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I must say I don't understand the issue fully but I am aware that it is still classified as a mental disorder. Being labelled with a mental illness is an unpleasant experience. It also is the only way somebody can transition. Hate crime, misunderstanding and misconceptions about the issue have isolated people in the community. Through this event we hope activists in this field can share their experiences with us. </div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This
season will be introduced by people whose work and life experiences have
afforded them insights into the problems encountered in the psychiatric system.
The talks that precede the films will seek to challenge prevailing assumptions
about mental health and those who use psychiatric services. </span></div>
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<a href="" name="h.27vvgo1fsozv"></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">All three films present a troubling picture of a system we
have come to rely heavily upon. Set in different countries and eras the films
explore the universality of human suffering and a system that has come to
reduce that experience rather simplistically. The films show a disturbing side of the mental health system
and its many abuses that result in reducing and controlling human behaviour. </span></div>
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<a href="" name="h.gjdgxs"></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Films screened in MMU
New Business School G.36 – Lecture Theatre 3 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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after film at Sandbar </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Sandbar 120
Grosvenor Street, Manchester, M1 7HL</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> ) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(dir.
Aparna Sen, 2005)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">Nation</span>al
Film Award winning English language Indian art house film. The film explores
the impact of schizophrenia on a young woman and her family in Calcutta. The
narrative revolves around the relationship of two sisters, a successful
professor who is also carer for her sister whose progression into schizophrenia
has been speeded up by traumatic life events. Recurring themes include issues
facing Indian families when it to comes mental health and the reality of a
mental health service user. The film has a cast of award winning actors. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Introduced
by Pauline Sometimes and Sonia Soans.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18<sup>th</sup> November 2013 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One
Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(dir.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Based
on Ken Kessey’s novel of the same name the film looks at the life of a man who
enters a psychiatric institution with the idea to escape jail. The film raises
some disturbing issues about the nature of mental illness and its subsequent
treatment in an environment that cannot provide an alternate understanding of
human behaviour. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Introduced
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">25<sup>th</sup> November 2013 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Family
Life</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(dir.
Ken Loach, 1971)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">British
drama film which won 5 awards. A remake of The Wednesday Play "In Two
Minds", written by David Mercer and directed by Loach, which was
transmitted by the BBC in March 1967. The film traces the life of a working
class girl (Janice) who leads a dull life, her parents consider her to be misbehaved. When she is unable to
cope with the emotional and mental effect of upsetting her parents after an
abortion. Janice is subjected to shockingly self-righteous and ignorant
doctors.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Introduced
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democratic psychiatry will be available for sale at the event. </span></i><a href="" name="_GoBack"></a></div>
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Sonia Soanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17830167944095685482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-474546394981202152013-04-17T02:08:00.001+01:002013-04-17T02:08:04.436+01:00St Dymphna Seminar 2013, Manchester <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sonia Soanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17830167944095685482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-45992250008030840292013-03-12T15:36:00.000+00:002013-03-12T15:36:15.189+00:00Feminist meeting- The Discrimination and Abuse of Trans* Women<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sonia Soanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17830167944095685482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-3951300964444200332013-03-06T22:34:00.002+00:002013-03-06T22:43:57.409+00:00Rachel Mann- Dazzling Darkness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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To follow up from the previous post on the Dazzling Darkness event. Interesting discussion about finding meaning and G-d in darkness and a journey through self exploration and choosing between two rights and sometimes two wrongs. Rachel talks about her options and her all too human struggles which make her work universal.<br />
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A big thank you to Reverend Rachel Mann for sharing her work with us and to all those who attended the event and participated.<br />
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Sonia Soanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17830167944095685482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-51542612046774971112013-01-21T00:59:00.002+00:002013-01-21T00:59:39.618+00:00Soteria Manchester (meeting)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sonia Soanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17830167944095685482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-49094048758884324212013-01-07T23:04:00.003+00:002013-01-07T23:04:42.549+00:00Beyond Belief - Tamasin Knight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sonia Soanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17830167944095685482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-50308633344812470182012-12-24T10:39:00.001+00:002012-12-24T10:39:33.059+00:00Merry Christmas <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sonia Soanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17830167944095685482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-29519715698366360412012-12-04T21:31:00.002+00:002012-12-04T21:31:57.646+00:00DSM 5 Is Guide Not Bible—Ignore Its Ten Worst Changes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This article appeared in Psychology today. Though the DSM is primarily American it's influence can be felt around the world. While suffering is universal mental illness isn't. Some of the diagnosis in the DSM are not universal. Those conditions do not exist in certain cultures as they pre condition that facilitate the development of some mental illness don't exist.<br />
