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Welcome to Media and the Inner World

hob74 — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:29:10 CDT

MiW brings together academics, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and media figures for a series of discussions about the role of emotion and ideas of therapy in popular culture in the UK.

All about MiW

A promo-doc directed by Awad Bhenick and based on the opening event
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How to Join MiW

We welcome all contributions devoted to the psycho-cultural aspects of popular culture, so please click the 'Apply to be a Writer' button (above left).

OUR NEXT EVENT:

MiW Radio Seminar: Radio Recollections

Wednesday July 6th 2011 6-7.30pm, UEL (University of East London) West Building WB2.01

with DAVID HENDY, BRETT KAHR, PETER LEWIS

~PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE LAST IN OUR SERIES OF DISCUSSIONS ON THE PSYCHODYNAMIC & SOCIAL ASPECTS OF RADIO~

Please join us for our final seminar on radio this year which we hope will provoke and inspire you to think about emotional and symbolic engagement with radio in innovative ways. This will be relevant to students and scholars of media & cultural studies, psychologies, sociologies and psychoanalysis. Thank you to all of you who have attended and contributed over the year.

Speakers

David Hendy - Reader in Media and Communication, University of Westminster, former senior producer for BBC’s World Tonight & Analysis. Writer and presenter of 2011 series of five programmes for The Essay on Radio 3 – called ‘Rewiring the Mind’.
Brett Kahr – Media psychotherapist; psychological commentator and presenter; Honorary Professor Media & the Inner World, Roehampton University, former Special Media Adviser to The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Peter Lewis - Senior Lecturer in Community Media, London Metropolitan University, former broadcaster and co-founder of The Radio Studies Network

to reserve a place please email h.ortegabreton@surrey.ac.uk

Wednesday 6th July 2011, 6-7:30pm. University of East London (Docklands Campus) WEST BUILDING ROOM WB 2.01

PUBLIC TRANSPORT DLR Cyprus. Buses 101, 173, 262, 300, 366, 376, 474.

This seminar has been produced by the Media & the Inner World AHRC Research Network (www.miwnet.org), in collaboration with the University of East London, Roehampton University and London Metropolitan University. Jointly organised by Peter Lewis, London Metropolitan University and Hugh Ortega Breton, University of Surrey, on behalf of the Media & the Inner World Research Network.
Warmest Regards,

1. Engaging Audiences: Radio Journalism and Suffering
8th Dec 2010, Roehampton University

2. Emotion and Symbolic Engagement with Radio
30th March 2011, London Metropolitan University
Further details here

Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture
A Day Symposium

Media, Emotion & Sport Michael Brearley Former England cricket captain; former President of the Institute of Psychoanalysis Krishnan Guru-Murthy (tbc) (C4 presenter and broadcaster) Helen Powell (Chair) Senior Lecturer in Media and Advertising UEL	Media Love John Storey Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland Carol Leader Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist John Adlam Group Therapist Brett Kahr Hon Prof Media and the Inner World Roehampton	Media, Emotion & Social Unrest Jeremy Gilbert Reader in Cultural Studies, UEL Writer; Activist Suzanne Moore Columnist, The Guardian and The Mail on Sunday Chris Scanlon Group Analyst Michael Rustin Professor of Sociology, UEL Visiting Professor, Tavistock Clinic	Media and the Inner World: Reflections and Future Directions Candida Yates Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, UEL Director, MiW Caroline Bainbridge Reader in Visual Culture, Roehampton University Director, MiW

We are delighted to post initial details of a day symposium on ‘Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture’ to mark the end of the current grant period of our AHRC funded research network, Media and the Inner World. This will be held on the 5th Floor at the Tavistock Centre near Swiss Cottage tube station in London on Saturday 26th February 2011 from 10-6pm.
Details of exact timings and a drinks reception will be circulated next week. We anticipate that this event will be oversubscribed and for catering purposes, we need confirmation of attendance. To book your free place, please email miwevents@googlemail.com, giving your name and occupation, which we are required to monitor by our funding body. Places are limited and will be allocated on a strictly first come, first served basis.

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MiW Radio Seminars

MiW — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:03:11 CST

As a result of the success of 'The Reparative Spaces of Radio' discussion held in June 2009, we are running a series of three discussions on radio.

MiWNet, the Media & the Inner World Research Network (www.miwnet.org), in collaboration with the University of East London, Roehampton University and London Metropolitan University, is organizing a series of three seminars on radio to be held at each university in early December, March and June.

The MiW seminars will bring together academics, psychotherapists and media professionals for a series of discussions about the role of emotion and ideas of therapy in radio cultures. We are interested in contributions which examine the intentions and practices of radio producers and writers, as well as the affective dynamics and meanings of radio for listeners and producers.

Contributions to each seminar will be grouped around separate themes which will largely depend on the response to this call, but we are provisionally thinking of ‘Radio and Music’, ‘Radio Connecting Communities’ and ‘Radio and Histories’.

The seminars will be held in the late afternoon and run for two hours. Times and locations to be confirmed; dates likely to be Wednesday 8th December (Roehampton), Wednesday 30th March (London Metropolitan) and Wednesday 22nd June (UEL). Proposals not exceeding 250 words to p.lewis@londonmet.ac.uk and h.ortegabreton@surrey.ac.uk by close of play on Friday 19th November.

Jointly organised by Peter Lewis, London Metropolitan University and Hugh Ortega Breton, University of Surrey on behalf of the Media & the Inner World Research Network.

The first event in this series has now been organised. Details below.

MiW Radio Seminar:
Engaging Audiences: Radio Journalism & Suffering

in collaboration with the Centre for Research in Film and Audio-Visual Cultures, Roehampton University

Wednesday December 8th 2010 5-6.30pm

Chapman Hall, Queens Building, Southlands College, Roehampton University

Please join us for an afternoon of discussion which we hope will provoke and inspire you to think about emotional and symbolic engagement with radio in innovative ways. Our speakers will introduce research and ideas concerning how radio news journalism ‘works’ to create identifications in the audience with stories of human suffering. This will be relevant to students and scholars of journalism, cultural studies and psychotherapy.

