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SUMMARY:Performing (Post) Pandemic Grief: Prof Fintan Walsh
DESCRIPTION:Register here \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nWe are incredibly happy to invite you to join us for our next APS online reading group! We are delighted to welcome Fintan Walsh to present his research on the reckoning with grief in pandemic theatre. \nPlease join us to learn more about the vital contribution of theatrical performance to the ongoing work of public mourning in the wake of COVID-19. \nIn advance of the session\, please access Prof Walsh’s new book: Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres. The text is quite short but we especially invite participants to read sections 1\, 4 and Coda. \nAbstract: \nThis Element explores how theatre responded to the death and loss produced by the COVID-19 pandemic\, by innovating forms and spaces designed to support us in grief. It considers how theatre grieved for itself\, for the dead\, for lost ways of living\, while also imagining and enacting new modes of being together. Even as it reckoned with its own demise\, theatre endeavoured to collectivise grief by performing a range of functions more commonly associated with funerary\, health and social care services\, which buckled under restrictions and neglect. These pandemic theatres show how grief cannot only be let mourn over individual losses in private\, but how it must also seep into the public sphere to fight to save critical services\, institutions\, communities and art forms\, including theatre itself. \nAuthor biography: \nFintan Walsh is Professor of Performing Arts and Humanities at Birkbeck\, University of London\, where is the founding Director of Birbeck Creative Practice Lab and Head of the School of Creative Arts\, Culture and Communication. His research focuses on theatre\, performance and cross-disciplinary arts practice\, with monographs including Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres (Cambridge University Press\, 2024)\, Performing the Queer Past: Public Possessions (Methuen Drama\, 2023)\, Theatre & Therapy (Methuen Drama\, 2013; expanded and reissued 2024)\, Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2016)\, and Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2010). Edited volumes include Writing Queer Performance: Contemporary Texts and Documents (Methuen Drama\, 2025)\, Theatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary (Methuen Drama\, 2020)\, That Was Us: Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance (Oberon Books\, 2013)\, Performance\, Identity and the Neo-Political Subject (with Matthew Causey\, Routledge\, 2013)\, Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances from Ireland (Cork University Press\, 2010)\, and Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture (with Sara Brady\, Palgrave Macmillan\, 2009). Fintan is the founder and Senior Editor of the series Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts (Cambridge University Press) and is a former Senior Editor of the journal Theatre Research International (Cambridge University Press).
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/performing-post-pandemic-grief-prof-fintan-walsh/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Call for papers:  Confronting Violence: Exploring the Psychosocial Dynamics of Gender-Based Aggression
DESCRIPTION:Call for papers:  \nConfronting Violence: Exploring the Psychosocial Dynamics of Gender-Based Aggression \nSpecial Edition of The Journal of Psychosocial Studies \n \nThe recent report by the National Police Chief’s Council on Violence against Women and Girls has once again highlighted the critical nature of this issue. Declaring the scale of the problem as a national emergency\, comparable to terrorism\, the report underscores alarming statistics: one in six homicides in England and Wales is linked to domestic abuse\, and 20% of all police-recorded crimes—over one million offences annually—are categorized as violence against women and girls. These offences include sexual assault\, stalking\, harassment\, domestic violence\, and controlling and coercive behaviour\, with the true total estimated to be twice as high. \nWe believe that psychosocial perspectives are essential for understanding gender-based violence\, as it is deeply rooted in social and cultural contexts and lives within the intimate worlds of both perpetrators and victims. We seek articles that engage with the inseparable interplay between psychological and social factors\, and offer fresh insights into the complex dynamics that drive these harmful behaviours. \nParticular topics that might be included are (for example): \n  \n\nSexual assault and rape\nStalking\nCoercion and control\nInstitutional misogyny\nINCELS\nOnline abuse and misogyny\nDomestic abuse\nThe impact of abuse and violence\nPreventing VAWG\nHarassment\nViolence in Schools\nPolicing and VAWG\nIntergenerational impacts of abuse and violence\n\n  \nWe can publish both formal research papers (that would need to be written in the expected style and sent out for independent review) and open space articles (less formal articles\, that might be based on personal experiences and reflection that might take the form of prose\, poetry\, visual art). \nDetails are here: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/jps/jps-overview.xml?tab_body=instructions-for-authors \n  \nInterested contributors should:   \nSend an abstract of around 500 words to  Pete Harris (p00096516@brookes.ac.uk) by Friday 17th January 2025. Please make it clear which type of paper you hope to submit. We are likely to be expecting draft of selected papers to be submitted around November 2025.You will be informed within one month of receipt whether we invite the full submission.  Interested contributors are welcome to contact us with queries. \n  \nSpecial Edition Editors \n  \n  \nJane Meyrick – University of West of England (Jane.Meyrick@uwe.ac.uk) \nDavid Gadd – University of Manchester (david.gadd@manchester.ac.uk \nPeter Harris –  Oxford Brookes University (p00096516@brookes.ac.uk) \nDavid W Jones – The open university (david.jones@open.ac.uk) \nIoanna Gouseti – Oxford Brookes University (p0096557@brookes.ac.uk) \nThere are more details about the journal here: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/journal-of-psychosocial-studies
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/call-for-papers-confronting-violence-exploring-the-psychosocial-dynamics-of-gender-based-aggression/
CATEGORIES:Call for papers
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SUMMARY:APS-APCS 2024 Conference
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial approaches to researching and experiential learning\n\nA joint conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies and the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society \n17th-18th June 2024 \nSt Mary’s University\, Twickenham\, London TW1 4SX \nConference programme: https://www.conftool.net/aps-apcs-2024/sessions.php \nRegistration: https://www.conftool.net/aps-apcs-2024/ \nRegistration information: https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/registration/ \nConference enquiries: conference2024@protonmail.com \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-apcs-2024-conference/
LOCATION:St. Mary’s University\, Twickenham\, Waldegrave Road\, London\, TW1 4SX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Lynne Layton on 'Social Psychoanalysis\, Normative Unconscious Processes\, and an Ethic of Repair.
