JOURNAL OF PSYCHO-SOCIAL STUDIES

2011-09-21T05:25:00.000-07:00

The latest issue of the JOURNAL OF PSYCHO-SOCIAL STUDIES
is now available on-line with contributions from

Access this journal free at: http://hls.uwe.ac.uk/research/jpss.aspx

Volume 5 issue 2 includes contributions from

Fred Alford
Is the Holocaust traumatic?

Helen Lucey
Sibling ghosts in the machine: Sibling transference in PhD student-supervisor
relationships

Robert Chernomas
What's a girl to do when her mode of production and the potency of the
men who ran it are 'Gone with the Wind'? - The historical materialist
melodrama of Scarlet O'Hara

Gill Buswell
A bear in the attic

Book review of
Tamara Bibby's 'Education - An 'Impossible profession': Psychoanalytic
explorations of learning and classrooms

2009-01-19T21:47:00.000-08:00

The Psychosocial Studies Network is a network of researchers, teachers, students and practitioners interested in the relationship between the psychic and the social. The ‘psychosocial’(also the ‘psycho-social’ or ‘psychosocietal’) has, in recent years, emerged as a significant new field of enquiry in the UK. As an emerging field, its precise definition is necessarily subject to ongoing development and debate. However, some major strands in current thinking suggest that psychosocial studies are characterised by:

a) their explicit inter or transdisciplinarity; and

b) their interest in the tensions between and mutual constitution of the social and the psychic.

As this implies, psychosocial studies have a broad theoretical commitment to the notion that psychological issues cannot be validly abstracted from social, cultural and historical contexts and to the task of accounting for the social shaping of subjective experience without deterministically reducing the psychic to the social. Equally, they have a parallel commitment to the notion that social and cultural worlds have psychological dimensions and to the task of accounting for the ways in which the latter shape these worlds without deterministically reducing the social to the psychic. Psychosocial studies draw inspiration from a range of sources including critical theory, post-structuralism, process philosophy, feminism and psychoanalysis, and various ‘dialects’ are in the process of emergence.

The Network was designed to foster communication between these dialects, to enable collaborations, to provoke discussion, and to provide a forum for the dissemination of research and the organisation of relevant events. It is committed to the development of theory, method and praxis informed by an understanding of the psychosocial and it is concerned to make appropriate links between intellectual work and politics, policy and practice. At present, the Network is primarily UK-focused but is interested in establishing international dialogues and contacts

External Links: http://www.psychosocial-network.org