ARCP 13: Discourse Unit Global Seminar (2017)

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Editor: Ian Parker

This special issue of Annual Review of Critical Psychology comprises papers by participants at an international meeting of the Discourse Unit in June 2017. Participants, including these contributors, have, at different points in their careers, intersected with the work of the Discourse Unit since 1990, either as academic colleagues, postgraduate students, postdoctoral visitors, external examiners, or co-authors or co-editors on joint publications. The June 2017 meeting in Manchester University was designed to collectively take stock of a variety of different conceptual, methodological and practical projects, and to discuss the very different directions our work has taken from our first encounters with ‘discourse’ and our meetings together. These papers were gathered together with the primary aim of facilitating this discussion among ourselves, and they together provide a window on the range of work produced in and alongside the Discourse Unit over the last thirty years; other strands of work are represented in other special issues of ARCP.

 

CONTENTS

 

‘EITHER PUT ON THESE GLASSES OR START EATING THAT TRASHCAN!’: PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICALLY WALKING WITH JOHN NADA, BERYL CURT AND DAVID BOLLINGER

Alex J Bridger

 

BORDERS WILL NEVER WORK. PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS TRAVEL. EUROPE WILL NOT LAST FOREVER

Alexandra Zavos

 

EUROPEAN CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL TRENDS: AN OPEN ROAD TO PSYCHOLOGICAL RECIDIVISM

Ángel J Gordo López and Roberto Rodríguez López

 

DIY: TOWARDS FEMINIST METHODOLOGICAL PRACTICES IN SOCIAL RESEARCH

Barbara Biglia and Jordi Bonet i Martí

 

NOT TO NAUGHT BE BROUGHT: PAUL CELAN AND THE NECESSARY FAILURE OF THE EVER COMING WORD

Calum Neill

 

CREATION IN THE VORTEX OF THE REAL: BADIOU AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Carlos Gómez Camarena

 

THE LOGIC OF THE CONDOMINIUM AND THE NEOLIBERAL SUFFERING

Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker

 

DECONSTRUCTING DISCOURSES OF SEXUALITY IN GROUP ANALYSIS: A PROPOSAL FOR AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PHD THESIS

Daniel Anderson

 

MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIONS: FROM INSTITUTIONAL EXCLUSION TO SUBJECTIVE DEVELOPMENT

Daniel Magalhães Goulart

 

BEYOND INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

David Harper

 

THE LANGUAGE OF HISTORY AND ITS IMMANENT CRITIQUE: FROM LACANIAN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS TO MARXIST REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICE

David Pavón-Cuéllar

 

CUTTING THE BUDDHA’S BODY TO FIT THE NEOLIBERAL SUIT: MINDFULNESS: FROM PRACTICE, TO PURCHASE, TO PRAXIS

Elliot Cohen

 

GENDER IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY: TOWARDS A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ‘PROGRESS’

Erica Burman

 

BIOGRAPHICAL TRAJECTORIES OF PEOPLE STRUGGLING WITH SEVERE DISTRESS: MAPPING THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF RECOVERY IN PSYCHOSIS

Eugenie Georgaca & Anastasia Zissi

 

SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES AND POLITICAL ACTION: JUXTAPOSIONAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF TWO CONDEMNING STATEMENTS AGAINST NATIONALIST ENTRY BANS

Eyal Clyne

 

SUBJECTIVITY AND DISCOURSE: COMPLEMENTARY TOPICS FOR A CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Fernando Luis González Rey

 

CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES TO HISTORICAL CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Gordana Jovanović

 

TRANSVERSAL MAPPINGS OF IMMANENT SUBJECTIVITIES: THE CATASTROPHE OF SETTLER COLONIALISM

Scott Kouri & Hans Skott-Myhre

 

SMARTPHONES AND TEMPORALITIES IN EVERYDAY LIFE: A RESEARCH AGENDA
Heidi J Figueroa Sarriera

 

LACANIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND JAPANESE ZEN (HAKUIN ZEN): THE RELATION BETWEEN ‘THE IMPOSSIBLE THING’, DRAWINGS, AND TOPOLOGY

