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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/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210610T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210610T173000
DTSTAMP:20260407T055906
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis Culture & Religion: Times of Conspiracy Theories & Fake News
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nWe live in a time that is characterised by increasing political polarisation\, fake news\, conspiracy theories and other forms of extremism. Social media such as Facebook\, Twitter or Instagram are often characterised by misogyny\, sexism and racism and as lacking in empathy\, compassion and love. \nThis seminar will explore what role psychoanalysis in combination with religion can play in analysing such phenomena\, as well as finding possible solutions for them. Recent political developments\, such as the Trump presidency\, have been credited with an increase in political paranoia and conspiracy theories have spread far and wide on the internet. Contemporary forms of conspiracy thinking\, such as QAnon\, have led to the establishment of communities which\, to a degree\, have quasi-religious characteristics. \nThis seminar asks how our contemporary age can be analysed through the prism of post-Freudian psychoanalysis and religious studies. Do we need a new form of spirituality? What can a psychoanalytic understanding of religion offer in analysing the phenomena described above? What can psychoanalysis and religion learn from each other in the present moment? How do religious understandings of hope\, love and compassion figure in times of seeming uncertainty\, mistrust and fantasies? \n  \nSpeakers:\nPeter Tyler (St. Mary’s University): Nietzsche and his Influence on Freud and Jung \nMark Murphy (St. Mary’s University): Freud\, Lacan and their Approach to the “Mystical” \nAnthony Faramelli (Goldsmiths): The Alt-Right and Religion: The Death Drive in American Evangelicalism \nRegistration\nPlease note: This session will replace the monthly Reading Group that usually happens on the las Friday of every month. \nAs always\, these reading groups are free to attend and open to all. \nAll registered attendees will be sent a link to join a Zoom call the day of the event. \nKeep Up to Date\nOther events are currently in the planning stage\, follow us on Twitter\, Facebook or sign up as a Member to keep up to date with everything . Members will continue to receive copies of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies as a further benefit of subscription to the Association. \nAPS Conference:\nRegistration for the APS 2021 Psychosocial Bodies Conference is now open. All information can be found here.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychoanalysis-culture-religion-times-of-conspiracy-theories-fake-news/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210528T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210528T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T055906
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SUMMARY:APS Reading Group: Maggie Long’s “Derry Girls”
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URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-reading-group-maggie-longs-derry-girls/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210513T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210513T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T055906
CREATED:20210331T181618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110508Z
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SUMMARY:Psychosocial Perspectives on Contemporary Fascism webinar
DESCRIPTION:With Jacob Johanssen\, Fiona Murray and Anthony Faramelli. Chaired by Nini Fang and hosted in partnership with University of Edinburgh
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-perspectives-on-contemporary-fascism-webinar/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210430T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210430T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T055906
CREATED:20210331T181442Z
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SUMMARY:APS Reading Group: Book Launch\, Nigel Williams’ Mapping Social Memory: A Psychotherapeutic Psychosocial Approach
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URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-reading-group-book-launch-nigel-williams-mapping-social-memory-a-psychotherapeutic-psychosocial-approach/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210417T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210417T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T055906
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SUMMARY:Bion\, the Curiosity Drive and Inquisitive Thinking
DESCRIPTION:An on-line workshop offered by Institute of Group Analysis (London) and the Association of Psychosocial Studies (APS)\n  \nFree of charge. \nSaturday 17th April 29th 2021 10:00– 14:00 \nPresenter: Philip Stokoe\, Psychoanalyst & Organisational Consultant. \nChair: Dr Rachel Gibbons\, Psychoanalyst\, Group Analyst and Consultant Psychiatrist \n  \nPhilip Stokoe will present a discussion of the work of W.R. Bion in the context of his own recent book The Curiosity Drive: Our Need for Inquisitive Thinking. Philip will discuss the implications of this thinking for how we might understand the healthy organisation.  \n  \n  \nPhilip Stokoe is a Psychoanalyst in private practice working with adults and couples\, and an Organisational Consultant\, providing consultation to a wide range of organisations. \nHe worked in the Adult Department of the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust between 1994 and 2012\, he was the Clinical Director from 2007. During his career\, he has been responsible for the creation of innovative services; designing a treatment system for very dangerous adolescents held in a Youth Treatment Centre; developing a model for understanding organisations called the Healthy Organisation Model from which\, he created an innovative intervention for teams and organisations\, the short course intervention\, which combines teaching and consultation; he designed the Primary Care Psychotherapy Consultation Service (PCPCS)\, and these ideas have led to a radically different approach to training psychiatric nurses\, which has been running at City University. He also designed two Masters courses and was the co-designer of the Couple Psychotherapy Training at the Tavistock Clinic. \n  \nThe Curiosity Drive: Our Need for Inquisitive Thinking\, which forms the base of this presentation\, was published by Phoenix Publishing House in November 2020.  \n  \nThe programme will comprise presentations followed by breakouts and plenary discussions \n  \n  \nRegister in advance for this meeting: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lf-ipqjgoHNXSPEeVRULKNsETP4heGs0v \n  \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/bion-the-curiosity-drive-and-inquisitive-thinking/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210326T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210326T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T055906
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SUMMARY:APS Reading Group: On Disappointment: promoting ordinary conversation for\, an in\, extraordinary times
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our monthly online reading groups where we will be coming together and discussing topical articles drawn from The Journal of Psychosocial Studies. \nThis month Christopher Scanlon’s article\, “On Disappointment\, Failure and Forgivness: promoting ordinary conversation for\, and in\, extraordinary times?” \nA free copy of the article is available to download here \nAbstract\nTo be disappointed is to be human\, to be disappointing is also to be human. This article will invite reflection upon the under-theorised phenomenon of disappointment and its relationship to ‘failure’\, to ‘hope’ and perhaps even ‘forgiveness’ (or the lack if it). The central premise is that to engage with ‘disappointment’ in our internal relatedness\, and in our interpersonal and social relationships may enable us to re-connect with our own and others’ humanity – and not to do so is to remain stuck\, aggrieved\, resentful and locked into cycles of reciprocal self- and other-destructive violence and recrimination. The article will seek to explore disappointment as a ‘disturbance of groupishness’ (Bion\, 1961\, emphasis added)\, ‘a location of disturbance’ (Foulkes\, 1948/1983 emphasis added) and a way of structuring the traumatised organisation-in-the-mind (Armstrong\, 2005; Scanlon\, 2012). The article will conclude with an invitation for psycho-social practitioners to leave our psycho-social retreats (consulting rooms\, libraries\, classrooms and the like) and\, once again\, to engage more deliberatively with conversations in ‘public spheres’ (Habermas\, 1968). \n\nAuthor biography:\nChristopher Scanlon is an Independent Psycho-socialist Researcher and Consultant\, a Training Group Analyst of the Institute of Group Analysis (London) and the Irish Group Analytic Society (Dublin) and Lecturer in Organisational Consultancy\, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust/University of Essex. Chris is also on the Executive Board of the Association for Psychosocial Studies. \nOther events are currently in the planning stage\, follow us on Twitter\, Facebook or sign up as a Member to keep up to date with everything . Members will continue to receive copies of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies as a further benefit of subscription to the Association.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-reading-group-on-disappointment-promoting-ordinary-conversation-for-an-in-extraordinary-times/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210226T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210226T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T055906
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SUMMARY:APS Reading Group: No room at the inn? Re-imagining social inclusion at the intersections between climate change\, globalisation\, homelessness & human migration
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThere are two dominant and competing ways of conceptualising the psychosocial dynamics of social inclusion. In ‘Metropolitan’ systems\, if you’re the wrong side of that line which denotes who’s ‘in’ and who’s ‘out’\, you’re excluded and oppressed\, but you can ‘come in from the cold’ if you accept the terms of the invitation. In ‘Cosmopolitan’ systems\, there are different accounts and practices\, but essentially there’s a ‘comprehending circle’ involved\, in which all are included by being drawn in towards the centre. Climate disaster threatens to overturn these paradigms. I build upon Latour’s work on the new politics of globalisation\, as well as upon my previous (co-authored) work concerning Diogenes of Sinope\, who coined the term ‘Kosmopolitēs’. The figure of Diogenes may stand for a third position: a monadic figure beyond system and order. This third position illuminates fraught encounters between imperialist in-groups and colonised out-groups in late modernity. The Keeling Count at Mauna Loa is a register whose implications suggest that\, in the Anthropocene\, we are all unhoused. Latour’s ‘migrations without form or nation’ of ‘climate\, erosion\, pollution\, resource depletion\, habitat destruction’ threaten to make migrants of us all – or\, to remind us that once we all were migrants. \nArticle available here and will be circulated with the Zoom link. \n  \nAuthor biography:\nJohn Adlam is a group psychotherapist and independent researcher. He works for the most part in the National Health Service\, where he is Consultant Adult Forensic Psychotherapist at Bethlem Royal Hospital and Principal Adult Psychotherapist at Springfield Hospital. He previously worked in the Outreach Service of the Henderson Hospital Democratic Therapeutic Community\, for the last seven years of that community’s existence before it was cynically closed down in 2008. He is a founder member of the Association for Psychosocial Studies and a former Vice President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. He is co-editor of the two-volume set Violent States and Creative States: From the Global to the Individual (2018); also of Forensic Music Therapy (2012) and The Therapeutic Milieu Under Fire: Security and Insecurity in Forensic Mental Health (2012). He is at the moment working on a new book co-written with Christopher Scanlon on the theme of ‘Unhoused minds and inhospitable environments’. \nTwitter: @Diogenesquely Weblog: Barrelblog.org \n  \nUpcoming Events\nOther events are currently in the planning stage\, follow us on Twitter\, Facebook or sign up as a Member to keep up to date with everything . Members will continue to receive copies of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies as a further benefit of subscription to the Association.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-reading-group-no-room-at-the-inn-re-imagining-social-inclusion-at-the-intersections-between-climate-change-globalisation-homelessness-human-migration/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210129T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210129T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T055906
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SUMMARY:Screening and Discussion of ΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ
DESCRIPTION:We are working with the collective Other Ways to Care for a screening of the short film ΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ and a discussion with director Sol Prada \nΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ (approx. running time\, 22 minuets) is part of the investigation of the director Sol Prado\, activist in psycho-social disability and ex-irregular migrant\, focused on the case of the island of Leros\, Greece. This project formulates a study\, which mixes theoretical references with videogames techniques\, applications to calm the anxiety and distress and videos of ASMR (Autonomous meridian sensory response)\, a typology of distributed online contents that stimulates emotional dependence when creating audiovisual stimuli. This short film investigates how desires production is a new way of social regulation\, which uses images (among other stimuli) to achieve controlled sedation\, subject to the mirages of happiness which are related directly to the merchandized consumption of experiences. \nThese reading groups are free to attend and open to all. All registered attendees will be sent a link to join us on Zoom before the event. \nAbstract:\nThe short documentary ΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ [Enclosed] takes us to the Greek island of Leros\, a museum of lockdown before the era of lockdown. \nOccupied by Italians between the First and Second World Wars\, the island became a prison for political detainees during the Greek military dictatorship. In the 1970s\, the island was re-functionalized as a psychiatric mental hospital. At present -a symptom of its time- it houses a refugee camp\, set as a kind of “Chinese box” in a tourist destination of sun and sand. \nThe origin of the project can be found in the diary that the French psychoanalyst and philosopher Félix Guattari wrote during his stay on the island in 1989. In it\, he denounced the conditions of confinement of psychiatric patients; a reflection of the treatment that European society accords to mad people. The short film is a study based on the director’s personal experience\, in which she mixes theoretical references with video games\, anxiety calming apps and ASMR videos; artefacts designed for the evasion and dissociation of personal discomfort from the social causes that produce it. \nThe piece silently and elegantly addresses the architecture of the lockdown\, the dead time and the uncertain future. Like a kind of cursed luck\, ΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ reveals and deciphers through Leros the sensations that would spread to the common sense of the world population during the 2020 pandemic. \nAuthor biography:\nSol Prado is an artist\, film director and textile designer. She grew up in Carapachay\, Buenos Aires and has resided in Barcelona since 2015\, where she arrived to study the MACBA Independent Studies Program and established herself as a designer for the Gratacós textile company. Her artwork addresses madness and psychosocial diversity; faith and religion – which she abandoned after twenty after an evangelical education -; exile and migration. With the gaze of an archivist\, her work tends to seek unseen identities\, lives that are not counted. Currently\, she collaborates with the International Errorista and is part of the board of directors of ActivaMent\, a self-managed group of people with psycho-social diversity. \nΚΛΕΙΣΑΜΕ [Enclosed]\, her debut as a director\, premiered as the opening performance of the Loop Festival and has been screened at Olhar do Cinema (Curitiba)\, ZINEBI (Bilbao) and the Malaga Festival\, among others. \nOther Ways to Care is a collective that emerged around the will to imagine care alternatives drawn out of activist and collective practices that confront\, discuss and move beyond the neoliberal project\, or in other words the increasing privatisation and individualisation of mental health care. We draw inspiration from minor psycho-political histories and from politically and socially situated practices of care which operate beyond the medical model and technological models of health and distress. \nOther events are currently in the planning stage\, follow us on Twitter\, Facebook or sign up as a Member to keep up to date with everything . Members will continue to receive copies of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies as a further benefit of subscription to the Association.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/screening-and-discussion-of-%ce%ba%ce%bb%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%83%ce%b1%ce%bc%ce%b5/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201127T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201127T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T055906
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SUMMARY:APS/JPS Reading Group Event: Lita Crociani-Windland - “On transience and other hatreds”
DESCRIPTION:Association of Psychosocial Studies and Journal of Psychosocial Studies \nOnline Reading Group \n  \nLita Crociani-Windland\, “On transience and other hatreds” \n  \nFriday 27 November 4 – 6pm \n  \nWe are pleased to invite you to our fifth in a series of monthly online reading groups where we will be coming together to discuss topical psychosocial issues. \n  \nLike everyone\, APS members are working under very altered and potentially isolating circumstances and it was with great regret that the we had to postpone our 2020 conference on The Psychosocial Body at the beginning of June. In an effort to keep our community engaged during a time when psychosocial thinking is needed more than ever\, we hosted an online summer programme that culminated in our two-day conference Psychosocial Thinking in the Times of Covid-19. However\, as the pandemic continues to keep most of us in lockdown condition throughout the winter\, we have decided to continue our summer reading groups throughout the year. \n  \nThis month we will be discussing Lita Crociani-Windland’s article\, “On transience and other hatreds”. This article originates in a free associative extended reflection on what the author sees as the many faces of our relationship to transience in Western culture. It begins with the image of plastic flowers in graveyards\, wild flowers pushed to verges and marginal spaces\, women\, migrants and transient communities. Our relation to life\, death and their relation to movement and limitation are key aspects being reflected on and taken up for further analysis. The result of the free associative experiment is to invite reflections on the Freudian concepts of Eros and Thanatos and revisit the highly controversial question of whether these should be viewed in terms of a dualist or a monistic understanding. What is being presented here is a way of working with free associations outside the consulting room and group processes\, using free associations as a reflexive research tool within a psychosocial hermeneutic approach. \n  \nThe article is available to download and read for free here \n  \nThese reading groups are free to attend and open to all. Simply click here to register on Eventbrite. All registered attendees will be sent a link to join a Zoom call before the event. \n  \nAuthor biography: \nLita Crociani-Windland is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Psycho-Social Studies at University of West England\, Bristol. Following an early career teaching early years and then leading a specialist residential college for young people with moderate to severe learning difficulties and disabilities\, Lita first came to UWE to join an innovative Masters of Science degree in Group Relations and Society\, just as Psycho-Social Studies was establishing itself as its own distinctive field and the then Centre for Psycho-Social Studies was launched at UWE. She now leads the Psycho-Social Studies and Therapeutic Practices  theme\, part of the Social Science Research Group. \n  \nOther events are currently in the planning stage\, follow us on Twitter\, Facebook or sign up as a Member to keep up to date with everything. Members will continue to receive copies of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies as a further benefit of subscription to the Association.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-jps-reading-group-event-lita-crociani-windland-on-transience-and-other-hatreds/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201030T040000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201030T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T055906
CREATED:20230209T154604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T110547Z
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SUMMARY:APS Online Reading Group: Frances Cardona's 'Work Matters: Consulting to Leaders and Organisations in the Tavistock Tradition'
DESCRIPTION:The APS and IGA are pleased to co-host this special event. \nFrancesca will be leading a discussion of issues in her new book. Her presentation will weave in experiences of work from her new book\, whose topics include leadership beyond the textbooks\, organisational and personal shame and working with succession. \nThis event is free to attend and open to all. All registered attendees will be sent an excerpt from the book and a link to join a Zoom call before the event. \nAuthor biography:\nFrancesca Cardona is an organisational consultant and executive coach.\nShe works in a variety of organisational and cultural contexts\, helping leaders and organisations to face issues of change\, transition and the emotional dimension of organisational life.  Her training and work experience across two different cultures has given her special understanding and insights into issues of cultural diversity. She is currently a tutor on the Professional Doctorate ‘Consultation and the Organisation’ at the University of Essex & Tavistock and Portman Trust and Director of The Executive Coaching Programme at Tavistock Consulting (2019-2020).
