Emotion

[close] This group is for readers to share thoughts about their favorite novels. Who love a romance that moves them - to anger, to angst, to laughter, to tears, to making them wish they could call up the characters and meet them for a drink. Let's share our favorites, share how we found them, and what we'd like to see more of in intensely emotional love stories, particularly in the contemporary romance genre.

[close] This reading group is for anyone reading any Psychoanalysis school of thought (Classical Post- Neo- Developmental- Child- Relational- Intersubjective- Freudian, Jungian, Archetypal, Kleinian, Winnicott, British Object Relations, Bion, Lacanian) psychoanalytic theories and associated techniques. Whether the reader is a practising psychoanalyst, psychotherapist or psychologist, a non-practising academic psychoanalysis scholar, or just an 'interested' person in the street. Psychoanalytic theory is applied to children, individuals, couples, families, groups, companies, organisations and combined with other psychological approaches such as mainstream clinical psychology and forensic psychology practised in the National Health Service. Psychoanalytic theory is used in social psychology, applied community psychology, in marginal critical psychology and discursive psychology and in avant-garde media psychology, cultural psychology, political psychology and religious psychology. It is also used in depth psychology, art therapy, drama therapy, group analysis, business psychology, industrial psychology and organisational psychology. Readers of psycho-social, psycho-cultural, psycho-political studies and critical theory, social theory, cultural theory, film theory, philosophy, sociology and anthropology, also read psychoanalytic theory. The reading group convenor is a well known psychoanalysis scholar in the UK based in London in association with the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Freud Museum, Anna Freud Centre, Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, The Tavistock Institute, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex University, UCL Psychoanalysis Unit, Centre for Psychoanalysis at Middlesex University and the British Psychoanalytic Council. You can view her professional network here https://www.linkedin.com/in/aylamichelledemir Internationally, she works in association with the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS).

[close] This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring mind and a desire to gain or share “underground knowledge”. This is also a place to discuss the controversial topics explored in The Underground Knowledge Series (non-fiction books) by James Morcan & Lance Morcan as well as the Underground Knowledge podcast show.

[close] A gathering for poets who love the escape from reality that poetry brings. Engulf yourselves in the magic of words that form pure art.