A fundamental element in assessing a patient’s distress and diagnosis is the difference between anticipated expectations and actual lived experience. Expectations further emerge as an expression of one’s desires. Psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, and medical professionals will become familiar with the work of philosopher Rene Gerard and his notion of mimetic desire and its subcategories that provide helpful insights and practical applications in the healing and transformation for our patients. In addition, they will understand how evidence from interpersonal neurobiology’s emphasis on attention is a function of the mind that directs its’ movement toward states of either integration or disintegration. Finally, it will explore the practical intersections between mimetic desire, attention, and the healing of the mind.
217 | Objects of Desire: The Interpersonal Neurobiological Implications of Mimesis in the Integration of the Mind in Mental Health Care
PRESENTERS
Curt Thompson, M.D.
CE CREDITS
1.25
Approved For CE
APA, ASWB, NBCC, NAADAC, IBCC, AMA PRA Category 1 Credits, AOA Category 2A Credits, Georgia Nurses Association, AAFP , Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling
Approved For CME/CEU
LEVEL
Intermediate
Summary
Learning Objectives
1 Identify the features and role of mimetic desire in everyday life.
2 Distinguish between how mimetic desire leads either to integrated or disintegrated states of mind.
3 Associate mimetic desires outcome with explicit diagnostic categories.