Speakers

Kate Wright - Senior Lecturer in Journalism and News Media, Roehampton University and former BBC Radio Today and Newshour journalist.
Gavin Rees – Journalist; filmmaker; Director of The Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma, Europe; Research Fellow, Bournemouth University.
Brett Kahr – Media psychotherapist; psychological commentator and presenter; Honorary Professor Media & the Inner World, Roehampton University; former Special Media Adviser to The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.

Tickets are free but limited seats are available so to reserve a place please email h.ortegabreton@surrey.ac.uk

From Barnes train station take the 265 or 72 bus south towards Roehampton for 5mins. Southlands College is the first right immediately after the Roehampton University main entrance, situated behind the pond.

There will be two further seminars on radio held at London Metropolitan in March and UEL in June. Enquiries - please email p.lewis@londonmet.ac.uk or h.ortegabreton@surrey.ac.uk

This seminar has been produced by the Media & the Inner World AHRC Research Network (www.miwnet.org), in collaboration with the University of East London, Roehampton University and London Metropolitan University. Jointly organised by Peter Lewis, London Metropolitan University and Hugh Ortega Breton, University of Surrey, on behalf of the Media & the Inner World Research Network.

The second event has now been organised. Details follow:

Wednesday March 30th 2011 5-6.30pm, London Metropolitan University

Wednesday June 22nd 2011, 5-6.30pm. University of East London Please join us for two afternoons of discussion which we hope will provoke and inspire you to think about emotional and symbolic engagement with radio in innovative ways. This will be relevant to students and scholars of media, radio, cultural studies and psychoanalysis.

March 30th Speakers so far

Anne Karpf - Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University, former radio critic of The Guardian and author of The Human Voice. Anne will speak on ‘The sound of home? How the radio voice anchors, contains and sometimes pierces’
Aaron Balick - psychotherapist, academic, and media contributor. Director of the MA in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex and a private practitioner, he also contributes to Radio One's Sunday Surgery. Aaron will speak on ‘The use of radio as a good object’ - how radio may resonate (or not) with the object relational world of the listener.
More speakers will be announced in due course.

If you are interested in speaking at one of our events please get in touch.

Tickets are free but limited seats are available so to reserve a place please email p.lewis@londonmet.ac.uk.

This seminar is produced by the Media & the Inner World AHRC Research Network (www.miwnet.org), in collaboration with the University of East London, Roehampton University and London Metropolitan University. Jointly organised by Peter Lewis, London Metropolitan University and Hugh Ortega Breton, University of Surrey.

Politics Containment & Contempt

MiW — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:55:11 CST

Political contexts of containment and contempt
The terms ‘containment’ and ‘contempt’ resonate at a number of levels in the current context of UK political culture. Here one can cite the loss of political certainty surrounding the UK coalition government and the loss of boundaries that once contained and defined the perimeters of political parties and their respective ideologies. Contempt that has emerged as a response to such shifts and are linked to what the government are doing by way of policy and cuts etc (likened by Andrew Rawnsley and Vince Cable to a ‘Maoist revolution’). Such contempt also relates to concern about the loss of containment regarding a perceived breakdown in a social democratic consensus about the boundaries of the public/private sector, and broader anxieties about a post–ideological politics, where the distinctions between the political parties are often blurred and unclear. Celebrity and ‘spin’ play a key role in communicating policy, something that was particularly evident in the run up to the election. Contempt in this context is linked to the disillusionment about the broken promises of that election, particularly in relation to the Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg, as evidenced in the recent student demonstrations. As Dan Chambers’ films about Boris Johnson and David Cameron illustrate, with the so many Etonians in the Cabinet, the dimensions of the British class have once more come to the fore, and notions of contempt are relevant here too in this context.

Psychoanalytic contexts
Drawing on D. W Winnicott ‘s psychoanalytic theory of ‘Transitional Phenomena’ from his book Playing and Reality (1971), one can begin to think about political culture and its communication systems – particularly in the field of social networking, as facilitating in a positive manner, new complex spaces for play and creativity. Yet, in a more pessimistic vein, one can – following Christopher Lasch’s thesis, in his book the Culture of Narcissism (1979) - argue that new modes of political communication and personality politics
promote a shallow, narcissistic culture, where modes of empowerment are promoted at the expense of more meaningful if challenging forms of object relating and the capacity to tolerate good enough leadership can be seen as an example of this. The psychoanalytic ideas of Melanie Klein might also be useful to explore the anxieties, projections and desires that are utilised through new modes of political communication.

In his book Emotional Governance (2007), Barry Richards argues that the mediatisation of politics has become increasing emotional and that the application of psychoanalytic ideas to the emotionalisation of politics are pertinent. For Richards, Broadcast News bears a particular responsibility to contain and process the anxieties and ambivalences of the public in order to deflect the paranoid anxieties which emerge as a response to the conflicts of late modernity. The media coverage of ‘The war against terror’ can be seen as a key example of what he sees as a ‘therapeutic’ process, where the media may or may not facilitate the working through of vengeful narcissistic fantasies, towards more reparative impulses for understanding and dialogue. There may well be links here with the themes of Gabrielle Rifkind’s work in the field of conflict resolution in the Middle East.

This session will bring together a group analyst, a filmmaker and academic to explore some of these issues from their own perspectives, with a view to finding points of dialogue and shared interest between them.

Suggested Discussion Points/Guiding Questions
· What is the relationship between contempt and containment in UK political culture?
· How might psychoanalytic understandings of containment and contempt be applied to examples from the contemporary political scene?
· What forms of media can best represent the dilemmas of contemporary politics?
· Has politics and its coverage in the news become more overtly ‘emotional’ ?

