International Conference

31 March – 1 April 2006

Organised by The College of Psychoanalysts - UK

Hosted by the Institute of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND STATE REGULATION

The drive to state regulation has powerful implications for psychoanalytic ethics, academic thought and the space for speech outside the domain of psychiatric control. By addressing the historically-contested relationship between psychoanalysis and the state, the implications of regulation will be explored through the psychoanalytic understanding of identity, ethics and adaptation; it will focus on theoretical and practical issues that concern the development of psychoanalysis as clinical work, social theory, and the politics of personal life.

The conference aims to bring together colleagues from psychoanalysis and from the proposed regulatory bodies, and to include those speaking from other positions. It is open to psychoanalytic practitioners and others in professional training, academic study and mental health politics.

Further details, including speakers, will be posted on the College website (www.psychoanalysts.org.uk) and in future advertisements.

Registration: before 31 January 2006: £105 (students £85); after that date £135 (students £110). CPD credit may be claimed. Cheques, made payable to London School of Economics and Political Science, and registration inquiries to Daniel Linehan, Institute Manager, Institute of Social Psychology, LSE, St.Clements Building, Houghton Street, London, WC2 2AE, email: D.P.Linehan@lse.ac.uk).

CALL FOR PAPERS
In addition to the invited speakers, plenary discussions and workshops, individual papers are invited. Abstracts of 150-200 words and four key words, together with name, address, email, and organisational affiliation, should be sent before 31 December 2005 to I.A.Parker@mmu.ac.uk., to whom inquiries about the content of the conference should also be directed.

The College of Psychoanalysts – UK is a professional body for psychoanalytic practitioners in the United Kingdom. It administers a Register of Practitioners of Psychoanalysis, available, together with a statement about some of the anticipated problems of the current proposals for state regulation (which can be accessed from the Latest News page) on the College website at www.psychoanalysts.org.uk