Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures

The Wellcome Trust-funded Conference ‘Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures’ brings contemporary Western expertise into dialogue with psychotherapeutic approaches from ‘other’ spatially, historically or otherwise ‘distant’ cultures.

If you have any queries, or specific dietary or access requirements, please email the conference organisers at arts-otherpsychs@glasgow.ac.uk.

Delegate Registration Fees

General admittance: £40

Students/Service Users: £15

Conference Schedule:

Monday 3rd April 2017

10.00 – 11.00: Registration with refreshments

11.00 – 12.20: Keynote Paper 1

Dr Claudia Lang, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich: ‘Theory and practice in Ayurvedic psychotherapy’

12.20 – 13.10: Lunch (with poster presentations)

13.10 – 14.40: Panels 1 and 2

Panel 1:Environment and psychotherapy

• Louise Boyle, ‘“I’ve just got to keep myself together …”: The psycho-social geographies of living and coping with Social Anxiety Disorder’

• Candela Sanchez-Rodilla Espeso, ‘Other psychotherapies: Therapeutic relationships to landscapes for panic disorder sufferers’

• Jonathan Coope, ‘Exploring nature-connectedness as a “frame” for our dialogues between Western expertise and traditions from other spatially or historically distant cultures’

Panel 2: Cultures of psychotherapy: indigenous, sub-, and popular

• Laurence J. Kirmayer, ‘Culture as Healing in Indigenous Mental Health’

• Robert Young, ‘Is subcultural psychiatry a useful concept and can subcultural identity be useful in reducing harm?’

• Sue Smith, ‘Rehabilitating the Mind: Avatar (2009) and Inception (2010) and the science fiction imagining of lucid dreaming in the psychotherapeutic treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the American military’

14.40 – 15.00: Break

15.00 – 16.20: Panels 3 and 4

Panel 3: Local Adaptations 1

• Katerina Liskova, ‘Sex at a different time and place. Sexual therapies in 1970s Czechoslovakia’

• Sarah Phelan, ‘Deciphering the Dream Books: Avenues to the Psychosocial in 1930s Glasgow Psychiatry’

• Hazel Morrison ‘Changing landscape of therapeutic health care, Henderson, dynamic psychiatry, early twentieth century Scotland’

Panel 4:Ancient Psychotherapies 1

• Bernhard Kaiser, ‘Handling negative emotions – the role of Socrates in Plato's Gorgias’

• Anastasia-Stavroula Valtadorou, ‘Platonic Philosophy as a Form of Psychotherapy: The Case of Plato’s Symposium’

• Georgia Mouroutsou, ‘Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations: The Transformation of the Present Moment in Moral Progress’

16.20 – 16.40: Break

16.40 – 18.00: Keynote Paper 2

Dr Chiara Thumiger, Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick: ‘Therapies of the word in ancient medicine’

18.00 – 20.00: Buffet Dinner

Tuesday 4th April 2017

09.30 – 10.00: Registration with refreshments

10.00 – 11.20: Keynote Paper 3

Dr Elizabeth Roxburgh, Psychology, University of Northampton: ‘Anomalous experiences and mental health’

11.20 – 11.40: Break

11.40 – 13.00: Panels 5 and 6

Panel 5: Local Adaptations 2 – Psychotherapies in Chinese Culture

• Hsuan-Ying Huang, ‘Setting Psychotherapy Fees amid China’s Psycho-Boom: A Case of Unintended Localization’

• Boon-Ooi Lee and Laurence J. Kirmayer, ‘Dang-Ki Healing: An Embodied Relational Healing’

• Xiaojiao Wu, ‘A study of the interaction between Western psychotherapy and psychotherapy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China’

Panel 6: Spirits and Ancestors

• Lila Lieberman, ‘The Alchemy of Ceremony: Initiation as the gatekeeper of perception’

• Michel Syrett, ‘Other Psychotherapies: A Service-User’s Experience’

13.00 – 14.00: Lunch

14.00 – 15.30: Panels 7 and 8

Panel 7: Local Adaptations 3

• Vasia Lekka, ‘The first steps of Psychoanalysis in the Greek society: the first Psychoanalytic Group (1946-1951)’

• David Freis, ‘Journey to the Centre of the Soul: Fischl Schneersohn’s Psycho-Expeditions between Modern Psychology and Jewish Mysticism’

• Irene Delodovici, ‘Body, gaze, alienation. Franco Basaglia’s phenomenological psychiatry’

Panel 8: Ancient Psychotherapies 2

• Peter Singer, ‘Ancient psychotherapies: Galen on physical disease and philosophical intervention’

• Sophie Mills, ‘“Look upon it closely and learn more clearly”: Tragedy and the “Talking Cure”’

• Jamie McKinstry, ‘Medieval Heaviness/Modern Depression: Continuities of Interpretation and Expression’

15.30-15.50: Break

15.50- 18.00: Keynote Paper 4 (followed by closing remarks)

Dr Jennifer Lea, Geography, University of Exeter: ‘Building “A Mindful Nation”? The use of mindfulness meditation in educational, health and criminal justice settings’

Conference Organizing Committee:

• Dr Gavin Miller (Chair), Medical Humanities Research Centre/English Literature, University of Glasgow

• Dr Sofia Xenofontos, Classics, University of Glasgow

• Dr Cheryl McGeachan, Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow

• Dr Ross White, Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool