Sunday 9 March 2014

PsyLit Meeting Friday March 14th 2014

The next PsyLit meeting will take place on Friday March 14th from 2-3pm in Room 104.  Joanna Kellond (University of Sussex) will be giving a paper on the U.S. TV series ‘In Treatment’, the series dramatizes the sessions of a Psychotherapist and his involvement with the lives of his patients.  Joanna’s paper is entitled‘Television and/as Therapy: the Case of ‘In Treatment’.  Reading/Viewing is as follows:

‘In Treatment’ Season One-The Tuesday/Alex Sessions
 
D.W. Winnicott-’Mirror-Role of Mother and Family’, Chapter 9 of Playing and Reality

In the seminar Joanna will be looking at the Alex sessions which are made up of episodes 2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27, 32 and 37 of Season 1. 

Please do circulate this email to anyone you think may be interested in coming along to PsyLit. We welcome staff and students both at Birmingham and further afield who are either working on, or interested in, literature and psychoanalysis.
 
If you would like to attend future PsyLit meetings or would like more information, please email Matt Geary, Rosie Reynolds and Oliver Penny at uob-psylit@contacts.bham.ac.uk. You can stay up to date by following us on Twitter (@uob_psylit) or WordPress (http://uobpsylit.wordpress.com/).

 
Thank you for all your support!
We look forward to seeing you!
Matt Geary, Rosie Reynolds and Oliver Penny