Psychosocial Thinkers is an organisation that was born out of an experience of collective learning and has at its heart a passion for minds learning with, and from, each other.
Our thinking comes mainly from within the study of the Psychosocial. Psychosocial studies uses a trans-disciplinary approach, drawing on theories from social sciences fields such as sociology, anthropology and psychoanalysis, to understand the individual’s position within the social and vice versa. This means to say that we are interested in how internal and external processes and experiences are interconnected and get imprinted onto each other.
The aim of our work is to create a space where we can explore how certain symbolic presences may create templates that reproduces hegemonic power & discourse.
We want to trace how our various identities, backgrounds and lifestyles (as different from one another as they may be) are united in a common struggle within a social structure, built on class, racial and gendered binaries and transgenerational trauma, in which institutional and symbolic violence produce austerity, mental health issues, addiction, alienation, etc. We want to challenge neoliberal capitalist ideas and critically question and explore our social structures, our capacity of agency and the socio-symbolic and political powers acting upon and through us on a daily basis.
We hope to create a space outside of academia where individuals can still use and draw from ‘academic’ literature and theory, but without being confined to academic expression, hierarchy or class division. We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to use and share personal experiences and lived realities in their interactions with us. This can be through any media, such as films, art, essays and articles etc. You decide what you want to share and how you want to share it! Our organizers are here to listen to your ideas and to help publish and promote your work in both our physical meeting spaces and on our online platforms.
We think that living in this world today can often feel alienating, and it can be difficult to know how one person alone can make a difference in the world. We believe that social change begins with individuals coming together. But we need to come together in uniqueness, meaning that everyone’s stories, everyone’s individual struggles and efforts are needed and valuable.
We want our organisation to create time for conversation and a space where we can come together to express our subjective experiences of being in the world through art, written work, film, activism, theory or any other way that you might think of! We hope that our communal engagement provides opportunity for exploring our internal and external worlds analytically, and can create opportunities for agency, personal growth and resistance.
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