Psychoanalysis, Values and Webs of Power Saturday 28 September & Sunday 29 September 2019
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Psychoanalysis, Values and Webs of Power Saturday 28 September & Sunday 29 September 2019 Lisa Appignanesi is Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, former President of English PEN and former Chair of the Trustees of the Freud Museum. Her many books include Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors and Losing the Dead. Her most recent book is Everyday Madness (May 2019). Peter Barham has been engaging with the field of madness for more than fifty years. His work straddles clinical research, historical inquiry, mental health activism and filmmaking. He has a Ph.D in modern history from Cambridge and in abnormal psychology from Durham. His books include Schizophrenia & Human Value (1984); Relocating Madness: From the Mental Patient to the Person (1991); Closing the Asylum: The Mental Patient in Modern Society (1992, new edition in preparation for Process Press); and Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War (2004). He was on the staff of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, and a visiting teacher at the Tavistock Institute & Clinic. He was the founder of the Hamlet Trust, which between 1990 & 2007 pioneered grass roots mental health reform in Central & Eastern Europe. He is a founder member of the Guild of Psychotherapists and a chartered psychologist & a fellow of the British Psychological Society. Latterly, he was an associate member of the history faculty at Oxford. Dr. David Bell is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society where he served as President (2010-2012). He is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the Adult Department at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust where he leads a specialist service, The Fitzjohns Unit, for the more complex/severe disorders. He has edited four books: Reason and Passion: A Celebration of the Work of Hanna Segal (1997). Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Kleinian Perspective (1999), Living on the Border (2013) and Turning the Tide (2018) on the work of the Fitzjohns Unit and written a short book 'Paranoia'. He has published extensively on the relationship between psychoanalysis, literature, philosophy, culture and socio-political issues. He is one of the leading psychiatric experts on issues of asylum and immigration. Michael Chanan is a seasoned documentarist, writer and Professor of Film & Video at the University of Roehampton, London. After films for the BBC and Channel 4 in the 1970s and 80s, for the last 20 years his films have been funded either academically or informally. He has written books on early cinema, documentary, and music, as well as a history of Cuban cinema. He is currently editing a new documentary on ecological issues in Cuba. Lynn Chancer is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York. Her books include Sadomasochism in Everyday Life (1992), Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography and the Future of Feminism (1998), High Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes (2005), Gender, Race and Class (with Beverly Watkins, 2006), The Unhappy Divorce of Psychoanalysis and Sociology (2014), and After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism (2019). Ian Christie is Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck University of London and also at Gresham College. His current work is mainly concerned with early film in Britain, and with Eisenstein and other Russian figures. He has long been associated with the BPS European Psychoanalytic Film Festival in London. Fakhry Davids is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society a Fellow of The Institute of Psychoanalysis and a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists. He trained as a clinical psychologist in South Africa and has an active interest in the psychology of racism. He is in full-time clinical practice and teaches, supervises and lectures widely. He is a founding board member of Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities (PCCA), which adapts the group relations method to process the aftermath of mass i such as the Holocaust and the Palestinian Nakba. He has published many articles and his books include the co-edited Authenticity in The Psychoanalytic Encounter (2018) and his Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference (2011). Karl Figlio is a Senior Member of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association and a Clinical Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He was founding Director of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies (now the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies) at the University of Essex and for several years Managing Editor of Free Associations. Recent publications include Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory (Palgrave 2017); Fundamentalism and the Delusional Creation of an Enemy. In Steffen Krüger, Karl Figlio, and Barry Richards, (eds) Fomenting Political Violence: Fantasy, Language, Media, Action (Palgrave, 2018); "On the Roots of Absolutism," Free Associations December 2018. Stephen Frosh is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. A Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, throughout the 1990s, he is the author of many papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis. His numerous books include A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory (2012), Feelings (2011), For and Against Psychoanalysis (2006), The Politics of Psychoanalysis (1999), Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions (2013), Simply Freud (2017), and Those Who Come After: Postmemory, Acknowledgment and Forgiveness published (2019, Palgrave). Eva Hoffman grew up in Cracow, Poland, before emigrating in her teens to Canada and then the United States. After receiving her Ph. D. in literature from Harvard University, she worked as senior editor and literary critic at The New York Times, and has taught at various British and American universities. Her books, which have been translated widely, include Lost in Translation, Exit Into History and After Such Knowledge, as well as two novels, The Secret and Illuminations. She has lectured internationally on exile, historical memory, cross-cultural relations and other contemporary issues. She is currently a Visiting Professor at UCL and lives in London Christopher Hauke is a Jungian analyst in private practice, a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London interested in the applications of depth psychology to a wide range of social and cultural phenomena. His books include Jung and the Postmodern: The Interpretation of Realities, (2000); Human Being Human. Culture and the Soul (2005) Visible Mind. Movies, Modernity and the Unconscious.(2013). He has co- edited two collections of film writing: Jung and Film. Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image (2001) and Jung and Film II – The Return. His short films, documentaries One Colour Red and Green Ray and the psychological drama Again premiered in London venues and at congresses in Barcelona, Zurich and Montreal. He is now researching and writing a new book on the limits of rationality, and the place of the irrational in our lives. www.christopherhauke.com Bob Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, previously Professor, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex (now Emeritus, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies. He was Consultant Psychotherapist in the NHS for many years, and Director of the Cassel Hospital, 1993- 1997. He has a long association with Free Associations, and published several. books with Free Association Books, including the Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989), and Clinical Klein (1993). Kurt Jacobsen is co-editor of Free Associations and research associate in political science at the University of Chicago since 1984. He is author of Freud's Foes: Psychoanalysis, Science and Resistance, International Politics and Inner Worlds: Masks of Reason Under Scrutiny, Pacification and Its Discontents, coeditor of Experiencing The State and Reconsidering American Power, and six other books. His articles have appeared in History of Psychiatry, Psychoanalytic Review, Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Free Associations and dozens of journals in the social sciences. He has contributed widely to popular outlets, ranging from The Guardian to The Irish Times to The Statesman in India. He was a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and a Teaching Fellow at the Center for the Study of History of Science, Technology and Medicine then at Imperial College, now at Kings College London. He is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and is book review editor for Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture. He also was a care worker ("mental health specialist") in a state mental hospital near Chicago for 5 years. Lauren Langman is Professor of Sociology at Loyola University, Chicago. He received his PhD in Human Development from the University of Chicago. Although he had planned a career in psychology, as a result of participation in civil rights and anti war movements, his interest shifted to sociology as a way of understanding how social conflict was based on group membership and interests rather than individual personality. As a result, his work as a sociologist has always had an interdisciplinary focus largely concerned with the relations of the historically instantiated social structure and culture to the individual. His books include the forthcoming Twenty First Century Inequality and Capitalism (with David A. Smith), God, Gold, Guns and Glory: American Character and its Discontents (with