«Esquizofrénicos’ on-line: ¿usuarios o pacientes?»

marzo 6, 2017BlogECTS, esquizofreniasehp

Seminario organizado por el Departamento CTS del CSIC

A cargo de Francisco Sánchez Valle (Universidad de Edimburgo)

14 de Marzo a las 12:00h

Resumen:

En este seminario me propongo analizar el papel de las Tecnologías de Internet en los procesos de ‘identificación’. Específicamente, mi interés gira en torno a la co-producción de: 1) pacientes diagnosticados como ‘esquizofrénicos’ por parte de la psiquiatría clínica, y 2) apps diseñadas y dirigidas a estos sujetos con el fin de obtener una mejor gestión de sus propias enfermedades mediante el reconocimiento y monitorización de sus estados mentales.

En la llamada Cultura en Red o Cibercultura, las tecnologías de Internet han proporcionado un nuevo espacio para la negociación de los procesos de identificación. Estos procesos han sido abordados desde diferentes puntos de vista y disciplinas, con especial énfasis en el rol de las Redes Sociales y los Juegos Online. Sin embargo, la proliferación de las llamadas “identidades virtuales” y con ello el debate en torno a la dicotomía online/ offline self, ha permeado al campo de la Salud. En los últimos años, el uso de los dispositivos de comunicación móviles, junto con el desarrollo de las infraestructuras de la comunicación, han propiciado la transmisión, recopilación y evaluación de datos relativos a los servicios de la salud así como la monitorización de pacientes en tiempo real (Mobile Health). En el caso de la Salud Mental, aquellos pacientes diagnosticados como ‘esquizofrénicos’ tienen la posibilidad de acceder a la Red a través de aplicaciones móviles específicamente diseñadas para el automanejo emocional con el objetivo de conocer comportamientos pasados y anticipar así comportamientos futuros.

En esta línea, y desde un enfoque interdisciplinar – en la intersección entre los Disability Studies, la Sociología de la Diagnosis y los Estudios Sociales de Internet – pretendo analizar la relación dialéctica existente entre las identificaciones externas producidas por la psiquiatría clínica y la capacidad agencial de estos usuarios/pacientes para producir auto-identificaciones capaces de impugnar dichas categorías a través de estas prácticas tecnológicamente mediadas. Para ello expondré el caso de una de estas Tecnologías de la Asistencia: Clin Touch, una app para dispositivos móviles dirigida a ayudar a personas con psicosis.

El trabajo que expongo en este seminario es el punto de partida para el futuro desarrollo de mi tesis doctoral en el que abordaré no sólo el papel de la tecnología en los procesos de identificación por parte de un particular grupo de agentes etiquetados como ‘enfermos mentales’, sino también las consecuencias sociales asociadas tanto para estos usuarios/pacientes como para la propia práctica de la Salud Mental.

CfP: Fears and Angers: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

febrero 27, 2017Blogemocionessehp

19-20 June 2017

Queen Mary University of London

Organised by the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

According to the wheel of emotions created by the psychologist Robert Plutchik in 1980, angry and fearful emotions are diametrically opposed to each other, as approach and avoidance responses respectively to harmful stimuli.

Plutchik’s is one of many different models suggesting the existence of certain “basic” or “primary” emotions. Such lists almost always include both fear and anger. Historically, fearful and angry emotions have been related to each other in different ways – sometimes opposed, sometimes complementary, and sometimes in another way. For Thomas Aquinas, for instance, ira is alone among the passions in having no contrary.

Although basic emotion theorists tend to treat “fear” and “anger” as singular emotions, even Plutchik’s wheel includes three different intensities for each emotion – from annoyance to rage and from apprehension to terror. Historians tend to be more attuned to cultural specificities of emotional language, concepts and expression, hence the emphasis in this conference on “fears” and “angers” in the plural to encourage a wide range of papers on all sorts of fear-like and anger-like feelings and behaviours in different cultures and periods.

The conference aims to bring humanities scholars of all periods into conversation with each other and with experts in the contemporary study of emotions, including neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and linguists.

Papers can address either a single emotion in the fearful or angry categories, or examine the relationship between the two. Possible topics could include:

– The varieties of fear – from anxiety and angst to mortal fear and terror. What were the objects and causes of fearful emotions in different times and places?

– The varieties of anger – from annoyance and irritation to ire, vengeance, fury and rage. The different objects and causes of angry emotions.

– The history of terms and concepts for different fearful or angry emotions.

– Visual and literary representations.

– Material culture and emotions.

– Theories of fearful and angry emotions in the histories of science, medicine, philosophy, theology, and other learned discourses.

– The relationships between fearful and angry emotions. Does one cause the other? Are they complementary or opposite?

– What historical and contemporary approaches to fear or anger can learn from each other.

– Historical and contemporary debates about the number and identity of the so-called basic or primary emotions.

– Terror and rage as political emotions (past and present).

Fears and Angers: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives will extend over two days, including plenary sessions by distinguished invited speakers, Round Table discussion groups, and numerous panels consisting of three 20 minute papers with discussion. One or more refereed publications of essays based on proceedings are expected.

The conference website is available here.

CfP: Comparative History of Philosophy

febrero 24, 2017BlogCongresos, historia de la filosofía, metodología comparativasehp

Call for Abstracts

9^th June 2017

Doctoral School in Philosophy and Human Sciences, University of Milan

Confirmed Keynote: Prof. Enrico Pasini (University of Turin)

History of philosophy has grown into one of the main fields in philosophical research, with a flourishing and ever-expanding scholarly literature. Specialization followed, almost as a natural consequence of the growth of history of philosophy. Philosophers now specialize in a variety of specific historical periods and topics, such as Eastern Philosophy, Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Early Modernity, Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy, Early Analytical Philosophy and so on.

In recent years, the methodological side of historical philosophical research has attracted the attention of both philosophers and historians. This has happened, we believe, as a consequence of the maturity of history of philosophy and because it raises specific meta-philosophical and historiographical questions. In 2016, two international conferences were dedicated to this topic: the international Symposium of the Swiss Philosophical Society in Geneva and the 17^th Graduate Philosophy Conference at the Boston College. In 2017, the conference “Distant Reading and Data Driven Research in the History of Philosophy”, held in Turin, added the digital humanities approach to the debate.

We announce a call for papers for an exploratory, one-day symposium on the idea of a comparative history of philosophy to be held at the University of Milan on 9^th June 2017.

The aim of the workshop is to discuss the methodology of the history of philosophy by focusing on the role that a comparison between different philosophies and periods might play. We believe that a comparative history (or histories) of philosophy is a new approach to the discipline worthy of more scrutiny.

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Wellcome University Award Application, UCL History Department

febrero 23, 2017Bloghistoria de la medicinasehp

Expressions of Interest: Wellcome University Award Application, UCL History Department:

The UCL History Department intends to support an application for the Wellcome Trust’s University Award scheme in July 2017. It seeks preliminary expressions of interest from prospective applicants by 12:00 Wednesday 15 March 2017.

The parameters and eligibility requirements for the Trust’s University Awards in the Humanities & Social Sciences Scheme are detailed here . Prospective applicants should read these guidelines carefully before composing an expression of interest.

UCL History will consider expressions of interest in in any field of early modern or modern history of medicine (1500 to the present). Persons submitting expressions of interest must meet the Wellcome Trust’s eligibility criteria and hold a PhD at the time of submitting their expression of interest. Expressions of interest from eligible candidates will be reviewed in April 2017, and a small number of prospective candidates invited to UCL in May 2017 to discuss their proposed projects. One candidate will be selected from this group to work with the Department on a full application to the Trust (to be submitted in July 2017).

Expressions of interest should be submitted by email to the Departmental Manager, Claire Morley (Claire.morley@ucl.ac.uk ) by the 15 March 2017 deadline. Each submission should include:

A cover letter of not more than 2 sides of A-4 paper
A comprehensive c.v., including full information on educational degrees, research publications (including page numbers), employment, teaching experience, and any public engagement activities
A proposed programme of research for the initial 5 years of the Wellcome award, of no more than 2 sides of A-4 paper (11 point font minimum)
The names and contact details of 3 academic referees
An article/chapter-length writing sample (maximum 12,000 words)

Criteria for selection. In selecting candidates for an invitation to UCL in May, the Department will assess:

Fit with the Wellcome Trust scheme goals and criteria
Quality of research completed by prospective applicants, including publications and research awards
Quality of proposed research programme
Willingness and ability to contribute to or lead academic activities, including public engagement and impact activities
Fit with UCL History research and teaching needs

For preliminary inquiries, contact Professor Margot Finn (m.finn@ucl.ac.uk).

XXVII Jornadas AEN: «Sujet_s a lo social»

febrero 22, 2017Bloghistoria ciencias humanas, salud mentalsehp

JORNADAS NACIONALES SALUD MENTAL (AEN)

1-3 junio 2017

Colegio Oficial De Médicos, Madrid

(Calle de Santa Isabel, 51, 28012)

La Asociación Madrileña de Salud Mental (AMSM) organiza este año las Jornadas Nacionales de la Asociación Española de Neuropsiquiatría (AEN) en el Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Médicos de Madrid con el lema “Sujet_s a lo social” . Lo social es el continente inevitable en el que se inscribe el sujeto y en el que se engloban los discursos y la prácticas de la salud mental. Transformar las prácticas y la clínica implica necesariamente pensar en el contexto social, cultural e interpersonal en el que se desarrollan.

