Could someone help me to sort out my diary? Chaos reigns, oh no that is my life! Perhaps we all need a personal secretary.
Helen
Helen Combes, DClinPsy, CPsychol
Principal Clinical Lecturer, Staffordshire and Keele University Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
Registered Clinical Psychologist
(01782) 295803.
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From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Taggart, Danny
Sent: 18 June 2012 22:11
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Subject: East of England DCP Re-launch 18th June 2012
Hi,
Just wanted to say thank-you to Craig Newnes and Mark Rapley for providing a helpful critical contribution to the mini-conference in Cambridge today. After a morning of presentations on Positive Psychology that seemed to me to wish away the problems that many people in our communities face it was refreshing to hear critical perspectives on the future of Clinical Psychology as a profession.
One of the difficulties I noticed regarding the Positive Psychology presentations was the insistence on creating false dichotomies in relation to subjective experience that denied the possibility of conflict or contradiction and appeared to be more interested in creating units of measurement than really getting to grips with human distress. I'll leave to one side the introduction of a pie chart that suggested 10% of happiness can be accounted for by life circumstances, 50% by genetics and the other 40% by internal psychological processes...
I was struck by Craig's suggestion that we would be better to leave people alone to get on with their lives rather than interfering in what I think are more problems of living; social and ethical matters. The discussion in the morning involved a suggestion that psychologists could usefully spend their time helping people by encouraging them to manage their diaries better stood in contrast with this position and also made me feel that we are in danger of colonising ever increasing areas of people's private lives. To say nothing of stating the bleeding obvious.
Mark's suggestion that we need to continually reappraise our relationship with the more toxic elements of mental health practice was timely. Although it seems that many of us do not want to be reminded of our ethical compromises and self-interest, I for one am grateful that there are people who will speak out and risk opprobrium.
Finally it was good to see Richard Pemberton in his new position of DCP Chair. I wish him all the best in trying to manage such a diverse and unruly bunch. I'm not sure that his desire for a coherent narrative about Clinical Psychology in the UK will be an easy one to acheive.
I'm sure if I've misrepresented either Mark or Craig's views they will be more than able to set me straight. I wanted to share my thoughts on the day with them and to let the rest of the list members know about what seemed to me to be a 'positive' critical engagement with some of the more fanciful and problematic aspects of the discipline of psychology.
Danny
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