BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Association for Psychosocial Studies - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Association for Psychosocial Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Association for Psychosocial Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20160327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20161030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221028T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221028T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20221002T170419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110249Z UID:2078-1666972800-1666980000@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:Psychosocial Studies: Reading Group: Navigating sameness and difference in research DESCRIPTION:Association for Psychosocial Studies Online Reading Group \nNavigating sameness and difference in research; a critical discussion on reflexivity \nMichelle Elliot and Lindsey Nicholls \nFriday 28 October 2022\, 4 – 6pm \nWe are incredibly happy to invite you to join us for the first APS online reading group of the year! We are starting this academic year with Lindsey Nicholls and Michelle Elliot’s incredibly important work on reflexivity when researching sensitive topics and/or marginalised communities. \nThe articles are available to download for free here and here \nAbstract: \nIn researching sensitive topics and marginalised communities there has been an increasing pressure for researchers to be the ‘same as’ the participants. This may protect vulnerable communities from objectification and external scrutiny encoded in ‘normative’ views of a society. A researcher who is the ‘same as’ the researched community is considered to have sufficient authenticity and legitimacy to do the research. \nCritical\, feminist and reflexive approaches to social science research demand consideration of research objectives\, intentions and implications. The tension between advancing understanding of diverse communities and the interpersonal and intrapersonal transitions and the dynamics of the researcher – participant relationship requires an exploration of similarity and difference to ensure an ethically sound research approach. \nThe presenters will invite discussions on the complexity of establishing authentic and reflexive relationships with the participant communities. The challenges may include exploring/acknowledging unconscious bias and being aware of interpersonal insights and errors that occur in the development\, implementation and learning from the research. \nThe presenters consider if a critical reflexive inquiry can promote a real and reciprocal exchange between researcher and participants. The presenters suggest that overly simplistic ‘identification with’ participants can avoid the painful realities of difference that are important to explore and understand. The intersubjective space can be explored through acknowledgement of sameness and difference\, in privilege\, power and/or the sense of subjugation. \n\nHow can researchers critically reflect on their intentions (conscious and unconscious) for doing the research?\nHow does intersubjectivity lend itself to understanding research into the human condition?\n\nAll registered attendees should automatically be sent a Zoom link. The link will be re-sent the day of the event. \nAuthor biographies: \nDr Michelle Elliot (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Occupational Therapy and Arts Therapies at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. Themes of criticality\, reflexivity and narrative are explored across her teaching and scholarship. \nDr Lindsey Nicholls has a senior academic post at University of Essex. Her doctoral work explored a psychoanalytic understanding of care through the lived experiences of therapists and their clients. She has published work on the use of psychoanalytic theory in research methods (reflexivity) and co-authored a book on psychoanalytic thinking in occupational therapy. URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-studies-reading-group-navigating-sameness-and-difference-in-research/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220914T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220915T150000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T141225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110301Z UID:2267-1663147800-1663254000@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220617T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220618T170000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20221024T160045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110307Z UID:2073-1655456400-1655571600@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:Psychosocial Cartographies DESCRIPTION:Cartography\, the art and science of mapping space\, has a history which cannot be separated from issues of power\, control and alienation. Indeed\, mapping the Americas\, Asia and Africa was integral to colonial projects to dominate the land as well as all that inhabited it. As thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Michel Foucault demonstrate throughout their oeuvres (cf. “On Violence” from The Wretched of the Earth and “Panopticism” from Discipline and Punish)\, controlling a space directly impacts the psychic development of those who inhabit that space. This is to say that mapping always already has implications that are psychosocial in nature. \nThere is also an important\, if often overlooked\, history of psychosocial approaches to cartography. Examples of this include: Fanon who was\, in the words of his mentor François Tosquelles\, first and foremost a thinker of space; Fernand Deligny’s work with non-verbal autistic children mapping how they inhabit space in order to establish therapeutic relationships with them; Félix Guattari famously approached his understanding of the unconscious