Our speakers:

Dan Chambers
Since starting Blink with Justine Kershaw, Dan Chambers has Executive Produced ‘Ancients Behaving Badly’, ‘True Stories’, ‘Chinese Food In Minutes’; he’s overseen ‘Miliband of Brothers’ and ‘When Boris Met Dave’ and, along with Justine Kershaw, ‘Extraordinary Animals’, ‘The Lion Cub From Harrods’, and ‘The Great Sperm Race’. Before forming Blink, Dan was Five’s Director of Programmes from 2003 to 2006. From 2001 to 2003, he was Five’s Controller of Factual where he created the RTS award-winning history strand, ‘Revealed’, commissioned World War I in Colour, Pompeii Live, Kings & Queens, and feature shows including Britain’s Worst Driver. As Director of Programmes he was also responsible for Banged Up Abroad, The Gadget Show, Fifth Gear, and The Hotel Inspector. Dan graduated from Oxford University, and began his television career in 1991 as a researcher on current affairs shows including Panorama and Dispatches. He went on to direct films for Channel 4 science strand Equinox.

Website: http://www.blinkfilmsuk.com/Dan_Chambers.html

Dr. Candida Yates

Dr. Candida Yates is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London. She is a Director of the AHRC-funded Media and the Inner World Research Network (www.miwnet.org) and the author of Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan), co-author of Culture and the Unconscious (Palgrave Macmillan 2007) and Emotion: New Psychosocial Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). She has published widely on the themes of psychoanalysis, film, gender and political communication in journals such as Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Psychoanalytic Studies,, Subjectivity and Journal of Cultural Research and is the Co-Editor for the journal Free Associations and the consulting editor for film and media in the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Candida is currently researching the relationship between flirtation, politics and the unconscious and its representation in popular culture. Her forthcoming book is entitled: Media, Political Culture, Emotion and Identity: Playing with the Electorate.

Website: http://www.uel.ac.uk/hss/staff/yates-candida.htm

Gabrielle Rifkind
Gabrielle Rifkind is Oxford Research Group Director of the Human Security in the Middle Eastprogramme. She is a group analyst and specialist in conflict resolution and is convener and founder of the Middle East Policy Initiative Forum (MEPIF). Much of her special contribution is around the role of human motivation and behaviour in resolving conflict. She has initiated and facilitated a number of Track II roundtables and hosts the media 'Liddite' Conversations with ORG. She is also working on developing dialogue between Iran, the US and Israel. She makes regular contributions to press and media and is author, with Scilla Elworthy, ofMaking Terrorism History(Random House, 2005).

Website: http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/people/gabrielle_rifkind

Chair: David Aaronovitch
David Aaronovitch is a writer, broadcaster and commentator on culture, international affairs, politics and the media. His regular column will appear every Thursday in The Times from April 1st. A former television researcher, producer and programme editor, he has previously written for The Independent, The Guardian and The Observer, winning numerous accolades, including Columnist of the Year 2003 and the 2001 Orwell prize for journalism. He has appeared on the satirical TV current affairs programme Have I Got News For You, presented a number of radio and television series and programmes on current affairs and historical topics. His first book, and account of a journey by kayak on the rivers and canals of England, Paddling to Jerusalem, was published in 2000 and won the Madoc Prize for travel writing. In 2009 he published Voodoo Histories, a book on the history and attraction of conspiracy theories. David also writes a blog about conspiracy theories.

Website: http://www.davidaaronovitch.com/html/biography/bio.html

The Politics of Containment and Contempt

MiW — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 10:17:48 CST

SOCIAL NETWORKING & DIGITAL NARCISSISM

hob74 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:51:19 CDT

For many, social networking has become a key part of every day life. Some argue that the development of Web2.0 in the form of information sharing and communicating through blogs, facebook, twitter, etc, provides positive new opportunities for playful self expression, creativity, and even self-realisation. Alongside the imaginary potentials of social media for the self and the inner world, Charles Leadbeater in We Think (2009) argues that digital media and social networking allows for the democratisation of communication in a number of personal and political contexts, thereby challenging the old hierarchies of an elitist media.

Yet others have been less keen on the growth of social networking, and see it in less utopian terms. Here it is said that social networking promotes unhealthy narcissism and self-obsession on the part of users who have lost the capacity to cope with the challenges of ‘real’ embodied relationships. Instead, friends are gathered like trophies, thereby avoiding the risks and disappointments of meeting and communicating with people face to face, or perhaps through the more considered medium of the pen. In his book The Cult of the Amateur (2007), Andrew Keen explores the notion of ‘digital narcissism’ in relation to the rise of social networking and links it to the rise of vacuous celebrity culture where anybody can be a star – an ‘ego caster’ – where the banalities of one’s everyday life are broadcast to the world.

The kind of issues which interest us at the Media and Inner World network relate to the links between social networking and the self and the implications of -say - writing a blog or communicating on facebook for meaningful object relations. Drawing on D. W Winnicott ‘s psychoanalytic theory of ‘Transitional Phenomena’ from his book Playing and Reality (1971), one can begin to think about the web and social networking as a facilitating space for play, creativity and psychological growth. Yet, in a more pessimistic vein, one can – following Christopher Lasch’s thesis in his book the Culture of Narcissism (1979) - argue that social networking promotes a narcissistic culture where consumer-friendly notions of therapy and empowerment are promoted at the expense of more meaningful if challenging forms of object relating. The work of psychoanalytic work of Freud and Melanie Klein might also be useful to explore the anxieties, defences and desires that are utilised when communicating on the internet and the projections that are utilised when online.

This session will bring together a therapist, a webcaster and an academic to explore these issues from their own perspectives, with a view to hopefully finding points of dialogue and shared interest between them.

