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Erica Burman - Fanon’s phenomenological, psychopolitical therapy, 9th December 2021
Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary psychiatrist and activist, is more typically known for his explicitly political writings. However more recent attention has turned to consider how these relate to his therapeutic work and writings. When he became clinical director of Blida-Joinville Hospital in Algeria, Fanon adopted and adapted a form of institutional psychotherapy whose clinical implications have yet to be fully recognised and applied in Anglophone contexts (and beyond). In this talk I consider these developments, and hopefully we will discuss the continuing relevance of his – unfinished – project.
Erica is Professor of Education at the University of Manchester, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapists registered Group Analyst (and full member of the Institute of Group Analysis). She trained as a developmental psychologist, and is well known as a critical developmental psychologist and methodologist specialising in innovative and activist qualitative research. She is author of Developments: child, image, nation (Routledge, 2020, 2nd edition), Fanon, education, action: child as method (Routledge, 2019) and Deconstructing Developmental Psychology (Routledge, 3rd edition, 2017). Erica co-founded the Discourse Unit (www.discourseunit.com) a transinstitutional, transdisciplinary network researching the reproduction and transformation of language and subjectivity. Erica's research has focused on critical developmental and educational psychology, feminist and postcolonial theory, childhood studies, and on critical mental health practice (particularly around gender and cultural issues). Much of her current work addresses the connections between emotions, mental health and (social as well as individual) change, in particular as anchored by representations of, and appeals to, childhood. She has co-led funded research projects on conceptualising and challenging state and interpersonal violence in relation to minoritised women and children, and on educational and mental health impacts of poverty and 'austerity'. She currently leads the Knowledge, Power and Identity research strand of the Education and Psychology research group at Manchester Institute of Education (see http://www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/educ... and works in the team running the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. For further information see http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/... and www.ericaburman.com). She is a past Chair of the Psychology of Women Section of the British Psychological Society, and in 2016 she was awarded an Honorary Lifetime Fellowship of the British Psychological Society in recognition of her contribution to Psychology.
Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary psychiatrist and activist, is more typically known for his explicitly political writings. However more recent attention has turned to consider how these relate to his therapeutic work and writings. When he became clinical director of Blida-Joinville Hospital in Algeria, Fanon adopted and adapted a form of institutional psychotherapy whose clinical implications have yet to be fully recognised and applied in Anglophone contexts (and beyond). In this talk I consider these developments, and hopefully we will discuss the continuing relevance of his – unfinished – project.
Erica is Professor of Education at the University of Manchester, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapists registered Group Analyst (and full member of the Institute of Group Analysis). She trained as a developmental psychologist, and is well known as a critical developmental psychologist and methodologist specialising in innovative and activist qualitative research. She is author of Developments: child, image, nation (Routledge, 2020, 2nd edition), Fanon, education, action: child as method (Routledge, 2019) and Deconstructing Developmental Psychology (Routledge, 3rd edition, 2017). Erica co-founded the Discourse Unit (www.discourseunit.com) a transinstitutional, transdisciplinary network researching the reproduction and transformation of language and subjectivity. Erica's research has focused on critical developmental and educational psychology, feminist and postcolonial theory, childhood studies, and on critical mental health practice (particularly around gender and cultural issues). Much of her current work addresses the connections between emotions, mental health and (social as well as individual) change, in particular as anchored by representations of, and appeals to, childhood. She has co-led funded research projects on conceptualising and challenging state and interpersonal violence in relation to minoritised women and children, and on educational and mental health impacts of poverty and 'austerity'. She currently leads the Knowledge, Power and Identity research strand of the Education and Psychology research group at Manchester Institute of Education (see http://www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/educ... and works in the team running the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. For further information see http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/... and www.ericaburman.com). She is a past Chair of the Psychology of Women Section of the British Psychological Society, and in 2016 she was awarded an Honorary Lifetime Fellowship of the British Psychological Society in recognition of her contribution to Psychology.
Johnathan Webber - Rethinking Existentialism in Psychotherapy, 6th November 2021
The existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir has important contributions to make to the theory and practice of psychotherapy that have been obscured by seeing their work purely in the context of the existential tradition epitomised by Kierkegaard and Heidegger. In this talk, we will see that reading them within the broad psychoanalytic tradition provides insights into the nature and origins of distress, potential therapeutic routes for reducing distress, and an original way of thinking about the goals of therapy. We will consider three of their central concepts: projects, freedom, and bad faith. We will conclude with some reflections on the limitations of their understanding of human agency in relation to neurodiversity.
Professor Jonathan Webber is Head of Philosophy at Cardiff University and President of the UK Sartre Society. His most recent book Rethinking Existentialism is available in paperback from Oxford University Press.
The existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir has important contributions to make to the theory and practice of psychotherapy that have been obscured by seeing their work purely in the context of the existential tradition epitomised by Kierkegaard and Heidegger. In this talk, we will see that reading them within the broad psychoanalytic tradition provides insights into the nature and origins of distress, potential therapeutic routes for reducing distress, and an original way of thinking about the goals of therapy. We will consider three of their central concepts: projects, freedom, and bad faith. We will conclude with some reflections on the limitations of their understanding of human agency in relation to neurodiversity.
Professor Jonathan Webber is Head of Philosophy at Cardiff University and President of the UK Sartre Society. His most recent book Rethinking Existentialism is available in paperback from Oxford University Press.
Ian Parker - Communism: Its nature and culture in Lacan and Marx, 3rd June, 2021
This talk critically explores the intersection between Marxist and Lacanian conceptions of ‘communism’.