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to invite you to join us for a public lecture by Lynne Layton on ‘Social Psychoanalysis\, Normative Unconscious Processes\, and an Ethic of Repair. The lecture is part of the seminar series on ‘Decolonising Counselling and Psychotherapy: Reflections from Psychosocial Perspectives’\, organised by Nini Kerr\, Rhea Gandhi\, and Mariya Levitanus\, in collaboration with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nWhen: Wednesday\, 5th June\, from 2-3pm.\nHow: MS Teams – please contact Rhea Gandhi for the link to join the event\n\nSession abstract\nThis talk takes up the question of what a social psychoanalysis might look like in the clinic\, in our psychoanalytic institutions\, and in our society. Drawing on some earlier psychoanalysts’ concepts that have connected the social world and the psychic world\, I introduce the concept of normative unconscious processes\, which addresses the ways that racism\, heterosexism\, classism and other social inequalities are unconsciously replicated in the clinic. The talk then explores how therapists can resist unconsciously replicating such cultural inequalities. We will then look outside the clinic at how cultural inequalities manifest in the wider circles of contemporary institutional and sociocultural life. Here\, too\, we will explore how we\, as citizens and therapists\, both unconsciously replicate and can resist replicating harmful\, unequal relations. We will think together about how to address the places in our different subjective and communal worlds where harm has been done\, and engage together on how to make repair.\n\nAuthor bio:\nLynne Layton has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and in Clinical Psychology. She is a psychoanalyst and has taught and supervised at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is also a Corresponding Member of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Psychiatry Department at Harvard Medical School. Lynne is the author of Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory\, and co-editor of 3 books: Narcissism and the Text: Studies in Literature and the Psychology of Self; Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis; and Psychoanalysis\, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting. From 2004-2017\, she was co-editor of the journal Psychoanalysis\, Culture & Society and she is currently an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is a past-President of Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility and founded Reflective Spaces/Material Places-Boston\, a group of psychodynamic therapists committed to community mental health and social justice. Lynne is on the organizing committee of a national Black-led reparations campaign. She is the author of the 2020 book Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture\, Character\, and Normative Unconscious Processes\, winner of a 2021 book award from the American Academy and Board of Psychoanalysis.\n\nPlease contact Rhea Gandhi for the link to join the event.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/lynne-layton-on-social-psychoanalysis-normative-unconscious-processes-and-an-ethic-of-repair/
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SUMMARY:Prof Tony Jefferson: The Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI)
DESCRIPTION:Registration: Click here for more details \nJoin us in our APS online reading group\, as we listen to Emeritus Prof Tony Jefferson’s reading of Panic and Perjury and FANI method \nWe are incredibly happy to invite you to join us for our next APS online reading group! We are welcoming Tony Jefferson to share his important work on the Free Association Narrative Interview  (FANI) Method as a key methodology for psychosocial research. \nTony Jefferson is an Emeritus Professor at Keele University who has researched and published widely on questions to do with youth subcultures\, the media\, policing\, race and crime\, masculinity\, fear of crime\, racial violence and psychosocial methodology. He worked with Stuart Hall and others to produce Resistance Through Rituals (1976/2006) and Policing the Crisis (1978/2013). His books on Policing include Controlling the Constable (1984/2023) and Interpreting Policework (1987/2023)\, both co-authored with Roger Grimshaw\, and The Case Against Paramilitary Policing (1990/2023). \nHis fear of crime project\, with Wendy Hollway\, produced the novel Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) method and a subsequent book\, Doing Qualitative Research Differently (2000/2012). Teaching psychosocial criminology with David Gadd produced their jointly authored text\, Psychosocial Criminology (2007). His latest book is Stuart Hall\, Conjunctural Analysis and Cultural Criminology (2021). He has held Visiting Professorships in the United States\, Australia\, Denmark and Sweden and was a one time European editor of the journal Theoretical Criminology. \nTo prepare for this reading\, please read: \n‘Panic and Perjury: A psychosocial exploration of agency’ by Hollway and Jefferson\, 2005 \nhttps://oro.open.ac.uk/22982/ \nAbstract: \nThe primary aim of this article is to explore the predicament of one man\, Vince\, in difficult circumstances\, in order to produce a psychosocial analysis that could contribute to the understanding of agency . In the process we note the role of what we prefer to call affect\, rather than emotion\, in most contexts. If emotions are\, as Blackman and Cromby (2007: 6) suggest\, ‘those patterned brain/body responses that are culturally recognizable and provide some unity\, stability and coherence to the felt dimensions of our relational encounters’\, it is perhaps unsurprising that\, because we are focusing on unconscious dynamics in this chapter\, the term affect proves more relevant to our analysis than the emotions of anger and shame that are\, arguably\, the core suppressed emotions in the account. Vince himself never talked in terms of specific emotions\, but rather\, in line with Blackman and Cromby’s definition that ‘feelings register intensive experiences as subjective experience’ (ibid)\, of how he was experiencing his painful world. In highlighting his embodied ‘sickness’\, and the accompanying anxiety\, we focus on the affective dimension. In this usage\, anxiety is an affective state.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/category-reading-group/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240313T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240712T160000