via cartography\, a practice indebted to Deligny; and Jean Oury\, Guattari’s long-time collaborator and the founder and director of La Borde Clinic\, whose approach to psychotherapy began with a phenomenological mapping of the clinic. Different from psychogeography and the dérive\, the afore mentioned practitioners actively mapped space in order to radically rework it\, disalienating the institutional arrangements and the individuals within. \nToday\, be it in relationship to issues of racialisation\, digital networks\, urban studies\, climate change\, political transformations\, prison abolition\, clinical work in hospitals or care in the community\, the need for a psychosocial understanding of cartography is perhaps more urgent than ever. This conference will seek to elicit psychosocial approaches to mapping space in order to inform how we might address the spatial concerns that structure contemporary issues of race\, geography\, psychotherapy\, ecology and politics. \nThis two-day conference will involve a blended (in person and online) programme of panels\, experiential interventions and a keynote presentation by Anne Querrien. \nhttps://www.psychosocialcartographies.com/ \nEmail question to Anthony Faramelli at a.faramelli@gold.ac.uk URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-cartographies/ LOCATION:Prague\, Czech Republic CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220610T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220610T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T141925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110314Z UID:2270-1654876800-1654884000@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:Psychosocial Studies Online Reading Group: Invisible Trauma Women\, Difference and the Criminal Justice System DESCRIPTION:Anna Motz\, Maxine Dennis\, Anne Aiyegbusi\nWe have a very special event for the final reading group of the summer. Anna Motz\, Maxine Dennis\, Anne Aiyegbusi will be presenting their new book: Invisible Trauma : Women\, Difference and the Criminal Justice System \nA sample chapter can be downloaded here \nYou can order the book from the publisher’s website here \n  \nAbstract: \nThere is an expectation that women will be nurturers and carers. Women who have been judged violent\, destructive and criminal and who are detained in the criminal justice system can find themselves perceived through a distorted lens as unwomanly. This book explains how they become hypervisible in their difference\, while the histories of trauma and suffering that are communicated through their offending and other risk behaviour remain hidden\, and so are unseen. \n  \nBringing together authors uniquely placed as experts in their fields\, Invisible Trauma argues that it is essential to trace the traumatic roots of women’s violence and criminality. Powerful intergenerational factors perpetuate the cycles of offending and trauma re-enactment that current sentencing practice overlooks. The authors present a psychoanalytically informed account of the development of violence and other offending\, identifying pathways for change to address trauma within the lives of these women and their children\, and also to create a responsive\, effective and sensitive workforce. \n  \nInvisible Trauma highlights the role of emotional\, social and cultural forces in traumatising women who come into contact with the criminal justice system and uncovers areas of their lives that are all too often hidden from view. It will be invaluable to those working in clinical and forensic psychology\, mental health nursing\, psychotherapy\, social work\, medical practice and women’s health\, as well as frontline practitioners in the criminal justice system\, the health service and third sector organisations and for anyone with an interest in racism\, equality and social justice. \nAll registered attendees should automatically be sent a Zoom link. The link will be re-sent the day of the event. \n  \nAuthor biographies: \nAnna Motz is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist working with adults and adolescents\, and also a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist with extensive experience of assessing and treating people who have long-standing difficulties with violence against themselves and others. Anna Motz is also the author of The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body (Routledge\, 2008) editor of Managing Self Harm: Psychological Perspectives (Routledge\, 2009) and Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence (Routledge\, 2014.) \nMaxine Dennis is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst (British Psychoanalytic Society) and is Groups Lead in the Adult Department\, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is also a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Essex Clinical Psychology Department where she organises and contributes to the teaching on diversity and psychotherapy. Currently she is Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council Task Group on Ethnicity\, Culture and Racism. \nAnne Aiyegbusi is a Mental Health Nurse\, Forensic Psychotherapist and Group Analyst. She manages a clinical network for personality disorder at West London NHS Trust and is a Director of Psychological Approaches CIC. Anne has extensive experience of working with women who have histories of self-harm\, trauma and offending; and of working with racism in forensic and psychotherapeutic contexts. Anne is a member of the Board of Trustees at the Institute of Group Analysis where she is also a member of the Diversity in Training Group\, prioritising issues of ‘Power\, Privilege and Position’. \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/psychosocial-studies-online-reading-group-invisible-trauma-women-difference-and-the-criminal-justice-system/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220527T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220527T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T143118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110322Z