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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170704T200000
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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170616T170000
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CREATED:20170512T085217Z
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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/
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