Dear All - this seems to be the year of 'psychosocial studies' MAs - hopefully good news for the history of emotions. I'd like to announce a new course at the University of Essex. And apologies for cross-posting
Matt ffytche
New at the University of Essex – MA in Psychosocial Studies
Run by the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies and Department of Sociology
Now accepting students for Autumn 2011
Psychosocial studies is a new critical field which explores the relation between individual and social experience, emotional life and wider cultural and political identities. It builds on the theoretical insights and research methods of both sociology and psychoanalysis and is taught in a genuinely interdisciplinary way by the top-ranking Department of Sociology and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. Psychosocial studies probes the boundaries of these disciplines with a view to adding depth and complexity to the representation of human subjects in their social and historical contexts.
The degree taps into key contemporary debates about the nature of human and social identity, and provides a grounding in psychosocial, psychoanalytic and sociological research methods. Exploring the meaning of the psychosocial will appeal both to students wanting to question the way in which subjectivity is understood in the human and social sciences, and to those wishing to pursue biographical and other forms of in-depth qualitative research. You will learn how to take account of emotional and unconscious factors in experience, discuss the way knowledge of individual life is constructed, and can choose from a number of options introducing you to cutting-edge work in the field of intimacy, group relations, cultural studies and cultural and social applications of psychoanalysis.
Psychosocial Studies is administered by the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies and falls jointly into the areas of Psychoanalytic Studies and Sociology. The Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies and the Department of Sociology submitted together in the last Research Assessment Exercise (December 2008) and were ranked first in the UK. They both have an outstanding reputation for the quality of their teaching and research. Staff in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies are practitioners as well as scholars and have an interest in the methods and the development of psychoanalytic thinking in relation to the fields of history, sociology, philosophy, refugee care and cultural studies.
http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/psycho/prospective/pg/ma_psychosocial_studies.aspx
For more information on the course please contact Debra Hall [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or Matt ffytche [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
The following is an outline of modules studied on the course:
Core Module 1: Debates in Psychosocial Theory (Sociology and Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies)
This module critically investigates ways of constituting the psychosocial, through an overview of significant debates on the interface between the subject, the psyche and the social. Students will engage with the work of Freud, Foucault, Goffmann, Fromm, Adorno, Klein, Butler and others, and are encouraged to think analytically about questions such as: how are individuals placed within wider social milieux? How is internal experience to be represented, and what complexities does a notion of the ‘unconscious’ introduce into social theory?
Core Module 2: Psychoanalytic Theory (Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies)
This module comprises a systematic exploration of major development of psychoanalytic thought following Freud and based mostly in the British object-relations tradition, with particular reference to the work of Melanie Klein. Material is studied thematically and aims to explain leading concepts in psychoanalysis of use for contemporary psychosocial studies, including the aggression, transference, counter-transference and projection.
Core Module 3: Biography and Psychosocial Research (Sociology)
This module gives students a grounding in biographical and life-story research methods. It introduces different traditions of research, from psycho-biography and oral history to psychosocial approaches. Students will examine sources, conduct practice interviews, and learn to combine psychoanalytic and sociological research techniques.
Core Module 4: Psychoanalytic Methodology (Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies)
This module critically examines the way in which psychoanalytic practice generates knowledge. Students will learn about the basis of psychoanalysis in various clinical methods (including dreams, free association, transference) and will debate the nature of psychoanalytic evidence. It also evaluates methodological approaches with specific relevance for psychosocial studies, such as grounded theory, hermeneutics and the use of subjectivity and interpretation.
Option Choices:
PA927: Psychoanalysis of Groups and Organisations
PA977-AU: Thinking Psychoanalytically 1
PA901-SP: Psychoanalytic Theory 2
SC520: Interviewing and Qualitative Data Analysis
SC510: Culture and Intimacy: Gender, Sexuality and Citizenship
SC610: Culture and Intimacy: Queer History and Visual Culture
SC653: The Use of Culture: Knowledge, Power and Difference
http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/psycho/prospective/pg/ma_psychosocial_studies.aspx
For more information on the course please contact Debra Hall [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or Matt ffytche [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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