Psychoanalysis

[close] This is a community space for anyone affected by mental health issues. Open globally, for people with any type of mental illness & accepted without judgment. Get cozy, chat, share book recommendations, make friends, support each other, or just chill out. We're also here to help raise awareness for those who want to learn more; everyone is welcome. Talking about your condition is completely optional. This group is designed to be as user-friendly as possible; if you have any suggestions or concerns please contact the moderator Kim who will adapt settings wherever possible. Enjoy! :)

[close] Psychoanalysis, rhetoric and literature have more in common than it might seem. Freud himself wrote and set the path of exploring psychoanalysis and the psyche via referring and analyzing literary creations and philosophical concepts. Many psychoanalysts have followed this tradition of learning from art about the psyche, and this is the aim of this group - Reading Psychoanalysis in Literary Arts.

[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).

[close] Psychology is a group to discuss books and ideas across a broad spectrum of knowledge including neuroscience, psychology, human and animal behavior, mental health and illness, consciousness, philosophy of mind, Eastern mystical traditions, and other related topics.