El plazo de inscripción y envío de resúmenes para la presentación de comunicaciones libres está abierto hasta el 23 de abril.

El evento se iniciará con una ponencia del psiquiatra y ensayista Guillermo Rendueles sobre «La psiquiatrización del suicidio: de la sociobiología al DSM.» y concluirá con una conferencia de Fernando Vidal (ICREA, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats) sobre «¿Por qué “somos nuestro cerebro”? Una perspectiva histórica y cultural».

El programa provisional se puede encontrar aquí.

Conferencia de Sam Binkley: The Work of Diversity in the Age of Rage

febrero 20, 2017Blogconferencias, subjetividadsehp

The Work of Diversity in the Age of Rage: Humiliation and the indebted subject of anti-racist govern mentality.

Sam Binkley, Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College (Boston)

9 de marzo de 2017, 10h30, Facultad de Psicología UNED

El brexit o la elección de Donald Trump han alterado el equilibrio político y étnico de la Anglosfera. Entre otras cosas, esta crisis destapa los vastos depósitos de intensidad afectiva que, dentro de las poblaciones tradicionalmente identificadas con un legado colonial blanco, puede desatarse contra el espectro de la diversidad racial y étnica invasora. En esta conferencia se explorarán algunas correspondencias entre la intensidad afectiva de la humillación populista y la lógica implícita en el multiculturalismo institucional de los Estados Unidos. En Estados Unidos, a través de diversos escenarios empresariales, educativos y asistenciales, algunas técnicas diseñadas para producir una nueva civilidad adecuada a una sociedad diversa se articulan en torno a un modelo de sujeto endeudado. Así, hay una labor de antirracismo consistente en pagar las deudas contraídas por el privilegio (Lazzarato, Graeber). Se trata de un modelo de sujeto —el sujeto de la deuda— tomado de las tecnologías financieras propias de la gubernamentalidad neoliberal, donde la deuda crea un sujeto reducido a un estado permanente de humildad y servidumbre. Tal configuración de las desigualdades sociales ligadas al privilegio racial en torno a una relación de acreedor-deudor provoca efectos múltiples y conflictivos. Por un lado, sirve como una eficaz herramienta de intervención crítica contra la hegemonía racial blanca, pero por otro lado funciona como un aparato de captura o un dispositivo (Foucault, Deleuze) que desmoviliza posiciones de sujetos racializados y reproduce relaciones dadas dentro del propio racismo. La deuda, que exige continuidad en el tiempo y la capacidad de «hacer promesas» (Nietzsche), encuentra su correlato emocional en sentimientos de culpa y vergüenza que a menudo desembocan en una espiral en humillación y rabia (Scheff). Más allá de esto, sin embargo, los datos de entrevistas a activistas antirracismo y animadores comunitarios blancos en los Estados Unidos apuntan a prácticas que afirman una subjetividad antirracista blanca que evitan de hecho que ésta sea capturada por la deuda.

Sam Binkley es profesor de sociología en el Emerson College de Boston. Sus investigaciones tratan acerca de la configuración de la subjetividad, la identidad y la personalidad en el mundo contemporáneo a través de la literatura sobre estilos de vida y textos populares. Basándose en las nociones foucaultianas de biopoder y gubernamentalidad, pero también en otros intelectuales críticos, ha realizado estudios que abarcan desde la literatura de autoayuda y la psicología popular hasta los estilos de vida de los años setenta y los discursos antirracistas y multiculturales, pasando por las culturas afectiva y emocionales del neoliberalismo, todos ellos centrados en la cuestión de la formación de la subjetividad en estos contextos. Además ser autor de dos monografías de investigación, Happiness as Enterprise: An Essay on Neoliberal Life (SUNY) y Getting Loose: Lyfestile Consumption in the 1970s (Duke), ha publicado artículos en revistas tales como History of the Human Sciences, Time and Society, Cultural Studies, Rethinking Marxism, Subjectivity and the Journal for Cultural Research. Ha coeditado A Foucault for the 21st Century (Cambridge Scholars) y actualmente es coeditor de la revista Foucault Studies.

Organizan Edgar Cabanas (Universidad Camilo José Cela) y José Carlos Loredo (UNED)

Juan Huarte de San Juan en la UCM y Mercedes Rodrigo

febrero 20, 2017BlogHistoria mujeres psicólogassehp

El próximo martes 21 de febrero, a las 13.00h. la UCM celebrará la festividad de Juan Huarte de San Juan en el Salón de actos José Germain.