UID:2273-1653667200-1653674400@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:Psychosocial Studies and Journal of Psychosocial Studies Online Reading Reading Group: On not being able to read DESCRIPTION:Myna Trustram\nPlease join us for our monthly online reading groups where we will be coming together and discussing topical psychosocial articles. This month we are incredibly lucky to have Myna Trustram present her essay “On not being able to read” published by the Journal of Psychosocial Studies. \nThe essay can be accessed and download free of charge by clicking here \n  \nAbstract: \nThis experimental essay sets out an imaginative and cognitive space in which I might explore my bizarre and troubling experience of not being able to read. I open a book that I suspect will reveal things I want to know and I am unable to go beyond a few paragraphs. It is not due to a lack of time or dyslexia; it is about the emotional world that I enter when I read. \n  \nThe essay is not a flowing narrative because my mind does not think in that way about the problem; rather\, it is a collection of notes for an unthought work. This is\, actually\, how I read – never quite going all the way. I write the essay not to solve the problem but to see if I can make something of it\, which means encountering it and so feeling it all the more. \n  \nAll registered attendees should automatically be sent a Zoom link. The link will be re-sent the day of the event. \n  \nAuthor biography: \nMyna Trustram worked in England for many years as a historian\, museum curator and academic. In 2021 she stopped paid work and now focuses on being a writer. Myna writes short experimental essays in which she calls upon literary and academic forms to consider themes such as mourning\, childhood\, separation and emptiness. Myna has publications in Victorian social history\, museum studies and now this more adventurous form that calls upon psychoanalysis and the psychosocial. \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/psychosocial-studies-and-journal-of-psychosocial-studies-online-reading-reading-group-on-not-being-able-to-read/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220504 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220508 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T144305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110335Z UID:2275-1651622400-1651967999@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:6 months on from COP26 Psycho-Social Reflections: What have we learnt? DESCRIPTION:The Association for Psychosocial Studies and the Climate Psychology Alliance are jointly hosting a two-day\, international online event reflecting through a psychosocial lens upon the lessons learnt 6 months after COP26. \nTwo parallel events will be taking place – one in the Western Time Zone and one in the Eastern Time Zone. Sessions in both regions will mirror one another\, with the events being a mixture of live and pre-recorded sessions. \nKeynote Speakers: \nPaul Hoggett – From COP15 in Copenhagen to COP26 in Glasgow \nShelot Masithi – Climate Change and Thirs \nThis event aims to: \n\n\nFace together the realities on the ground as a result of the failure of COP26 to effectively tackle disastrous levels of global heating. \n\n\nIncrease understanding and enable dialogue between different climate-affected groups and places across the globe. \n\n\nIdentify and support emergent processes that strengthen individual and community resilience in their engagement with climate crisis \n\n\nSupport the development of psycho-socially informed perspectives and practices around climate change and its impact upon physical and mental wellbeing. \nKeynote speeches will be delivered by Paul Hoggett and Shelot Masithi. More information about their speeches can befound here. \nAcross the two-days and two time zones\, there will be four panel discussions focusing on different aspects of the climate emergency and how different nations/actors have responded. \nFor a detailed overview of the event\, please visit the event website. The website will be updated on a regular basis\, with a section dedicated to useful resources linked to the event. URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/6-months-on-from-cop26-psycho-social-reflections-what-have-we-learnt/ CATEGORIES:Conference,Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220325T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220325T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T144809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110347Z UID:2278-1648227600-1648234800@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:Psychosocial Studies Online Reading Group: Citizens of the world? DESCRIPTION:Chris Scanlon and John Adlam \nPlease note that we have moved the start time back to 5pm\, after working hours\, to accommodate those who will be participating in industrial action ending on 25 March. \nThis month we have a very special reading group. Chris Scanlon and John Adlam will be presenting their new book: Psycho-social Explorations of Trauma\, Exclusion and Violence: Un-housed Minds and Inhospitable Environments. \nChapter 3 of the book is available to download for free here \n  \nAbout this event: \nIn our recently published book we explore the operation of discourses of power\, privilege\, and position as they are revealed in relations of domination and toxic ‘othering’ as between privileged in-groups ‘in possession’ and oppressed and dispossessed out-groups. We analyse and critique the inhospitable environments generated by these societal in-groups at local\, societal\, cultural\, and global levels. We particularly foreground the complex intersections between empire\, doctrines of supremacy and racism\, human