Jung Society of Michigan
Invites you to attend
Reconciling Opposites:
"The Symbolic Meaning of Medication"
Presented by
Robert Slattery M.D.
Date and Time:
Location:
Royal Oak Senior Community Center
3500 Marias Avenue
Royal Oak, Michigan 48073
Lecture Fee: 
March 18 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Many of us have or will become seriously depressed, anxious or psychiatrically ill in some way. If our symptoms are serious enough, we will often seek help in the form of Zoloft, Celexa, Lexapro, Effexor, Cymbalta, Wellbutrin, and others. These medications often work well, with few side effects. None of these medications were available in Jung’s time. Yet there may be a parallel in his work, for he wrote that meaningful suffering was bearable, and meaningless suffering unbearable.
At present the ways medications work is beyond our full understanding. The ancients represented such things as gods with powers greater than individual mortals did. Can some of these metaphors from the past help us find a more meaningful attitude to modern medications than that available to us from everyday medical practitioners?
In his talk, Dr. Slattery will follow Dr. Jung’s lead and try to make use of fairy tales, myths, examples from literature and the dreams of patients on medication to find ways to look at modern medications not only concretely, but symbolically as well.
Robert Slattery MD was educated at Yale College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Prior to his medical training he was a documentary filmmaker. He is a long-time student of the work of Dr. Carl Jung. And is in the private practice of psychotherapy and psychiatry in Ann Arbor, Michigan
$15 members, $20 nonmembers