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SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:DECOLONISING COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY – REFLECTIONS FROM PSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVES \n\nThis public-facing seminar series challenges Eurocentric perspectives in traditional therapy and develop politically progressive\, decolonial alternatives in line with University- and sector-wide decolonisation efforts. It examines the psychosocial impacts of colonial violence on contemporary socio-political dynamics. It is funded by the Principal’s Teaching Awards Scheme and is led by Nini Kerr in collaboration with Rhea Gandhi and Mariya Levitanus. \n  \nYou can register for any/all of our events here – they are free and open to everyone! \n\nProgramme Schedule:  \n  \n\n\n13th March\, Wednesday\, 2-4pm: Nini Kerr on ‘Culture as the Bad Object’ and Erica Burman on ‘Child as Method as a resource for decolonial theory and practice‘  – G.07 Meadows Lecturer Theater\, Doorway 4\n\n\n[Special Book Launch Event] 18th March\, Monday\, 4.30-6.30pm: ‘The Rebel’s Clinic’ by Adam Shatz. Register here.\n\n\n\n\n\n12th April\, Friday\, 2-4pm: Mariya Levitanus on ‘Beyond the Norm: Decolonial Queer Perspectives on Counselling and Psychotherapy’ – Sydney Smith Lecture Room – Doorway 1\n\n\n\n\n\n10th May\, Friday\, 2-4pm: Rhea Gandhi & Isaac Yu on ‘Therapy as Political Resistance’ – Sydney Smith Lecture Room – Doorway 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5th June\, Wednesday\,  2-4pm – Lynne Layton ‘Social Psychoanalysis\, Normative Unconscious Processes\, and an Ethic of Repair [room tbc]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12th July\, Friday\, 2-4pm – Sheyda Esmali on ‘Unravelling Xenophobia Psychoanalytically’ [room tbc]\n\n\n\n  \nWe look forward to seeing you there! \n  \nProject Team: \nNini\, Rhea\, and Mariya
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/2671/
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SUMMARY:Violence of Politics and Politics of Violence
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URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/violence-of-politics-and-politics-of-violence/
LOCATION:1.264 Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre\, Old College South Bridge Edinburgh EH8 9YL\, 1.264 Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre\, Old College South Bridge Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Emeritus Prof Stephen Frosh: Psychosocial studies with psychoanalysis (Reading Group)
DESCRIPTION:We 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 Stephen Frosh’s important work on some of the principles of psychosocial thinking\, including its transdisciplinarity and criticality and its interest in ethics and reflexivity. \nStephen Frosh will be there to talk about his work and in particular his paper: \n`Psychosocial studies with psychoanalysis’  (Journal of Psychosocial Studies\, 2019) \nhttps://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/jps/12/1-2/article-p101.xml \n\nPlease book here: \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emeritus-prof-stephen-frosh-psychosocial-studies-with-psychoanalysis-tickets-781427790557 \n\nAbstract: \nPsychosocial studies is methodologically and theoretically diverse\, drawing on a wide range of intellectual resources. However\, psychoanalysis has often taken a privileged position within this diversity\, because of its well-developed conceptual vocabulary that can be put to use to theorise the psychosocial subject. Its practices have become a model for some aspects of psychosocial work\, especially in relation to its focus on intense study of individuals\, its explicit engagement with ethical relations\, and its traversing of disciplinary boundaries across the arts\, humanities and social sciences. \nThis article begins with a brief description of some principles of psychosocial thinking\, including its transdisciplinarity and criticality and its interest in ethics and in reflexivity. It then explores the place of psychoanalysis in this genealogy\, presenting the case for psychoanalysis’ continuing contribution to the development of psychosocial studies. It is argued that this case is a strong one\, but that the critique of psychoanalysis from the discursive\, postcolonial\, feminist and queer perspectives that are also found in psychosocial studies is important. The claim will be made that the engagement between psychoanalysis and its psychosocial critics is fundamentally productive. Even though it generates real tensions\, these tensions are necessary and significant\, reflecting genuine struggles over how best to understand the socially constructed human subject \nAuthor biography: \nStephen Frosh is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck\, where he founded the Department of Psychosocial Studies. He has a background in academic and clinical psychology and was Consultant Clinical Psychologist and latterly Vice Dean at the Tavistock Clinic\, London\, throughout the 1990s. \nHe is the author of many books and papers\, including Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions (Palgrave MacMillan\, 2013) and Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism\, Nazism and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave MacMillan\, 2005). His recent book Antisemitism and Racism: Ethical Challenges for Psychoanalysis\, was released last year by Bloomsbury. His book\, Those Who Come After: Postmemory\, Acknowledgement and Forgiveness (Palgrave\, 2019) won the 2023 British Psychological Society award for the best Academic Monograph. His current research interests are in processes of acknowledgement and recognition after social violence and in questions of social identity. He is co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies. \nStephen is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences\, an Academic Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society\, a Founding Member of the Association of Psychosocial Studies\, and an Honorary Member of the Institute of Group Analysis. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand\, South Africa\, and at the University of São Paulo\, Brazil. \nThis event is free – but please make a donation if you can to help cover our costs so that we can continue to make events like this accessible to all.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/emeritus-prof-stephen-frosh-psychosocial-studies-with-psychoanalysis-reading-group/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231207T100000
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SUMMARY:How to publish in the Journal of Psychosocial Studies?
DESCRIPTION:Association of Psychosocial Studies: How to publish in the Journal of Psychosocial Studies?\n\nDate: 7th December\, 2023 \nTime: 10 – 11am UK time/ 3.30 – 4.30pm IST\nWhere: Zoom\nRegister here\n\nGetting your researched published in a journal can feel daunting\, especially if you are no longer in an academic environment.\nIn this event\, the Editors of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies – Liz Frost\, University of the West of England\, UK and David W. Jones\, Open University\, UK – will walk you through the big questions about whether the Journal of Psychosocial Studies a good home for your research. Meet the Editors and discuss the submission process\, what the journal is looking for and more advice for Early Career Researchers.\n\nIntroductory remarks by Rhea Gandhi\, PhD Candidate at the University of Edinburgh.\n\n  \nHere are some of the things that will be addressed: \n  \n· What is psychosocial? \n· What kind of research is the JPS looking for? \n· What qualifies as psychosocial research? \n· Themes for submissions \n  \nQuestions for the Open Space: \n  \n· What kind of articles fit into the Open space vs. Reearch. What separates these spaces? \n· Why publish in the Open space? \nThe aim of this session is to demystify the process of academic publishing and increase accessibility. So bring all your questions\, we look forward to having you there!
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/how-to-publish-in-the-journal-of-psychosocial-studies/
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SUMMARY:Whose Borderline is it anyway?
DESCRIPTION:A special edition of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies commissioned articles to engage critically with questions about what is going on with the diagnosis of ‘Borderline’? This event provides space for some thought and reflection on some of the issues raised. \nThe diagnosis and concept of ‘borderline’ has become one of the most used in the psy-lexicon. And yet it remains one of the most controversial. \n‘Borderline’ has emerged in the past couple of decades as a common feature\, not only of the psychiatric landscape\, but has also become an object of public discourse clearly visible in the wider culture of the ‘western’ world. \n‘Borderline’ and its assumed associated problems figure saliently among the problems perceived to be significant within mental health services\, primary care\, welfare services and even the education system. \nBorderline has also received high levels of dissent and criticism\, both from within the mental health professions and from the outside. Service user and survivor groups have aimed fierce criticisms at diagnostic and treatment practices. \n  \n2.30pm: Welcome \n3 .00pm: Whose borderline is anyway? (Jo Lomani and David Jones) \nFrancesca Lewis – The borderline as diagnostician: an autø/gnøstic reading of a history of binaries \nHattie Porter: It’s not my sense of self that’s unstable\, it’s the world’s sense of me: the harms of the construct of ‘personality disorders’ towards transgender communities \nCassie Lovelock – Are you borderline or did you grow up without a racial identity? \nNina Fellows – The lability and liability of female ‘borderline’ sexuality: a feminist Foucauldian discourse analysis \nDavid Jones: A history of borderline: disorder at the heart of psychiatry \n4.00pm: Discussion: Where now? \n5 .00pm: Drinks and nibbles \n1 8-45 – Close \n  \nDate: Thursday Nov 2nd 2023 \nTime: 14:30:00 GMT+0000 (Greenwich Mean Time) \nLocation: Anomalous Space 36 Pentonville Road\, London\, N1 9HF (This venue is accessible) \n  \nTickets and Details: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whose-borderline-is-it-anyway-tickets-721944825407?aff=oddtdtcreator \n  \n  \nOrganisers:  David Jones & Jo Lomani\n  \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/whose-borderline-is-it-anyway/
LOCATION:Anomolous Space\, 36 Pentonville Road\, London\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Counselling and Psychotherapy in Times of Political Violence
DESCRIPTION:Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/counselling-and-psychotherapy-in-times-of-political-violence-tickets-648236010357?aff=oddtdtcreator \n“Counselling and Psychotherapy in Times of Political Violence” is a transdisciplinary symposium addressing poverty\, forced displacement\, racism\, and misogyny as key forms of political violence which we see on the rise globally. Grounded in the psychosocial perspective that our inner world and the sociopolitical environments are intertwined\, the symposium explores the potential of counselling and psychotherapy in understanding and working with the impacts of political violence in therapeutic and training settings. The symposium brings together researchers from various fields such as culture and media studies\, psychoanalytic and psychosocial studies\, post-colonial studies\, and feminist studies. It promotes a collaborative\, reflexive approach to generate a collective inquiry on the impacts of political violence within therapeutic and training settings and how we may bridge the gap between theory and practice\, psyche and social\, by exploring the political dimensions of counselling and psychotherapy. \nThe symposium will be held at the University of Edinburgh’s Old College. The symposium is convened by Dr Nini Fang and Rhea Gandhi in collaboration with several PhD and ProfDoc students based at Edinburgh\, Mingxi Li\, Kartika Ladwal\, and Sarah Nghidinwa. It is organised jointly by the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry and the Association for Psychosocial Studies and is supported by alumni and friends of the University of Edinburgh through the Student Experience Grants scheme and the Equality\, Diversity and Inclusion Grant. \nThe symposium is free to attend and open to all\, bringing together counselling and psychotherapy communities both within and outwith Edinburgh. Lunch (meat\, vegetarian\, and vegan options) and light refreshments will be provided on the day. We would kindly invite that participants with specific food allergy and intolerance to prepare your own food. \nConference convenors: \nDr Nini Fang\, University of Edinburgh nfang@ec.uk \nRhea Gandhi\, University of Edinburgh rhea.gandhi@ed.ac.uk \n  \nSYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE – 30TH JUNE \, FRIDAY \n10.00 – 10.20 Registration \n10.20 – 10.40 Symposium Opening: “Counselling and Psychotherapy in Times of Political Violence” by Dr Nini Fang\, Lecturer and Convenor of the Symposium [University of Edinburgh] \n10.40 – 11.40 Session i:“Poverty as Political Violence” by Dr Lucy Stroud [University of Aberdeen] \nChaired by Mingxi Li\, Prof-Doc Researcher [University of Edinburgh] \n11.40 – 12.00 Coffee/Tea Break \n12.00 – 1.00 Session ii:“Forced Displacement as Political Violence” by Shireen Dossa\, PhD Researcher [University of Essex] \n“Coloniality and racism as political violence”by Rhea Gandhi\, PhD Researcher and Co-convenor of the Symposium [University of Edinburgh] \nChaired by Kartika Ladwal\, Prof-Doc Researcher [University of Edinburgh] \n  \n1-2.30: Lunch @ Playfrair Library\, Old College \n  \n2.30 – 3.30 Session iii:“Misogyny as Political Violence” by Lasse Schaefer\, PhD Researcher [University of Edinburgh] \n“Transphobic ideologies as Political Violence” by Jaz Halow\, Prof-Doc Researcher [University of Edinburgh] \nChaired by Sarah Nghidinwa\, Prof-Doc Researcher [University of Edinburgh] \n  \n3.30 – 3.50 Break \n  \n3.50 – 4.50 Final Plenary: “Counselling and Psychotherapy in Times of Political ViolenceG.159 MacLaren Stuart Room\, Old College \n4.50 – 5.00 Closing and Event Evaluation \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/counselling-and-psychotherapy-in-times-of-political-violence-2/
LOCATION:1.264 Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre\, Old College South Bridge Edinburgh EH8 9YL\, 1.264 Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre\, Old College South Bridge Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230623T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230623T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
CREATED:20230502T085459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230610T192026Z
UID:2462-1687510800-1687543200@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org
SUMMARY:Content Moderation and Its Discontents
DESCRIPTION:Programme and registration: https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/events/2023/06/content-moderation-conference
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/content-moderation-and-its-discontents/
LOCATION:St. Mary’s University\, Twickenham\, Waldegrave Road\, London\, TW1 4SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230623T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230623T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
CREATED:20230502T085813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230610T192019Z
UID:2465-1687510800-1687539600@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org
SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis Meets Virtual Reality
DESCRIPTION:A one day event using a series of group activities to reflect on our individual &collective experience of virtual reality \nThere is a significant amount of work happening at the interface between research on mental health and Virtual Reality (VR)\, Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR). This work brings together artists\, curators\, clinical practitioners\, patient advocates\, academics and activists. VR\, AR and MR make use of arts-based technologies to facilitate individuals having an immersive sensuous experience by means of wearing a headset. Some experiences require the individual to engage with the environment – opening virtual doors or moving simulated objects\, for example – while other experiences play out for the individual a bit like a cinematic encounter\, by engaging the senses of sight and hearing. \nThis event will include an individual VR experience\, ‘Perinatal Dreaming’ (fEEL 2023)\, which will be launched at the event. This will be followed by a number of small and large group activities to help us to reflect on\, and talk about\, our individual and collective encounters with ‘Perinatal Dreaming’. We will also have an opportunity to hear from Professor Jill Bennett and Dr Gail Kenning from the Big Anxiety Research Centre (BARC) and the felt Experience & Experience Lab (fEEL) at the University of New South Wales\, Sydney about their work\, and discuss what VR\, AR and MR might offer psychoanalysis and vice versa. We will consider the importance of VR\, AR and MR experiences within the context of arts and mental health projects more broadly. The emphasis will be on experience\, reflection and conversation throughout the day. \nWhat kinds of feelings might be evoked and/or contained while engaging in VR\, AR and MR experiences? How might our engagement with VR\, AR and MR experiences help us to become more aware of\, and reflective about\, the operation of introjection and projection? Might VR\, AR and MR have a place in our clinics and/or as part of our clinical training programmes? What\, in particular\, might the ‘Perinatal Dreaming’ VR experience contribute to our thinking about the long-term impact of early life experiences? How might our participation in group activities\, underpinned by psychoanalytic thinking\, help us to make meaning of our individual encounters with the ‘Perinatal Dreaming’ VR experience? These questions will frame our event. \nThis event will be of interest to anyone interested psychoanalysis and VR\, AR and MR. It will be of particular interest to psychoanalysts\, psychotherapists\, psychologists\, counsellors\, group analysts\, play therapists\, arts therapists\, social workers and social care workers\, mental health workers\, youth workers\, artists\, performers and curators\, as well as academic researchers and students in the fields of psychosocial studies\, cultural studies\, and in the arts\, humanities and social sciences more broadly. Given the focus of this event on the unconscious\, the birth experience\, and the long-term impact of early life experiences\, participating in the VR experience and group activities might bring up painful feelings or memories. This event is an in-person event. It will not be recorded. \nThe event is organised by Professor Lynn Froggett (University of Central Lancashire)\, Dr Noreen Giffney (Ulster University\, Belfast)\, Professor Jill Bennett (University of New South Wales\, Sydney) and Dr Gail Kenning (University of New South Wales\, Sydney). \nThe event is sponsored by the Association for Psychosocial Studies\, the Big Anxiety Research Centre\, felt Experience & Empathy Lab\, and Psychoanalysis +\, and the Institute of Group Analysis in London\, UCLan’s Psychosocial Research Centre and Ulster University’s Communication\, Media and Cultural Studies \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/psychoanalysis-meets-virtual-reality-tickets-623270939157
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychoanalysis-meets-virtual-reality/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230609T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230609T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
CREATED:20230602T075535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230610T192036Z
UID:2482-1686335400-1686344400@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org
SUMMARY:Digital Culture and the Object of Race
DESCRIPTION:Register here
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/digital-culture-and-the-object-of-race/
LOCATION:Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art\, St James's\, London\, SE14 6AD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230330T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230330T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
CREATED:20230203T190008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230212T163420Z
UID:2230-1680195600-1680202800@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org
SUMMARY:Nini Fang: Culture as the Bad Object
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/nini-fang-culture-as-the-bad-object/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230324T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230324T160000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
CREATED:20230203T185939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T172522Z
UID:2228-1679666400-1679673600@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org
SUMMARY:Workshop with Lynn Frogget: The Visual Matrix
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \n“The Visual Matrix with Lynn Froggett is now fully booked. There is no on-line option for this event. For those who have registered to attend\, we confirm that the time is 2-4 pm  and not  5-7 as advertised on the website schedule. We sincerely apologise for any confusion caused.”  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/workshop-with-lynn-frogget-the-visual-matrix/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230323T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230323T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
CREATED:20230203T185901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110033Z
UID:2226-1679590800-1679598000@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org
SUMMARY:Guilaine Kinouani: Difference\, Whiteness and the Group Analytic Matrix
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/guilaine-kinouani-difference-whiteness-and-the-group-analytic-matrix/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230309T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230309T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
CREATED:20230203T185803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110052Z
UID:2222-1678381200-1678388400@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org
SUMMARY:Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley: Buildings as psychosocial assemblages: a psychosocial mapping of political architecture- La Siege du PCF/Espace Niemeyer (prepared in collaboration with Sophie and Nigel Williams)
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/lita-crociani-windland-and-jonathan-mosley-buildings-as-psychosocial-assemblages-a-psychosocial-mapping-of-political-architecture-la-siege-du-pcf-espace-niemeyer-prepared-in-collaboration-with-sop/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230302T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230302T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
CREATED:20230203T185653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110107Z
UID:2220-1677776400-1677783600@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org
SUMMARY:Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos: TBC
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/janna-graham-and-wanderley-santos-tbc/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230224T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230224T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
CREATED:20230203T193215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110114Z
UID:2244-1677254400-1677261600@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org
SUMMARY:APS Reading Group: Spaces of Refuge: Guattari and Institutional Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:For our February Reading Group Rachel Wilson and Anthony Faramelli will be presenting their recently published article exploring the psychosocial pressures associated with seeking refuge and their argument as to why the “ethico-aesthetic” clinical practices found in Institutional Psychotherapy offer a grounded way to house those in need of asylum. \nThe article is available to download for free here \nRegister: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/association-for-psychosocial-studies-february-online-reading-group-tickets-533876618337 \nAbstract: \nFélix Guattari’s work is most commonly discussed (and overshadowed by) his collaborations with Gilles Deleuze. This minimisation allows for a misrepresentation of Guattari’s work that minimises the fact that his theoretical writings were always couched in a grounded clinical practice. A practice which constitutes a politics of the sector. \n  \nGuattari’s prescient final text\, Chaosmosis\, argues that the conditions of Capital responsible for the current social-psychic-ecological crisis of migration demand modes of analysis capable of grasping their complexity\, ones grounded in the ethico-aesthetic. It is a text that draws directly from the therapeutic practice that he\, Tosquelles\, Oury\, and others in the Institutional Psychotherapy (IP) movement developed in their clinics. This work entailed the inclusion of aesthetic practices that work to deterritorialise the institution\, shifting from carceral sites and creating therapeutic spaces of care and refuge. \n  \nThis article explores the centrality of an ethico-aesthetic approach to the understanding of therapeutic space within the sites and clinical practice of Institutional Psychotherapy. Looking especially at daily life and the inclusion of aesthetic practice\, it examines the particular notion of asylum that emerged in these sites that so informed the clinical and critical work of Guattari and Deleuze\, and draws connections to the current global crisis of migration in the necessity of such sites to the forced segregation between those deemed mad and sane. \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: \n  \nRachel Wilson is a Recovery Coordinator in an accommodation service for people with high support mental health needs operated by the charity SHP. As a researcher\, Rachel’s work is situated at the intersection of radical forms of psychotherapy\, aesthetics\, filmmaking and the histories of institutional analysis. She is currently conducting her doctoral studies in the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths\, University of London. Rachael is also a researcher at the Centre for Institutional Analysis and a member of the Network for Institutional Analysis. \n  \nAnthony Faramelli is an organisational consultant and a lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths\, University of London where he co-directs\, with Janna Graham\, the Centre for Institutional Analysis. Anthony’s research is situated at the intersection of psychosocial theory\, recent French philosophy and postcolonial theory\, with a focus on Institutional Psychotherapy and the work of Félix Guattari and Frantz Fanon. Anthony is also a member of the Executive Board of the Association for Psychosocial Studies and a member of the Network for Institutional Analysis. \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-reading-group-spaces-of-refuge-guattari-and-institutional-psychotherapy/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230216T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230216T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
CREATED:20230203T185613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T191841Z
