A one-on-One mentoring for Therapists

He was frightened of the craziness he saw around him because it was an extension of something inside himself.

--- I never Promised You a Rose Garden

Hannah Green

 

Although the Strange has long been a part of the human experience, here in the West the mental health industry dismisses such narratives in the name of a supposed biological model of mental disease, a model that mainstream psychiatry has waited to reveal itself for some 50, 60, 70 years. Meanwhile, collective vision of the Virgin Mary is seen as a hallucination. UFO reports are considered psychotically driven. Mystical experiences are ranked as delusional. And near-death experiences are reduced to some neurological explanation.

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Entering the Strange is a bold program that challenges conventional psychiatry and psychology, both of which were invented to define and promote western definitions and concepts of mental illness. The program honors cultural diversity and epistemological relativity rather than subscribe human experiences to one form of epistemology that reduces the complexity of reality.

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Fortunately, a growing number of clinicians are discovering that neither the U.S. population nor the world at large can be confined to a set of concepts that were defined long ago by White European males at a time when people of color were described as not fully human and women were seen as weak vessels in need of overcoming hysteria. But many of these courageous clinicians find themselves stuck to a system that inhibits their expansion of awareness.

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Entering the Strange is a one-on-one online program that helps you: (1) flush out mental health constructs that resist the integration process needed when working with clients who have experienced very odd events; (2) discover one's focal point from which to conduct therapy in a way that validates the weird and empowers the experiencer; and (3) integrate all the pieces you hold and that make you the unique therapist you are.

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The 12-week online program includes:

• The Shadow of the DSM: Epistemological Injustice

• Why Entering the Inner Strange is a Must

• Where did the Strange in My Story Go: A Therapist's Nightmare

• Returning to Your Roots

• Why Feeling Crazy Makes You the Right Therapist

• Integrating the Strange with the DSM: Is it Possible?

• Working from the Strange

• Why Investigation Doesn't Work for the Therapist

• Existentialism and the Strange: What Does Death have to do with It?

• Allow Me to Introduce Myself: Going Public

• and more...

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Upon completing the program, you will receive a certificate of completion, maintain free membership with SPAE, and become eligible to apply for a position in the SPAE network.