21st Eve Saville memorial lecture - Susie Orbach
Recession, riots, social change: Can psychotherapy contribute to a policy response?
Early interventions, childhood and family are all areas of prevailing policy concern at a time of rapid social change. The recent riots have also provoked much discussion about individual history background, motivations and group identities. But there is far more heat than light in all of this discussion, as well as plenty of ideology. Psychoanalysis is a unique research method that studies people in the process of change, and psychoanalytic tools can open up ways of thinking that add to the more conventional methods of social policy research. Susie Orbach will suggest ways in which a psychoanalytic view can deepen our understanding of human agency and its transformative possibilities.
Date
Wednesday 16 November, 6.15 to 7.30 pm
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About Susie Orbach and further reading
Susie Orbach is a psychoanalyst, writer and activist. In 1976 she co-founded The Women's Therapy Centre and in 1981 The Women's Therapy Centre Institute, a training institute in New York. She's written extensively including Fat is a Feminist Issue, Hunger Strike, The Impossibility of Sex and Bodies.
She has been a consultant to the World Bank, Unilever and the NHS and visiting Professor at the LSE for 10 years. To find out more about Susie Orbach's work as convenor of www.any-body.org (campaigning for body diversity) which held the first of a series of International Summits to end Body Hatred in women involving girls from 16 to women over 70 in London, New York, Buenos Aires, Melbourne ad Sao Paolo. www.endangeredspecieswomen.org.uk
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