mobility\, and climate disaster\, which the present war of aggression being waged against Ukraine so catastrophically aggravates. \n  \nIn the chapter this group will study\, we develop our exploration of how excluded monadic outsiders experience the (in-)hospitality of the in-group; and the extent of their scattered and essentially ambivalent relationships with the out-group. We build on our Diogenes paradigm using vignettes from the life of the early Christian saint\, Simeon Stylites\, and we show how his almost suicidal asceticism disturbed his fellow monks beyond even their own considerable endurance. \n  \nLike Diogenes\, Simeon’s position in relation to a societal in-group was to consider that the only place he can take his stand is at the very edge of it. We explore how from this positioning both men earned and built what trust came their way by virtue of their truth-telling about the relations of domination to which they were exposed. We extend our discussion of the problematic nature of this liminality by exploring the relationship between the modern in-group\, in the form of the State and its ‘metropolitan’ systems of care\, and the various contemporary\, out-groups who are experienced as (and vilified and silenced for) being ‘out-of-place’. \n  \n  \nPsycho-social explorations of trauma\, exclusion and violence: Un-housed minds and inhospitable environments \n  \nYou can order the book from the publisher’s website here \n  \nEndorsements \n  \n“This book inspires a feeling of relief. It brings together the most pressing issues of our time – climate change\, genocide\, exclusionary nationalism and deep-rooted dehumanising racisms – in profoundly original ways that address power relations\, exclusions\, ‘unhousedness’ and (re)traumatisation. It faces the pain they engender while refusing familiar\, patronising tropes of otherness. Its perceptive\, and sometimes poetic\, scholarship brings deep hope that other\, genuinely psychosocial ways of living and relating are possible\, despite disagreements and disappointments along the way.” Ann Phoenix\, Professor of Psychosocial Studies\, UCL \n  \nIn this elegantly argued\, carefully documented work\, Chistopher Scanlon and John Adlam offer a refreshing critical angle on some of the most pressing forms of social traumatization and exclusion. Going beyond ‘dispossession’\, ‘necropolitics’\, and ‘states of exception’ as means of characterizing the social injury wrought by inhospitable neoliberal sovereigns\, they deploy a deeply critical\, practice-based lens to looking at the suffering in our world produced by colonial and racist structures\, mechanisms of dispossession and unhousedness\, and ecocidal policies that are exacerbating a global migration crisis. The authors mitigate their disappointment at the persistence of oppression by proposing a blueprint for solidarity around anti-oppressive social action. Prof Michael O’Loughlin\, Adelphi University\, New York\, co-editor Psychoanalysis\, Culture & Society. \n  \nStarting from homelessness and ending with ‘race’ this is a study of abjection and shame and of its refusal\, the refusal to go quietly into the night and accept your place on society’s outermost margins. Scanlon and Adlam examine the vexed relations between those who are cast out and those who\, simply by occupying the position that they occupy\, do the casting. This wonderfully imaginative and principled book draws upon a startling diversity of sources to explore the paradoxes and predicaments of structural violence. Prof Paul Hoggett\, Co-Founder of the Climate Psychology Alliance. \n  \nAll registered attendees should automatically be sent a Zoom link. The link will be re-sent the day of the event. \n  \nAuthor biographies: \nChris Scanlon is a psycho-socialist consultant/researcher\, group analyst\, consultant general adult and forensic psychotherapist\, and associate lecturer in psycho-social and organisational studies at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust. c.scanlon@btinternet.com Twitter: @CHRISTOPHERSCA8 \nJohn Adlam is an independent researcher\, group psychotherapist and consultant psychotherapist. He is a founder member of the Association for Psychosocial Studies and a former Vice President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. john.adlam1@btinternet.com Twitter: @Diogenesquely \nChris and John were both colleagues at the Outreach Service of the Henderson Hospital Democratic Therapeutic Community before that Service’s abrupt and scandalous closure in April 2008. \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/psychosocial-studies-online-reading-group-citizens-of-the-world/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220225T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220225T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T145206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110353Z UID:2280-1645804800-1645812000@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:Psychosocial Studies Online Reading Group: The Aesthetics of Decoloniality in Psychotherapy DESCRIPTION:Anthony Faramelli \nPlease join us for our monthly online reading groups where we will be coming together and discussing topical psychosocial articles. This month APS’ own Anthony Faramelli will be presenting his article “The Aesthetics of Decoloniality in Psychotherapy: Institutional Psychotherapy and Fanon’s Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm” \nThe article is available to download for free here \n  \nAbstract: \nThis article will examine how colonialism and racism stratifies space\, with particular focus on aesthetic production and the way in which an individual’s freedom is dependent on the “ambience” of the space they occupy. The analysis will be grounded in Algerian colonial psychiatry and anti/de-colonial psychotherapy. Through an examination of Frantz Fanon’s application of Institutional