(a) What is this ‘relation’ that the European has had with Madness, Dementia or Unreason?
(b) Has the non-European have had a different relation?
Readings:
i. History of Madness by Michel Foucault - Routledge, 2006, pp. xxvii - xxxvi.
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ii. Abnormal: lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975 by Michel Foucault - Verso, 2003, pp. 1-80.
Session 3: Jan 2, 2012 (5 pm to 8 pm): Reading Foucault II – Class Discussion on “Preface to the 1961 edition” in History of Madness.
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Session 4: Jan 3, 2012 (10 am to 1 pm): Rethinking Mental Health II: New Questions, New Frameworks: Speaker: Radhika P
Session 5: Jan 3, 2012 (2 pm to 4 pm – Reading and Writing Session): Reading Freud I: Restlessness, Phantasy and the Concept of the Mind: What is your understanding of Akrasia? Write a reflective and critical note on Akrasia? Do you agree with Jonathan Lear (on Akrasia being a constitutive feature of the human mind)?
Readings:
i. Freud, S. 1925. “A Note on the Mystic Writing Pad” in General Psychological Theory, Chapter XIII, pp. 207-212.
Link foundii. Lear, J. 1998. “Restlessness, Phantasy, and the Concept of Mind” in Open Minded: Working out the Logic of the Soul, pp. 80-122. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
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References:
i. Lacan, J. 2006. “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious” in Ecrits (trans. Bruce Fink), pp. 671-702 (New York, London: W. W. Norton and Company).
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Session 6: Jan 3, 2012 (5 pm to 8 pm): Reading Freud I: Class Discussion on “Restlessness, Phantasy, and the Concept of Mind” by Jonathan Lear.
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Session 7: Jan 4, 2012 (10 am to 1 pm): Rethinking Mental Health III: Speaker: Radhika P.
References:
i. Davar, Bhargavi (2001). Mental health from a gender perspective. New Delhi: Sage .
ii. Davar, Bhargavi (1999). Mental health of Indian women: A feminist agenda. New Delhi: Sage.
Session 8: Jan 4, 2012 (2 pm to 4 pm – Reading and Writing Session): Reading Nandy I: “Towards an Alternative Politics of Psychology” in Bonfire of Creeds: The Essential Ashis Nandy, pp. 324-338. OUP.
Readings:
i. Nandy, A. 2004. 'The Savage Freud: The First Non-Western Psychoanalyst and the Politics of Secret Selves in Colonial India' in Bonfire of Creeds: The Essential Ashis Nandy, pp. 339-393. OUP.
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ii. Nandy, A. 2004. 'Towards an Alternative Politics of Psychology', in Bonfire of Creeds: The Essential Ashis Nandy, pp. 324-338. OUP.
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Session 9: Jan 4, 2012 (5 pm to 8 pm): Reading Nandy II: Class Discussion on “Towards an Alternative Politics of Psychology” by Ashis Nandy.
Session 10a: Jan 5, 2012 (10 am to 11:30 am): Debates around the Map of Mental Health in India – Marking spaces for psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, community mental health and faith healing.
Session 10b: Jan 5, 2012 (11:30 am to 1 pm):
Erik Erikson (1970) says: "We must begin by recognizing our patients as the inverted dissenters, too sick for the modish malaise of their time, too isolated for joint dissent, and yet too sensitive for simple adjustment".
This session is a reflection on the Eriksonian anguish. It is also about contemporary debates around the 'rights' of the mentally dis-eased – for example, the paternalism vs autonomy debate. It would also be an introduction to questions of informed consent, living will, client’s perspective, bio-ethics.
References:
i. Dhanda, Amita (2000). Legal Order and Mental Disorder – New Delhi: Sage.
Readings:
i. Davar, Bhargavi. 2011. "Narratives of Coercion: Law as a Social Determinant of Clinical Interactions in Mental Hospitals (unpublished paper).
ii. Biswas, Ranjita and Dhar, Anup (2010). Madness, Mental Health and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis. In Human rights and Ethics: Conceptual Analysis and contextual application. Ed. Shashi Motilal. London: Anthem Press.
Session 11a: Jan 5, 2012 (2 pm to 3:30 pm): Debates around Diagnosis vs De-pathologization, Cure vs Care, Disease vs Suffering, Treatment vs healing. This session would also be an introduction to the Lacanian Diagnostic Manual.
