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2025-2026 Academic Year
Title: Psychodramatization in Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Neuropsychoanalytic Approach
Presenter: Arseny Tarabanov, Ph.D.
US Seminar Dates: Friday, February 6, 2026
US Seminar Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM (Eastern Time)
China Seminar Dates: Friday, February 6, 2026
China Seminar Times: 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM (22:00 - 23:30)
Lithuania Seminar Dates: Friday, February 6, 2026
Lithuania Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Prerequisites: Open to CAPA Members, Students & Graduates
Course size: Open Enrollment
Course fee: $20 USD
Description: Traditional Chinese Medicine has a unique feature - its therapeutic methods practically do not become obsolete over time. Unlike Western medicine, the medicine of which disappears from the scene in accordance with the advancement of scientific and technological progress. However, the psychodramatization methods used in Traditional Chinese Medicine when working with psychiatric patients remain unclaimed today. Can we today translate these methods for the needs of modern psychiatry and psychotherapy? Yes, we can do this, relying on the methodology of neuropsychoanalysis, affective neuroscience and the multifaceted heritage of Freud.
Course Objective:
To examine psychodramatic techniques in Traditional Chinese Medicine as therapeutic practices using the example of treating conversion disorders in Imperial China
To characterize therapeutic techniques of psychodramatization from the point of view of Karl Friston's concept of "surprise and predictive process"
To discuss the effectiveness of including psychodramatization techniques in the process of talking therapy ("talking cure"), both within the framework of Chinese traditional methods and within the framework of modern psychoanalytic therapy
Bio: Dr. Arseny Tarabanov is the Director of Institute of Neurocommunications and Psychotherapy in Vilnius (Lithuania). He is the popularizer of neuropsychoanalysis in the Baltic countries. He designs courses in affective neuroscience, neuropsychoanalysis, and traditional Chinese psychotherapy. He has twenty years of teaching experience and five years of clinical experience. Dr. Tarabanov aims to develop psychotherapeutic methods based on a cross-cultural approach in psychopathology and the latest achievements in neuroscience. His publications include articles on the neuropsychoanalytic approach and chapters of the textbook "Child Psychiatry" devoted to the neuropsychodynamic approach to various types of psychopathology. He has been studying Chinese medicine for many years and applying it to the practice of martial arts. His post-doctoral certifications are in Body Therapy, Child Psychoanalysis, and Contemporary Methods of Family and Group Psychotherapy.
If you have any questions about the seminar, please contact Dr. Tarabanov directly at beobachter1971@gmail.com