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SUMMARY:Psychosocial Studies Online Reading Group: Reanimating the Plague
DESCRIPTION:Lizaveta van Munsteren and Tom Fielder \nSpecial introduction by Silvia Posocco \nAfter a long summer hiatus\, we are incredibly happy to invite you to join us at the monthly APS online reading groups where we will be coming together and discussing topical articles drawn from The Journal of Psychosocial Studies. \nThis month Lizaveta van Munsteren and Tom Fielder will be presenting their article\, “Reanimating the Plague”\, which is drawn from a special issue of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies on the Covid-19 pandemic. Silvia Posocco will briefly introduce the article\, contextualising it within the special issue it is drawn from. \nThe article is available to download for free here \n  \nAbstract: The idea of ‘plague’ has returned to public consciousness with the arrival of Covid-19. An anachronistic and extremely problematic concept for thinking about biopolitical catastrophe\, plague nevertheless offers an enormous historical range and a potentially highly generative metaphorical framework for psychosocial studies to engage with\, e.g. through Albert Camus’ The Plague and Sophocles’ Oedipus The King. It is moreover a word which is likely to remain firmly within the remit of public consciousness as we move further into the Anthropocene\, to face further pandemics and the spectre of antibiotic resistance. A return to plague also opens up the question of a return to psychoanalysis\, which Freud is often cited as having described as a ‘plague’. Psychoanalysis is\, like plague\, a troubling and problematic discourse for psychosocial studies\, but\, like plague\, it may also help us to work-through the disorders and diseases of Covid-times. In fact\, if the recent pandemic has reanimated the notion of plague\, the plague metaphor may in turn help to reanimate psychoanalysis\, and we suggest some of the analogical\, even genealogical resonances of such an implication. \nAll registered attendees should receive a link to join a Zoom call when registering for the event. A reminder email with the link will also be sent out the day of the event. \n  \nAuthor biographies: \nLizaveta van Munsteren (Zeldzina) is a psychologist with many years of clinical experience both in private practice and institutional settings. She completed her education in Russia and in the UK and currently is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck\, University of London. Her research is dedicated to the vicissitudes of psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia 1930-1980. Apart from her clinical practice experience\, Lizaveta is PGTA at UCL and TA and Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck\, University of London. Lizaveta is also a member of the Editorial Board of Vestigia journal. \nTom Fielder is a PhD researcher in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck. His research engages psychoanalysis\, history\, literature and politics\, and is focused on the question of how to think about Brexit. He has published academic articles in History of the Human Sciences and the Journal of Psychosocial Studies. \nDr Silvia Posocco is a social anthropologist with interdisciplinary research interests in gender and sexuality studies and violence\, conflict and genocide studies. She have studied ethnographically insurgent movements in Guatemala\, the archives of transnational adoption across sites and temporalities\, and most recently\, forensic archives\, bioinformation and cultures of evidence. \n  \nStay in touch \nMore events are currently in the planning stage\, follow us on Twitter\, Facebook or sign up as a Member to keep up to date with everything. Members will continue to receive copies of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies as a further benefit of subscription to the Association.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-studies-online-reading-group-reanimating-the-plague/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210528T160000
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SUMMARY:APS Reading Group: Maggie Long’s “Derry Girls”
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URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-reading-group-maggie-longs-derry-girls/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210430T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210430T180000
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SUMMARY:APS Reading Group: Book Launch\, Nigel Williams’ Mapping Social Memory: A Psychotherapeutic Psychosocial Approach
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URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-reading-group-book-launch-nigel-williams-mapping-social-memory-a-psychotherapeutic-psychosocial-approach/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210326T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210326T190000
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SUMMARY:APS Reading Group: On Disappointment: promoting ordinary conversation for\, an in\, extraordinary times
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our monthly online reading groups where we will be coming together and discussing topical articles drawn from The Journal of Psychosocial Studies. \nThis month Christopher Scanlon’s article\, “On Disappointment\, Failure and Forgivness: promoting ordinary conversation for\, and in\, extraordinary times?” \nA free copy of the article is available to download here \nAbstract\nTo be disappointed is to be human\, to be disappointing is also to be human. This article will invite reflection upon the under-theorised phenomenon of disappointment and its relationship to ‘failure’\, to ‘hope’ and perhaps even ‘forgiveness’ (or the lack if it). The central premise is that to engage with ‘disappointment’ in our internal relatedness\, and in our interpersonal and social relationships may enable us to re-connect with our own and others’ humanity – and not to do so is to remain stuck\, aggrieved\, resentful and locked into cycles of reciprocal self- and other-destructive violence and recrimination. The article will seek to explore disappointment as a ‘disturbance of groupishness’ (Bion\, 1961\, emphasis added)\, ‘a location of disturbance’ (Foulkes\, 1948/1983 emphasis added) and a way of structuring the traumatised organisation-in-the-mind (Armstrong\, 2005; Scanlon\, 2012). The article will conclude with an invitation for psycho-social practitioners to leave our psycho-social retreats (consulting rooms\, libraries\, classrooms and the like) and\, once again\, to engage more deliberatively with conversations in ‘public spheres’ (Habermas\, 1968). \n\nAuthor biography:\nChristopher Scanlon is an Independent Psycho-socialist Researcher and Consultant\, a Training Group Analyst of the Institute of Group Analysis (London) and the Irish Group Analytic Society (Dublin) and Lecturer in Organisational Consultancy\, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust/University of Essex. Chris is also on the Executive Board of the Association for Psychosocial Studies. \nOther events are currently in the planning stage\, follow us on Twitter\, Facebook or sign up as a Member to keep up to date with everything . Members will continue to receive copies of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies as a further benefit of subscription to the Association.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-reading-group-on-disappointment-promoting-ordinary-conversation-for-an-in-extraordinary-times/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210226T170000
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SUMMARY:APS Reading Group: No room at the inn? Re-imagining social inclusion at the intersections between climate change\, globalisation\, homelessness & human migration
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThere are two dominant and competing ways of conceptualising the psychosocial dynamics of social inclusion. In ‘Metropolitan’ systems\, if you’re the wrong side of that line which denotes who’s ‘in’ and who’s ‘out’\, you’re excluded and oppressed\, but you can ‘come in from the cold’ if you accept the terms of the invitation. In ‘Cosmopolitan’ systems\, there are different accounts and practices\, but essentially there’s a ‘comprehending circle’ involved\, in which all are included by being drawn in towards the centre. Climate disaster threatens to overturn these paradigms. I build upon Latour’s work on the new politics of globalisation\, as well as upon my previous (co-authored) work concerning Diogenes of Sinope\, who coined the term ‘Kosmopolitēs’. The figure of Diogenes may stand for a third position: a monadic figure beyond system and order. This third position illuminates fraught encounters between imperialist in-groups and colonised out-groups in late modernity. The Keeling Count at Mauna Loa is a register whose implications suggest that\, in the Anthropocene\, we are all unhoused. Latour’s ‘migrations without form or nation’ of ‘climate\, erosion\, pollution\, resource depletion\, habitat destruction’ threaten to make migrants of us all – or\, to remind us that once we all were migrants. \nArticle available here and will be circulated with the Zoom link. \n  \nAuthor biography:\nJohn Adlam is a group psychotherapist and independent researcher. He works for the most part in the National Health Service\, where he is Consultant Adult Forensic Psychotherapist at Bethlem Royal Hospital and Principal Adult Psychotherapist at Springfield Hospital. He previously worked in the Outreach Service of the Henderson Hospital Democratic Therapeutic Community\, for the last seven years of that community’s existence before it was cynically closed down in 2008. He is a founder member of the Association for Psychosocial Studies and a former Vice President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. He is co-editor of the two-volume set Violent States and Creative States: From the Global to the Individual (2018); also of Forensic Music Therapy (2012) and The Therapeutic Milieu Under Fire: Security and Insecurity in Forensic Mental Health (2012). He is at the moment working on a new book co-written with Christopher Scanlon on the theme of ‘Unhoused minds and inhospitable environments’. \nTwitter: @Diogenesquely Weblog: Barrelblog.org \n  \nUpcoming Events\nOther events are currently in the planning stage\, follow us on Twitter\, Facebook or sign up as a Member to keep up to date with everything . Members will continue to receive copies of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies as a further benefit of subscription to the Association.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-reading-group-no-room-at-the-inn-re-imagining-social-inclusion-at-the-intersections-between-climate-change-globalisation-homelessness-human-migration/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201127T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201127T180000
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SUMMARY:APS/JPS Reading Group Event: Lita Crociani-Windland - “On transience and other hatreds”
DESCRIPTION:Association of Psychosocial Studies and Journal of Psychosocial Studies \nOnline Reading Group \n  \nLita Crociani-Windland\, “On transience and other hatreds” \n  \nFriday 27 November 4 – 6pm \n  \nWe are pleased to invite you to our fifth in a series of monthly online reading groups where we will be coming together to discuss topical psychosocial issues. \n  \nLike everyone\, APS members are working under very altered and potentially isolating circumstances and it was with great regret that the we had to postpone our 2020 conference on The Psychosocial Body at the beginning of June. In an effort to keep our community engaged during a time when psychosocial thinking is needed more than ever\, we hosted an online summer programme that culminated in our two-day conference Psychosocial Thinking in the Times of Covid-19. However\, as the pandemic continues to keep most of us in lockdown condition throughout the winter\, we have decided to continue our summer reading groups throughout the year. \n  \nThis month we will be discussing Lita Crociani-Windland’s article\, “On transience and other hatreds”. This article originates in a free associative extended reflection on what the author sees as the many faces of our relationship to transience in Western culture. It begins with the image of plastic flowers in graveyards\, wild flowers pushed to verges and marginal spaces\, women\, migrants and transient communities. Our relation to life\, death and their relation to movement and limitation are key aspects being reflected on and taken up for further analysis. The result of the free associative experiment is to invite reflections on the Freudian concepts of Eros and Thanatos and revisit the highly controversial question of whether these should be viewed in terms of a dualist or a monistic understanding. What is being presented here is a way of working with free associations outside the consulting room and group processes\, using free associations as a reflexive research tool within a psychosocial hermeneutic approach. \n  \nThe article is available to download and read for free here \n  \nThese reading groups are free to attend and open to all. Simply click here to register on Eventbrite. All registered attendees will be sent a link to join a Zoom call before the event. \n  \nAuthor biography: \nLita Crociani-Windland is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Psycho-Social Studies at University of West England\, Bristol. Following an early career teaching early years and then leading a specialist residential college for young people with moderate to severe learning difficulties and disabilities\, Lita first came to UWE to join an innovative Masters of Science degree in Group Relations and Society\, just as Psycho-Social Studies was establishing itself as its own distinctive field and the then Centre for Psycho-Social Studies was launched at UWE. She now leads the Psycho-Social Studies and Therapeutic Practices  theme\, part of the Social Science Research Group. \n  \nOther events are currently in the planning stage\, follow us on Twitter\, Facebook or sign up as a Member to keep up to date with everything. Members will continue to receive copies of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies as a further benefit of subscription to the Association.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-jps-reading-group-event-lita-crociani-windland-on-transience-and-other-hatreds/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201030T040000
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SUMMARY:APS Online Reading Group: Frances Cardona's 'Work Matters: Consulting to Leaders and Organisations in the Tavistock Tradition'
DESCRIPTION:The APS and IGA are pleased to co-host this special event. \nFrancesca will be leading a discussion of issues in her new book. Her presentation will weave in experiences of work from her new book\, whose topics include leadership beyond the textbooks\, organisational and personal shame and working with succession. \nThis event is free to attend and open to all. All registered attendees will be sent an excerpt from the book and a link to join a Zoom call before the event. \nAuthor biography:\nFrancesca Cardona is an organisational consultant and executive coach.\nShe works in a variety of organisational and cultural contexts\, helping leaders and organisations to face issues of change\, transition and the emotional dimension of organisational life.  Her training and work experience across two different cultures has given her special understanding and insights into issues of cultural diversity. She is currently a tutor on the Professional Doctorate ‘Consultation and the Organisation’ at the University of Essex & Tavistock and Portman Trust and Director of The Executive Coaching Programme at Tavistock Consulting (2019-2020).