Readings:
i. A clinical introduction to Lacanian psychoanalysis: theory and technique by Bruce Fink - 1999 - Harvard University Press, pp. 75-78.
Session 11b: Jan 5, 2012 (3:30 pm to 5 pm): De-institutionalization, Global Capital, Community Mental Health and Faith Healing
Readings:
i. Altman, Neil (2004). The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens. New York: Routledge, pp. 213-226.
Session 12: Jan 6, 2012 (10 am to 1 pm): Faith Healing, Gender and Cultural Difference
Readings:
i. Crapanzano, Vincent & Garrison, Vivian (Eds.) (1977). Case studies in spirit possession. New York: John Wiley and Sons, pp. 1-40.
ii. Bargen, Gloria (1988). Spirit Possession in The Context of Dramatic Expressions of Gender Conflict: The Aoi Episodeof the Genji monogatari. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Jun., 1988), pp. 95-130.
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iii. Behere, P. & Natraj, GS (1984). Dhat Syndrome: The phenomenology of a culture bound sex neurosis of the Orient. Indian Journal of Psychiatry (1984), 26(1):76-78.
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iv. Davar, Bhargavi & Lokhare, Madhura (2009). Recovering from psychosocial traumas: The place of dargahs in Maharashtra. Economic and Political Weekly. Volume 44, Number 16, April 18-24, 2009.
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Session 13: Jan 6, 2012 (2 pm to 5 pm): Science(s) of the Mind: Between Foucault and Freud – this session will also look at the neurobiology of dreams, discuss plasticity, and mirror neurons.
Readings:
i. “Science(s) of the Mind: Fort-Da between the Windscreen and the Rearview Mirror” in Materialism and Immaterialism In India and the West: Varying Vistas (Volume XII, Levels of Reality, Part 5 – ed. Partha Ghosh), in PROJECT OF HISTORY OF INDIAN SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE (PHISPC), General Ed. D P Chattopadhyay, 2010.
ii. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V. S. Ramachandran - W. W. Norton, 2011.
Session 14: Jan 7, 2012 (10 am to 1 pm): Science(s) of the Mind: Between Foucault-Freud and Nandy.
Readings:
i. Said, E. 2003. Freud and the Non-European, pp. 13-55 (Verso: London and New York).
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ii. Derrida, J. 1998. “Geopsychoanalysis: “ … and the rest of the world” in Christopher, L. (ed.) The Psychoanalysis of Race, pp. 65-90 (New York: Columbia University Press)
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Session 15: Jan 7, 2012 (2 pm to 5 pm): Psychoanalysis in Cultural Crucible: Between Deconstruction and Aboriginalization
References:
i. Bose, Girindrasekhar (1921). Concept of Repression. Calcutta: Sri Gauranga Press and London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Troubner and Co.
ii. Bose, Girindrasekhar (1948). A New Theory of Mental Life. Samiksha, Vol 2, No 2.
iii. Bose, Girindrasekhar (1949). Ambivalence. Samiksha, Vol 3, No 2.
iv. Bose, Girindrasekhar (1951). The Nature of the Wish. Samiksha, Vol 5, No 4.
v. Bose, Girindrasekhar (1952). Analysis of Wish. Samiksha, Vol 6, No 1.
vi. Bose, Girindrasekhar (1952). Pleasure in Wish. Samiksha, Vol 6, No 2.
vii. Bose, Girindrasekhar (1952). Sex and Anxiety. Samiksha, Vol 6, No 3.
viii. Bose, Girindrasekhar (1966). The Yoga Sutras. Calcutta: The Indian Psychoanalytic Society.
Readings:
i. Bose, Girindrasekhar (1999). The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in India: Bose-Freud Correspondence. Calcutta: Indian Psychoanalytic Society.
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Session 16: Jan 8, 2012 (10 am to 1 pm): Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and the ab-Original: Whither Mental Health?
Readings:
i. Parker, Ian (2008). Japan in Analysis: Cultures of the Unconscious. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-47.
ii. Spivak, Gayatri (1994). Psychoanalysis in the left field and fieldworking: Examples to fit the title. Speculations after Freud: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Culture. Ed. Shamdasani, S & Munchow. M. London: Routledge, pp. 41-75.
Session 17: Jan 8, 2012 (2 pm to 5 pm): Group work - Generating Research Questions around the Critical-Clinical-Cultural
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