Psychotherapy in Blida-Joinville Hospital\, this article will argue that Fanon’s decolonial politics and his commitment to dis-alienation were reliant on the (re)construction of space within the hospital so as to increase what Félix Guattari would later refer to as the “coefficient of transversally”. By implication\, this article’s argument intends to use Fanon’s spatial approach to psychotherapy in order to elicit a reading of Institutional Psychotherapy en masse as having\, at its heart\, a focus on spatial and aesthetic production. \n  \nAll registered attendees should automatically be sent a Zoom link. The link will be re-sent the day of the event. \n  \nAuthor biography: \nAnthony Faramelli is a psychosocial researcher and practitioner whose work is grounded in issues of coloniality and the theories and practices of institutional analysis. His current research projects examine digital cultures and the Alt-Right\, psychotherapy’s aesthetic practices\, and the resistant networks formed by Latin American diasporic communities. Anthony is the author of Resistance\, Revolution and Fascism: Zapatismo and Assemblage Politics. He is currently completing a monograph titled The Mass Psychology of Fascism in the Age of Machines: Digital Media and Control in the 21st Century. \n  \nDr Faramelli is a Lecturer in Visual Cultures and the Co-Programme Leader of the BA in Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths\, University of London. He also serves on the Executive Board of the Association for Psychosocial Studies\, the Editorial Board of The Journal of Psychosocial Studies and is a member of the Network for Institutional Analysis. \n  \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/psychosocial-studies-online-reading-group-the-aesthetics-of-decoloniality-in-psychotherapy/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220128T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220128T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T145626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110358Z UID:2282-1643385600-1643392800@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:Psychosocial Studies Online Reading Group: Psychosocial meaning making in carcaeral spaces DESCRIPTION:A case study of prison and mental health care practis \nWe are incredibly happy to invite you to join us for the first APS online reading group of the year! We are starting this year with Andrew Sheppard’s incredibly important work on carceral spaces in prisons and mental health care\, published in The Journal of Psychosocial Studies. \nThe article is available to download for free here \n  \nAbstract: \nPrisons represent sites of psychological distress and suffering. In this article\, the implications of this\, and the need for the maintenance of a psychosocial perspective\, are explored. A psychogeographic overview of the prison environment is provided to consider the way it is constituted at different levels: the macro-social\, meso-social and micro-social levels. Two vignettes are presented\, which illustrate the process of loss and emergent self-destruction accompanying an enforced identity change followed by the radical means of stabilisation that may be adopted in opposition to this process. The essential nature of personal narrative construction ‐ this process of sense making ‐ is considered alongside the forcing impact of the social environment\, as well as wider social pressures\, and their impact on the dynamic process. In closing\, a limitation of the employed methodology ‐ focusing on individual experience ‐ is remarked on: if these psychological processes take place through an act of modulation in response to a social field\, how does the social field in turn respond to these modulations? In closing\, I argue that through maintaining a psychosocial focus\, researchers and clinicians discharge an ethical duty to maintain the attention of society on the suffering of some of its most vulnerable members. \n  \nAll registered attendees should automatically be sent a Zoom link. The link will be re-sent the day of the event. \n  \nAuthor biography: \nAndrew Shepherd is a Consultant Forensic psychiatrist – secure hospital and prison settings and an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Manchester. Andrew has on-going research and teaching interests in psychoanalysis\, the lived experience of mental disorders\, and the enactment of mental health at institutional boundaries. \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. \n  URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-studies-online-reading-group-psychosocial-meaning-making-in-carcaeral-spaces/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211126T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211126T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T150320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110407Z UID:2284-1637942400-1637949600@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210701 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210711 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T151651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110413Z UID:2289-1625097600-1625961599@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:APS Online Conference: Psychosocial Bodies DESCRIPTION:Agenda and Zoom Link Booklet\nPsychosocial Bodies Conference Booklet\nDropbox folder with conference presentation slides\n\nRecordings of Keynote Talks\nInvited Speakers: \n\nEzimma Chigbo\nProfessor Derek Hook\nProfessor Elelwani Ramugondo\n\nAPS 2020 Conference Committee: Lindsey Nicholls\, Poul Rohleder\, Julie Walsh\, Deborah Wright\, University Of Essex; Anthony Faramelli\, IoE UCL; Sarah Shorrock\, UCLan \n  URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-online-conference-psychosocial-bodies/ CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210610T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210610T173000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T151032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110454Z UID:2287-1623339000-1623346200@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210528T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210528T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20210331T181940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110500Z UID:1812-1622217600-1622224800@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:APS Reading Group: Maggie Long’s “Derry Girls” DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-reading-group-maggie-longs-derry-girls/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210513T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210513T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20210331T181618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110508Z UID:1808-1620923400-1620928800@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210430T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210430T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20210331T181442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110513Z UID:1806-1619798400-1619805600@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:APS Reading Group: Book Launch\, Nigel Williams’ Mapping Social Memory: A Psychotherapeutic Psychosocial Approach DESCRIPTION: 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210417T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210417T140000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20210331T180625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110519Z UID:1803-1618653600-1618668000@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210326T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210326T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T152424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110529Z UID:2291-1616778000-1616785200@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org 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/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210226T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210226T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T152958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110533Z UID:2293-1614358800-1614366000@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org 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/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210129T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210129T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T153743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110537Z UID:2295-1611936000-1611943200@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201127T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201127T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20201112T184305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110543Z UID:1717-1606492800-1606500000@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org 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/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201030T040000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201030T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T154604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110547Z UID:2299-1604030400-1604080800@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org 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/ CATEGORIES:Reading Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200626T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200626T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20230209T155221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110600Z UID:2301-1593190800-1593198000@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200529T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200731T170000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20200612T151345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110615Z UID:1622-1590739200-1596214800@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191218T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191218T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20191030T125757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T111204Z UID:1508-1576688400-1576699200@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:AGM and Relaunch of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies DESCRIPTION:We  are delighted  to celebrate the publication of the double re-launch issue of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies. The journal will henceforth be published by Policy Press. This move to a professional academic publishing platform reflects the strength of the journal and growing national and international recognition of the unique place it occupies in the field of psychosocial studies. \nMore info here URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/agm-and-relaunch-of-the-journal-of-psychosocial-studies/ CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190701T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190703T160000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20190329T075759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T111211Z UID:1440-1561975200-1562169600@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190516T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190517T170000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20181130T113028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T111222Z UID:1407-1558000800-1558112400@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:The 'READING’ CONFERENCE 2019 DESCRIPTION:ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES ‘READING’ CONFERENCE 2019. \nAt Birkbeck\, University of London\, Thursday 16th and Friday 17th May 2019 \nThe Psychosocial – reflections and developments \n  \nThe APS Reading Conference 