Some Questions for Debate and Discussion
· Does social networking promote narcissism and what are the psychosocial implications of this?
· What is the relationship between social networking and ‘therapy culture’?
· What are the therapeutic implications of social networking?

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ADVERTISING, DISAPPOINTMENT & DESIRE

hob74 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:50:32 CDT

Advertising has been analysed from a number of perspectives, yet most will agree that its images and messages have been significant in helping to shape experience and identities in every day life. Advertising has always played on the emotions of consumers, yet today, the poignant appeal of ads become evermore explicit as they invite us to explore a wide range of emotions – from the tearfulness of saying goodbye to loved ones at an airport –to the imagined highs of identifying with a community of parents and children dancing around in an apparently utopian rural setting before munching into McDonalds burgers. The themes of therapy are also there in ads that send up the hypnotized patient who lies on the analytic couch, recalling his life through images of past iconic ads. Such themes also coincide with a growing preoccupation with emotion and therapy within popular culture more widely. This therapeutic ‘turn’ is linked perhaps, to anxieties about social and cultural change and also new opportunities for therapeutic self-exploration within the shifting context of late modernity. Feelings of loss, vulnerability and disappointment, which often accompany contemporary cultural experience, may be psychologically defended against or explored creatively through different aspects of mediatised popular culture, and the iconic images and slogans of advertising are significant here. Advertising uses a range of strategies such as nostalgia (Hovis bread), sexuality (Cadburys Flake) escape (British Airways) and narcissism (L’Oreal -‘because I'm worth it’) to assuage disappointment, stir up desire, and shore up a fragile sense of self. The relationships between the growth of therapy culture, identity, emotion and advertising provide the context for the MiW forthcoming roundtable discussion on ‘Advertising, Disappointment and Desire’. This roundtable discussion brings together leading thinkers and practitioners in the areas of advertising practice and research and psychotherapy to explore themes and we warmly welcome everyone to come and take part.

Recommended Reading:
Campbell, C. (2005) The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism, third edition Great Britain: Alcuin Academics.

Powell, H. (2009) 'Count the beats of your heart not the fingers on your hand': The emotionalisation of promotional culture' in Sclater, Jones, Price & Yates (eds.) (2009) Emotion: New Psychosocial Perspectives, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

MacRury, I. (2009) Advertising, London, Routledge.

Richards, B, MacRury, I. and Botterill, J. (2000) The Dynamics of Advertising, Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers.

Richards, B. (1994) Disciplines of Delight: the psychoanalysis of popular culture, London, Free Association Books

TASTE, HUNGER & THE MEDIA

hob74 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:49:40 CDT

This event brings together Prof Mica Nava (UEL), David Lancaster (Food Journalist) and Mary-Jayne Rust (Jungian Psychotherapist) to discuss the role of taste and hunger in relation to emotion and our popular media. The following list of questions and perspectives offers a starting point for thinking about these questions. Please feel free to add your comments/create new pages to start the debate rolling!

· What is the relationship between taste, hunger and the media?
· What is our emotional relationship to food and how is this represented in the media?
· How are the pleasures of eating constructed today? How have they changed and what does this tell us about society?
· What do the different images of taste tell us about culture and society?
· How is our relationship to food shaped by class, gender and ethnicity?
· How might we use what we know as therapists from our work within eating problems to illuminate our struggle with consumerism?
· The accepted approach to over-eating is to go on a diet. Fat people are reviled and feared because they are seen as greedy and out of control, while anorexics are often secretly admired for their will of iron, their capacity to conquer their physical desires, mind over body. The fashion industry, and by extension the media, are complicit in this.
· Diets don't work in the long term because this route is about behavioural control and deprivation. Early unmet needs within vital early relationships may re-emerge in uncontrollable binges on food, sex or drugs, or numerous other ways in which we attempt to simultaneously get pleasure as well as kill pain.
· If we can stop consuming the earth for a second, and listen to our collective hungers, where might we go? What is it that we so fear, and what is it that we long for? How might the media engage with this?
· Our collective responses are very split. We are trying to tackle an obesity epidemic, yet our magazines, newspapers and TV are still enticing us back into ‘naughty’ food. As awareness of our global crisis is rightly increasing in leaps and bounds, and we are encouraged to go on a ‘green diet’ to reduce our carbon emissions...but the media is still full of enticing messages for us to spend carbon.
· Therapists know that something rather different happens when we stop trying to control/shut down and start listening to, and unpacking, the full range of hungers within - from physical bodily hungers for taste and feeding the senses - to emotional hungers for relationship, to spiritual hungers for mystery, meaning and purpose. These hungers run through our lives from early experience to the present day, from individual through family to culture. How can we begin to support each other in listening to what will satisfy our hungers amidst our hectic and distracted lives?

PARANOIA AND TELEVISION

hob74 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:49:13 CDT

On Weds 16th Sept, Trevor Hearing will chair a round table featuring the following speakers:

Laurence Marks (TV comedy and drama writer)
Hugh Ortega Breton (academic, Roehampton University)
Karen Ainsbury (Group Analyst)
Paul Watson (Documentary maker)
Prof Barry Richards (Bournemouth University) - Respondent.

All welcome!

The Screening Room, Weymouth House, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus 1-4pm.

According to The International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, paranoia has individual and institutional, social and cultural forms and determinants. There is probably at least a germ of paranoia in everyone, which may be activated in regressive states with increased vulnerability. Clinically, paranoia may be found in mild transient forms, paranoid states of varying degree and duration, fixed paranoid traits and paranoid character, and borderline schizophrenia. The range of paranoid conditions doubtless depends upon constitutional, characterological, and experiential variables.

