Nothing directly to do with BNIM, but the clinical research that went into the family 'biographies' of *Sanity, Madness and the Family *was a powerful contribution to my personal thinking about biography. I think it's wonderful that these extraordinary accounts of 'intersubjectivity in process' have been revived by the special number of the *Journal of Psychsocial Studies. * Our own understanding of dated situated subjectivity has much to gain from this free retrospective issue, and of course from the originalfamily case-studies... (Thanks to David Jones for forwarding this...) Tom ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David.Jones <[log in to unmask]> Date: 27 April 2018 at 10:49 Subject: FW: Journal of Psychosocial Studies - New Edition To: [log in to unmask] *Special Edition: Sanity, Madness and the family - a retrospective* Guest Editor: Andrew Asibong *Volume 11, Issue 2, April 2018 of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies*. *Editorial* - Guest Editor's Introduction <http://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Asibong-ed-.pdf> *Andrew Asibong* *Articles* - 'The simple words people speak' <http://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Stadlen-.pdf> *Anthony Stadlen* - On Sanity, Madness and the Family <http://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Mantel-.pdf> *Hilary Mantel* - Madness and the family: the re-emergence of Laingian ideas <http://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Lucy-Johnstone-.pdf> *Lucy Johnstone* - Moving on from Laing and Esterson: the politicization of schizophrenia <http://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Suman-Fernando-hl-eds.pdf> *Suman Fernando* - Compromised, valuable freedom: flat affect and reserve as psychosocial strategies <http://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Duschinsky-et-l.pdf> *Robbie Duschinsky, Daniel Reisel and Moren Nissen* - Sanity, madness and the psychoanalysts: Laing, Cooper and rivalrous resemblance <http://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Duschinsky-CP-ed-hl-track.pdf> *Chris Oakley* - The politics of the family: Laing and Esterson in context <http://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Lynne-Segal-.pdf> *Lynne Segal* - From In Two Minds to Family Life <http://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Garnett-Looking-back-on-Family-Life-HL-eds.pdf> *Tony Garnett* -- If interested in BNIM,the Biographical-Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM) approach to qualitative research interviewing, the following is relevant....... The next (45th) BNIM 5-day intensive course runs in London from Thursday April 19 to Wednesday April 25, 2018. A lot of material about BNIM is available from my page at RESEARCHGATE. This now includes the *Quick Outline Sketch, *the *Short Guide, *and the *Detailed Manuals, and the BNIM Bibliography. * Also several articles and papers. Do feel free to consult and use the RESEARCHGATE facility. Quite separately, I would be very pleased to receive and respond to any comments or questions that you may have about those materials or more generally about BNIM. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BIOGRAPHIC-NARRATIVE-BNIM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BIOGRAPHIC-NARRATIVE-BNIM&A=1