WCP New Directions Scientific Meeting
The WCP New Directions Program Presents
“The Spider Who Was a Poem: The Nature of Poetry and Its Healing Power”
with Salman Akhtar, MD
Friday November 4, 2011
8 PM – 9:30 PM
Residence Inn Pentagon City, 550 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA 22202
There is NO FEE for this event, but you are asked to Register at www.wcpweb.org
Poetry is a bridge between known and unknown, between verbal and nonverbal, between intellect and emotion, between music and prose, between mother and father, between male and female, between right brain and left brain, and between reality and unreality. Each of its meta- constituent acknowledges and denies the dualism that lies at the core of separateness-merger conundrum of human existence. And, it is this bridging function of poetry that imparts the “craft of verse” its healing power.
1.5 CME/CE credits are being offered. Please see information at registration site.