· How does watching television create feelings of paranoia in the audience?
· From the film maker’s and writer’s perspectives, what techniques are used to create feelings of paranoia in the audience?
· What the pleasures and anxieties of paranoid television for audiences and film/programme makers?
· Are some television genres inherently paranoid?
· How might television prevent individual or collective feelings of paranoia?
· What is the relationship between paranoid television and paranoid societies?
· Is contemporary society particularly paranoid and how does this relate to the nature and content of television output?
· How have certain moments in history helped to create paranoid television?
· What creates paranoia in those who perform on television?
· How can psychoanalysis and psychotherapeutic ways of thinking contribute to our understanding of paranoia and the affective experience of watching television in an emotive culture?
· Do programmes sometimes work psychologically as containers that help us to interpret and process paranoid feelings and cultural experience in more or less manageable ways?
· How can we draw on psychoanalytic ideas to formulate an understanding of the relationships between feelings of paranoia and television output?

To discuss these themes and others, this round table brings together experts from television practice, academic criticism and group therapy work. Please feel free to add to the debate by making contributions of your own!

Calls for Papers

hob74 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:48:25 CDT

MiW Radio Seminars MiWNet, the Media & the Inner World Research Network in collaboration with the University of East London, Roehampton University and London Metropolitan University, is organizing a series of three seminars on radio to be held at each university in early December, March and June.

The MiW seminars will bring together academics, psychotherapists and media professionals for a series of discussions about the role of emotion and ideas of therapy in radio cultures. We are interested in contributions which examine the intentions and practices of radio producers and writers, as well as the affective dynamics and meanings of radio for listeners and producers.

Contributions to each seminar will be grouped around separate themes which will largely depend on the response to this call, but we are provisionally thinking of ‘Radio and Music’, ‘Radio Connecting Communities’ and ‘Radio and Histories’. The seminars will be held in the late afternoon and run for two hours.

Times and locations to be confirmed; dates likely to be Wednesday 8th December (Roehampton), Wednesday 30th March (London Metropolitan) and Wednesday 22nd June (UEL).

Proposals not exceeding 250 words to p.lewis@londonmet.ac.uk and h.ortegabreton@surrey.ac.uk by close of play on Friday 19th November.

Jointly organised by Peter Lewis, London Metropolitan University and Hugh Ortega Breton, University of Surrey on behalf of the Media & the Inner World Research Network.

“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'

THE REPARATIVE SPACES OF RADIO

hob74 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:35:59 CDT

The Reparative Spaces of Radio

Friday 19th June 2009, 6-8pm

The Base
Michael Maynard Associates
Victoria House
64 Paul Street
London EC2A 4NG
For directions please click here: http://www.maynardleigh.co.uk/our-company/how-to-find-us/

Speakers include:
Dr Anita Biressi, Reader in Media Cultures, Roehampton University
Andy Jordan, Radio Producer, Andy Jordan Productions & Senior Lecturer, Lincoln University
Dr Heather Nunn, Reader in Media and Cultural Studies, Roehampton University
Phillip Hodson, Broadcaster, Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Head of BACP Media Relations
Mrs Sally Weintrobe C. Psychol., Psychoanalyst, Fellow of British Psychoanalytical Society

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Social Networking and Digitial Narcissism

hob74 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:35:09 CDT

For many, social networking has become a key part of every day life. Some argue that the development of Web2.0 in the form of information sharing and communicating through blogs, facebook, twitter, etc , provide positive new opportunities for playful self expression, creativity, and even self-realisation. Alongside the imaginary potentials of social media for the self and the inner world, Charles Leadbeater in We Think (2009) argues that digital media and social networking allows for the democratisation of communication in a number of personal and political contexts, thereby challenging the old hierarchies of an elitist media.

Yet others have been less keen on the growth of social networking, and see it in less utopian terms. Here it is said that social networking promotes unhealthy narcissism and self-obsession on the part of users who have lost the capacity to cope with the challenges of ‘real’ embodied relationships. Instead, friends are gathered like trophies, thereby avoiding the risks and disappointments of meeting and communicating with people face to face, or perhaps through the more considered medium of the pen. In his book The Cult of the Amateur (2007), Andrew Keen explores the notion of ‘digital narcissism’ in relation to the rise of social networking and links it to the rise of vacuous celebrity culture where anybody can be a star – an ‘ego caster’ – where the banalities of one’s everyday life are broadcast to the world.

The kind of issues which interest us at the Media and Inner World network relate to the links between social networking and the self and the implications of -say - writing a blog or communicating on facebook for meaningful object relations. Drawing on D. W Winnicott ‘s psychoanalytic theory of ‘Transitional Phenomena’ from his book Playing and Reality (1971), one can begin to think about the web and social networking as a facilitating space for play, creativity and psychological growth. Yet, in a more pessimistic vein, one can – following Christopher Lasch’s thesis in his book the Culture of Narcissism (1979) - argue that social networking promotes a narcissistic culture where consumer-friendly notions of therapy and empowerment are promoted at the expense of more meaningful if challenging forms of object relating. The work of psychoanalytic work of Freud Melanie Klein might also be useful to explore the anxieties, defences and desires that are utilised when communicating on the internet and the projections that are utilised when on line.

This session will bring together a therapist, a webcaster and an academic to explore these issues from their own perspectives, with a view to hopefully finding points of dialogue and shared interest between them.

Suggested Discussion Points/Guiding Questions
· Does social networking promote narcissism and what are the psychosocial implications of this?
· What is the relationship between social networking and ‘therapy culture’?
· What are the therapeutic implications of social networking?

EMOTIONAL WORK OF CINEMA

hob74 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:34:45 CDT

For discussions concerning emotion and popular cinema

DISCUSSION on SATURDAY 9TH MAY will run for 2 hours at the Everyman Cinema in Hampstead. There will be a montage of clips to illustrate the emotional power and specificity of cinema. The discussion will initially take the form of a round table and the discussants will include an academic, an analyst or therapist and someone from inside the world of film itself. We hope that there will be lively discussion from the floor. This is our first round table event so there are no set parameters as yet, all ideas are appreciated.