UID:2218-1676566800-1676574000@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org
SUMMARY:Rachel Wilson: Every Little Thing: Institutional Psychotherapy at Work
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/rachel-wilson-every-little-thing-institutional-psychotherapy-at-work/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230209T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230209T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
CREATED:20230203T185504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110134Z
UID:2216-1675962000-1675969200@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org
SUMMARY:George Dake: Map-making as a Psycho-social method: The Everyday lives and lived experiences of men who sell sex to other men
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/george-dake-map-making-as-a-psycho-social-method-the-everyday-lives-and-lived-experiences-of-men-who-sell-sex-to-other-men/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230203T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230203T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
CREATED:20230203T185833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110142Z
UID:2224-1675443600-1675450800@www.psychosocial-studies-association.org
SUMMARY:Felix Birch and Bass Birch: Mapping Waste
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/felix-birch-and-bass-birch-mapping-waste/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230202T170000
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SUMMARY:Hannah Dee: It’s A Good Home Ain’t It? Memories of Broadmoor
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/hannah-dee-its-a-good-home-aint-it-memories-of-broadmoor/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230126T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230126T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
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SUMMARY:Susan Kelly: Turning: a Micropolitical Cartography of Colonial Rehabilitation
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/susan-kelly-turning-a-micropolitical-cartography-of-colonial-rehabilitation/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230119T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230119T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
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SUMMARY:Jacob Johanssen: Platform Aesthetics and Enlarged Sexuality: Perspectives from Jean Laplanche
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory  \nAn Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths \n\nPsychosocial Studies is a transdisciplinary form of academic scholarship that engages the ways in which subjective experience is interwoven with social life. Psychosocial Studies is characterised by its orientation towards progressive social and personal change. An important\, but often overlooked\, aspect of Psychosocial theory and practice are aesthet-ic interventions. More than a mere science of perception\, aesthetics plays an important\, but often overlooked\, role in the theory and practice of institutional forms of psychotherapy\, and guide psychosocially informed politics. The Visual Cultures Spring 2023 Public Programme looks to elucidate a psychosocial understanding of the interconnected role aesthetics play in politics and psychotherapeutic practice.\nThis series is organised in partnership with the Association for Psychosocial Studies.\n\nSchedule:\n• Thursday 19/01: Jacob Johanssen\n• Thursday 26/01: Susan Kelly\n• Thursday 02/02: Hannah Dee\n• Thursday 09/02: George Dake\n• Thursday 16/02: Rachel Wilson\n• Thursday 02/03: Janna Graham and Wanderley Santos\n• Thursday 09/03: Lita Crociani-Windland and Jonathan Mosley\n• Thursday 16/03: Felix Birch and Sebastian Birch\n• Thursday 23/03: Guilaine Kinouani\n• Friday 24/03: Workshop with Lynn Frogget\n• Thursday 30/03: Nini Fang\n\nLectures will be held in the Professor Stuart Hall Building (Goldsmiths)\, LG01. No booking required. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/jacob-johanssen-platform-aesthetics-and-enlarged-sexuality-perspectives-from-jean-laplanche/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221219T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221219T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
CREATED:20221024T173509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230307T171912Z
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SUMMARY:Playful States of Mind
DESCRIPTION:Organisers: Lynne Froggett\, Noreen Giffney and Candida Yates\n\n\n\nDate: December 19th 2022 \nVenue: Room G10\, Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre\, Birkbeck\, University of London\, 43 Gordon Square\, London WC1H 0PD. \nASP Playful States of Mind 19.12.2022 \nWhat do the terms ‘play’\, ‘playin \ng’ and ‘playfulness’ mean in different contexts? How might we understand play as both a doing and a being; an activity and a state of mind? In what ways might play be related to creativity and destructiveness? What kinds of feelings might be enacted\, evoked or contained while engaging in moments of play? How do we play and what might we be communicating to ourselves and others\, consciously and unconsciously\, in our play and in the ways in which we play? Why is a capacity for play so important for our mental health and general wellbeing? How might psychoanalysis and psychosocial studies help us to reflect on our experiences of play? These questions will frame our event. \nThis event will offer a series of immersive experiences centred around play\, to help us to reflect on and talk about our individual and collective encounters with play. The emphasis will be on experience\, reflection and conversation. Participants are encouraged to wear comfortab \nle clothing and be prepared for an encounter with the unknown. \nThis event will app \neal to anyone interested in play\, imagination and creativity. It will be of particular interest to psychoanalysts\, psychotherapists\, psychologists\, counsellors\, group analysts\, play therapists\, creative arts therapists\, social workers and social care workers\, mental health workers\, youth workers\, artists\, performers and curators\, as well as academic researchers and students in the fields of psychosocial studies\, cultural studies\, and in the arts\, humanities and social sciences more broadly. \nPlaces are limited so early registration is advised. Participants are requested to register only if they are available to attend the whole day\, as this event makes use of a group experience. \nBook here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/playful-states-of-mind-tickets- \n448238151377
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/playful-states-of-mind/
LOCATION:Birkbeck College\, WC1E 7HX
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221125T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221125T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
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SUMMARY:Spaces of Refuge: The Clinical Practice of Félix Guattari and Institutional Psychotherapy with Rachel Wilson and Anthony Faramelli
