Mental Disorders

[close] A reading group for OCD sufferers and the ones who love them...recommend and discuss books about OCD, characters with OCD, or just discuss in general

[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] A group for those from past Jack Summits, or those interested in mental health, to share books they've read about mental disorders, self care, mindfulness, or books that have gotten them through tough patches or taught them something. These books can be fiction, non-fiction, academic, books of photography, fitness books, whatever floats your boat!

[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).