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-online-reading-group-frances-cardonas-work-matters-consulting-to-leaders-and-organisations-in-the-tavistock-tradition/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200626T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200626T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T055906
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SUMMARY:APS Reading Group: Nini Fang's 'Feeling/ being out of place: psychic defence against the hostility environment'
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our second in a series of monthly online reading groups where we will be coming together and discussing topical articles drawn from The Journal of Psychosocial Studies. \nLike everyone\, APS members are working under very altered and potentially isolating circumstances and it was with great regret that the we had to postpone our 2020 conference on The Psychosocial Body at the beginning of June. However\, we believe that psychosocial thinking is needed more than ever in these times and we have therefore devised a free online programme which includes our summer reading groups and a scaled down online two-day webinar . \n  \nAbstract: \nWhat is it like to be an immigrant worker in a ‘hostile environment’ in the UK? How does the form of discursive environment\, which sees immigration as a social epidemic\, impact on an immigrant worker’s experience of their cultural (dis)localities and subjectivity? In this article\, I draw on my personal\, psychoanalytically informed voice to explore these questions\, by foregrounding the materiality of the hosting environment as the place in which the present relational matrix takes place\, in which the internal dynamics of object relations are lived in the present sense\, and the idiosyncratic expression of selfhood assumes forms. \nThe materialised reality of the place matters not least because it is drenched in power relations but also as it is where an immigrant worker seeks to live. The hostile host\, in this sense\, sees immigrants not simply as its guests (Derrida and Dufourmantelle\, 2000)\, but as unwelcome yet persistent guests to be yoked to their place of otherness and inferiority. By presenting vignettes of my encounters with the Home Office\, I call into question the existential conditions of the immigrant worker and the potentiality for object-relatedness on relational grounds problematically punctured by hostile rhetoric. Could an immigrant’s sense of locality ever be anything but – evoking Said ([1999] 2013) – ‘out of place’? To address this\, I will explore ‘out of place’ not simply as an emotional\, lived experience\, but also as a state of being that is embodied\, psychically worked on and strategically evoked in resisting the power of the hostile host. \n  \nAuthor biography: \nNini Fang is a lecturer at Counselling\, Psychotherapy\, and Applied Social Sciences (CPASS) at University of Edinburgh. A lover of bubble tea and democracy at heart\, she left her home country Taiwan and came to sunny Scotland in 2012 to train as a psychodynamic counsellor. She enjoyed the weather so much she decided to stay on and did a doctorate\, which she finished in 2016 at Edinburgh. Her thesis looked at depression through Scottish theorist Ronald Fairbairn’s work. Her thesis opened her up to psychosocial inquiry towards locating the individual psychic processes within the social\, cultural\, and political environments. Her being an immigrant worker in the UK has ensured that there is no shortage of psychosocial inspiration and she will be kept on her toes writing. \n  \nThese reading groups are free to attend and open to all. The reading group will be held on the last Friday of every month. All registered attendees will be sent a link to join a Zoom call before the event. \nOther events are currently in the planning stage\, follow us on Twitter\, Facebook or sign up as a Member to keep up to date with everything. Members will continue to receive copies of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies as a further benefit of subscription to the Association.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-reading-group-nini-fangs-feeling-being-out-of-place-psychic-defence-against-the-hostility-environment/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:APS Summer Programme 2020
DESCRIPTION:The APS is very excited to be hosting a series of topical events and in an array of formats during the summer of 2020. Please click here for more details and free registration links: APS Summer 2020 Programme.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-2020-summer-programme/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Conference,Reading Group,Seminar,Workshop
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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/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Psychosocial Methodologies: Politicising Research with Narrative and Free Association
DESCRIPTION:A course for psychosocial researchers taking place at UCL Institute of Education and supported by the Association for Psychosocial Studies and the University of Birmingham \n  \nCourse tutors:  Claudia Lapping\, Ian McGimpsey\, Felipe Acuna\, Mohamed Elshirazy \nDates: Mon 1st\, Tues 2nd and Weds 3rd July\, 10 am – 4pm \nLocation: UCL Room: B06 Drayton House\, 30 Gordon Street\, WC1H 0QB \n \nRegistration: \nUCL students – as usual \nNon UCL students: Please contact Claudia Lapping: c.lapping@ucl.ac.uk \n  \nOverview: Whenever we are teaching or discussing psychosocial approaches to the analysis of data\, we come up against a question: how does a psychoanalytically informed approach differ from narrative analysis or discourse analysis? In this course we want to address this question very directly. We will do this through a combination of theoretical and practical exercises to explore the production and analysis of instances of narrative and/or free association. We will discuss: \n\nThe meanings of ‘narrative’ and ‘free association’ within a variety of literary\, qualitative research and psychoanalytic frameworks\, and in popular culture\nContrasting approaches we might use in identifying or producing ‘narratives’ or ‘free associations’ in the process of research\nAnd the way conceptualisations of ‘narrative’ and ‘free association’ might have implications for the analysis of research data\n\nSome key axes of difference include the ways in which different approaches think about language\, subjectivity\, the unconscious and the possibility of understanding or (mis)recognition between researcher and researched. \nWhy is this important? We believe these issues are central to the politics of research\, and to the relation between politics and trauma. We have a hunch that narrative and free associative approaches pull in slightly different directions in relation to both the production of subjectivity and the formulation of political strategy and tactics in the field of social research. \nBackground reading: \nBollas\, C. 1999\, ‘Wording and Telling Sexuality’\, pp. 158 – 166\, in The Mystery of Things\, Routledge \nButler\, J. 2005\, Giving an Account of Oneself\, Fordham University Press \nDe Certeau\, M. 1988\, ‘Walking in the City’ pp. 91-110 of The Practice of Everyday Life\, University of California Press \nFink\, B. 2007\, ‘Working with Dreams\, Daydreams and Fantasies’\, pp. 101-125 in Fundamentals of psychoanalytic technique: A Lacanian approach for practitioners\, W. W. Norton and Company \nFreud\, S. 1958\, The Interpretation of Dreams\, London: Penguin Books (See esp.: Chapter V1 ‘The Dream-Work’ pp. 381-2\, ‘The Work of Condensation’\,pp. 283 – 411\, and ‘The Work of Displacement’ pp. 415-9.) \nMcQuillan\, M\, 2000 (ed.)\, The Narrative Reader\, Routledge \nZizek\, S. 1989\, The Sublime Object of Ideology\, Verso
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-methodologies-politicising-research/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Psychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change \n  \nUCL Institute of Education in association with the Association for Psychosocial Studies and the University of Birmingham \n  \nDates: over 3 days \nMonday June 18th10am – 5pm \nTuesday June 19th  10am- 5pm \nWednesday June 20thand 10 am – 1.15pm \n  \nTutors: Claudia Lapping\, Ian McGimpsey\, Maria Jose Lagos\, Felipe Acuna \n  \nVenue: \nUCL Institute of Education\, Rooms tbc\n20 Bedford Way\nBloomsbury\, London\nWC1H OAL \n  \nRegistration: \nUCL students – as usual. \nNon UCL students: Please contact Bob Grist: r.grist@ucl.ac.uk \nFor any queries about the course\, please contact Claudia Lapping: c.lapping@ucl.ac.uk \n  \n  \nPsychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change  \n  \nThis experimental\, intensive\, two and a half day course will explore different ways of understanding politics and processes of change. Drawing on selected texts from key theorists in the fields of psychoanalysis\, social and cultural theory (e.g. Butler\, Deleuze\, Freud\, Lacan\, Laclau and Mouffe\, Zizek) we will engage with a series of concepts each of which functions as a lens for the analysis of politics or processes of change. Each text provides a slightly different framework for identifying both what counts as change\, and for the construction of interventions that might help to provoke or direct subjective and/or political change. Methodologically\, these frameworks orient us for the empirical examination of discourse\, language\, affect or desire\, time\, regulatory technologies\, and relations to individual and institutional o/Others. Sessions will explore: \n\nProcesses of subjective and political change\nWhat is sayable? Processes of repression or disguise in discourse\nThe ethics of researching traumatic events\nThe event and the limit experience\nThe question of memorialisation\nTrauma\, Repetition and memory\nTime\, politics and the Other\n\n  \nIn the sessions we will discuss the frameworks set out in the selected texts and\, importantly\, explore how these might be applied in the analysis of a concrete instance or piece of data related to a specific political moment. We see the course as an invitation for participants to take part in a project exploring this political moment with us. Through engaging in this project\, which involves concrete processes of analysis\, we will gain insights into both psychosocial methodologies and the event that is the object of the data we are exploring. As such\, participants should be prepared to engage in discussions of recent concrete events that involve loss and the precarity of human life\, distributive injustices\, and symbolic violence. Participants will be asked to prepare through detailed readings of the core texts in advance of the session. \n  \nKey Texts – Relevant