DESCRIPTION:Association for Psychosocial Studies Online Reading Group\nSpaces of Refuge: The Clinical Practice of Félix Guattari and Institutional Psychotherapy\nwith Rachel Wilson and Anthony Faramelli\nREGISTER HERE \nFriday 25 November 2022\, 4 – 6pm  \nRachel Wilson and Anthony Faramelli will discuss the legacies of Félix Guattari’s clinical practice\, Institutional Psychotherapy\, and how this should inform our current approaches to issues of asylum and refuge for this months’ APS online reading group. \nThe article is available to download here \nAbstract: \nFélix Guattari’s work is most commonly discussed (and overshadowed by) his collaborations with Gilles Deleuze. This minimisation allows for a misrepresentation of Guattari’s work that minimises the fact that his theoretical writings were always couched in a grounded clinical practice. A practice which constitutes a politics of the sector. \nGuattari’s prescient final text\, Chaosmosis\, argues that the conditions of Capital responsible for the current social-psychic-ecological crisis of migration demand modes of analysis capable of grasping their complexity\, ones grounded in the ethico-aesthetic. It is a text that draws directly from the therapeutic practice that he\, Tosquelles\, Oury\, and others in the Institutional Psychotherapy (IP) movement developed in their clinics. This work entailed the inclusion of aesthetic practices that work to deterritorialise the institution\, shifting from carceral sites and creating therapeutic spaces of care and refuge. \nThis article explores the centrality of an ethico-aesthetic approach to the understanding of therapeutic space within the sites and clinical practice of Institutional Psychotherapy. Looking especially at daily life and the inclusion of aesthetic practice\, it examines the particular notion of asylum that emerged in these sites that so informed the clinical and critical work of Guattari and Deleuze\, and draws connections to the current global crisis of migration in the necessity of such sites to the forced segregation between those deemed mad and sane. \nAll registered attendees should automatically be sent a Zoom link. The link will be re-sent the day of the event.  \nAuthor biographies: \nRachel Wilson is a Recovery Coordinator in an accommodation service for people with high support mental health needs operated by the charity SHP. As a researcher\, Rachel’s work is situated at the intersection of radical forms of psychotherapy\, aesthetics\, filmmaking and the histories of institutional analysis. She is currently conducting her doctoral studies in the Department of Visual Cultures\, Goldsmiths\, University of London. Rachael is also a researcher at the Centre for Institutional Analysis and a member of the Network for Institutional Analysis. \nAnthony Faramelli is an organisational consultant and a lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths\, University of London where he co-directs\, with Janna Graham\, the Centre for Institutional Analysis. Anthony’s research is situated at the intersection of psychosocial theory\, recent French philosophy and postcolonial theory\, with a focus on Institutional Psychotherapy and the work of Félix Guattari and Frantz Fanon. Anthony is also a member of the Executive Board of the Association for Psychosocial Studies and a member of the Network for Institutional Analysis. \nOther events are currently in the planning stage\, follow us on Twitter\, Facebook or sign up as a Member to keep up to date with everything. Members will continue to receive copies of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies as a further benefit of subscription to the Association.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/spaces-of-refuge-the-clinical-practice-of-felix-guattari-and-institutional-psychotherapy-with-rachel-wilson-and-anthony-faramelli/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221028T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221028T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220914T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220915T150000
DTSTAMP:20260405T171356
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SUMMARY:Digital Mediation and Working Through in Times of Denial\, Disavowal and Splitting: On the Un/Representable
DESCRIPTION:An International Workshop \nOrganised by Dr Orit Dudai and Assoc. Prof. Jacob Johanssen – Supported by the Association for Psychosocial Studies \nThe goal of this workshop is for presenters to share work-in-progress and engage in collegial discussion with each other and attendees. Places are\, therefore\, limited. \nWe live in a time that is characterised by increasing political polarisation\, fake news\, conspiracy theories and other forms of extremism. Recent political developments\, such as the post-Trump moment\, have been credited with an increase in political paranoia and conspiracy theories that have spread far and wide on the internet. Social media such as Facebook\, Twitter or Instagram exhibit high levels of misogyny\, sexism and racism and are described as lacking in empathy\, compassion and love. Traditional media\, such as tabloid and broadsheet journalism or television news\, also find themselves part of “culture wars” and torn between different political positions. \nThis symposium will explore what role psychoanalysis in combination with other disciplines\, such as media and communication studies\, philosophy and sociology\, can play in analysing such phenomena\, as well as finding possible solutions for them. \nDo we need a new form of empathy or spirituality? To what extent are moments of denial\, disavowal and polarization necessary? Can they revitalize political culture and society more generally? What are their limits? What solutions can be found? How are they intrinsically connected to questions of digital mediation and representation? How are they represented in film and popular culture? What tensions are revealed between what can be represented and what remains unrepresentable? \n  \nSpeakers \nDr Jack Black (Sheffield Hallam University) \nDr Alfie Bown (Royal Holloway University) \nDr Orit Dudai (Kibbutzim College of Education\, Technology and the Arts) \nAssoc. Professor Jon Hackett (St. Mary’s University) \nAssoc. Professor Jacob Johanssen (St. Mary’s University) \nDr Anthony Faramelli (Goldsmiths) \nDr Thi Gammon (Independent Scholar) \nDr Steffen Krüger (University of Oslo) \nDr Em. Sandra Meiri (Open University\, Israel) \nDr Mark Murphy (Independent Scholar) \nProfessor Raya Morag (The Hebrew University) \nProfessor Candida Yates (Bournemouth University)
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/digital-mediation-and-working-through-in-times-of-denial-disavowal-and-splitting-on-the-un-representable/
LOCATION:St Mary’s University Twickenham London\, Waldegrave Road\, Twickenham\, London\, TW1 4SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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