldenmaier, D.Phil.
In person & virtual attendance options.
Bagels and coffee will be available from 8:45am - 9:00am.
Event Price: $60 members and non-CPC students, $90 non-members, Free for CPC students which includes CEs
Continued Education (CEU/CME): 3.0 Credits
Course Description:
The cultural and religious beliefs of patients often influence analytic techniques. When strong beliefs impede patients’ wellness or the wellness of their relationships, therapists may encourage clients to reflect on their beliefs under a similar moral rubric by which they might reassess their patterns of thought and behavior. But the grounds of those beliefs and the will of a client to reframe them differentiate modifications in belief from those of thought or behavior. This workshop will examine the presence and limits of the ethics of belief as it applies to intervention in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will discuss interpretive intervention in belief compared with intervention in behavior or thought patterns.
Participants will discuss the moral grounds for encouraging clients to maintain, reinterpret, soften, revise, or abandon potentially harmful beliefs.
Participants will reflect upon their own relationships with belief in the consulting room.
Biography:
Dr. Waldenmaier is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Ursuline College and an Adjunct Instructor at John Carroll University in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. He received a Master of Divinity in Theology and Pastoral Studies from Ashland Theological Seminary in 2005 then attended the University of Oxford, completing a Master in the Study of Religion in 2006 and a Doctorate in Philosophy of Religion in 2012. He then completed the Certificate in Advanced Studies in Bioethics from Cleveland State University in 2021. He is a member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, the American Philosophical Association, and the Bioethics Network of Ohio. He has an extensive list of publications and has presented at national and international conferences and symposia. Of particular interest to the psychoanalytic community, he wrote a chapter entitled: “Ana-María Rizzuto and the New Atheism: Science and Religion in Light of Psychoanalysis” for the book Ana-María Rizzuto and the Psychoanalysis of Religion: The Road to the Living God. This book explores the interplay of religious belief and psychoanalysis. Dr. Waldenmaier’s research interests include: epistemic responsibility, biomedical ethics, psychology of belief, AI ethics, and virtue-pragmatist approaches to science and religion.