chapters and extracts will be specified! \nButler\, J. 2004. ‘Violence\, Mourning\, Politics’ in Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: Verso \nDeleuze\, G. (1990/1969) Deleuze Logic of Sense. Twenty-First Series of the Event (pp. 169-175) and Twenty-Third Series of the Aion (pp. 186-193). London: Bloomsbury Academic \nDeleuze\, G. (2004). Difference and repetition. London: Continuum – Extracts \nFreud\, S. (1914). Remembering\, Repeating\, and Working Through. In Freud\, S. (2003). Beyond the pleasure principle. Penguin UK. \nFreud\, S. (1920). Beyond the Pleasure Principle. In Freud\, S. (2003). Beyond the pleasure principle. Penguin UK. – Extracts \nFoucault\, M. (2000/1978) Interview with Michel Foucault. In Power. Essential works of Foucault 1954-1984 (pp.239-297). Edited by James D. Faubion. \nGerson\, S. (2009). When the third is dead: Memory\, mourning\, and witnessing in the aftermath of the Holocaust. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis\, 90(6)\, 1341-1357. \nLacan\, J. (2006). Logical time and the assertion of anticipated certainty. In B. Fink (Tr)\, Jacques Lacan\, Ecrits: The first complete edition in English (pp. 161–175). London: W. W. Norton and Company \nLaclau\, E. & Mouffe\, C. Section of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy\, Verso – Extracts \nWiegman\, R. (2000) ‘Feminism’s Apocalyptic Futures’\, New Literary Histories\, 31: 805-825 \nZizek\, S. 1989\, The Sublime Object of Ideology\, Verso – Extracts \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-methodologies-politics-and-change-2/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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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
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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/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Psychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change
DESCRIPTION:  \nA short doctoral course offered by UCL Institute of Education in association with the Association for Psychosocial Studies and the University of Birmingham\n  \nDates: 5 – 7pm\, Wednesdays 1st\, 8th\, 15th\, 22nd\, 29th November 2017\nVenue:  UCL Institute of Education\, Room 537\n             20  Bedford Way\n             London \n            WC1H OAL\nTutors: Claudia Lapping\, Ian McGimpsey\, Maria Jose Lagos\, Felipe Acuna\n  \nRegistration: \nUCL students – as usual. \nNon-UCL students: Please contact Bob Grist: r.grist@ucl.ac.uk to register and access course Moodle site. \nMax: 25 students \nAny queries about the course\, please contact Claudia Lapping: c.lapping@ucl.ac.uk \n  \nPsychosocial Methodologies: Politics and Change\n  \nThis series of five sessions will focus on politics and processes of change. Drawing on selected texts from key theorists in the fields of psychoanalysis\, social and cultural theory (including: Butler\, Deleuze\, Freud\, Foucault\, Gerson\, Lacan\, Wiegman\, Zizek) we will engage with a series of concepts each of which functions as a lens for the analysis of politics or processes of change. Each text provides a slightly different framework for identifying both what counts as change\, and for the construction of interventions that might help to provoke or direct subjective and/or political change. Methodologically\, these frameworks orient us for the empirical examination of discourse\, language\, affect or desire\, time\, regulatory technologies\, and relations to individual and institutional o/Others. Sessions will explore: \n  \n\nSession 1: Change\nSession 2: Ideology\, discourse and the role of the signifier\nSession 3: The event and limit experience\nSession 4: Repetition and memory\nSession 5: Time\, politics and the Other\n\nIn the sessions we will discuss the frameworks set out in the selected texts and\, importantly\, explore how these might be applied in the analysis of a concrete instance or piece of data related to a specific political moment. It is through engaging in this process of analysis that psychosocial methodologies will be explored. As such\, participants should be prepared to engage in discussions of recent concrete events that involve loss and the precarity of human life\, distributive injustices\, and symbolic violence. Participants will be asked to prepare through detailed readings of the core texts in advance of the session. \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-methodologies-politics-and-change/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:Reasons to be cheerful or manic hope? Thoughts on the general election