Hidemoto Makise

 

DISCURSIVE RESOURCES IN THE DISCOURSE UNIT

Ian Parker

 

THE FUNGIBLE FIST BUMP

José Gerardo Alvarado

 

LET’S FINISH IT: NINA SIMONE AND THE OBEAH WOMAN

Kathleen S G Skott-Myhre

 

THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY FOR CHILDREN WITH DIAGNOSIS OF PSYCHOSIS: WHAT PLACE FOR PARENTS? THE RELATION BETWEEN SUBJECT AND THE INSTITUTIONAL “OTHER”

Katia Romelli

 

DISABLING THE SUBJECT: FROM RADICAL VULNERABILITY TO VULNERABLE RADICALS

Kenneth McLaughlin

 

INFANCIES, BIOPOLITICS AND PSYCHOANALYISIS

Liora Stavchansky

 

SOCIABILIDAD Y SENTIDO DE LA POLÍTICA EN JÓVENES UNIVERSITARIOS

Luis Gregorio Iglesias Sahagún

 

IF YOU ASK DELEUZE, 3 MINUTES IS ALREADY TOO MUCH TIME TO TALK ABOUT SUBJECTIVITY!!

Maria Nichterlein

 

SOCIAL SERVICES FOR MIGRANT WOMEN IN BARCELONA: A CRITICAL APPROACH

Marisela Montenegro et al.

 

MARXISM AS A FOUNDATION FOR CRITICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Michael Arfken

 

AGAINST NORMALITY: THREE STORIES ABOUT CHILDREN, MONSTERS AND NEOLIBERALISM

Mónica Peña

 

IDENTICAL TWINS: A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY

Mvikeli Ncube

 

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PRESCRIPTIVE PLACE TO THE LACANIAN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Nadir Lara Junior et al.

 

ASIAN CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES?

Narcisa Paredes-Canilao

 

SCREENING FOR CANCER RISK: ESPOSITO’S IMMUNIZATION PARADIGM, CAPITALISM AND THE LOGIC OF FANTASY

Owen Dempsey

 

DISPOSITIVOS REGULADORES EN TORNO A LAS MUJERES MIGRANTES EN SITUACIÓN DE VIOLENCIA DE GÉNERO

Rosario González Arias and Encarna Bodelón González

 

WORKING WITH LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN WHO SELF-HARM: UNDERSTANDING COPING, COMMUNICATION AND SUICIDE

Sam Warner and Clare Shaw

 

THE PERSISTENCE OF THEORETICAL ANTI-HUMANISM, OR, THE POLITICS OF THE SUBJECT IN ALAIN BADIOU AND SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

Sean Homer

 

MANAGING NEGATIVE EMOTIONS IN ONLINE MEETINGS: A MULTIMODAL APPROACH TO SOLVING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

Simone Belli

 

WHY WOMEN’S ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION ISN’T JUST A CLINICAL ISSUE

Sonia Soans

 

DECLARING THE ACTIVISM OF BLACK FEMINIST THEORY

Suryia Nayak

 

BETWEEN PERSONAL IDENTITY AND SOCIAL SUBJECTIVITY: PRACTICES AND DIALOGUES IN DIFFERENT SOCIAL GROUPS

Susana Seidmann

 

INVESTIGAR EN PSICOLOGÍA, MÁS ALLÁ DEL MÉTODO Y LA TÉCNICA: ALGUNAS REFLEXIONES Y EXPERIENCIAS EN EL EJERCICIO DE UNA PSICOLOGÍA CRÍTICA

Tania Esmeralda Rocha Sánchez

 

VIOLENCIAS DE GÉNERO DE LAS DISCIPLINAS “PSI” Y CRÍTICA FEMINISTA: INDIGNAD@S CON LAS PRÁCTICAS CIENTÍFICAS QUE CONSTRUYEN LA LOCURA (AÚN) EN EL SIGLO XXI

Teresa Cabruja-Ubach

 

CRITICAL EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: TO WHAT EXTENT CAN (OR SHOULD) THE DISCOURSE UNIT WORK FOR PRACTITIONERS?

Tom Billington

 

 

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