The Question of God
Exploring Belief and Unbelief
Dale C. Godby, PhD & Marc Rathbun, PhD
This course is intended for mental health professionals, physicians, clergy, and anyone interested in a dialogue between Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis on the issues of God, love, sex, and the meaning of life.
The course will help you in working with these issues with patients, congregants, and yourself as the class explores the dynamic of belief and unbelief. The teachers, Dale C. Godby, PhD and Marc Rathbun, PhD are both psychotherapists who are in different places on the spectrum of belief and unbelief. In their daily work they help people in their emotional and spiritual struggles in their psychotherapy practice.
We will use Armand Nicholi’s book The Question of God, as well as video clips from the PBS series based on his book. Dr. Nicholi is a psychiatrist who has taught a course at Harvard for 25 years on this topic. The course will be brief lectures and discussion in which the teachers will present clinical material and will encourage the participants to bring in material from their daily work life.
When: First Semester September 8 and 22.
October
13, and 27
November 10, 2005
Second Semester January 12 & 26
February 2 & 16
March 9, 2006
Where: Dallas Group Analytic Practice (DGAP)
6330 LBJ # 150
Fees: $300 per semester. CE Credit by arrangement according to discipline.
Make check to DGAP and send to above address for registration.
A course note-book will be sent by Sept. 1. The class is limited to
10 members to optimize discussion and the sharing of meaningful
material from our work lives. We suggest you register as soon as
possible.
Scholarships are available write dgodby@airmail.net or
Course Schedule
Thursdays 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
First Semester
September 8 Transcendent Experience
September 22 Science or Revelation?
October 13 The Exalted Father
October 27 Why Believe?
November 10 Miracles
Second Semester
January 12 Love Thy Neighbor
January 26 The Human Condition
February 2 Moral Law
February 16 Suffering and Death
March 9 Final Dialogue
Further
Biographies
Louis Breger
(2000) Freud: Darkness in the Midst of
Vision
George Sayer
(1977 updated 1997) Jack: A Life of C S
Lewis
Criticism
Ana-Maria Rizzuto
(1998) Why Did Freud Reject God?
John Beversluis
(1985) C S Lewis and the Search for
Rational Religion