Cincinnati. OH 45219

Description:

This lecture will consider the importance but also the puzzles of gratitude in human life.  Why is gratitude so important to our flourishing, yet why is it also so elusive?  Attention will be paid to special issues concerning gratitude and its place in the psychoanalytic situation. 

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain integrity and an ethical way of living in regard to mental health.

2. Define gratitude and explain how to incorporate gratitude into work with patients

Jonathan Lear trained in philosophy at Cambridge University and The Rockefeller University, and as a psychoanalyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. His early work focused on logic and ancient Greek philosophy. Before coming to the University of Chicago, he taught at Cambridge University, where he was a Fellow of Clare College, and at Yale, where he was Kingman Brewster Professor of the Humanities. During his time at Yale, Lear trained as a psychoanalyst, he has been involved in clinical work ever since. He serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He serves on the faculty at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and at the Western New England Institute. He currently does clinical consultations with psychoanalysts in the US and Europe. In trying to integrate philosophy and psychoanalysis, Lear has written: Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis, Wisdom Won From Illness, Therapeutic Action, and A Case for Irony. His book Freud was ranked number one by the Guardian Newspaper in its top-ten list of psychoanalytic books. Lear’s most recent book Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life explores the task of managing to live with the fears and anxieties of world-catastrophe. It was named by the Washington Post in its twenty notable non-fiction books of 2022. Jonathan Lear is a recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Member of the American Philosophical Society.

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ACCME Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.