A ten week course, covering different viewpoints on existential and human issues:
- Do people have a nature? What happens to it during crises or transitions, or when facing death? What part do emotions play in resolving these crises?
- Anxiety in depth
- Sexuality: does sexual passion exist to provoke existential crises, or does it hold relationshiPTS together and so reduce crisis?
- Where am I going in my life? Meaning
- Life event theory and its link to crisis theory
- Large brains and large social groups: do they determine what is human about human nature?
- Intimate communication and bonding; anonymous communication and individuation
- Intimacy
- Loss
- How and when we find out who we really are: if we really are anyone, or if we really ever know
- Teacher: Claire Arnold-Baker
- Teacher: Patricia Bonnici
- Teacher: simone lee
- Teacher: Paula Seth
- Teacher: Kate Thompson
- Teacher: Peter Behek
A ten week course covering the following:
- Philosophical treatments of morality and ethics: universal or conventional? Cultural and social factors in ethics.
- Key elements of professional ethics: consent and autonomy. Research ethics. Some great research scandals.
- Confidentiality non-maleficence
- Autonomy and power. Capacity, and decision making. Advanced directives, powers of attorney
- Neo-Aristotelian approaches. Care, beneficence, and non-maleficence. Risks of exploitation and the role of an ethics code in protecting children and vulnerable adults. Parens patriae and safeguarding, Independent safeguarding agency.
- Social and political approaches. Principles of justice and human rights.
- Society and culture. Emic and etic approaches. Big group and snall group sociology.
- Are there cultural and social universals, and therefore the possibility of a transcultural psychotherapy.
- Theorizing and practising between cultures. Hegemony. Cultural competence
- Social institutions. How to embed ethical awareness and cultural competence in professional practice.