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SUMMARY:Felix Birch and Bass Birch: Mapping Waste
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/felix-birch-and-bass-birch-mapping-waste/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230202T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230202T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T142851
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SUMMARY:Hannah Dee: It’s A Good Home Ain’t It? Memories of Broadmoor
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/hannah-dee-its-a-good-home-aint-it-memories-of-broadmoor/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230126T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230126T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T142851
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SUMMARY:Susan Kelly: Turning: a Micropolitical Cartography of Colonial Rehabilitation
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/susan-kelly-turning-a-micropolitical-cartography-of-colonial-rehabilitation/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230119T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230119T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T142851
CREATED:20230203T185243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110218Z
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SUMMARY:Jacob Johanssen: Platform Aesthetics and Enlarged Sexuality: Perspectives from Jean Laplanche
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/jacob-johanssen-platform-aesthetics-and-enlarged-sexuality-perspectives-from-jean-laplanche/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221125T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221125T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T142851
CREATED:20221109T080634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110242Z
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SUMMARY:Spaces of Refuge: The Clinical Practice of Félix Guattari and Institutional Psychotherapy with Rachel Wilson and Anthony Faramelli
DESCRIPTION:Association for Psychosocial Studies Online Reading Group\nSpaces of Refuge: The Clinical Practice of Félix Guattari and Institutional Psychotherapy\nwith Rachel Wilson and Anthony Faramelli\nREGISTER HERE \nFriday 25 November 2022\, 4 – 6pm  \nRachel Wilson and Anthony Faramelli will discuss the legacies of Félix Guattari’s clinical practice\, Institutional Psychotherapy\, and how this should inform our current approaches to issues of asylum and refuge for this months’ APS online reading group. \nThe article is available to download here \nAbstract: \nFélix Guattari’s work is most commonly discussed (and overshadowed by) his collaborations with Gilles Deleuze. This minimisation allows for a misrepresentation of Guattari’s work that minimises the fact that his theoretical writings were always couched in a grounded clinical practice. A practice which constitutes a politics of the sector. \nGuattari’s prescient final text\, Chaosmosis\, argues that the conditions of Capital responsible for the current social-psychic-ecological crisis of migration demand modes of analysis capable of grasping their complexity\, ones grounded in the ethico-aesthetic. It is a text that draws directly from the therapeutic practice that he\, Tosquelles\, Oury\, and others in the Institutional Psychotherapy (IP) movement developed in their clinics. This work entailed the inclusion of aesthetic practices that work to deterritorialise the institution\, shifting from carceral sites and creating therapeutic spaces of care and refuge. \nThis article explores the centrality of an ethico-aesthetic approach to the understanding of therapeutic space within the sites and clinical practice of Institutional Psychotherapy. Looking especially at daily life and the inclusion of aesthetic practice\, it examines the particular notion of asylum that emerged in these sites that so informed the clinical and critical work of Guattari and Deleuze\, and draws connections to the current global crisis of migration in the necessity of such sites to the forced segregation between those deemed mad and sane. \nAll registered attendees should automatically be sent a Zoom link. The link will be re-sent the day of the event.  \nAuthor biographies: \nRachel Wilson is a Recovery Coordinator in an accommodation service for people with high support mental health needs operated by the charity SHP. As a researcher\, Rachel’s work is situated at the intersection of radical forms of psychotherapy\, aesthetics\, filmmaking and the histories of institutional analysis. She is currently conducting her doctoral studies in the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths\, University of London. Rachael is also a researcher at the Centre for Institutional Analysis and a member of the Network for Institutional Analysis. \nAnthony Faramelli is an organisational consultant and a lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths\, University of London where he co-directs\, with Janna Graham\, the Centre for Institutional Analysis. Anthony’s research is situated at the intersection of psychosocial theory\, recent French philosophy and postcolonial theory\, with a focus on Institutional Psychotherapy and the work of Félix Guattari and Frantz Fanon. Anthony is also a member of the Executive Board of the Association for Psychosocial Studies and a member of the Network for Institutional Analysis. \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/spaces-of-refuge-the-clinical-practice-of-felix-guattari-and-institutional-psychotherapy-with-rachel-wilson-and-anthony-faramelli/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220914T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220915T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T142851
CREATED:20230209T141225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110301Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Mediation and Working Through in Times of Denial\, Disavowal and Splitting: On the Un/Representable
DESCRIPTION:An International Workshop \nOrganised by Dr Orit Dudai and Assoc. Prof. Jacob Johanssen – Supported by the Association for Psychosocial Studies \nThe goal of this workshop is for presenters to share work-in-progress and engage in collegial discussion with each other and attendees. Places are\, therefore\, limited. \nWe live in a time that is characterised by increasing political polarisation\, fake news\, conspiracy theories and other forms of extremism. Recent political developments\, such as the post-Trump moment\, have been credited with an increase in political paranoia and conspiracy theories that have spread far and wide on the internet. Social media such as Facebook\, Twitter or Instagram exhibit high levels of misogyny\, sexism and racism and are described as lacking in empathy\, compassion and love. Traditional media\, such as tabloid and broadsheet journalism or television news\, also find themselves part of “culture wars” and torn between different political positions. \nThis symposium will explore what role psychoanalysis in combination with other disciplines\, such as media and communication studies\, philosophy and sociology\, can play in analysing such phenomena\, as well as finding possible solutions for them. \nDo we need a new form of empathy or spirituality? To what extent are moments of denial\, disavowal and polarization necessary? Can they revitalize political culture and society more generally? What are their limits? What solutions can be found? How are they intrinsically connected to questions of digital mediation and representation? How are they represented in film and popular culture? What tensions are revealed between what can be represented and what remains unrepresentable? \n  \nSpeakers \nDr Jack Black (Sheffield Hallam University) \nDr Alfie Bown (Royal Holloway University) \nDr Orit Dudai (Kibbutzim College of Education\, Technology and the Arts) \nAssoc. Professor Jon Hackett (St. Mary’s University) \nAssoc. Professor Jacob Johanssen (St. Mary’s University) \nDr Anthony Faramelli (Goldsmiths) \nDr Thi Gammon (Independent Scholar) \nDr Steffen Krüger (University of Oslo) \nDr Em. Sandra Meiri (Open University\, Israel) \nDr Mark Murphy (Independent Scholar) \nProfessor Raya Morag (The Hebrew University) \nProfessor Candida Yates (Bournemouth University)
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/digital-mediation-and-working-through-in-times-of-denial-disavowal-and-splitting-on-the-un-representable/
LOCATION:St Mary’s University Twickenham London\, Waldegrave Road\, Twickenham\, London\, TW1 4SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210610T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210610T173000
DTSTAMP:20260430T142851
CREATED:20230209T151032Z
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis Culture & Religion: Times of Conspiracy Theories & Fake News
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nWe live in a time that is characterised by increasing political polarisation\, fake news\, conspiracy theories and other forms of extremism. Social media such as Facebook\, Twitter or Instagram are often characterised by misogyny\, sexism and racism and as lacking in empathy\, compassion and love. \nThis seminar will explore what role psychoanalysis in combination with religion can play in analysing such phenomena\, as well as finding possible solutions for them. Recent political developments\, such as the Trump presidency\, have been credited with an increase in political paranoia and conspiracy theories have spread far and wide on the internet. Contemporary forms of conspiracy thinking\, such as QAnon\, have led to the establishment of communities which\, to a degree\, have quasi-religious characteristics. \nThis seminar asks how our contemporary age can be analysed through the prism of post-Freudian psychoanalysis and religious studies. Do we need a