Mental Disorders

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[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] A book club for those who would like to read and discuss books related to mental health. We will be partial to books that discuss living with serious mental illness and the impact that has on individuals and families.

[close] What do, Dove, H&M, Nivea, Harlequin Teen, Heineken have in common? All have faced boycotts, the fury of Twitter, one-star reviews, loss of sales; extreme backlashes for their lack of racial sensitivity. Heineken is the most recent with its ad of a beer passing by a dark-skinned African-American to a light-skinned African-American, with the phrase, “Lighter is Better.” Sensitivity Reading is an emerging industry available to content creators who want to alleviate unintentional bias or racism in their books, in magazines, ad campaigns, television, film, gaming, app development and more. Would you like to learn to be a reader?