Events and Seminars

Event:Philosophy and Psychotherapy Workshop
Venue:Manchester Metropolitan University, All Saints Campus
Date:04/03/2015
Duration:1 day (9.30 - 18.40)
Extra Info:This one-day workshop is dedicated to the exploration of the intersection between contemporary psychotherapeutic theories and practices with a particular focus on psychoanalysis, and contemporary post-analytic philosophy and phenomenology.

Program 9.30 Welcome and registration 9.55 – 10.00 : Introduction to the workshop

Chairing: Dr Phil Hutchinson

10.00 – 11.30 : “Meaning v. causal explanation: beyond the dichotomy” - Dr Michael Lacewing (Heathrop College)

11.30 – 13.00 : “Posits & poiesis: On the grounds of psychoanalytic knowing” - Dr Richard Gipps (Chartered Clinical Psychologist; in Private Practice in Oxford; University of Oxford Student Welfare and Support Services; Associate of Oxford University Philosophy Faculty)

Lunch

Chairing: Prof. Tim Thornton 14.00 – 15.30 : "Impossible accounts of impossible escapes – On the moral dynamics of the ‘drive’" - Dr Joel Backstrom (University of Helsinki)

Coffee Break

15.40 – 17.10 : “Primary Process, Logic and Prejudice” - Dr Lene Auestad (University of Oslo, founder of the interdisciplinary conference series Psychoanalysis and Politics)

Chairing: Dr Joel Backstrom

17.10 -18.40 : “The Unsayable in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Some Notes on Wittgenstein and Bion.” - Prof. Victor Krebs (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru)

Location:

Full conference suite, Student Union, 21 Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester, M15 6AD

Manchester Metropolitan University - Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

Dr Phil Hutchinson, Marie Chollier

Free of charge, mandatory registration: marie.chollier@stu.mmu.ac.uk

Organised By:Manchester Metropolitan University
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