Category — critical psy

The new issue of Radical Psychology can be viewed at http://radicalpsychology.org/ In this issue, you will find the following articles:

1. Post Vietnam Syndrome: National identity, war and the politics of humiliation by Myra Mendible
2. Community participation in developing primary prevention programs to enhance community well-being by Jean-Marc Belanger
3. Madness or Illness? by Jason Bernard Claxton
4. Psychiatric slave no more: Parallels to black liberation psychology by Lauren J. Tenney
5. The psychotic element in everyday group thinking: Reflections on the Salem witch trials by Diana Semmelhack and Larry Ende
6. Mere and divine madness: Bush, Schreber and the contexts of insanity by Mark S. Roberts
7. Struggling against psychiatry’s human rights violations: An antipsychiatry perspective by Don Weitz
8. ” ‘Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?’ “: An explortion of the neurodiversity movement

The Critical Educator Network is entered into a contest with a website called ideablob.com , an organization that gives money to non-profits. Once a month, the organizations that garners the most votes from people over the Internet wins $10,000 in startup funds. We won our round of the competition with many of your votes and now we are headed to the finals to see who is going to win the $10,000. Voting starts Friday, August 22nd and ends Sunday, August 31st. There is a problem with the vote setup, so please read the PS below to make sure you vote for us!

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From Dennis Fox:

Posted by: “Dennis Fox” 

Tue Aug 5, 2008 7:46 am (PDT)

From Dennis Fox: Here are three events at next month’s APA convention in Boston (please pass this along to others who might be interested):

1. CRITICAL/RADICAL PSYCHOLOGY DINNER

Thursday, August 14, 7 PM – time is tentative, location to be determined later.

RSVP if you plan to attend so I can let you know the restaurant location and any time change. Also, I need to know how many people are interested before I make a reservation. This is a pay-your-own-share event (not much grant money for this sort of thing!). It’s a dinner, not a meeting, to connect with like-minded people before descending into convention overdrive.

2. PROTEST FOR AN ETHICAL APA

Saturday, August 16, 1-3 PM in the park at the front entrance of the Convention Center.

Check the Ethical APA website for more details about this interrogations-focused demonstration and related events, including a possible time change:

<http://www.ethicalapa.com/2008_convention_demonstration.html>

3. CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY ISSUES CONVERSATION HOUR

Sunday, August 17, 11:00-11:50 AM, Boston Convention Center, Meeting Room 103.

Thomas Teo and Dennis Fox will start off a general discussion (not read papers) about philosophical, political, stylistic, pragmatic, and other issues facing and sometimes dividing critical psychologists. Please help us all figure out where critical psychology is at, including how critical psychology and radical psychology (are they the same thing?) connect with social justice

If you let me know of other convention events of interest. I’ll send out an updated list in August and also distribute it through the RadPsyNet listserv (http://radpsynet.org).

Semi-Related Brag Note. As many of you know and have had a hand in creating, the second edition of Critical Psychology: An Introduction is now at the publisher’s, scheduled for February 2009 publication (co-edited by me, Isaac Prilleltensky, and Stephanie Austin). You can see the Table of Contents here: <http://dennisfox.net/critpsy/second_edition.html>. Perhaps there will be a brochure about it at the Sage booth.

Venue: Craiglockhart Campus, Napier University, Edinburgh
Key Speaker:Prof. Ian Parker on the tensions between critical and community psychology.
Conference Ceilidh Thursday night! 

Community Psychology Conf 2008

There will be two broad themes for the conference this year:Day One: The relationship between critical and community psychology, and the way our values impact on our practice. Day Two: Mental health in our communities; campaigns, projects, initiatives, including the role of recoveryDate: 18th and 19th September