CFP: Psychoanalysis & Community (7/1/05; APSC, 11/4/05-11/6/05)

       The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and
                              Society

              Annual Conference: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND
                              COMMUNITY

              November 4-6, 2005 at Rutgers University

          Plenary Speakers: Willy Apollon and Eric Santner

                  Submissions due by July 1, 2005.

Psychoanalysis has much to say about the issues that face us as
members of local and global communities. In this conference, we
will explore some of the ways that psychoanalysis helps us to better
understand and to address the challenges facing our communities,
looking at how psychoanalytic theory and practice help us to think
about and also to work towards the formation, development and
change of communities.

Please think broadly about the roles psychoanalysis plays or might
play in the community, keeping in mind some of the difficulties we
face, such as the break-down of communications among factions
with ostensibly different views and goals; ongoing challenges facing
those with fewer resources, such as the poor and minorities; new
challenges we face with diminishing resources in our educational and
mental health systems. What does psychoanalysis have to contribute
to appreciating and mitigating the forces that work against
community? How might psychoanalysis help to address the social
questions that challenge or reconfigure our views of community
today? How are people using psychoanalytic theory, principles, and
ideas in their communities to promote growth and change?

Individual papers or full panel or roundtable submissions are
welcome. All submissions should include a title page with contact
information and affiliations of all participants. Please designate
general topic and type of submission. All overviews and abstracts
should be less than 300 words.

Submissions may be of three types (please designate on title page):
Roundtables: Each participant will give a 5-10 minute overview of
his or her position in preparation for the discussion. These may be
on a general topic or theme, or may be discussion of paper(s) offered
to participants in advance.
Panels: Each participant will give a 15-20 minute paper in
preparation for a discussion.
Posters: Participants may present research, programs, or other
material amenable to this type of format, as a way of stimulating
individual discussions on topics of interest.

For full Roundtable (discussions) or Panel (paper presentations)
submissions, please send an overview along with an abstract for each
contribution.

Please think about the nature of community and how psychoanalytic
thoughts and ideas are or may be utilized to explore and enhance our
well-being as members of our various communities. Possible topics
may include theories, applications and interventions in various
domains, such as in education, organizations, mental health, prisons,
and also particular dilemmas we face in communities, such as issues
of differences in race, ethnicity, politics, or religion; the role of art
and the artist in articulating community dilemmas; psychosocial
models.

   Send proposals as Word.docs and also in body of email to:
            Marilyn Charles, Ph.D., at: mcharles_at_msu.edu

We must endure our thoughts
     all night, until
The bright obvious stands
     motionless in the cold. (Wallace Stevens)

Martin G.

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