Dr. Lyon says that disappointment is a common experience in human life. Yet how we deal with disappointment is a complicated matter—embedded within the rich and tangled emotional, cultural and spiritual histories that shape our lives.

This workshop is designed to help therapists and pastoral caregivers better conceptualize and respond to disappointment as it emerges in the clinical and pastoral context. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, we will look at various forces and meanings that influence disappointment as well as clinical interventions that can assist in the symbolic reorganization of the emotional and spiritual matrix within which disappointment is held.

This is an ideal workshop for therapists, chaplains, college chaplains, campus ministers or anyone interested in better understanding the experience of disappointment.

About Bernie Lyon
K. Brynolf Lyon, Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care at CTS, is also a consultant to congregations and not-for profit organizations regarding group and interpersonal dynamics, and a therapist in private practice. He received his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Indiana, a Certified Group Psychotherapist, and a member of the American Group Psycho-therapy Association. He has served as president of the Indiana Society for Psychoanalytic Thought and currently serves on its executive board.

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