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Sonia Soanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17830167944095685482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-39110783948974790762012-12-04T21:10:00.000+00:002012-12-04T21:10:15.892+00:00 Ishmael by Daniel Quinn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My friend mentioned this book tonight you can read the first 22 pages of it here.<br />
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Sonia Soanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17830167944095685482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-5152864815709715552012-11-16T19:26:00.000+00:002012-12-04T21:10:33.876+00:00Call for Abstracts - 8th European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">The need to get an NHS person involved. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">To find evidence that the Soteria model
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<span lang="EN-GB">It was decided that we needed experts (by
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<span lang="EN-GB">Raising money through fund raisers. However
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housing societies and approach businesses to help us financially. We also
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Sonia Soanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17830167944095685482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-75878262425267015992011-04-26T14:09:00.000+01:002011-04-26T14:09:57.612+01:00Foucauldian journal<i>This is a link to Foucault Studies a free online journal. <br />
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http://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/<i></i></i>Sonia Soanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17830167944095685482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-50762214398770126152010-03-05T12:53:00.001+00:002010-03-05T12:53:40.448+00:00CUSP @ CSCS is looking for applications for the Internship Programme in 2010-2011. Students with a background in the natural or social sciences, and having an interest in interdisciplinary work can apply for the programme. Interest and aptitude to work with questions related to integrated perspectives (integrating biological and cultural markers) on mind, mental health and well- being would be an additional advantage. The internship is envisaged for a period of 1 month. The interns will spend their time between CSCS as well as other institutional spaces that support their work, and will have to work in the libraries. Candidates will be expected, during the period of the internship, to participate in academic events, conduct formal and informal discussions with faculty and students, and to share, at the end of their tenure, a paper on their respective areas of research.<br /><br />Interested Candidates can contact<br /><br />Ranjini Krishnan : ranjini_k@cscs.res.inSonia Soanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17830167944095685482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-6209947043518881022009-08-19T05:49:00.000+01:002009-08-19T05:50:47.601+01:00Hi Everyone we will have class this sunday (23rd Aug). the reading materiel is chapter 2 of history of madness :)<div><br /></div>psychology after foucaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08378265074829930897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-45427719613435136072009-08-08T17:25:00.000+01:002009-08-08T17:27:02.235+01:00no class tomorowHi everyone we wont be having class this sunday our next class is scheduled on 23rd August.psychology after foucaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08378265074829930897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-8210840827589797812009-07-24T13:04:00.000+01:002009-07-24T15:21:59.965+01:00chapter 1 history of madness<a href="http://www.box.net/shared/g6e3f60rt0">STULTIFERA NAVIS </a><br />this is chapter one of history of madness plese click on the link below for the readingpsychology after foucaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08378265074829930897noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-47621025996426643722009-07-23T17:36:00.000+01:002009-07-23T17:38:30.328+01:00communities on facebookhi i found these 2 communities on facebook take a look at them :)<br /><br />this one is called what the foucault <br />http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2207256901&ref=ts<br /><br /> this one is called Critical Psychology, Liberation Psychology, Critical Pedagogy<br />http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24228750675&ref=tsSonia Soanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17830167944095685482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-78972542232032100212009-07-22T14:25:00.001+01:002009-07-22T15:28:36.621+01:00history of madness<div>Following is the reading for this week. Please click on the essay to download it. </div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.box.net/shared/ute1vouooh">Foucault, Michel. </a><i><a href="http://www.box.net/shared/ute1vouooh">History of Madness</a></i>psychology after foucaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08378265074829930897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-54938075224392687252009-07-19T15:31:00.000+01:002009-07-19T15:34:17.167+01:00Reading to the Preface 1961 Edition<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Reading to the Preface of 1961 Edition: The History of Madness<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>We are inherently mad and by this basis we hope to unravel that specific moment in history when non-madness took over and expelled madness by the logical distinction of reason and unreason. This intriguing binary solely exists on one another by scientifically claiming their independence. In the sense that madness can exist only due to non-madness while reason owes its birth to unreason. And if we are to understand either of them separately or as a unified-binary, one needs to be stripped of his/her predetermined notions on either of them. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>The most influential tool used in creating this separation – language. It no longer allows either of them to have a stable platform to appreciate one another; it pushes reason and unreason into two different realms of functioning where any type of communication is considered preposterous. And it is in this –silence- where we can hear only monologues that a discipline like psychiatry is rendered possible.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">(Page xviii)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-24191125008486588272009-07-19T15:27:00.000+01:002009-07-19T15:31:50.675+01:00In Pursuit of Mad-"ness"<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow";">In Pursuit of Mad-ness<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">On 12<sup>th</sup> July 2009, temptation of an unknown cause brought together a few people whose names cannot be mentioned due to my bad memory but who will hopefully make themselves heard through this blog very soon. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>In order to de-mystify this unknown cause we began with the question: why are you here? The answer which opened up new portals of ambiguity – in pursuit of madness. We all agreed unanimously that none of us knew what madness was or is, thereof began the Foucauldian journey to stir up what has been camouflaged as “madness”. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>Although the above answer pretty much established the tone of our class for the day, several other equally puzzling answers followed, with each of us introspecting to understand this unknown cause that had brought us here. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>If madness is pathological, sufferings, unreason or even a positivistic perspective, the only consensus one can come through this is that madness cannot be universalized. But in our modern context, we are not simply suffering but<span style=""> </span>are agonizing over the consequences of universalizing one such impossibility. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>From discovering, much to our dismay that Madness and Civilization is not an original Foucault to finding out it’s a compilation from The History of Madness that earned Foucault his PhD, a process that took place between St. Anne’s Hospital where Foucault was being treated by Lacan and the University. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>Madness as an integral part of modernity gave way to many suspicions about it being a superficial construction on political terms. It is undisputedly believed that madness makes space for the unreason, the illogical and the like but the ever-green question remains – can there be a logic of the mind? (Aristotle). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>We progressed towards investigating science as objective, more importantly as linear in its evolution which endows it with that prestigious title of being objective alongside essential for the modern society. As an example, we explored the concept of Intentionality first proposed by Ponty.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>Intentionality:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Biologically we are all equipped with the ability to optically view our environment where we see things with our <u>eyes.</u> But we seldom passively look at things, along with simply seeing we are predisposed to “visualize” our surroundings that is translated by our mind instead of the brain. And this process of “visualizing” takes place as a part of the internal mental structures which are products of not <b>just</b> our biological or physical factors. Therefore, we are seeing by the <b>I </b>that each one of us possesses. <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>This question of intentionality that is not explained by any pure science was raised in Psychoanalysis and once again in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT; therefore one is left to wonder – is science really linear or rather is any progress linear in nature? Something else that is disturbing is when science proclaims its present status as the <u>best</u> status undermining any other possibility from any other discipline. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Modernism: The rise of the categorizers!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Venturing into the manufacturing of such categories through inadequate science the invention of disease and cure, madness and reason etc by themselves seem illogical. Different civilizations have positively differed in their response to be it madness or psychosomatic reactions etc but with the birth of the clinic in 19C began a universal or “objective” methodologies to “treat” them instead of incorporating it into the larger system. A fairly recent example would be the sudden expansion of B-schools who claim to teach “management” or “home science” as an authority to justify your culinary skills thereby giving an illusion that one did not know how to manage “scientifically” before these influential inventions. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p>We can use the same analogy in order to trace the history to madness – let us not debate for the moment if madness even as heresy was an integral part of a community or not but has our scientifically trained mind equipped appropriately to accommodate madness as an essential part of a given community? Such as the Sufism that celebrates madness in the most positivistic fashion and Hinduism where madness was considered a divine intervention. Peculiar to Hinduism and the rise of the categories which perpetually designed “hindus” from the Bhagvad Gita in 1789 as Warren Hastings required an identity in order to dissolve it. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> Modernity thus seeks very desperately to identify, create, and categorize things even if it is to live in a chimera that we have complete understanding of them. Thus, we concluded for the day this course is going to be not just in pursuit of revealing madness but understanding the “ness” in madness as it was and as it is concealed in our glorious days of modernism. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p><br />Michel Foucault’s writings: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">The History of Madness<o:p></o:p></span><br /><!--[if !supportLists]--><ul><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Birth of The Clinic<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">The Order of Things<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">The Archaeology of Knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Discipline and Punish<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Discipline and Punishment <o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Abnormal<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">History of Sexuality – Three Volumes<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><!