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The Psychology of Women Section Annual Conference will once again be taking place at Cumberland Lodge this year.
'Feminisms and Professions'
Wednesday 15th to Friday 17th July 2009, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor
Keynote Speakers include:
Professor Kum Kum Bhavnani, (University of California at Santa Barbara)
‘Doing Film: A Feminist Approach’
In this paper I will draw on my first feature documentary, THE SHAPE OF WATER (http://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com) to discuss the use of feminist insights in the making of documentaries. I will show clips from the film to illustrate how SHAPE presents intimate stories of courageous women around the globe (Senegal, Brazil, India, Jerusalem). I will discuss the ideas underlying those representations and will draw on theories of narrative research and social psychology to further exemplify my work.
Synopsis of The Shape of Water 2006: 70 minutes feature documentary
THE SHAPE OF WATER (narrator: Susan Sarandon) interweaves the intimate stories of Khady, Oraiza, Bilkusben, Dona Antonia, Gila - living in Senegal, Brazil, India, and Jerusalem. The women abandon female genital mutilation, tap for rubber to protect the rainforest, protect the biodiversity of the planet and oppose military occupations. This film, shot over four years and across three continents offers a unique view of the complex realities of the women and their passions to create a more just world.
Dr. Lucy Johnstone (Bristol University)
‘Challenges to Psychiatric Diagnosis: What can Feminist Psychologists Offer?’
Lucy Johnstone will revisit a topic that has been of concern to feminist psychologists for many years - what happens to women in the psychiatric services. She will focus on the use of psychiatric diagnosis as the first step in a process that individualises problems, mystifies women about the social and relationship contexts of their distress, and reinforces the damage that has brought them into services in the first place. She will summarise current critiques of psychiatric diagnosis with a particular focus on the effects on the service user. She will then outline a possible alternative to diagnosis, psychological formulation, which is receiving a growing amount of attention in the literature. While it is not a perfect solution, it has significant strengths if drawn up collaboratively with service users, and with an awareness of implicit values and assumptions. Examples will be given, and implications for both clinicians and academics will be discussed.
Lucy spent over 10 years in adult mental health, with a particular interest in in-patient work, before moving to an academic post at the University of the West of England. From there she moved back in-to part time clinical practice and has a current post with the Bristol Doctorate since 2001. Lucy is also a counselling psychologist and the author of 'Users and Abusers of psychiatry' and a number of other articles and chapters taking a critical perspective on psychiatric theory and practice.
Professor Liz Bondi (Edinburgh University)
‘On Valuing Emotion in Professional Practice: Undoing or Reinscribing Habits of Gender?’
Emotional dimensions of professional practice are attracting attention across a variety of professions. This attention includes consideration of the affective experience of those with whom professionals work (including, for example, the children school-teachers teach, the families with whom social workers work, the patients health professionals treat and care for, and the people researchers recruit for their research), together with the affective experience of the professionals themselves. This trend can be understood in different ways. Arguably it expresses the increasing influence of the psychological and therapeutic, and, through the association of emotion with women, it may be viewed as a manifestation of the supposed feminisation of professions. In this context I argue that attention to emotions in professional practice is double-edged, helping to unsettle or undo normative assumptions about gender but also contributing to processes through which familiar habits of gender are reinscribed.
Liz Bondi is Professor of Social Geography and Head of the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. She is founding editor of Gender, Place and Culture (first published in 1994) and Emotion, Space and Society (launched in 2008). Since the late 1980s, Liz Bondi has published extensively in the field of feminist geography, focusing especially on gender identities & subjectivities, and feminist urban geography. Alongside her academic career, she trained as a counsellor and this field has become increasingly influential in her work. Her recent research examines counselling and psychotherapy as socio-spatial practices, and applies ideas from counselling and psychotherapy to debates about care and emotion.
Conference themes include:
• Gender in professions
• Feminist work in and across professional divides
• Implications for feminist practice of current moves towards professionalisation
• Transnational perspectives on professional psychological practices
PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD
2009 POWs Programme - FINAL1.pdf
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