THIS EVENT IS FREE BUT PLACES ARE STRICTLY LIMITED. TO BOOK PLEASE EMAIL miwevents@googlemail.com
PLEASE NOTIFY US IF YOU CANNOT COME TO GIVE SOMEONE ELSE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND.

Psychoanalytic Articles on Cinema

These articles may be of interest and use in advance of the Saturday 9th May discussion:

Malater, E. (2007). David Cronenberg's Benevolent Pathology: Technology, Trauma, and the Perverse Social Link in Crash... The Psychoanalytic Review., 94:887-902. (available online at http://www.pep-web.org )

Downing, D.L. (2007). Paranoiac Visions and Neo-Realities in the Recent Cinema: Reflections on Tausk's “Influencing Machine in Schizophrenia” The Psychoanalytic Review, 94:991-1006.

Freely available here:
http://www.atypon-link.com/GPI/doi/abs/10.1521/prev.2007.94.6.991

Tylim, I. (2000). Film Notes: eXistenZ: The Blurring of the Organic and the High-Tech World in... The Psychoanalytic Review, 87:455-461. (available online at http://www.pep-web.org )

Clarke, G. (1994). Notes towards an object-relations approach to cinema. Free Associations, 4C pp369-390. (available online at http://www.pep-web.org )

Bainbridge, C. & Yates, C. (2005) Cinematic Symptoms of Maculinity in Transition: Memory, History and Mythology in Contemporary Film Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society,10:299-318.

How can psychoanalysis and psychotherapeutic ways of thinking contribute to our understanding of the meanings, features, effects and affects of film and cinema in an emotive culture? Does the development of high quality screens and sound for the home privatise the formerly public emotional experience of cinema? Do major films work as containers that interpret our culture in more or less manageable ways? How does successful marketing of some films generate expectations and investments in certain movies which only lead to disappointment? There are many, many questions to discuss. Start a thread.

Which contemporary and popular film stands out for you for its emotional power and why?
Requiem for a Dream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE-rD8vcY4U

The Champ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgySx1MhzAo

Man Bites Dog http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL1qjiuDWiw

In the Shadow of the Moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRusDqEK4aI

Dancer in the Dark http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1K78yhZDCc

Monster's Ball http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXBw8YftYPk

Braveheart The Freedom speech

Mamma Mia! Dancing Queen scene

The Piano Ada negotiates with Baines

Breaking the Waves Bess gets married

The Shining Little Pigs scene

How to Join

hob74 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:33:54 CDT

If you would like to join ‘Media and the Inner World’, please take the following steps:

1) Click on the ‘Join Site’ button in the top right hand corner of the page.

2) Add your member profile and details - Please put your name, institution/affiliation and email address.

3) Add a profile image and submit!

MiW Podcasts

hob74 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:33:01 CDT

MiW 1 Opening Symposium March 2009 'From "The Freud Squad" to "The Good Freud Guide": A Genealogy of Images of Psychoanalysis in the Popular Media' Dr Caroline Bainbridge (Roehampton University)	MiW 2 The Emotional Work of Cinema May 2009 This event was held at The Everyman Cinema in Hampstead, London. Our speakers were Dr Claire Pajaczkowska of the Royal College of Art; Dr Nicola Diamond of the University of East London; Margaret Matheson, founder and producer of Bard Entertainments. The event was chaired by one of the MiW Directors, Dr Candida Yates of the University of East London.

Click on the podcasts below to listen again to the keynote talks from the Opening Symposium held on 7th March 2009 at Roehampton University. There are also links to the recordings of each of the different round table discussions. Please add to the debate by giving us your comments and/or by starting threads, adding content etc...

MiW 1
Opening Symposium
March 2009

'From "The Freud Squad" to "The Good Freud Guide":
A Genealogy of Images of Psychoanalysis in the Popular Media'
Dr Caroline Bainbridge (Roehampton University)
MiW 2
The Emotional Work of Cinema
May 2009

This event was held at The Everyman Cinema in Hampstead, London. Our speakers were Dr Claire Pajaczkowska of the Royal College of Art; Dr Nicola Diamond of the University of East London; Margaret Matheson, founder and producer of Bard Entertainments. The event was chaired by one of the MiW Directors, Dr Candida Yates of the University of East London.

Click here to go to the podcast homepage to subscribe via iTunes, google or yahoo
(This page is under construction, so please keep checking back for more additions. You can also subscribe to the podcasts through iTunes, google or yahoo).

REMOTE CONTROL CONFERENCE

MiW — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:51:05 CDT

REMOTE CONTROL:

PSYCHOANALYSIS & TV
29/30th October 2010

You are warmly invited to join us for a special event hosted by MiW and the Freud Museum on 29th-30th October 2010.

REMOTE CONTROL: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TELEVISION

Day Conference and Evening Discussion

October 29th - 30th, 2010 At the Anna Freud Centre
Psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, academics and TV insiders will come together to discuss the function and ethics of TV in the modern world and the emotional experience it creates for us. Still the most common form in which images and narratives are transmitted, how does TV work at the level of the psyche and what is its importance for psychotherapy? How do we make use of TV to help us to relate to others?

FRIDAY 29TH OCTOBER 7.00 – 8.30pm

Opening Discussion at The Anna Freud Centre
An Interview with Laurence Marks

Chair: Candida Yates (Director, Media and the Inner World; UEL)
Psychotherapist, Valerie Sinason, will be in conversation with Laurence Marks, the renowned comedy script writer who has brought shows such as The New Statesman, Birds of a Feather and Goodnight Sweetheart to our screens.
This will be followed by a Drinks Reception at the Freud Museum – everybody welcome.

