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Healing Into Wholeness: Perspectives of an Integrative Psychiatrist with David Aftergood, MD
June 19, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
As human beings living in a complex and demanding world, we all struggle…. patients and healers alike. Some of our symptoms are physical, some emotional, relational, or spiritual in nature. We wrestle with maladaptive belief systems and find health enhancing lifestyle changes difficult to achieve and sustain. It is easy to lose our sense of joy and vitality.
How do we heal? What is needed for healing? How do we as clinicians or patients, restore wholeness, balance and meaning?
Is it about getting biological support with medication? Is it through a healing relationship, where we are seen, acknowledged, and supported? Is it about gaining knowledge, insight, awareness and coping skills to deal with emotions, beliefs and behaviors? Is it embarking on a spiritual path?
How are these decisions collaboratively made between practitioner and patient/client? Are there models of care large enough to hold these multiple perspectives simultaneously?
Indeed, healing body and soul often requires a holistic approach. In his presentation to the Katonah Study Group, David Aftergood, MD, will discuss ways of integrating treatment gleaned from a forty-year career in psychiatry.
This online seminar will be both experiential and informative. Topics will include:
- The differences between three models of care: medical, humanistic, and holistic/integrative.
- Holding multiple roles in an integrative treatment: physician, therapist, and healer.
- Transformational moments in Dr. Aftergood’s personal wellness journey that led to teachers and philosophies to guide his healing work with others.
- Opportunity for reflection, either as provider or receiver of care, on what is in need of healing.
Dr. Aftergood will also encourage a deeper discussion about healing based on readings from his new book: Healing Into Wholeness: The Personal and Professional Journey of an Integrative Psychiatrist.
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David Aftergood, MD, received his medical training and completed his psychiatry residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1976-1984). He later served on the Einstein faculty as an associate clinical professor of psychiatry (1995-2011).
Dr. Aftergood has been in private practice of psychiatry since 1984. Over the course of his career, in addition to providing psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, he pursued post-graduate training in hypnotherapy, Buddhist psychology, mindfulness meditation, EMDR, mind-body medicine, attended healing retreats and immersed himself in the study of both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. These trainings, practices and studies led to the development of his practice of integrative psychiatry.
Contact: draftergood@gmail.com,
Web site: integralpsychiatry.net
Author of: Healing Into Wholeness: The Personal and Professional Journey of an Integrative Psychiatrist