Ian Parker is a practising psychoanalyst in Manchester. His books include Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context: Subjectivity, History and Autobiography (Routledge, 2019).
This talk critically explores the intersection between Marxist and Lacanian conceptions of ‘communism’.
Ian Parker is a practising psychoanalyst in Manchester. His books include Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context: Subjectivity, History and Autobiography (Routledge, 2019).
Robert Snell - Understanding The Capitol Riots Through The Eyes Of Goya, 27th February 2021
Francisco Goya (1746-1828) lived through - and personally suffered - one of the most violent and turbulent periods in Spanish history. Robert will invite us to see how far the painter's graphic accounts of delusion and social division might sharpen our perceptions of events in the U.S., and connect with more recent psychoanalytic ways of understanding extremes of powerful feeling, and extreme lack of feeling, in the group.
Robert Snell is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, art historian and author of several books including Uncertainties, Mysteries, and Doubts: Romanticism and the analytic attitude, which contains a chapter on Goya. Participants might like to read a recent article from the Guardian before the event: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jan/12/capitol-rioters-inflamed-hate-drunk-mobs-painted-goya-new-york-met
Francisco Goya (1746-1828) lived through - and personally suffered - one of the most violent and turbulent periods in Spanish history. Robert will invite us to see how far the painter's graphic accounts of delusion and social division might sharpen our perceptions of events in the U.S., and connect with more recent psychoanalytic ways of understanding extremes of powerful feeling, and extreme lack of feeling, in the group.
Robert Snell is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, art historian and author of several books including Uncertainties, Mysteries, and Doubts: Romanticism and the analytic attitude, which contains a chapter on Goya. Participants might like to read a recent article from the Guardian before the event: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jan/12/capitol-rioters-inflamed-hate-drunk-mobs-painted-goya-new-york-met
Where it Was, Others Shall Be: Desire, Otherness, and the Alien Inside Manu Bazzano, 26th November 2020
Freud’s famous motto ‘Where it was, there I shall be’ arguably set off the entire therapy enterprise on the wrong foot, establishing the primacy of the self over and above the profound influences of concrete others in our life, whether alive or dead. It led us to believe that the unknown can be known, that the enigma of psychic life can be translated, and that what is other can be reduced to the same. Despite their protestations, all therapeutic approaches followed suit, via appeals to ‘evidence-based’ claims, the wild-goose chase for ‘authenticity’, or the fashionable delusions of integration and regulation. We will explore whether a different trajectory is possible, a reorientation from the self to affect and experiencing, a move from self-centering to decentering and from self-boundedness to infinity and otherness.
Manu Bazzano is a psychotherapist, supervisor, author and internationally recognized lecturer, author and facilitator. His latest books are Nietzsche and Psychotherapy and Re-Visioning Existential Therapy: Counter-traditional Perspectives
Freud’s famous motto ‘Where it was, there I shall be’ arguably set off the entire therapy enterprise on the wrong foot, establishing the primacy of the self over and above the profound influences of concrete others in our life, whether alive or dead. It led us to believe that the unknown can be known, that the enigma of psychic life can be translated, and that what is other can be reduced to the same. Despite their protestations, all therapeutic approaches followed suit, via appeals to ‘evidence-based’ claims, the wild-goose chase for ‘authenticity’, or the fashionable delusions of integration and regulation. We will explore whether a different trajectory is possible, a reorientation from the self to affect and experiencing, a move from self-centering to decentering and from self-boundedness to infinity and otherness.
Manu Bazzano is a psychotherapist, supervisor, author and internationally recognized lecturer, author and facilitator. His latest books are Nietzsche and Psychotherapy and Re-Visioning Existential Therapy: Counter-traditional Perspectives
The Pheonomenology of Will, Michael Guy Thompson, 5th November, 2020
Michael Guy Thompson will review how philosophers, beginning with the Greeks, have treated the concept of will and what it comprises. In his presentation he will tease out many of our misconceptions about what constitutes will by comparing and contrasting it with concepts such as desire, free will, determinism, will power, volunteerism, and choice, drawing primarily on the thinking of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Sartre, Freud, and Laing.
Michael Guy Thompson received his psychoanalytic training from R. D. Laing and associates at the Philadelphia Association in London in the 1970s and is Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and a member of the IPA. He founded Free Association, Inc., in the 1980s in San Francisco to disseminate the legacy of Laing and hosts annual symposia at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California in his honor. Dr. Thompson is the author of numerous books and journal articles, the most recent of which is THE DEATH OF DESIRE: AN EXISTENTIAL STUDY IN SANITY AND MADNESS (2016, 2nd Ed.), an homage to his work with Laing. He lives in Berkeley, CA.
Michael Guy Thompson will review how philosophers, beginning with the Greeks, have treated the concept of will and what it comprises. In his presentation he will tease out many of our misconceptions about what constitutes will by comparing and contrasting it with concepts such as desire, free will, determinism, will power, volunteerism, and choice, drawing primarily on the thinking of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Sartre, Freud, and Laing.
Michael Guy Thompson received his psychoanalytic training from R. D. Laing and associates at the Philadelphia Association in London in the 1970s and is Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and a member of the IPA. He founded Free Association, Inc., in the 1980s in San Francisco to disseminate the legacy of Laing and hosts annual symposia at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California in his honor. Dr. Thompson is the author of numerous books and journal articles, the most recent of which is THE DEATH OF DESIRE: AN EXISTENTIAL STUDY IN SANITY AND MADNESS (2016, 2nd Ed.), an homage to his work with Laing. He lives in Berkeley, CA.
CPN & SAFPAC Joint Annual Conference 2020: Against Evidence-based Psychotherapeutic Practice, 26th September 2020
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