2019 will create an innovative space for developing the field of psychosocial studies. Over two days\, you will have the opportunity to participate in discussion of contemporary and foundational psychosocial texts as well as symposia and workshops exploring cutting edge psychosocial ideas and research on contemporary politics and culture. Our aim is to open up spaces for us to listen to each other and for new ideas and projects to develop. \n  \nTo register for the conference\, please follow this link: \nAPS Reading Conference 2019 \n  \nConference Fees: \n\n£50 – waged non APS members\n£40 – waged APS members\n£20 – unwaged\n\nConference Format: \nThe conference has an innovative format\, including: \n  \nSCHEDULED SPACES FOR GROUP DISCUSSIONS \nTo share and discuss ideas from the sessions and to make links to your own work and generate ideas for the future. \n  \nREADING SESSIONS \nTo read key texts together: these will be made available to all registered participants prior to the conference\, so that the session can focus on discussion. There will also be an opportunity to respond in writing to key texts prior to the conference\, using an online conference file sharing system. \nSessions will be lead by: \n\nAnn Phoenix reading ‘On the Postcolony: a brief response to critics’ by Achille Mbembe (2005)\nStephen Frosh reading ‘Birthing Racial Difference: conversations with my mother and others’ by Lewis\, G (2009)\nCandida Yates reading ‘Something to Do with a Girl Named Marla Singer: Capitalism\, Narcissism\, and Therapeutic Discourse in David Fincher’s Fight Club’ by Layton\, L. (2011)\nKate Kenny reading ‘The explosion of real time and the structural conditions of temporality in a society of control: durations and urgencies of academic research’ by Lapping\, C. (2017)\nThe Activist Research Collective reading ‘Borderline personality disorder\, discrimination\, and survivors of chronic childhood trauma’ by Andrea Nicki (2016)\nSasha Roseneil reading ‘’Part 1: General Introduction’\, Introduction to Group Analytic Psychotherapy: Studies in the Social Interaction of Individuals and Groups’\, by Foulkes\, SH (1948)\nPaul Stenner reading ‘Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena’ by Winnicott\, D. (1953)\n… and more …\n\n  \nCREATIVE PANELS AND WORKSHOPS EXPLORING ART\, POLITICS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY \n\nCritical Psychotherapy and Psychosocial Studies: Psychogeotherapy\, Risk and Theatre\nThe Unconscious in the Social World\nThe Image and the Psyche in Psychosocial Studies\nOur Music\, Our lives: the emotional and affective experience(s) of popular music\nThe Group as a Liminal Space: Recognition and Reparation for Political Trauma Survivors\nContributions to Psychosocial Thought and Practice from Latin America\nInconsolable Positions of (neoliberal) Critique in Psychosocial Research\nWaiting Times: Psychosocial thoughts on time and care\nFeminine Desire and the Postcolonial Condition\nThe Racialisation of Sexual Violence: some thoughts on discursive repression and projection\nProtest\nThe Body\nSee it – say it – sort it: Resistance\, surveillance and silencing\nSame As\, Similar to or Different From: negotiating relationships in narrative research\n\nPlease register soon to secure a place: APS Reading Conference 2019 URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/the-reading-conference-2019/ LOCATION:Birkbeck College\, WC1E 7HX CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181214T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181214T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20181129T095617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T111227Z UID:1395-1544801400-1544810400@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:Annual General Members' Meeting and Panel: Mental Health and The Emotional Work of the Gig Economy DESCRIPTION:3.30-5pm: Panel on Mental Health and The Emotional Work of the Gig Economy \nSpeakers: \nSally-Anne Gross and Dr George Musgrave (University of Westminster): Can Music Make You Sick? \n\nIn recent years there has been a growing body of research that has begun to examine the dark side of our relationship to music. The media understandably concentrate on the more sensational aspects of rock and roll; membership of ‘27 Club’\, or the recent public declaration of critically acclaimed dubstep producer Benga as suffering from schizophrenia (Hutchinson\, 2015). There is then a tension emerging between the notion that artistry is positive both for the economy and for well-being\, and a growing awareness that a musical career is a risky business.\n‘Can Music Make You Sick?’ surveyed over 2\,200 musicians working in the United Kingdom\, and interviewed more than 25 musicians and industry professionals\, to explore how they are emotionally experiencing working in the music industry in the United Kingdom. This paper presents findings from this project\, which seeks to ask challenging questions of music\, and specifically musical ambition and aspirations\, in the current climate of precarious labour and hyper competition. Is it possible that musical aspirations are potentially making artists sick?\n\nJack Newsinger (University of Nottingham): Resilience in austerity cultural policy and practice \nResilience is a key theme in austerity Britain\, prominent across government policy\, popular discourses\, business and management thinking and academia. This paper is about the deployment of the concept of resilience in cultural policy and practice. It is based on an extensive engagement with literature\, an analysis of cultural policy discourse\, and qualitative data drawn from 23 in-depth interviews with freelance cultural practitioners. I adapt Robin James’s (2015) concept of resilience to show how arts leaders and practitioners generate performative narratives that seek to publicly represent their capacity to adapt to austerity\, and we explore the different versions of resilience thinking that these narratives mobilise. I argue that resilience in cultural policy and practice draws upon psychological conceptions of resilience which unwittingly produces a discursive surplus which becomes reinvested in institutions\, providing subsequent justification for the processes of post-crisis austerity itself.