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-online-reading-group-frances-cardonas-work-matters-consulting-to-leaders-and-organisations-in-the-tavistock-tradition/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200626T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200626T190000
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SUMMARY:APS Reading Group: Nini Fang's 'Feeling/ being out of place: psychic defence against the hostility environment'
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our second in a series of monthly online reading groups where we will be coming together and discussing topical articles drawn from The Journal of Psychosocial Studies. \nLike everyone\, APS members are working under very altered and potentially isolating circumstances and it was with great regret that the we had to postpone our 2020 conference on The Psychosocial Body at the beginning of June. However\, we believe that psychosocial thinking is needed more than ever in these times and we have therefore devised a free online programme which includes our summer reading groups and a scaled down online two-day webinar . \n  \nAbstract: \nWhat is it like to be an immigrant worker in a ‘hostile environment’ in the UK? How does the form of discursive environment\, which sees immigration as a social epidemic\, impact on an immigrant worker’s experience of their cultural (dis)localities and subjectivity? In this article\, I draw on my personal\, psychoanalytically informed voice to explore these questions\, by foregrounding the materiality of the hosting environment as the place in which the present relational matrix takes place\, in which the internal dynamics of object relations are lived in the present sense\, and the idiosyncratic expression of selfhood assumes forms. \nThe materialised reality of the place matters not least because it is drenched in power relations but also as it is where an immigrant worker seeks to live. The hostile host\, in this sense\, sees immigrants not simply as its guests (Derrida and Dufourmantelle\, 2000)\, but as unwelcome yet persistent guests to be yoked to their place of otherness and inferiority. By presenting vignettes of my encounters with the Home Office\, I call into question the existential conditions of the immigrant worker and the potentiality for object-relatedness on relational grounds problematically punctured by hostile rhetoric. Could an immigrant’s sense of locality ever be anything but – evoking Said ([1999] 2013) – ‘out of place’? To address this\, I will explore ‘out of place’ not simply as an emotional\, lived experience\, but also as a state of being that is embodied\, psychically worked on and strategically evoked in resisting the power of the hostile host. \n  \nAuthor biography: \nNini Fang is a lecturer at Counselling\, Psychotherapy\, and Applied Social Sciences (CPASS) at University of Edinburgh. A lover of bubble tea and democracy at heart\, she left her home country Taiwan and came to sunny Scotland in 2012 to train as a psychodynamic counsellor. She enjoyed the weather so much she decided to stay on and did a doctorate\, which she finished in 2016 at Edinburgh. Her thesis looked at depression through Scottish theorist Ronald Fairbairn’s work. Her thesis opened her up to psychosocial inquiry towards locating the individual psychic processes within the social\, cultural\, and political environments. Her being an immigrant worker in the UK has ensured that there is no shortage of psychosocial inspiration and she will be kept on her toes writing. \n  \nThese reading groups are free to attend and open to all. The reading group will be held on the last Friday of every month. All registered attendees will be sent a link to join a Zoom call before the event. \nOther events are currently in the planning stage\, follow us on Twitter\, Facebook or sign up as a Member to keep up to date with everything. Members will continue to receive copies of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies as a further benefit of subscription to the Association.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-reading-group-nini-fangs-feeling-being-out-of-place-psychic-defence-against-the-hostility-environment/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200529T080000
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SUMMARY:APS Summer Programme 2020
DESCRIPTION:The APS is very excited to be hosting a series of topical events and in an array of formats during the summer of 2020. Please click here for more details and free registration links: APS Summer 2020 Programme.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-2020-summer-programme/
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