Iain McGilchrist - The Divided Brain Clinic: The Master & His Emissary - Melbourne

This conference has been CANCELLED.
For Official Notice :https://byronclinic.com/iain-mcgilchrist-australia-2020/

Iain McGilchrist - The Divided Brain Clinic: The Master & His Emissary is organized by Byron Clinic and will be held from Mar 23 - 24, 2020 at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 

Credits:
This workshop should accrue a maximum of 11 hours of learning.

Training Overview:
I hope you will come away from this course feeling that you have never attended one like it before, and that you have learnt to think about both your patients and yourselves in a new way. The focus of our sessions will be what we can learn from hemisphere differences, my principal subject of study for the last 30 years. You can forget most of what you think you know about the topic. The truth is far more fascinating, and lies at the heart of what it means to be a human being. We are used to thinking of the brain as a machine. But in important ways it is nothing like a machine. And when something changes in a patient’s brain, it is not like a component in a machine breaking down: the whole system reconfigures, and with it so does the subject’s reality.

In this course, you will learn about the differences between hemispheres in how they pay attention to the world, which governs what we see and how we understand it.

How those differences manifest in mental illnesses, including depression, psychosis, autism, eating disorders, ADHD, and a range of fascinating neuropsychiatric conditions. You will learn about the differences between the hemispheres in relationship to the body and embodied knowledge; the importance of the implicit, and how it is overlooked in favour of the explicit; the need to balance generalisation with appreciation of uniqueness, familiarity with newness, fixity with flow, separation with union.

You will learn about hemisphere differences in emotional and cognitive intelligence, social awareness and reaching reliable judgment: their roles in truth-telling, morality and denial.

We will examine the role of language: why do we have it? How does it change our relationship with the world? What is the place of metaphor and narrative? How do they contribute to therapy? We will discuss different kinds of knowledge, and their relationship with the hemispheres; the strengths and weaknesses of analogical thinking versus analytic thinking.

We will think about which paths we should adopt arriving at the truth: the parts played by science, reason, intuition, and imagination, and how the hemispheres contribute to each of these. And we will find, I hope, common ground for approaching ultimate questions about the relationship between consciousness and the brain, the importance and origins of meaning and purpose, and the proper place of the sacred in our lives. 

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.