Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis never had an actual meeting, but the film, Freud’s Last Session imagines that they did. The two brilliant minds of the 20th century with their opposing views were placed side by side in this film regarding God, love, and the meaning of life. Dr. Lisa Fischer will present pertaining to the two men's relationships with God and corresponding psychoanalytic themes.
Salon attendees are requested to watch the film on their own time prior to this salon. The film is available for rent through various media outlets such as Netflix, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon, Google Play, YouTube, Microsoft, and Spectrum.
There will be a cohort group to discuss the film on Thursday, June 13.
Learning objectives
Dr. Fischer is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Creighton University College of Medicine in Arizona where she supervises third- and fourth- year residents in psychiatry and teaches a course on Marital Therapy. She is semi-retired from her private psychotherapy practice of over 20 years. Her primary teaching and clinical modality is psychodynamic, utilizing contemporary psychoanalytic thought most particularly, relational psychoanalysis. Dr. Fischer serves as an associate editor for Integratus, the journal of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association. Along with two other founding committee members, she created a special interest group in Catholicism and Psychoanalysis with CPA. She completed the Annotation 19 of St. Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises and recently became a companion guide for the Spiritual Exercises. In the past, she served as president of the Arizona Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. Within the Diocese of Phoenix, she serves on two bishop-appointed board positions. The Matthew 19:14 Project is a non-profit organization founded by her to help Arizona's Catholic schools to better serve their students with disabilities.
(Updated April 2024)