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nTuesday 4 July\, 6-8pm – The Tavistock Centre\, Belsize Lane\, NW3 \n  \nA roundtable discussion organised by the Tavistock Clinic Policy Seminar\, the Association for Psychosocial Studies\, and the BSA’s Sociology Psychoanalysis and Psychosocial Study Group. \nThe result of the recent general election took many of us by surprise. Labour’s unexpected surge in the polls and the loss of 13 Conservative seats indicate that large sections of the electorate are weary of austerity\, reject the populist ‘Little England’ and anti-immigration sentiments that helped fuel the Brexit vote\, and are either sceptical about a ‘hard’ Brexit or oppose leaving the EU altogether. After nearly 40 years in which neoliberalism has dominated British politics\, is there now an opening for a social democratic or socialist vision of Britain’s future? If so\, what might that vision \nlook like and how would we get there? And what can a psychosocial perspective contribute to our understanding those questions? This roundtable discussion will explore the potential lessons of the general election and consider possibilities for the renewal of social democracy in the 21st century. \n Speakers Georgina Blakeley\, Jon Cruddas MP and Michael Rustin \n  \nGeorgina Blakeley is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Open University. She has published widely on citizen participation and urban governance. Her co-authored book The Regeneration of East Manchester: A Political Analysis was published in 2013. \nJon Cruddas is MP for Dagenham and Rainham\, and was Policy Coordinator for the Labour Party between 2012 and 2015. \n  \nMichael Rustin is a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic\, and a founding editor of Soundings. A paper by him on the election is online at: \nhttps://www.lwbooks.co.uk/blog/ge2017-corbyn-labour-what-next \n  \nAttendance is free but bookings can be made here: \n  \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reasons-to-be-cheerful-or-manic-hope-thoughts-on-the-general-election-tickets-35728334410 \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/reasons-to-be-cheerful-or-manic-hope-thoughts-on-the-general-election/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:Narcissism and Destructive Leadership
DESCRIPTION:The idea that there are ‘narcissistic’ individuals who can wreak havoc when in positions of leadership and power has been receiving considerable public attention. Stories from  political arenas\,  corporate boardrooms and public organisations tell of the damage done by particularly destructive individuals who gain positions of power. \nSuperficially at least\, the fit between the clinical formulations of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the behaviour of a number of prominent individuals seems strong. The seemingly overwhelming confidence in their own ability\, the very grand sense of their own importance\, alongside the disparagement\, and aggression aimed at those who threaten their persona appears to fit well with the clinical accounts that emerged from psychoanalytic accounts of ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ some decades ago. \nOf course\, serious questions have been raised about the utility of such psychological concepts to understand what might be better understood as more complex sociopolitical phenomena. Should we also be thinking more about the attraction of such personalities\, and the organisations and cultures that promote them? Perhaps we need further analysis of the sociocultural conditions that create or encourage such states of mind? It is now over 35 years since Christopher Lasch published his stinging indictment of ‘post industrial’ American society – Culture of Narcissism. How much relevance does that analysis of social conditions have today? \nThis seminar will examine the status and utility of conceptualisations of narcissistic personality disorder and narcissistic cultures.
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/narcissism-and-destructive-leadership/
LOCATION:The Foundry\, 17 Oval Way\, London SE11 5RR\, London\, London\, SE11 5RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141218
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SUMMARY:PSYCHOSOCIAL CONNECTIONS:  PRACTICE\, POLICY AND RESEARCH
DESCRIPTION:1st  Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies \n16-17 December 2014 \nhosted by the Psychosocial Research Unit\, University of Central Lancashire \nPreston PR12HE \nMORE INFORMATION and CALL FOR PAPERS TO FOLLOW \nAbstract Submission deadline will be 1-07-2014
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/psychosocial-connections-practice-policy-and-research/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140613T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140613T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T055906
CREATED:20161118T130220Z
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SUMMARY:THE PSYCHOSOCIAL IMAGINATION
DESCRIPTION:A symposium to celebrate the launch of \nThe Association for Psychosocial Studies \nFriday 13 June 2014 \n10.30am – 6.30pm \nat The British Library Conference Centre \nSt Pancras\, London \nwith talks\, responses and contributions \nfrom a wide range of psychosocial thinkers\, practitioners and researchers including: \nJohn Adlam (NHS)\, Caroline Bainbridge (Roehampton)\, Karl Figlio (Essex)\, Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck)\, Paul Hoggett (UWE)\, Wendy Hollway (OU)\, Gail Lewis (Birkbeck)\, Sasha Roseneil (Birkbeck)\, Mike Rustin (UEL)\, Paul Stenner (OU)\, Valerie Walkerdine (Cardiff) \nChaired by: \nLynn Froggett (UCLAN)\, Liz Frost (UWE) & Tom Wengraf \nOrganised in collaboration with the \nSocial Sciences Department of the British Library \nLimited places – registration essential. \nCost\, including morning and afternoon tea & coffee\, lunch and a celebratory wine reception with canapés: \nMembers: £40 \nUnwaged members: £25 \nNon-members: £70 \nUnwaged non-members: £35 \nTo register\, click here
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/the-psychosocial-imagination/
LOCATION:Edinburgh
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