Pub Date : 2019-07-01DOI: 10.1332/147867319X15608718110907
B. Mandelbaum
The author carried out a psychosocial study on the repercussions of unemployment in poor workers and their families, which involved psychoanalytically based observations and interventions with unemployed population attended at a Reference Center for Workers’ Health in a lower middle class neighbourhood in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. After an initial discussion on unemployment as one of the drastic results of the contemporary forms of worldwide capitalism, and a presentation of some ideas concerning the contemporary debate on the relations between unemployment and psychic life, she shows some findings of the research, through which she sustains that the immediate experience with the unemployed worker and his/her family adds to the theoretical conceptions on unemployment an organic dimension, the active aspect of each of the implicated ones. The findings suggest that in face of the trauma provoked by the unemployment experience, the family tends to be the central nucleus of elaboration, the remaining territory for a personal re-organization of the new situational reality that unemployment generates, although it cannot meet the material and emotional demands that were previously supplied, even though precariously, by the insertion in the work world.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-01DOI: 10.1332/147867319X15608718110989
Honey Oberoi Vahali
In the early years of psychology’s history, creative thinkers in different pockets across the world experimented with innovative ways of envisioning the field of psychological enquiry. Over time, in its pursuit to establish for itself a status akin to that of the ‘natural sciences’, psychology lost links with its introspective beginnings and came to be largely identified as a study of ‘human behavior’ and its effects. Since the last three decades, like other social scientists, psychologists too have gone through much creative tension. As a consequence, marginal but extremely significant bodies of work have pressed for subjective, critical, cultural and non-Eurocentric modes of humanness to be considered as valid domains of psychological enquiry. The endeavour has been to outline the dimensions of a psychological human science which is contextually sensitive, is in line with the spirit of decolonalization of knowledge and which can relate to the intricacies of the human unconscious. The present writing focuses on one such radical exploration in India in the recent past. It concerns itself with the envisioning and setting up of the Psychosocial Clinical programmes at School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi. The essay includes a brief account of intellectual influences on, and the past work history, of pioneers who imagined the Psychosocial Clinical axis in the Indian context. The writing also focuses on the distinctive features of the Psychosocial Clinical perspective at the School of Human Studies, and on the methodological, practice oriented and pedagogical challenges and considerations in the training of a reflexive psychological practitioner, researcher and thinker.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-01DOI: 10.1332/147867319X15608718110880
L. Froggett, Laura Kelly-Corless, J. Manley
This article discusses psychosocial aspects of a short drama module, drawing on observational research into the adaptation of ‘forum theatre’ by Odd Arts theatre company for people in educational, care and custodial settings. The course facilitated the enactment of life experiences and choices, enhancing self-awareness and reflective capacity. The drama space is considered as ‘third space’, and a transitional space, where participants play with creative illusion in what Augusto Boal called a ‘rehearsal for reality’. We argue that the use of third-space and third-position thinking is key to understanding forum theatre as a restorative practice both through rehearsal and in ‘playing for real’ before an audience ‐ a symbolic community that offers the opportunity for recognition. Problems attendant on the performance of ‘false self’ arise where there is collusive avoidance of difficult issues because the value of forum theatre lies in the achievement of authorship and authenticity ‐ or ‘true self’ ‐ publicly performed and owned. It is this that allows individuals to imagine the possibility of creative living in the future.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-01DOI: 10.1332/147867319X15608718110934
M. Mojović
‘Serbian reflective citizens’ is a psychosocial community practice and a new discipline conceived in Belgrade amidst Yugoslavia’s ‘Horrible Nineties’ by Dr Marina Mojović (the author) and Dr Jelica Satarić, both psychiatrists and psychotherapists in various Yugoslav public health psychiatric institutions. The therapeutic communities seemed to open a way for new paradigms to shed light and hope on overwhelming social despair, however, besides the Belgrade therapeutic community, ‘Serbian reflective citizens’ has a multitude of roots and ancestors in professional and wider social communities.The author explains the development of ‘Serbian reflective citizens’ using a metaphor of caesura at birth, discussing the history and methodology, its grassroots style, numerous ancestors, ways (and spaces) of being, its building blocks, names and other identity aspects of this new community practice and discipline, with particular mention of a recent example of a newly-formed reflective citizens branch in Italy. The mentioned caesura of birth is also considered by the author as a transitional space, a place where, as Marina Abramović would say, ‘The artist is present’. The Northfield experiments are seen as transcending the caesura and, as such, particularly mentioned at the 2nd International Belgrade Conference on Reflective Citizens in 2014, ‘Learning through Experience about Inclusion/Exclusion Phenomena in and between Traditions of Bion, Foulkes and Main’.
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