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“The Psychosocial Imagination[i]” On behalf of the Psychosocial Studies Network Conference Organising Committee, we would like to invite papers for the: 3rd Psychosocial Studies Network Conference The University of East London, Docklands Campus Thursday 28th January and Friday 29th January 2010 The Conference builds on the last two successful annual events of the Network. This year we aim to link researchers for presentation and discussion of specific examples of psychosocial research, theoretical and / or empirical. Papers are welcome from any perspective within the new field of Psychosocial Studies, including submissions that relate to practice-based or practice-informed research, e.g. education, social work and social care, the arts, media, and the clinic. Concern with the nature of agency and intentionality, and discussions of the place of discourse, ethics and politics, affect and the unconscious, continue to characterise psychosocial research. Submissions may wish to link to one or more of the emerging themes in psychosocial studies which have been the subject of debate:
  • Psychosocial Studies as a political / radical / ethical project
  • What is the ‘object of study’ of psychosocial studies – is it the nature of subjectivity and subjecthood?
  • The possibilities for psychosocial welfare
  • Psychosocial Studies as an (epi?)phenomenon of ‘therapy culture’
  • Psychosocial study as a way of seeing, an effort of imagination, a particular sensibility
Plenary speakers: David W Jones (University of East London), Lynne Layton (Harvard Medical School), Michael Rustin (University of East London / The Tavistock Clinic), Christopher Scanlon (University of the West of England) and Paul Stenner (University of Brighton). Proposals of 300-400 words should be sent by 18th November 2009 to h.s.price@uel.ac.uk. This event is sponsored by the ‘Education: Policy, Pedagogy, Practice’ Research Grouping, and the Centre for Social Work Research, within the School of Humanities and Social Science at UEL.

[i] Using C Wright Mills’ description of the ‘sociological imagination’ as ‘…a quality of mind that “seems most dramatically to promise an understanding of the internal realities of ourselves in connection with larger social realities”, Joanne Brown (2006) refers to the ‘psychosocial imagination’ as exploring this connection without seeking to reduce the psychological to the social; the aim is to explore the ‘dialectic relation between social and psychic change'



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