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A Critical Introduction to Psychology, 2019
Bell, C. (2019). Critical Perspectives on Personality and Subjectivity. In Robert K. Beshara (Ed.... more Bell, C. (2019). Critical Perspectives on Personality and Subjectivity. In Robert K. Beshara (Ed.) A Critical Introduction to Psychology, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
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Theory & Psychology, 2022
Bell, C. (2022). Beyond the Specific Factors vs. Common Factors Debate: Lacan’s Four Discourses I... more Bell, C. (2022). Beyond the Specific Factors vs. Common Factors Debate: Lacan’s Four Discourses Informing Wampold and Imel’s Contextual Model of Psychotherapy Efficacy. Theory & Psychology, 32(3), 423-442. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543221083580
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Awry, Journal of Critical Psychology, 2022
The following is an interview with Dr. Luke S. Ogasawara, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and direct... more The following is an interview with Dr. Luke S. Ogasawara, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and director of the Tokyo Lacan School. Dr. Ogasawara studied psychoanalysis in London and Paris during the 1980’s and obtained a Diplôme d’études approfondies (DEA) from the Département de psychanalyse - Université de Paris VIII in 1988. In this interview I (Chris Bell) speak with Dr. Ogasawara about Lacan’s comments on the possibility of conducting psychoanalysis in the Japanese language, apophatic ontology as a foundation of psychoanalysis, the concept of sublimation in Lacanian psychoanalysis, the effect of globalization on the Japanese language, and mental health in Japan.
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Room 2.20, 2020
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As with any number of clinical ‘schools’ and approaches, Lacanian psychoanalysts encounter indivi... more As with any number of clinical ‘schools’ and approaches, Lacanian psychoanalysts encounter individuals whose presenting complaint is drug addiction. Psychoanalysis has often been underestimated in its effectiveness in treating addiction, data for other approaches being less stellar than often realized. Within the Lacanian orientation, addiction has been widely addressed, not as a specific syndrome but as a symptom with implications for the frame of the psychoanalytic work. In such Lacanian formulations, both clinical and cultural contexts are examined in disentangling the effects of drug use for addicted persons and within the social ideals, representations and prohibitions that undergird the value and significance of drug use in any given culture. Formal elements and functions of the process and products of speaking within psychoanalytic work inform Lacanian clinical practice. These elements can be discerned within individuals’ desires and speech and within the social contract. Lacanian concepts of subjectivity necessarily interact with the traditions and meanings inherent to Western societies. Such elements may be posited as the aftermath of the social necessity of speech, a process that fundamentally informs subjectivity. This article illustrates – using analysis of recent technological inventions – fantasies about technology, cultural representations of technology, and important parallels between technology and addiction. The authors take a psychoanalytic look at technology through current Lacanian clinical thinking on the subjective structure related to addiction.
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Dissertation Conclusion
The present dissertation is a qualitative inquiry into the differences in experiences of change ... more The present dissertation is a qualitative inquiry into the differences in experiences of change in distinct, or even contrary, modalities of psychotherapy—Psychoanalysis (PSA)/Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PDT) and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). As such, the investigation speaks to the actual effects of a given therapeutic approach in the words and narratives of the patients/analysands/clients. The very intention of such research crosses a number of theoretic debates within clinical psychology that have dogged the therapeutic field and show no signs of abatement any time soon. This research aimed to apply the results derived from empirical data regarding the above psychotherapy modalities to the question of Specific Factors vs. Common Factors and attempted to delineate the impact of interventions in what, as is shown below, must be understood in a Contextual model of psychotherapy that allows for a more nuanced consideration of differences in therapeutic relationships. What I conclude from my data indicates that a Contextual model, specifically that proposed by Butler and Strupp, supersedes the Specific Factors vs. Common Factors dichotomy in its explanatory value for understanding processes of therapeutic change.
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Dissertation Defense
This dissertation explores personal experiences of change occurring in two psychotherapy modaliti... more This dissertation explores personal experiences of change occurring in two psychotherapy modalities—Psychoanalysis (PSA)/Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PDT) and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)—from a theoretically informed qualitative research perspective. It seeks to reframe the longstanding debate between Specific Factors and Common Factors as the “active ingredients” involved in bringing about beneficial change in psychotherapy.
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Jacques Lacan’s (2007) elaboration of a quaternary theory of discourses as social links in
his 1... more Jacques Lacan’s (2007) elaboration of a quaternary theory of discourses as social links in
his 1969-1970 Seminar XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, which he named the discourses of the Master, University, Hysteric, and Analyst, introduced a new way to theorize human relationships based upon how a Speaker and a Receiver of speech are differentially positioned within contexts of communication.
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Despite their different theoretical orientations and the many battles they have waged with each o... more Despite their different theoretical orientations and the many battles they have waged with each other over therapeutic hegemony, PSA/PDT and CBT, have often been considered similar regarding their perceived emphasis on the use of therapeutic techniques—as opposed to a focus on the therapeutic relationship—to precipitate changes, however different these techniques may be (Wampold & Imel, 2015).
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The objective of this article is to chart the emergence of a Contextual Model in psychotherapy re... more The objective of this article is to chart the emergence of a Contextual Model in psychotherapy research from the Specific Factors vs. Common Factors debate. This article is theoretically and historically focused, and considers conceptual paradigms used in empirical research. The article begins by first considering the Medical Model/Specific Factors model as the dominant research paradigm in psychotherapy efficacy studies, and subsequently reviews some of the history of the Specific Factors vs. Common Factors debate, before considering the Contextual Model of psychotherapy proposed by Wamplod and Imel (2015) and a possible alternative and/or supplement to this model in a Contextual model originally elaborated by Butler and Strupp (1986).
