Scientific Program featuring Jon K. Meyer, MD
Photographing What You Know: How a Psychoanalyst Became a Photographer
Presented by Jon K. Meyer, MD
*This program does not qualify for continuing education credits.
Program Description:
This is not your usual program and has been a very long time in the making. It is about a lifetime of experience in psychoanalysis at a personal level and the translation of the unconscious into poetry and visual images. There are two important components to analytic work: the patient, of course, but also the analyst. This presentation is in large measure about the journey of the analyst within the analytic framework. While the analyst deals with words, and the actions embedded in words, those words should inevitably conjure up images. The skills of the photographer allow those images to find their expression and, as it were, their voice. In this presentation, poetry and images are used to give expression to the trajectory of analytic work.
About the Speaker:
Jon K. Meyer, MD is a past-president for the American Psychoanalytic Association and an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Meyer is a member of the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies and a previous Erik Erikson Scholar-in-Residence at the Austen Riggs Center. He was a recipient of the Edith Sabshin Teaching Award, Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst for the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, and an honorary member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society, and the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas. Dr. Meyer is also the president of Cary Photographic Artists.