*🌀Guest Talk Invitation 🌀*
*Is the Unconscious as Unconscious as We Think?*
Clinical Reflections from Experiential and Integrative
Psychotherapy
🗓️ Tuesday, November 11
⏰6:00 PM
📍Room 5A.118
*Speaker:* Facundo Illobre - Schema Therapy practitioner with a background in psychoanalysis, Jungian psychology, and experiential-integrative approaches. PhD student at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic studies here at Essex.
Everyone is warmly welcome to attend - whether you're curious about psychotherapy or would like to practice one day.
Abstract:
Freud and Jung’s attempts to understand and work with the deepest layers of the mind were — and still are — revolutionary. This pioneering work has profoundly transformed our notion of the human mind, alongside its limitations and possibilities. However, more than a century has passed since this Copernican shift, and along the way, multiple other psychotherapeutic frameworks have emerged, offering different perspectives on how to work with the human mind.
To my understanding, psychotherapy in general — including psychoanalysis and Jungian analysis — has become too one-sided, focusing primarily on abstract intellectual work. Yet, as clinical experience shows, arriving at insight alone is often insufficient to produce lasting change. In this talk, I will explore how we can understand and work with the unconscious mind through the lens of experiential and integrative psychotherapy, particularly within the framework of Schema Therapy.
Drawing from my background in psychoanalysis and Jungian psychology, as well as material from my clinical practice, I will argue that experiential psychotherapy offers a more pragmatic, phenomenological, and overall more effective way of engaging clinically with the unconscious mind than classical psychoanalytic or Jungian approaches.