new form of spirituality? What can a psychoanalytic understanding of religion offer in analysing the phenomena described above? What can psychoanalysis and religion learn from each other in the present moment? How do religious understandings of hope\, love and compassion figure in times of seeming uncertainty\, mistrust and fantasies? \n  \nSpeakers:\nPeter Tyler (St. Mary’s University): Nietzsche and his Influence on Freud and Jung \nMark Murphy (St. Mary’s University): Freud\, Lacan and their Approach to the “Mystical” \nAnthony Faramelli (Goldsmiths): The Alt-Right and Religion: The Death Drive in American Evangelicalism \nRegistration\nPlease note: This session will replace the monthly Reading Group that usually happens on the las Friday of every month. \nAs always\, these reading groups are free to attend and open to all. \nAll registered attendees will be sent a link to join a Zoom call the day of the event. \nKeep Up to Date\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. \nAPS Conference:\nRegistration for the APS 2021 Psychosocial Bodies Conference is now open. All information can be found here.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychoanalysis-culture-religion-times-of-conspiracy-theories-fake-news/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210513T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210513T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T142851
CREATED:20210331T181618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110508Z
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SUMMARY:Psychosocial Perspectives on Contemporary Fascism webinar
DESCRIPTION:With Jacob Johanssen\, Fiona Murray and Anthony Faramelli. Chaired by Nini Fang and hosted in partnership with University of Edinburgh
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-perspectives-on-contemporary-fascism-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210417T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210417T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T142851
CREATED:20210331T180625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110519Z
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SUMMARY:Bion\, the Curiosity Drive and Inquisitive Thinking
DESCRIPTION:An on-line workshop offered by Institute of Group Analysis (London) and the Association of Psychosocial Studies (APS)\n  \nFree of charge. \nSaturday 17th April 29th 2021 10:00– 14:00 \nPresenter: Philip Stokoe\, Psychoanalyst & Organisational Consultant. \nChair: Dr Rachel Gibbons\, Psychoanalyst\, Group Analyst and Consultant Psychiatrist \n  \nPhilip Stokoe will present a discussion of the work of W.R. Bion in the context of his own recent book The Curiosity Drive: Our Need for Inquisitive Thinking. Philip will discuss the implications of this thinking for how we might understand the healthy organisation.  \n  \n  \nPhilip Stokoe is a Psychoanalyst in private practice working with adults and couples\, and an Organisational Consultant\, providing consultation to a wide range of organisations. \nHe worked in the Adult Department of the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust between 1994 and 2012\, he was the Clinical Director from 2007. During his career\, he has been responsible for the creation of innovative services; designing a treatment system for very dangerous adolescents held in a Youth Treatment Centre; developing a model for understanding organisations called the Healthy Organisation Model from which\, he created an innovative intervention for teams and organisations\, the short course intervention\, which combines teaching and consultation; he designed the Primary Care Psychotherapy Consultation Service (PCPCS)\, and these ideas have led to a radically different approach to training psychiatric nurses\, which has been running at City University. He also designed two Masters courses and was the co-designer of the Couple Psychotherapy Training at the Tavistock Clinic. \n  \nThe Curiosity Drive: Our Need for Inquisitive Thinking\, which forms the base of this presentation\, was published by Phoenix Publishing House in November 2020.  \n  \nThe programme will comprise presentations followed by breakouts and plenary discussions \n  \n  \nRegister in advance for this meeting: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lf-ipqjgoHNXSPEeVRULKNsETP4heGs0v \n  \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/bion-the-curiosity-drive-and-inquisitive-thinking/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210129T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210129T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T142851
CREATED:20230209T153743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110537Z
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SUMMARY:Screening and Discussion of ΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ
DESCRIPTION:We are working with the collective Other Ways to Care for a screening of the short film ΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ and a discussion with director Sol Prada \nΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ (approx. running time\, 22 minuets) is part of the investigation of the director Sol Prado\, activist in psycho-social disability and ex-irregular migrant\, focused on the case of the island of Leros\, Greece. This project formulates a study\, which mixes theoretical references with videogames techniques\, applications to calm the anxiety and distress and videos of ASMR (Autonomous meridian sensory response)\, a typology of distributed online contents that stimulates emotional dependence when creating audiovisual stimuli. This short film investigates how desires production is a new way of social regulation\, which uses images (among other stimuli) to achieve controlled sedation\, subject to the mirages of happiness which are related directly to the merchandized consumption of experiences. \nThese reading groups are free to attend and open to all. All registered attendees will be sent a link to join us on Zoom before the event. \nAbstract:\nThe short documentary ΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ [Enclosed] takes us to the Greek island of Leros\, a museum of lockdown before the era of lockdown. \nOccupied by Italians between the First and Second World Wars\, the island became a prison for political detainees during the Greek military dictatorship. In the 1970s\, the island was re-functionalized as a psychiatric mental hospital. At present -a symptom of its time- it houses a refugee camp\, set as a kind of “Chinese box” in a tourist destination of sun and sand. \nThe origin of the project can be found in the diary that the French psychoanalyst and philosopher Félix Guattari wrote during his stay on the island in 1989. In it\, he denounced the conditions of confinement of psychiatric patients; a reflection of the treatment that European society accords to mad people. The short film is a study based on the director’s personal experience\, in which she mixes theoretical references with video games\, anxiety calming apps and ASMR videos; artefacts designed for the evasion and dissociation of personal discomfort from the social causes that produce it. \nThe piece silently and elegantly addresses the architecture of the lockdown\, the dead time and the uncertain future. Like a kind of cursed luck\, ΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ reveals and deciphers through Leros the sensations that would spread to the common sense of the world population during the 2020 pandemic. \nAuthor biography:\nSol Prado is an artist\, film director and textile designer. She grew up in Carapachay\, Buenos Aires and has resided in Barcelona since 2015\, where she arrived to study the MACBA Independent Studies Program and established herself as a designer for the Gratacós textile company. Her artwork addresses madness and psychosocial diversity; faith and religion – which she abandoned after twenty after an evangelical education -; exile and migration. With the gaze of an archivist\, her work tends to seek unseen identities\, lives that are not counted. Currently\, she collaborates with the International Errorista and is part of the board of directors of ActivaMent\, a self-managed group of people with psycho-social diversity. \nΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ [Enclosed]\, her debut as a director\, premiered as the opening performance of the Loop Festival and has been screened at Olhar do Cinema (Curitiba)\, ZINEBI (Bilbao) and the Malaga Festival\, among others. \nOther Ways to Care is a collective that emerged around the will to imagine care alternatives drawn out of activist and collective practices that confront\, discuss and move beyond the neoliberal project\, or in other words the increasing privatisation and individualisation of mental health care. We draw inspiration from minor psycho-political histories and from politically and socially situated practices of care which operate beyond the medical model and technological models of health and distress. \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/screening-and-discussion-of-%ce%ba%ce%bb%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%83%ce%b1%ce%bc%ce%b5/
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200529T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200731T170000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Reading Group,Seminar,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Psychosocial Methodologies: Politicising Research with Narrative and Free Association
DESCRIPTION:A course for psychosocial researchers taking place at UCL Institute of Education and supported by the Association for Psychosocial Studies and the University of Birmingham \n  \nCourse tutors:  Claudia Lapping\, Ian McGimpsey\, Felipe Acuna\, Mohamed Elshirazy \nDates: Mon 1st\, Tues 2nd and Weds 3rd July\, 10 am – 4pm \nLocation: UCL Room: B06 Drayton House\, 30 Gordon Street\, WC1H 0QB \n \nRegistration: \nUCL students – as usual \nNon UCL students: Please contact Claudia Lapping: c.lapping@ucl.ac.uk \n  \nOverview: Whenever we are teaching or discussing psychosocial approaches to the analysis of data\, we come up against a question: how does a psychoanalytically informed approach differ from narrative analysis or discourse analysis? In this course we want to address this question very directly. We will do this through a combination of theoretical and practical exercises to explore the production and analysis of instances of narrative and/or free association. We will discuss: \n\nThe meanings of ‘narrative’ and ‘free association’ within a variety of literary\, qualitative research and psychoanalytic frameworks\, and in popular culture\nContrasting approaches we might use in identifying or producing ‘narratives’ or ‘free associations’ in the process of research\nAnd the way conceptualisations of ‘narrative’ and ‘free association’ might have implications for the analysis of research data\n\nSome key axes of difference include the ways in which different approaches think about language\, subjectivity\, the unconscious and the possibility of understanding or (mis)recognition between researcher and researched. \nWhy is this important? We believe these issues are central to the politics of research\, and to the relation between politics and trauma. We have a hunch that narrative and free associative approaches pull in slightly different directions in relation to both the production of subjectivity and the formulation of political strategy and tactics in the field of social research. \nBackground reading: \nBollas\, C. 1999\, ‘Wording and Telling Sexuality’\, pp. 158 – 166\, in The Mystery of Things\, Routledge \nButler\, J. 2005\, Giving an Account of Oneself\, Fordham University Press \nDe Certeau\, M. 1988\, ‘Walking in the City’ pp. 91-110 of The Practice of Everyday Life\, University of California Press \nFink\, B. 2007\, ‘Working with Dreams\, Daydreams and Fantasies’\, pp. 101-125 in Fundamentals of psychoanalytic technique: A Lacanian approach for practitioners\, W. W. Norton and Company \nFreud\, S. 1958\, The Interpretation of Dreams\, London: Penguin Books (See esp.: Chapter V1 ‘The Dream-Work’ pp. 381-2\, ‘The Work of Condensation’\,pp. 283 – 411\, and ‘The Work of Displacement’ pp. 415-9.) \nMcQuillan\, M\, 2000 (ed.)\, The Narrative Reader\, Routledge \nZizek\, S. 1989\, The Sublime Object of Ideology\, Verso
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-methodologies-politicising-research/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180618T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180620T170000
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SUMMARY:Psychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change \n  \nUCL Institute of Education in association with the Association for Psychosocial Studies and the University of Birmingham \n  \nDates: over 3 days \nMonday June 18th10am – 5pm \nTuesday June 19th  10am- 5pm \nWednesday June 20thand 10 am – 1.15pm \n  \nTutors: Claudia Lapping\, Ian McGimpsey\, Maria Jose Lagos\, Felipe Acuna \n  \nVenue: \nUCL Institute of Education\, Rooms tbc\n20 Bedford Way\nBloomsbury\, London\nWC1H OAL \n  \nRegistration: \nUCL students – as usual. \nNon UCL students: Please contact Bob Grist: r.grist@ucl.ac.uk \nFor any queries about the course\, please contact Claudia Lapping: c.lapping@ucl.ac.uk \n  \n  \nPsychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change  \n  \nThis experimental\, intensive\, two and a half day course will explore different ways of understanding politics and processes of change. Drawing on selected texts from key theorists in the fields of psychoanalysis\, social and cultural theory (e.g. Butler\, Deleuze\, Freud\, Lacan\, Laclau and Mouffe\, Zizek) we will engage with a series of concepts each of which functions as a lens for the analysis of politics or processes of change. Each text provides a slightly different framework for identifying both what counts as change\, and for the construction of interventions that might help to provoke or direct subjective and/or political change. Methodologically\, these frameworks orient us for the empirical examination of discourse\, language\, affect or desire\, time\, regulatory technologies\, and relations to individual and institutional o/Others. Sessions will explore: \n\nProcesses of subjective and political change\nWhat is sayable? Processes of repression or disguise in discourse\nThe ethics of researching traumatic events\nThe event and the limit experience\nThe question of memorialisation\nTrauma\, Repetition and memory\nTime\, politics and the Other\n\n  \nIn the sessions we will discuss the frameworks set out in the selected texts and\, importantly\, explore how these might be applied in the analysis of a concrete instance or piece of data related to a specific political moment. We see the course as an invitation for participants to take part in a project exploring this political moment with us. Through engaging in this project\, which involves concrete processes of analysis\, we will gain insights into both psychosocial methodologies and the event that is the object of the data we are exploring. As such\, participants should be prepared to engage in discussions of recent concrete events that involve loss and the precarity of human life\, distributive injustices\, and symbolic violence. Participants will be asked to prepare through detailed readings of the core texts in advance of the session. \n  \nKey Texts – Relevant chapters and extracts will be specified! \nButler\, J. 2004. ‘Violence\, Mourning\, Politics’ in Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: Verso \nDeleuze\, G. (1990/1969) Deleuze Logic of Sense. Twenty-First Series of the Event (pp. 169-175) and Twenty-Third Series of the Aion (pp. 186-193). London: Bloomsbury Academic \nDeleuze\, G. (2004). Difference and repetition. London: Continuum – Extracts \nFreud\, S. (1914). Remembering\, Repeating\, and Working Through. In Freud\, S. (2003). Beyond the pleasure principle. Penguin UK. \nFreud\, S. (1920). Beyond the Pleasure Principle. In Freud\, S. (2003). Beyond the pleasure principle. Penguin UK. – Extracts \nFoucault\, M. (2000/1978) Interview with Michel Foucault. In Power. Essential works of Foucault 1954-1984 (pp.239-297). Edited by James D. Faubion. \nGerson\, S. (2009). When the third is dead: Memory\, mourning\, and witnessing in the aftermath of the Holocaust. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis\, 90(6)\, 1341-1357. \nLacan\, J. (2006). Logical time and the assertion of anticipated certainty. In B. Fink (Tr)\, Jacques Lacan\, Ecrits: The first complete edition in English (pp. 161–175). London: W. W. Norton and Company \nLaclau\, E. & Mouffe\, C. Section of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy\, Verso – Extracts \nWiegman\, R. (2000) ‘Feminism’s Apocalyptic Futures’\, New Literary Histories\, 31: 805-825 \nZizek\, S. 1989\, The Sublime Object of Ideology\, Verso – Extracts \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-methodologies-politics-and-change-2/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171101T170000
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SUMMARY:Psychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change
DESCRIPTION:  \nA short doctoral course offered by UCL Institute of Education in association with the Association for Psychosocial Studies and the University of Birmingham\n  \nDates: 5 – 7pm\, Wednesdays 1st\, 8th\, 15th\, 22nd\, 29th November 2017\nVenue:  UCL Institute of Education\, Room 537\n             20  Bedford Way\n             London \n            WC1H OAL\nTutors: Claudia Lapping\, Ian McGimpsey\, Maria Jose Lagos\, Felipe Acuna\n  \nRegistration: \nUCL students – as usual. \nNon-UCL students: Please contact Bob Grist: r.grist@ucl.ac.uk to register and access course Moodle site. \nMax: 25 students \nAny queries about the course\, please contact Claudia Lapping: c.lapping@ucl.ac.uk \n  \nPsychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change\n  \nThis series of five sessions will focus on politics and processes of change. Drawing on selected texts from key theorists in the fields of psychoanalysis\, social and cultural theory (including: Butler\, Deleuze\, Freud\, Foucault\, Gerson\, Lacan\, Wiegman\, Zizek) we will engage with a series of concepts each of which functions as a lens for the analysis of politics or processes of change. Each text provides a slightly different framework for identifying both what counts as change\, and for the construction of interventions that might help to provoke or direct subjective and/or political change. Methodologically\, these frameworks orient us for the empirical examination of discourse\, language\, affect or desire\, time\, regulatory technologies\, and relations to individual and institutional o/Others. Sessions will explore: \n  \n\nSession 1: Change\nSession 2: Ideology\, discourse and the role of the signifier\nSession 3: The event and limit experience\nSession 4: Repetition and memory\nSession 5: Time\, politics and the Other\n\nIn the sessions we will discuss the frameworks set out in the selected texts and\, importantly\, explore how these might be applied in the analysis of a concrete instance or piece of data related to a specific political moment. It is through engaging in this process of analysis that psychosocial methodologies will be explored. As such\, participants should be prepared to engage in discussions of recent concrete events that involve loss and the precarity of human life\, distributive injustices\, and symbolic violence. Participants will be asked to prepare through detailed readings of the core texts in advance of the session. \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-methodologies-politics-and-change/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170704T180000
