Join for us for a presentation with Dr. Jason Jost followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Earl Bland and Dr. Michelle Harwell.

Psychoanalysts unfamiliar with the worldview and child-rearing practices of Evangelicals may unintentionally replicate the patient’s childhood experience of accommodating a transcendent, authoritative perspective of themselves and others. To bridge this cultural gap, Dr. Jost highlights key aspects of evangelical child-rearing and their potential impact on a child’s emotional development, sharing from his own personal childhood experience as well as his work as both a patient and an analyst. With this contextual understanding, Dr. Jost suggests developmentally supportive attitudes that, while important for any analytic dyad, are particularly critical for patients whose childhood emotional experiences were organized by an evangelical blueprint. This program aims to enhance cultural understanding and empathy in treating individuals raised in evangelical Christian environments.