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

This conference has been CANCELLED.

Iain McGilchrist - The Divided Brain Clinic: The Master & His Emissary is organized by Byron Clinic and will be held from Mar 26 - 27, 2020 at SMC Conference & Function Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 

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

Training Overview:
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.