Este año la celebración quiere ser un homenaje doble, el que rendiremos a nuestros compañeros profesores y personal de administración y servicios que se han jubilado en los últimos años y también a la figura de la primera mujer psicóloga de España, Mercedes Rodrigo, a quien se le dedicará un nuevo espacio. Sobre ella, podremos escuchar la conferencia “Mercedes Rodrigo: la primera psicóloga española”, a cargo de Dña Isabel Calonge.

El acto, cuyo programa podéis ver aquí, será presidido por el Rector de la UCM junto con la Vicerrectora de Estudios, Pilar Herreros de Tejada.

Call for Papers: General Psychology revisited (Journal für Psychologie)

febrero 17, 2017Blogpsicología críticasehp

Issue 1/2018: Journal für Psychologie

The Journal für Psychologie calls for contributions to inaugurate and continue a critical discourse about general psychology.

General Psychology in academia today often resembles a very specific and canonical understanding of research topics, mostly based on a natural science methodology. Central questions are frequently concerned with low level human (or animal) abilities, the basic psychological functions. Starting with high hopes to learn something about the human mind and get a grasp of the human psyche, students often become disillusioned in face of the material with which they are presented in 101 introductory classes: Topics such as perception, cognition, learning, motivation and emotion appear only loosely connected. And in recent years, neuroscience approaches are increasingly dominating the answers to questions raised in those fields. Higher functions and questions of human existence are neglected and pushed to other disciplines like philosophy, anthropology or cultural studies. Most importantly, the subject matter of the discipline, inscribed in its name, disappears from the focus entirely. The psyche or the question of a psychological existence remains mostly untreated.

Special issue 1/2018 of Journal für Psychologie aims to revisit the central questions of a general psychology. To what extent should general psychology raise questions concerning the human being from a psychological point of view; questions connected to hopes and dreams, fears and relationships to others, self-perception and worldview?

In other words: Can we pluralize research and shift from mostly separated and disconnected areas of lower functions towards a renewed holistic image of the psychological person? What would be the consequences of such a reversal in polarity?

If we understand the human being as an active subject which acts deliberately and voluntarily to construct their Umwelt given specific social circumstances including culture, language, spacial and temporal experience, a whole new array of phenomena comes into sight: relationships, course of life, the self, artistic work, faith and belief systems etc.

In light of these questions, we would like to invite our colleagues from psychology and neighboring disciplines to contribute ideas about a revised general psychology. Concretely, but not exclusively, the following questions could be points of departure:

Questions of epistemology: What is the subject matter of psychology? Can this subject matter be exhaustively captured? How can we reflect upon the limits of such a subject matter?
Questions of interdisciplinary: To what extent is interdisciplinary research needed to answer psychological questions? What are the differences between biological, philosophical, sociological, historical and psychological questions?
Questions of normativity: To what extent are psychological questions necessarily driven by ideas of a good life and a functional society? Alternatively: To what extent should psychology be concerned with the external control of human behavior?
Questions of relativity: To what extent is the constitution of a psychic life shaped by culture, history and language? Is psychology universal or culturally specific?
Questions concerning the foundation of the discipline: What historical roots from psychology, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies and neighboring disciplines are useful to understand the psyche as a general, complex and holistic phenomenon?
Questions of teaching and education: Given the questions raised above, how could the ways in which general psychology is taught at universities today be changed?

The editors of this special issue are Ralph Sichler (Wien) and Martin Dege (Berlin). If you would like to contribute to this special issue, please submit your abstract (1 page) until March 31 to

ralph.sichler@fhwn.ac.at

and

martin.dege@fu-berlin.de

Feedback will be sent out until mid April and final contributions should be submitted by September 15, 2017.

Call for applications: research grants from the SIS

febrero 2, 2017Blogbecas, Instrumentossehp

The deadline for the next round of applications is Wednesday 1st March 2017.

The Scientific Instrument Society (SIS) awards small grants, of up to £500 each, for research on the history of scientific instruments. Applicants do not need to have any institutional affiliation and applications that are for less than the full amount are just as welcome – a properly costed proposal with a clear relevance to the Society’s interests in historic scientific instruments, a realistic timetable and a tangible result are the most important factors that the committee will be considering.

Please note that the grant awarded will be paid against actual expenditure and funds cannot be paid in advance. The grant is intended to cover items such as travel, accommodation (excluding meals) and photocopying costs. Please note that we cannot fund conference travel or contribute to the cost of outreach projects such as events and exhibitions.

Further information on what the Society can support and the terms and conditions of the award can be found here.

Examples of previously successful applicants may be found here.

The short application form may be found here.

If you have any queries about the grants, please contact grants@sis.org.uk and a member of the Society will respond in due course.