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Current Events EPIS 2-Year (& 4-Year) Post Graduate Program 2-Year (& 4-Year) Post Graduate Program in Existential Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology. Registration now open. Please contact Dr. Kevin Boileau for details and information. 206.853.2655 Seminars: The second Saturday of every month at the Good Shepherd Center, located in the Wallingford district of Seattle, 4649 Sunnyside Avenue North Seattle, WA 98103-6900, from 11am-1pm, Suite 345. Learn more about our seminars.Click here. Philosophy Cafe: The very first EPIS Philosophy Cafe will be held this Sunday, December 4, 1-3 p.m., at the Elliott Bay Book Company, CAPITOL HILL LOCATION at 1521 10th Ave. Seattle, WA Business Meetings: Open to all interested parties, is held the second Wednesday of every month, 7pm at Charlie’s on Broadway, 217 Broadway East, Seattle, WA 98102 Click here to see our calendar EPIS on wordpress.com! Links Friesian View http://www.friesian.com/existent.htm Existential Primer http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/ Jean-Paul Sartre Lecture http://www.marxists.org Existential Philosophy http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org Existentialism and Human Emotions http://www.anselm.edu/.htm
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Existential Psychoanalytic Institute of Seattle The Existential Psychoanalytic Institute of Seattle (EPIS) is a contemporary psychoanalytic society, research institute, and clinical referral network dedicated to the exploration and treatment of the human condition through a synthesis of existential analysis, traditional psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and critical philosophy. It is also committed to exploring these questions with a receptive attitude rather than a dogmatic one, looking forward as well as backward. The aim is to search for truth with an open mind and an attitude of wonder instead of fitting a client into pre-established categories and interpretations. Existential Approach The existential approach is first and foremost philosophical. It is concerned with the understanding of a person's situation in the world and with the clarification of how an individual constructs meaning in his or her life. It focuses on the relation of an individual with mortality, personal identity, social relationships, understanding of the natural world, and spirituality.The existential approach considers human nature to be open-ended, flexible, and capable of an enormous range of experience. According to this approach, there is no essential, solid self, no given definition of one's personality and abilities, and thus we each have the potential to create our lives within a wide range of free attitudes and behaviors. Existential Thinkers Existential thinkers avoid restrictive models that categorize or label people. Instead they look for new horizons of historical, cultural, and transcultural possibility and attempt to completely immerse themselves in their clients' worlds. Methodologically, existential thinkers, therapists, and analysts proceed by rendering description, not explanation. Existential Purpose Our purpose is to facilitate the continued expansion of existentialist-based therapy and analysis by providing an educational and clinical environment that focuses on their development. EPIS Clinical Referral Network By providing clinical services and a 2-year (& 4-year) post graduate certificate program, the Institute intends to support the interests of existentialist-based practitioners as well as the communities they serve. Through our research we also intend to contribute to the literature in existential phenomenology as well as to clinical applications. More.... |
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