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SUMMARY:Reasons to be cheerful or manic hope? Thoughts on the general election
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nTuesday 4 July\, 6-8pm – The Tavistock Centre\, Belsize Lane\, NW3 \n  \nA roundtable discussion organised by the Tavistock Clinic Policy Seminar\, the Association for Psychosocial Studies\, and the BSA’s Sociology Psychoanalysis and Psychosocial Study Group. \nThe result of the recent general election took many of us by surprise. Labour’s unexpected surge in the polls and the loss of 13 Conservative seats indicate that large sections of the electorate are weary of austerity\, reject the populist ‘Little England’ and anti-immigration sentiments that helped fuel the Brexit vote\, and are either sceptical about a ‘hard’ Brexit or oppose leaving the EU altogether. After nearly 40 years in which neoliberalism has dominated British politics\, is there now an opening for a social democratic or socialist vision of Britain’s future? If so\, what might that vision \nlook like and how would we get there? And what can a psychosocial perspective contribute to our understanding those questions? This roundtable discussion will explore the potential lessons of the general election and consider possibilities for the renewal of social democracy in the 21st century. \n Speakers Georgina Blakeley\, Jon Cruddas MP and Michael Rustin \n  \nGeorgina Blakeley is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Open University. She has published widely on citizen participation and urban governance. Her co-authored book The Regeneration of East Manchester: A Political Analysis was published in 2013. \nJon Cruddas is MP for Dagenham and Rainham\, and was Policy Coordinator for the Labour Party between 2012 and 2015. \n  \nMichael Rustin is a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic\, and a founding editor of Soundings. A paper by him on the election is online at: \nhttps://www.lwbooks.co.uk/blog/ge2017-corbyn-labour-what-next \n  \nAttendance is free but bookings can be made here: \n  \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reasons-to-be-cheerful-or-manic-hope-thoughts-on-the-general-election-tickets-35728334410 \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/reasons-to-be-cheerful-or-manic-hope-thoughts-on-the-general-election/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170616T093000
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SUMMARY:Narcissism and Destructive Leadership
DESCRIPTION:The idea that there are ‘narcissistic’ individuals who can wreak havoc when in positions of leadership and power has been receiving considerable public attention. Stories from  political arenas\,  corporate boardrooms and public organisations tell of the damage done by particularly destructive individuals who gain positions of power. \nSuperficially at least\, the fit between the clinical formulations of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the behaviour of a number of prominent individuals seems strong. The seemingly overwhelming confidence in their own ability\, the very grand sense of their own importance\, alongside the disparagement\, and aggression aimed at those who threaten their persona appears to fit well with the clinical accounts that emerged from psychoanalytic accounts of ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ some decades ago. \nOf course\, serious questions have been raised about the utility of such psychological concepts to understand what might be better understood as more complex sociopolitical phenomena. Should we also be thinking more about the attraction of such personalities\, and the organisations and cultures that promote them? Perhaps we need further analysis of the sociocultural conditions that create or encourage such states of mind? It is now over 35 years since Christopher Lasch published his stinging indictment of ‘post industrial’ American society – Culture of Narcissism. How much relevance does that analysis of social conditions have today? \nThis seminar will examine the status and utility of conceptualisations of narcissistic personality disorder and narcissistic cultures.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/narcissism-and-destructive-leadership/
LOCATION:The Foundry\, 17 Oval Way\, London SE11 5RR\, London\, London\, SE11 5RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:PSYCHOSOCIAL CONNECTIONS:  PRACTICE\, POLICY AND RESEARCH
DESCRIPTION:1st  Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies \n16-17 December 2014 \nhosted by the Psychosocial Research Unit\, University of Central Lancashire \nPreston PR12HE \nMORE INFORMATION and CALL FOR PAPERS TO FOLLOW \nAbstract Submission deadline will be 1-07-2014
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-connections-practice-policy-and-research/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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