Dehumanising Humans. Hinshelwood & Wilkinson
Book ticketsOrganised by:
British Psychoanalytical Society (incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis)
Description
An in person (and online event)
Book launch and seminar
Tuesday 14th January 7.30-9.45pm (GMT).
🚀Welcome in the New Year with a Book Launch of “Unconscious Politics” by Bob Hinshelwood .
At the Institute of Psychoanalysis .
🚀(food and refreshment provided)
With Karl Figlio, Harriet Wolfe, Kate Pearce & David Morgan
The Political Mind Seminar.
8.15-9.45pm
Prof Richard Wilkinson
Author of Spirit Level
Chair/Discussant Prof Bob Hinshelwood
The Spirit Level: (2009) Why Equality is Better for Everyone was a hugely important book by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, it highlighted the “pernicious effects that inequality has on societies: eroding trust, increasing anxiety and illness, (and) encouraging excessive consumption”.
It suggests that health and social problems: physical and mental health, drug abuse, education, imprisonment, obesity, social mobility, violence and child wellbeing, outcomes are significantly worse in more unequal countries, whether rich or poor. Prof Wilkinson will bring us up-to date with his thinking.
Richard Wilkinson s a British epidemiologist, author, advocate, and left-wing political activist. He is a Professor Emeritus of at the University of Nottingham having retired in 2008. He is also Honorary Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCH and Visiting Professor at University of York In 2009, Richard co-founded The Equality Trust and was awarded a 2013 Silver Rose Award from Solidar for championing equality and the 2014 Charles Cully Memorial Medal by the Irish Cancer Society.
Prof Bob Hinshelwood
Bob Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has been interested all his career in the application of psychoanalysis to social and organisational dynamics, and was strongly influenced by the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and Therapeutic Communities. In September, Karnacs will publish his new book Unconscious Politics.
He has written extensively on Kleinian psychoanalysis as well as two books of dialogues trying to establish bridges between different schools of psychoanalytic thought. And finally he is very impressed with the Political Minds Seminars and is pleased that this seminar tonight completes a decade of these seminars which have been running since 2015.