SATURDAY 30TH OCTOBER 9.30am - 5.00pm

Speakers and Panels:

Candida Yates ‘Staging the Debate: Remote Control: Television, Media and the Inner World’

Panel 1: Television from both sides of the couch
How does TV culture infiltrate the therapeutic space, and how is psychotherapy represented on TV?
Brett Kahr (Psychotherapist): Television as Rorschach
Caroline Bainbridge (Director, MiW; Roehampton University): Psychotherapy on the Couch: Exploring the Fantasies of In Treatment
Dan Chambers (Managing Director, Blink Films) (Chair and Respondent)

Panel 2: Ethics and Therapy on TV
The ethical dilemmas of putting real lives on TV
Richard McKerrow (Creative & Managing Director, Love Productions) discusses The Marchioness Documentary;
Oliver James (Clinical Psychologist, author and broadcaster) discusses his TV programmes including Under Fives; Room 113 and Men on Violence.
Valerie Sinason (Chair and Respondent )

Panel 3: Watercooler Moments: TV as Transitional Object
TV offers the possibility of shared cultural experiences. Does it also have therapeutic potential?
Tom Sutcliffe (Broadcaster, author and journalist)
Sue Vice (Professor of English, Sheffield University)
Carol Leader (Psychotherapist; former TV presenter and actor)
Sara Ramsden (Consultant executive producer for the BBC) (Chair)

Roundtable discussion
Barry Richards (Professor of Public Communication, Bournemouth University)Summary and reflections with speakers from the day

Booking

Registration: FRIDAY EVENING: £12 or £10 for Friends of the Freud Museum SATURDAY: £50 Full Price; £35 Students and unwaged (£5 discount for Friends) Please click here for online booking Further information available online: www.miwnet.org and http://www.freud.org.uk/events/73588/remote-control-psychoanalysis-and-television/

Related Seminars and Conferences

MiW — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:41:39 CDT

Click on the links for further information on each event

NEW! Added Sept 2010 Symposium on In Treatment (HBO) - part of the Psychotherapy Now! schedule
Brett Kahr will chair a discussion between the psychiatric advisor to the show plus two of the writers.
Friday 8 October, at the Cruciform Lecture Theatre (UCL). Details and tickets at www.psychoanalytic-council.org

NEW! Added May 2010 Darian Leader: Depression/Mourning, Roehampton, 27th May
NEW! Added May 2010 PhototherapyEurope

NEW! Added May 2010 5th International Literary Journalism Conference, London

NEW! Added March 2010 Jung and Film Conference

Added Oct 2009 Seminar Series:
Psychoanalysis and the Social Political Field: From Trauma to Pleasure

University of East London, Docklands Campus (Cyprus station, Docklands Light Railway)
WEDNESDAYS 3-5PM 2009/10

Psychoanalysis & Comedy

galit_ — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:09:56 CDT

MEDIA AND THE INNER WORLD (MIW) NETWORK
COMEDY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

VENUE: JERMYN STREET THEATRE
DATE: FRIDAY 9th JULY 2010
START TIME: 2.30pm
ENDS: 4.30 pm

Location: 16b Jermyn Street Theatre (Piccadilly Circus) London SW1Y 6ST Click here for directions

Details of Speakers and Chair

Tom Davis
Comedian
http://www.comedycv.co.uk/tomdavis/index.html
Tomstarted on the London circuit in the summer of 2005 and he also fronted his own BBC 6music show 'The Big Tom and Conrad show.'Tom performedat the Edinburgh fringe festival where he received very positive reviews. Tomis also an accomplished character comedian. In 2003 he duped the SKY ONE program'Guilty Secrets of the 1980's' into believing he in fact was a northern loner by the name of Steve Matthews. In this years 'Big Brother Celebrity Hijack' Leigh saw an opportunity to unleash Tom's character Martin Phillips on the Big Brother contestants.With Leigh in the guise of his alter ego Keith Lemon. Tom played 12 year old Martin, a hyperactive awkward lad Keith was looking after for the day. This was no mean feet, considering Toms 6-7, 18 stone frame. Yet the contestants and the public along with some of the production team fell for it. Since this elaborate scheme Tom has worked on a number of new characters, appearing in Russell Brands Comedy Live Presents with Leigh’s Craig David character.

Michelle De Swarte
Comedian
Having been based between New York and London for nearly a decade; 2008 saw Michelle’s debut as a TV presenter in the UK when she co-hosted Princess Production’s ‘The Fashion Show’ on ITV2. Her memorable appearance on BBC3’s ‘Best and Worst of 2008’ made the most of her brilliant off the cuff humorous style. Early 2009 saw her build on that success by hosting a pilot for the US version of the show for MTV. Her down to earth personality and fast, fun delivery has inspired her to try her hand at stand up comedy and she made her debut at the world famous Comix comedy club in New York in March 2009. Michelle has recently joined John Noel’s agency as new up-and-coming comedian. She had a very successful gig at the Monkey Business Club in Camden in January 2010 which was widely acclaimed by critics.

Dan Schreiber
Comedian
Dan is a stand-up comedian, radio producer, and also a writer for both radio and television. He co-created the BBC Radio 4 panel show The Museum of Curiosity with host John Lloyd and co-producer Richard Turner. Schreiber also acts as one of the researchers or "Elves" for the television panel game QI. Schreiber also acted as executive producer for Ken Russell's short Christmas film A Kitten for Hitler. His blog is at http://schreiberland.posterous.com/

Interviewer: Professor Brett Kahr
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Honorary Chair of Media and the Inner World Network
Professor Brett Kahr is Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health, and holds an Honorary Visiting Professorship in the School of Arts at Roehampton University, attached to the “Media and the Inner World” network.
A media psychotherapist of longstanding, he has presented several television documentaries, and served as Resident Psychotherapist on BBC Radio 2, and Spokesperson for the BBC mental health campaign “Life 2 Live”. He is delegate to the councils of both the British Psychoanalytic Council and to the Council for Psychoanalysis for Jungian Analysis, and teaches at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology. Brett is a successful author and has published several best-selling volumes including Sex and the Psyche with Penguin Books.
http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/index.php/authors/author/brett-kahr/

Speaker: Dr. Iain MacRury
Associate Dean and Reader in Cultural Sociology
http://www.uel.ac.uk/hss/staff/iainmacrury.htm
Iain’s main areas of interest are advertising and consumption. He is the author of Advertising (Routledge). More specifically his interests include: advertising and cultural change, critical approaches to advertising, humour in advertising, psychodynamic and psychosocial approaches to advertising, changing advertising institutions, “promotional culture”. In addition to his work at UEL, Iain lectures in Psychoanalytic Studies at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, whereby he also supervises PhD students. Iain has a longstanding interest in humour, comedy and psychoanalysis.