\n\n5-6pm: Annual General Meeting (for APS members)\n \n6pm: Drinks (open to all) \n  \nFree registration: \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/association-for-psychosocial-studies-agm-event-mental-health-and-the-emotional-work-of-the-gig-tickets-52064771132?utm_term=eventname_text URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/annual-general-members-meeting-and-panel-mental-health-and-the-emotional-work-of-the-gig-economy/ LOCATION:University of Westminster\, Boardroom\, 309 Regent Street\, London\, W1B 2HW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180618T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180620T170000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20180402T095042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T111235Z UID:1333-1529308800-1529514000@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180405T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180407T170000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20170607T113448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T111239Z UID:1117-1522915200-1523120400@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:Annual Conference: ‘Psychosocial Reflections on a Half Century of Cultural Revolution’ DESCRIPTION:Venue:\n\nUniversity of Bournemouth\n\nDate: \n\n5th-7th April 2018\n\n\nCall for papers\n\nDeadline: 22nd January 2018\nSend your abstract of 250–300 words to: APS2018@bournemouth.ac.uk\n\n*Due to popular demand\, we have added a new open stream for those who wish to submit proposals for papers\, panels or artistic presentations on:\n“Current and Future Directions in Psychosocial Studies”\n\n‘Psychosocial Reflections on a Half Century of Cultural Revolution’\n  \nJoin us to reflect on revolutionary relationships and revolutionary politics which challenged authority then and which influence us now. \nThe cultural forces and the political movements of 1967 and 1968 aimed to change the world\, and did so. Recent development of some populist and protest politics could be seen as a continuation of the revolutionary movements in the 1960s. Hedonistic themes that recall the summer of love suffuse contemporary life\, and self-reflection and emotional literacy have also become prominent values\, linked towards human diversity and the international community. \nWe invite you to offer psychosocial analyses of the development and legacy today of the ‘revolutions’ in love\, sex and politics. This could be via explorations of contemporary issues in politics\, culture and artistic expression\, or through historical studies. All proposals for papers must indicate how they address both psychological and social dimensions of their topic. \n  \n\n  \nSend your abstract of 250-300 words to APS2018@bournemouth.ac.uk \nDeadline: 22nd January 2018. \n(Existing submissions\, notified by 1st November). \n  \nSend your abstract of 250-300 words to: APS2018@bournemouth.ac.uk \n  \nTopics could include: \n\nWhat happened to hate in the Summer of Love?\nLennon vs Lenin: did 1967 and 1968 announce two divergent trends in contemporary culture\, and what has happened since to the psychosocial forces they expressed?\nWhat are the meanings of ‘liberation’ today?\nNew inequalities in post-industrial societies\nThe resurgence of religion\nThe Six Day War\, intifadas\, and intractability\nThe planetary environment: fantasies and politics\nTrajectories of feminism\nThe changing nature of ageing\n‘The personal is political’ and other rhetoric in historical context\nFree minds and free markets\nThe ethics of freedom: for example\, where now for freedom of speech?\nFrom the Manson Family to the Islamic State\nPop music’s global conquest and musical hybridity\nChanges in artistic practice\, creativity and commodification\nThe transformation of media\nThe digitisation of everything\nHigher education: democratisation and marketisation\nThe potential and limitations of theories of narcissism as a major tool for understanding late modern/postmodern cultures\nNew narcissisms in the 21st century\nTherapeutic culture and its critics\nWhere are they now? Biographical narratives of the revolutionaries\nStates of mind in pivotal moments: San Francisco 67\, Paris 68\, and since\nThe sense of entitlement: narcissism or social justice?\nThe decline of deference and its consequences\nThe hatred of government and authority\nThe sexualisation of culture\nControlled decontrolling or repressive desublimation? Elias and Marcuse on cultural liberalisation\nOur bodies ourselves: shifting patterns and perceptions of embodiment. URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/annual-conference-psychosocial-reflections-on-a-half-century-of-cultural-revolution/ LOCATION:University of Bournemouth CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171215T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171215T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T034812 CREATED:20171116T112433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T111244Z UID:1272-1513353600-1513360800@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org SUMMARY:Annual General Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Annual General Meeting of the Association for Psychosocial Studies. \nAll members and interested parties welcome. \n  \nFriday 15th December\, 4.00->6.00pm \n  \nCommittee Room 3; 30 Bedford Way (Institute of Education/UCL) London WC1H 0AL. URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/annual-general-meeting/ CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR