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Date: June 11, 2004
Event: Dr. T. C. R. Wilkes
Lecture: The film American Beauty: A Study of Addiction
Dr. T.C.R. Wilkes
The film American Beauty: A Study of Addiction
Dr. Wilkes will explore and illustrate the predicaments of addiction in contemporary society as illustrated by the movie, American Beauty. Scientific materials in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have resulted in a crisis in the religious symbolism of the wafer and the wine. This has been replaced by a ruinous relationship some have with drugs, food, drink, sex and violence. The erosion of the sacred symbolic life has led many into an experience of chaos, loneliness, fear and alienation. (Clips of the movie will not be shown. Previewing this film is recommended.)
Friday, June 11, 2004, 7:30 p.m.
Christ Church Crump Room, 3602 - 8th Street SW, Calgary
$15 (non-members); $10 (members, guests & students)
Dr. T.C.R. Wilkes is Medical Director of Child & Adolescent Mental Health and Psychiatric Services for the Calgary Health Region. He is also Associate Professor of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary and Division Head of Academic Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry. Dr. Wilkes is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Founding Member of the Cognitive Therapy Academy.
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