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Journal "Language and Psychoanalysis"
Language and Psychoanalysis, 2018
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This course examines the influence of neoliberal economic doctrine on contemporary culture and co... more This course examines the influence of neoliberal economic doctrine on contemporary culture and considers the cultural implications of neoliberalism’s recent decline. As such, the course considers the distinctive social and psychological characteristics of neoliberal culture and possible alternative conceptions of the social and forms of subjectivity in the 21st century. Neoliberalism is a contested signifier that designates both an economic philosophy / program and a cascade of cultural changes that began coalescing and accelerating in the early 1980's and has continued to exert an influence that has only recently been challenged by the resurgence of nationalism ushered in by the Trump era which has reverberated across the globe. Over the course of its development, neoliberalism has had widespread impact not only as an economic program that spurred and intensified globalization but also as a cultural ideology that has influenced self-concept and modes of social relating. This course focuses on the concept of human subjectivity and how subjectivity appears within a neoliberal horizon. The critical psychologist Thomas Teo states, "society, culture, and history provide forms (molds) of subjectivity, whereby (developing) individuals have the agency to sometimes choose, expand or change forms, and in rare circumstances, they may even be able to transcend these forms. Under normal circumstances, however, humans adapt, (ful)fill, and actively 'suture' into these forms, allowing for variations and new actualizations." To elucidate the current cultural molds informing neoliberal subjectivity, the historical development of neoliberal economic doctrine and its implementations will be studied, followed by an examination of neoliberal cultural products (e.g. Serial TV and Social Media) considering both their content and form. Finally, the rise of populisms on the political right and left will be considered in relation to the effects of neoliberalism as well as what social and subjective alternatives exist within our current indeterminate conjuncture.
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This is a course about neoliberal culture, its distinctive social and psychological characteristi... more This is a course about neoliberal culture, its distinctive social and psychological characteristics, and possible alternative conceptions of the social and forms of subjectivity in the 21st century. Neoliberalism is a contested signifier that designates both an economic program and a cascade of cultural changes that began coalescing and accelerating in the early 1980's and has continued to exert an influence that has only recently been challenged by the resurgence of nationalism ushered in by the Trump era which has reverberated across the globe. Over the course of its development, neoliberalism has had widespread ramifications not only as an economic doctrine that spurred and intensified globalization but also as a cultural ideology that has influenced self-concept and modes of social relating. This course focuses on the concept of human subjectivity and how subjectivity appears within a neoliberal horizon. The critical psychologist Thomas Teo states, "society, culture, and history provide forms (molds) of subjectivity, whereby (developing) individuals have the agency to sometimes choose, expand or change forms, and in rare circumstances, they may even be able to transcend these forms. Under normal circumstances, however, humans adapt, (ful)fill, and actively 'suture' into these forms, allowing for variations and new actualizations." To elucidate the current cultural molds informing neoliberal subjectivity, the historical development of neoliberal economic doctrine and its implementations will be studied, followed by an examination of neoliberal cultural products (e.g. Serial TV and Social Media) considering both their content and form. Finally, recent reactionary phenomena will be considered in relation to the effects of neoliberalism as well as what social and subjective alternatives exist within our current indeterminate conjuncture.
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This is a course about neoliberalism, its social and psychological consequences, and possible alt... more This is a course about neoliberalism, its social and psychological consequences, and possible alternative conceptions of the social and forms of subjectivity in the 21st century. Neoliberalism is a contested signifier that designates both an economic program and a cascade of cultural changes that began coalescing and accelerating in the early 1980’s and has continued to exert an influence that has only recently been challenged by the resurgence of nationalism ushered in by the Trump era which has reverberated across the globe. Neoliberalism has had widespread ramifications not only as an economic doctrine that spurred and intensified globalization but also as a cultural ideology that has influenced self-concept and modes of social relating. This course focuses on the concept of human subjectivity and how subjectivity appears within a neoliberal horizon. The critical psychologist Thomas Teo states, "society, culture, and history provide forms (molds) of subjectivity, whereby (developing) individuals have the agency to sometimes choose, expand or change forms, and in rare circumstances, they may even be able to transcend these forms. Under normal circumstances, however, humans adapt, (ful)fill, and actively 'suture' into these forms, allowing for variations and new actualizations." To elucidate the current cultural molds informing neoliberal subjectivity, the historical development of neoliberal economic doctrine and its implementations will be studied, followed by an examination of neoliberal cultural products (e.g. Serial TV and Social Media) considering both their content and form. Finally, recent reactionary phenomena will be considered in relation to the effects of neoliberalism as well as what social and subjective alternatives exist within our current indeterminate conjuncture.
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his 1969-1970 Seminar XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, which he named the discourses of the Master, University, Hysteric, and Analyst, introduced a new way to theorize human relationships based upon how a Speaker and a Receiver of speech are differentially positioned within contexts of communication.
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his 1969-1970 Seminar XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, which he named the discourses of the Master, University, Hysteric, and Analyst, introduced a new way to theorize human relationships based upon how a Speaker and a Receiver of speech are differentially positioned within contexts of communication.
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