Chair: Dr. Estela Welldon
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Dr Estela Welldon is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the Portman and Tavistock Clinic. She is the founder and Elected Honorary President for Life of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. She is the acclaimed author of Mother, Madonna, ***** a book, which had a major impact on the psychoanalytic understanding of female perversion (and has even influenced at least one film-maker - read about this here). You can access a review of this book here. In her more recent book Sadomasochism she has explored the unconscious dynamics within sadomasochistic relationships drawing on clinical and theoretical sources.
http://www.estelawelldon.org/

What is the Relationship Between Comedy and Psychoanalysis?

Freud, who never returned to the subject after writing his 1905 book on the theory of jokes {..} suggested that "censors" in the mind form powerful, unconscious barriers that make it difficult to think "forbidden" thoughts. But jokes can elude these censors -- to create the pleasure of unearned release of psychic energy, which is discharged in the form of laughter. He explains why jokes tend to be compact and condensed, with double meanings: this is to fool the childishly simple-minded censors, who see only innocent surface meanings and fail to penetrate the disguise of the forbidden wishes.

(Marvin and Minsky, 1980), http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/jokes.cognitive.txt

What is the psychology of humour and jokes? Why do we laugh and why do some of us want to make others laugh? What is it that prompts us to laugh at others and make them the butt of jokes? In his 1905 work Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious (1905) Freud argues that comedy is often used as a way of communicating anxiety and managing hostility. As with dreams, jokes are deeply symbolic and we can use them to learn more about the unconscious and the forbidden wishes and fantasies, which shape and mediate human experience. Like spontaneous slips of the tongue, these wishes find expression through jokes and humour in the course of our everyday lives. Our responses to those jokes can also tell something about the pleasures, longings and fears that influence who we are and the cultures in which we live.

Our event aims to explore these questions through a dialogue between psychotherapists, academics and leading contemporary comedians. Comedians use the symbolic power of humour to express a range of popular, cultural and personal dilemmas for TV and theatre audiences today. When we watch them perform, comedians such as Eddie Izzard, Victoria Wood, Michael Macintyre or Russell Brand allow audiences to experience a range of emotions from outrage to pleasure – thus providing a means of working through the many anxieties and frustrations that permeate contemporary culture. Alternatively, from the perspective of the comedian, what are the pleasures of making people laugh – and what makes people laugh today and what doesn’t and why?

Discussion Points
· Is there a relationship between humour, laughter and loss?
· What is the relationship between humour, laughter and anxiety?
· What makes people laugh today and why?
· What does it feel like to make people laugh?
· What are the unconscious roots of humour?

University as Transitional Space

MiW — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:12:47 CDT

Please respond to these suggestions or make suggestions of your own.

The importance of this 'event'/process is that it produces dialogue and debate, so all perspectives are welcome! ·

The university as a ‘good enough’ environment; teaching psychoanalysis as providing a space for not knowing; who is ‘qualified’ to do this?

Is it possible to provide a space for ‘play’ in the university setting? How does this affect the quality of learning?

How much does the university of setting override the notion of the teacher (the one who brings facts)? What are the tensions between the clinic and the classroom?

How can we approach the idea of clinical ‘purism’ – the suggestion that psychoanalysis must be kept out of the university in order to survive?

(How) do universities allow us to ‘learn from experience’?

How do we experience the space of the university and its practices and what does this mean in terms of its potential as a transitional space?

How do we bring practices from further afield into the university setting? What are the transformational possibilities at stake here?

Has the dramatic change in political culture changed universities into over-regulated concretized spaces without potential?

Psychoanalysis and the Social Political Field: From Trauma to Pleasure

MiW — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:27:49 CST

Seminar Series:
Psychoanalysis and the Social Political Field: From Trauma to Pleasure

University of East London, Docklands Campus (Cyprus station, Docklands Light Railway)
WEDNESDAYS 3-5PM 2009/10

These Seminars are part of the UEL Psychosocial Research Group’s activities and are open to anyone undertaking or interested in Psychosocial research.

October 21st room EBG10
Sarah Goode
‘Adult Sexual Attraction to Children in the Psychosocial Field: From the Clinic to Pop Culture’

November 4th room EBG.10
Galit Ferguson
‘Fear and the Family on Reality TV: A Psychocultural Approach’

November 25th room EBG.10
Candida Yates
‘Spinning, Spooning and Political Flirtation’

January 27th (Room TBA)
Susannah Radstone
‘Re-thinking Trauma - Guilt and the Pressure of the Past’

February 24th (Room TBA)
Paola Valerio
‘Trauma: Sexual Abuse and Group Analysis’

March 17th (Room TBA)
Scott Lash
‘Psychopower’

May 26th (Room TBA)
Derek Robbins
‘Philosophy, politics, and psychoanalysis at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris in the early 1950’s’

Jung and Film Conference

MiW — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:24:36 CST

MiW Members, Luke Hockley and Greg Singh, are organising the following event which may be of interest to members of the network.

Jung and Film: Post Jungian Takes on the Moving Image
Sunday 18th April, 2010
The Brunei Gallery
SOAS

Full details at www.jungandfilm.com