--[endif]--><!--[if !supportLists]--><!--[endif]--><!--[if !supportLists]--><!--[endif]--><!--[if !supportLists]--><!--[endif]--><!--[if !supportLists]--><!--[endif]--><!--[if !supportLists]--><!--[endif]--><!--[if !supportLists]--><!--[endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Other references made:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul><li><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">George Canguilhem – “Normal and the Pathological” <o:p></o:p></span></li><li><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Ponty – “Theory of Intentionality”<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Philosophy of Science<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Stephen _______________ - “Brain Unconscious” <o:p></o:p></span></li><li><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";">Louis Althusser – “Future Lasts A Long Time” <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-90361581059679027392009-07-19T15:20:00.000+01:002009-07-21T20:02:00.629+01:00Preface 1961 Edition - Download<span style="font-family:lucida grande;"></span>Hi<br /><br />I'm posting a link through which you can access and download the Preface to 1961 Edition. Please click on the below link in order to view it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/17476465/Michel-Foucault-Preface-to-the-1961-Edition">The History of Madness</a><br /><br />Please post on this blog if the link is not working.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976261094026516050.post-87132583143172548022009-07-09T17:48:00.000+01:002009-07-09T17:49:23.627+01:00<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-outline-level: 1"><b><u><span style="font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family: Herculanum">CERTIFICATE COURSE: <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-outline-level: 1"><b><u><span style="font-size:25.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt;font-family: Herculanum">PSYCHOLOGY AFTER FOUCAULT</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size: 25.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Herculanum"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-21.3pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:-35.45pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b><span style="font-family: Papyrus">Organized by:<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Dept. of Psychology, Christ University, Bangalore-29</span><span style="font-family: Papyrus;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">In association with</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CUSP-CSCS, Bangalore<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">Total Hours:<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>45<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">Classes on:<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>2/3 Sundays (full day) of a month (July to Sept- 2009)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-49.4pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">Coordinator:<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">Diptarup Chowdhury<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">Commencement:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>July 12 (Sunday, 10 am)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">Tentative dates:<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">July- 12, 26; Aug- 2, 9; Sept- 6, 13, 20. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">Venue:<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">Christ University Campus<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">Co-instructors:<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">Anup Dhar, Asha Achuthan, Radhika P, Diptarup Chowdhury<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus">Course Overview:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Papyrus"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:Papyrus">This course will take a critical stock of three of Michel Foucault’s (French philosopher, trained as a clinical psychologist) books – i) History of Madness, ii) Birth of the Clinic, and iii) Abnormal. It would like to see what some of the Foucault’s work do to the discipline of Psychology. Does it introduce new questions in the field of Psychology and inaugurate new ways of attending to mental suffering and mental health? It would also see how unreason was reconstituted as ‘madness’ and ‘threat’ and had, in the process, become the object of control and surveillance. This is of course not to say foucauldian insight as uncontestable truth, but to engage with them critically, even revise them if necessary. This course is not just for Psychology student. It is a course that would be interdisciplinary in nature and would help non-Psychology students by giving them a glimpse of questions in Philosophy- questions pertaining to the dialectic of reason and unreason, control and cure, care and healing, rights and ethics, structure and subjectivity, discourse and phenomenology.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Papyrus"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><span style="font-family:Papyrus">For Admission to the course please contact the Office of Admissions, Main Blk, Christ University.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Papyrus"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:1"><span style="font-family:Papyrus">Course Fees: Rs. <span style="color:black">1000 (for Christ Univ students), Rs. 2000 (for general public)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Papyrus;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-outline-level: 1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Papyrus; color:black">For further information about the course please contact:<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Papyrus; color:black"><a href="mailto:sonia.soans@res.christuniversity.in"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">sonia.soans@res.christuniversity.in</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Papyrus; color:black">or<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Papyrus; color:black"><a href="mailto:diptarup.chowdhury@christuniversity.in"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">diptarup.chowdhury@christuniversity.in</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Papyrus; color:black">or<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Papyrus; color:black">Dept. of Psychology at 40129343<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->psychology after foucaulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08378265074829930897noreply@blogger.com0