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Key speakers and special participants (in alphabetical order)

 

Erica Burman is a feminist and critical psychologist based in United Kingdom. She co-directs the Discourse Unit and the Women's Studies Research Centre in the Department of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, and is a co-founder of the Manchester Feminist Theory Network. She is interested in conceptual-political resonances between models and practices around child, individual and economic developments, national and international asylum, immigration and domestic violence policies. Her work has been a conceptual resource for critical research in developmental psychology, feminist perspectives on the connections between different forms of oppression, and methodological debates in psychology. Burman ’s book Deconstructing Developmental Psychology (Roultledge, 1994) drew upon feminist theory to show how developmental psychology serves to regulate family behaviour, marginalize working class and minority ethnic women and pathologise their experience as mothers. Then Burman has continued critical examination of the role of developmental psychology, and her work turned to study the way images of children are used in connection with the "developing" world. Feminist research has also been a central concern of Burman’s writing. She has drawn attention to the way the position of women is closely connected with the position of cultural minorities. She is the author of Developments: Child, Image, Nation (Routledge, 2008) and she edited Deconstructing Feminist Psychology (Sage, 1998).

 

Guillermo Delahanty is Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de Xochimilco, in Mexico. Since the 1970s he works at the intersection between Marxism, psychoanalysis and social psychology. He introduces critical social psychology and critical psychohistory in Mexico. He is the author of ‘Social psychology and Marxist Method’ (‘Psicología Social y Método Marxista’,Enseñanza e Investigación en Psicología 2, 1976), ‘Critical Social Psychology and Freudo-Marxist Method’ (‘Psicología social crítica y método freudomarxista’,Enseñanza e Investigación en Psicología 6, 1980), Psychoanalysis and Marxism (Psicoanálisis y marxismo, Plaza y Valdés, 1987), and Character and Ideology (Carácter e ideología, UAM Xochimilco, 1992).

 

Anup Kumar Dhar is an Associate Professor at the School of Human Studies, at Ambedkar University, in Delhi, India. He works at the interface of philosophy, history, Lacanian psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory. His passion for ‘non-party political imaginations' took him to the interstices of Marxian and feminist perspectives. He is also interested in histories of healing, philosophies of the body and mental health, especially post-Foucauldian psychiatry and post-Freudian psychoanalysis. The question of ‘cultural difference’ is his present preoccupation. He is the Research Coordinator of CUSP –an applied research programme on Rethinking Mental Health (www.cusp.net.in). He is one of the founder members of From the Margins: a journal of critical theory in a postcolonial setting.

 

Fernando González-Rey is Professor at the University of Brasilia, the University Centre of Brasilia and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Habana and a PhD in Psychology from the Soviet Academy of Science. He has been president of the Cuban Psychologists Society (1986-1999) and director of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Habana (1985-1990). He was awarded the Interamerican Price of Psychology (1991) and the Carlos J. Finlay price, the most important Cuban award for scientists and scholars (1995). He is the author of Personality Psychology (Psicología de la personalidad, Pueblo y Educación, 1985),Qualitative Epistemology and subjectivity (Epistemología cualitativa y subjetividad, Unión, 1997), Qualitative Research in Psychology (La investigación cualitativa en psicología, Thomson, 2000), Subject and Subjectivity: a Historical-Cultural Approach (Sujeto y subjetividad. Una aproximación histórico-cultural, Thomson, 2002) and Psychotherapy, Subjectivity and Postmodernism: an Approach from Vygotsky to a Historical-Cultural Perspective (Psicoterapia, subjetividad y postmodernidad: una aproximación desde Vygotsky hacia una perspectiva histórico-cultural, Noveduc, 2009).

 

Grahame Hayes lives in Durban, South Africa, and retired from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, at the end of 2011. He is the founding editor of one of the most influential oppositional and critical psychology publications in the world, the journal PINS (Psychology in Society), established in 1983, during the era of anti-apartheid struggle and violent state repression. Since the 1980s, Hayes has been known for his teaching and writing in the fields of Marxism and psychoanalysis, and for his mental health activism. He is still interested in a Marxist critique and account of psychology, and has published in this area.

 

Raquel Guzzo holds a degree in Psychology from Catholic University of Campinas, MA and Ph.D. in School Psychology and Human Development at the University of São Paulo and postdoctoral fellowship in Community Studies and Prevention at the University of Rochester, USA.  She is Professor at the Catholic University of Campinas on the Psychology undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She has experience in Psychology with emphasis on Community Service Programs, discussing the training and professional intervention from a critical perspective, particularly on the following topics: educational  and community psychology, public polices and indicators of risk and protection of children's development and adolescent, evaluation and preventive interventions and psychosocial, liberation social psychology, consciousness-making processes and the relationship between Psychology and Marxism. Her scientific production is organized within the research group “Psychosocial Assessment and Intervention: Prevention, Community and Liberation”.

 

Rosario Herrera Guido is Professor and Researcher at the Institute of Philosophical Research (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico). She is author, coordinator and co-author of thirty books and over two hundred research papers.

 

Lois Holzman is a Marxist activist and scholar. She has been working for 30 years to build bridges between university-based and community-based practices, bringing the traditions and innovations of each to the other. She is co-founder with Fred Newman of the  East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, an international training and research centre for developing and promoting alternative and radically humanistic approaches in psychology, therapy, education and community building. Since the mid-1980s, the Institute has worked to evolve a social-cultural approach to human development that promotes practices that relate to people of all ages as social performers and creators of their lives. Through this approach, also known as ‘social therapy’, Holzman and Newman made insights of Vygotsky, Marx and Wittgenstein relevant to the fields of psychotherapy, youth development, education and organizational and community development. Holzman is in the thick of debates among politically informed scholars on how to transform psychology into a radically humane and empowering practice.

 

Gordana Jovanovic is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She received her PhD from the University of Belgrade where she has taught courses in the History of Psychology, General Psychology, Personality Theory, and Qualitative Research. She is the author of Symbolization and Rationality (in Serbian, Simbolizovanje i racionalnost, 1984) and Freud and Modern Subjectivity (in Serbian, Frojd i moderna subjektivnost, 1997) and various contributions in German and English. Her current research and writing interests are in the areas of alternative scientific approaches, with an emphasis on the critical examination of the role of social sciences, particularly psychology in reproducing and strengthening existing structures of exploitation and subjugation of people. In both her teaching and research, she emphasizes the importance of developing psychology as a critical human science.

 

Lynne Layton is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. She has taught courses on women and popular culture and on culture and psychoanalysis for Harvard’s “Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies” and “Committee on Degrees in Social Studies”. Currently, she teaches at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory (Analytic Press, 2004), co-editor, with Susan Fairfield and Carolyn Stack, of Bringing the Plague. Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2002), and co-editor, with Nancy Caro Hollander and Susan Gutwill of Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting (Routledge, 2006). She is co-editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and associate editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

 

Athanasios Marvakis holds a PhD degree in Psychology from University of Tübingen, Germany, and is Associate Professor in Clinical Social Psychology at the School of Primary Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His interests revolve around the theoretical constitution of social psychology, solidarity as a theoretical and practical issue in the social sciences, and the relations of psychology with the various forms of social inequalities and social exclusion (e.g., racism, nationalism, ethnicism, multiculturalism), including youth as a social group (political orientations, youth and racism in Europe) and migrants in Greece. The last years he has started to be engaged in the critical psychology of the ‘schooling-complex’.

 

Raúl Páramo-Ortega is one of the most influential figures in the history of Mexican and Latin-American Freudian left. He was trained at the Vienna Circle of Deep Psychology. His research has been inspired by Freudian psychoanalysis, Marxist critique and the work of Igor Caruso. He founded the Mexican Psychoanalytical Circle in 1969 and the Study Group Sigmund Freud in 1977.  He taught at the Sigmund Freud Institute (Frankfurt) and the Psychoanalytical Academy (Munich). He is the author of Freud in Mexiko – Ein Essay zur Geschichte der Psychoanalyse in Mexiko (Quintessenz, 1992), Weltanschauung und Menschenbild. Einflüsse auf die psychoanalytische Praxis (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998), ‘Ich, Es, Überich. Ein triebtheoretischer Beitrag zur Auseinandersetzung  mit dem Marxismus’ (Journal für Psychoanalyse 44, 2005) and Psychoanalysis and the Social: Transversal Essays (in Spanish, El psicoanálisis y lo social: ensayos transversales, Universidad de Valencia, 2006).

Ian Parker is Professor of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). He co-directs the Discourse Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University. He was founder and is currently director of the Annual Review of Critical Psychology. His research and writing has been in the field of Marxism, discourse analysis, Lacanian psychoanalysis and critical psychology, with a particular focus on mental health. He co-edited (with Russell Spears) the edited volume on Marxism and psychology, Psychology and Society: Radical Theory and Practice (Pluto, 1996), and Marxism underpins his critique of psychology in Revolution in Psychology: Alienation to Emancipation (Routledge, 2007). He is the author of ‘Critical Psychology and Revolutionary Marxism’ (Theory & Psychology, 19, 2009), ‘Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Revolutionary Marxism’ (Lacanian Ink, 29, 2007), and ‘Marxism, ideology and psychology’ (Theory & Psychology, 9, 1999).

 

Hans Skott-Myhre is an interdisciplinary cultural theorist whose primary research area is the development of models of child and youth work that promote new political possibilities for youth-adult collaboration that challenge global capitalist empire. His research includes the investigation of new forms of community, identity, body practices, and creative expression that hold potential for resistance or flight for youth and adults working towards common political purposes. He is the author of ‘Captured by Capital: Youth work and the loss of revolutionary potential’ (Child and Youth Care Forum, 2005), and ‘Radical youth work: Mutual liberation for youth and adults’ (Journal of Child and Youth Care, 2004).

 

Jan de Vos is clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and researcher at the Center for Ethics and Value Inquiry (CEVI) at Ghent University, Belgium. His current research interests are the neurological turn in relation to psychology(zation) and psychoanalysis, which he approaches from the perspective of political philosophy and ideology critique. He is the author of Psychologization in times of globalisation (Routledge, 2012) and Psychologization and the Subject of Late Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).