Nini Fang: Culture as the Bad Object

Psychosocial Interventions: Aesthetic Analysis in Practice and Theory An Event Series by APS and the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths Psychosocial 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. …

Psychoanalysis Meets Virtual Reality

A one day event using a series of group activities to reflect on our individual &collective experience of virtual reality There 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, …

Content Moderation and Its Discontents

St. Mary's University, Twickenham Waldegrave Road, London, United Kingdom

Programme and registration: https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/events/2023/06/content-moderation-conference

Counselling and Psychotherapy in Times of Political Violence

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, United Kingdom

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/counselling-and-psychotherapy-in-times-of-political-violence-tickets-648236010357?aff=oddtdtcreator “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 …

Whose Borderline is it anyway?

Anomolous Space 36 Pentonville Road, London, United Kingdom

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. The diagnosis and concept of ‘borderline’ has become one of the most used in the psy-lexicon. …

Emeritus Prof Stephen Frosh: Psychosocial studies with psychoanalysis (Reading Group)

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. Stephen Frosh will be …

Violence of Politics and Politics of Violence

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, United Kingdom

Prof Tony Jefferson: The Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI)

Registration: Click here for more details Join us in our APS online reading group, as we listen to Emeritus Prof Tony Jefferson's reading of Panic and Perjury and FANI method We 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 …