PARANOIA: WHAT CAN WE KNOW ABOUT IT, AND
HOW? Day conference 10.00-5.00, Didsbury Campus of
Manchester Metropolitan University, 24 July 2004: Two
disciplines, psychology and psychiatry, have tried to keep a tight
grip on knowledge over the last century and, together with their
various hangers-on, these disciplines have ruled the roost at the
centre of that dense web of theories and practices that we have
come to call the ‘psy-complex’. The paradox is that while those
in the psy-complex observe and regulate thinking and behaviour
– they are part of the very enterprise that makes it so people do
feel they are being watched. For a moment at least the university
will be a space to speak and produce new knowledge rather
than simply listen and be subjected to the psy-complex. For this
moment to work we want to make the day a ‘festival of
explanations’, and so we will welcome contributions from those
struggling to do something different inside psychology and
psychiatry as well as those who have already broken from the
false knowledge that pretends to know all about people. This is
an open call for papers, talks, workshops and stories of
experience. The space will be in a parallel session of about 20-
30 minutes long. To be considered for a space, you should send
a brief summary of the ideas you want to talk about, about 100
to 150 words (not more than 150 words) typed, with a contact
name and address, on the topic of paranoia, what you know
about it, or how you know. Please send this by the end of
March 2004 to either Terence McLaughlin,
({ HYPERLINK "mailto:[log in to unmask]"
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MMU, Hathersage Road, Manchester, M13 0JA
({ HYPERLINK "mailto:[log in to unmask]" [log in to unmask]) or Asylum
Associates, Limbrick
Centre, Limbrick Road, Sheffield, S6 2PE
({ HYPERLINK "mailto:[log in to unmask]"
[log in to unmask]). Contact any of the above
for further details or to discuss your paper. The conference will
also be open to those not giving papers, with a sliding scale
registration fee of £50 for full-time employed professionals or
academics, £10 for part-time professionals or students, and £10
for unwaged. If you are giving a paper at the conference you will
not need to pay the registration fee. To register for the
conference send a cheque payable to ‘Asylum’ to Asylum
Associates, Limbrick Centre, Limbrick Road, Sheffield, S6 2PE
(tel: 0114 2718210).
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