We welcome contributions from practitioners in any approach to philosophy or psychotherapy. The Centre for Counselling Studies at UEA has been especially involved with the traditions of Person-Centred and Focusing-Oriented therapies, and the School of Philosophy has a strong interest in the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Contributions relating to these areas of interest would be especially welcome.
Conference theme:
The nature of psychotherapy is in many ways problematical. Current proposals for the statutory regulation of the field in the UK and other countries have led to much discussion of the nature of the discipline, for example about whether it can be subsumed under a ‘medical model', or whether approaches should be primarily cognitive or experiential.
Some of the issues involved are of an empirical nature, but others raise conceptual and philosophical issues. Research in the area has tended to concentrate on empirical issues of process and outcome, but psychotherapy inevitably works with contested notions such as those of consciousness, mental illness, delusion, diagnosis and so on. Further, in the development of psychotherapy theory technical or semi-technical concepts such as those of ‘the unconscious', ‘experiencing level', ‘cognition', ‘information', ‘archetype', ‘self-concept' have evolved, whose relationships to the concepts of everyday language and clinical practice are not always clear.
The purpose of this conference is to bring together philosophers who are interested in psychotherapy with psychotherapists and psychotherapy researchers who are interested in the philosophical foundations of their field. We would encourage participants to explain technical terminology and generally present their work so that the more philosophically-oriented papers are accessible to psychotherapists, and the more psychotherapeutically-oriented papers are comprehensible to philosophers.
Keynote speakers and provisional titles:
Peter Hacker (University of Oxford): Could a child have a theory of mind?
John Heaton (Philadelphia Association, London): ‘The human being is the best picture of the human soul' : The temptations of theory and the unconscious
Hans Julius Schneider (University of Potsdam): Can Philosophy be Therapeutic? Ludwig Wittgenstein and Eugene Gendlin
Panels
John Heaton (Philadelphia Association) and Rupert Read (UEA) : Wittgenstein and Therapy
Call for presentations:
We invite submission of presentations. We intend to have 1-hour slots for individual paper presentations, and some 2-hour slots for panel discussions.
If you would like to submit a proposal please complete the appropriate section of the registration form and submit an abstract (maximum 300 words).
To discuss your submission, please contact Campbell Purton. Email:
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Please send proposals by no later than 22 April 2011
Fees:
Including accommodation and meals:
Up to 22 April, 2011 £ 375 Student rate: £250
After 22 April, 2011 £ 425 Student rate: £300
Without accommodation or meals: £220
For further details please visit:
www.uea.ac.uk/edu/counselling/philosophyconference
or contact Jane Ramsbottom:
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