CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS DIVISION

The Clinical Psychoanalysis Division is made up of physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, clinicians and other mental health professionals involved in clinical practice, and individuals with a serious interest in clinical practice who are collaborators and members of SPIIRAL. This division develops study groups, working groups, reading groups, and other projects on diverse topics of specifically clinical interest, with emphases on the dimension of experience, on the importance of methodological self-reflection, and on the priority of a properly psychoanalytic ethics.

SOCIOCULTURAL AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS DIVISION

All members and collaborators of SPIIRAL interested in socio-cultural and political concerns, regardless of the professions they are otherwise involved in, may be involved with the Sociocultural and Political Analysis Division. This division concerns itself with society, culture, politics, and civilization insofar as these thematic areas are relevant to psychoanalysis and, conversely, can be illuminated through a psychoanalytic lens with a view to maintaining a distance from ideological and institutional discourses of various sorts.

Associated Working, Study and Reading Groups

Past and current working, reading, and study groups include groups on aesthetic experience, on the experience of puberty and adolescence for men and women, on writings by the analysts of the EFQ, on myth, on the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis, and on childhood.

For more information please write to admin@spiiral.org