Michael Uebel
Michael Uebel, Ph.D., LCSW, has taught literature and theory at the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, and the University of Kentucky. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Social Work where he was appointed Lecturer, and is currently an Affiliate of the Office for the Associate Dean for Research. He has been a candidate and instructor at the Austin Center for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and is a psychotherapist with the Veterans Health Administration, U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and maintains a private practice in Austin. Uebel was Fellow at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute (now The Center for Psychoanalytic Studies) in 2006-7. He is the author of a wide range of essays on cultural and intellectual history and on mental health practice. Author and editor of several books, including Race and the Subject of Masculinities (Duke University Press) and Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages (Palgrave), he is currently working on Masochism in America, examining the formation of moral and social consciousness in the post-war period. Other projects under way include a book on the concept of equanimity from Eastern and Western philosophical perspectives, and a co-authored book on the case and memoirs of the famous neuropath Daniel Paul Schreber.
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Address: Austin, TX
USA
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Address: Austin, TX
USA
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"This collection of essays examines a favorite topic of medievalists, breathing new life into its analysis. Robertson and Uebel have achieved something remarkable here. The essays are wide-ranging, innovative, and provocative. Medieval labor is granted a complexity and an expansiveness that readers will likely find inspiring. Consistently engaging, lucidly composed, and full of insight, the work gathered in this important book constitutes essential reading for all those interested in the critical reexamination of the past."--Jeffrey J. Cohen, Department of English, George Washington University
Table of Contents
Conceptualizing Labor in the Middle Ages--Michael Uebel * The Idioms of Women's Work and Thomas Hoccleve's Travails--Catherine Batt * "As If She Were Single"--Brian Gastle * "The Workman is Worth his Mede"--Kate Crassons * The Carpenters Company and Lay Spirituality in Late Medieval England--Mark Addison Amos * Reconstructing English Labor Laws--Anthony Musson * Branding and the Technologies of Labor Regulation--Kellie Robertson * The Displacement of Labor in Wynnere and Wastoure--Britton Harwood * Scribal Hermeneutics and the Genres of Social Organization in Piers Plowman--Andrew Cole * Poetic Work and Scribal Labor in Hoccleve and Langland--Ethan Knapp * The Erasure of Labor: Hoccleve, Caxton, and the Information Age--William Kuskin
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Race and the Subject of Masculinities
By Harry Stecopoulos, Michael Uebel
Edition: illustrated
Published by Duke University Press, 1997
ISBN 0822319667, 9780822319665
418 pages
Papers by Michael Uebel
Keywords: Anger, Equanimity, Treatment, Function of Anger, Buddhism
sensibilities are shaped and unshaped by architectural space. We will
examine the connections between our pre-reflective sense of
atmospheres and other kinds of apprehension, including the
psychoanalytic. The potentiality of spaces to influence feelings is what is
meant by atmosphere. Our conceptual framework, then, will center on
the question of how felt space can give rise to affectivity, thought and,
more controversially, action. References to film noir (especially Fritz
Lang’s psychoanalytic thriller Secret beyond the Door [1948]), the
paradigmatic genre of atmosphere, will frame the contention that our
disposition to the world comes first, before any cognitive assessment,
and, as such, possesses the force to inspire affective states. It will be
suggested that the ways we test and evaluate atmospheres through the
imagination are potentially the inspiration for violence, an idea echoed by
architects such Bernard Tschumi and psychoanalytic thinkers such as
Marcuse. The goal here is to present multiple entry points for a rich
discussion concerning if, or the extent to which, notions of atmosphere
admit psychoanalytic interrogation, and how or whether analytic
assumptions shift as a result of such an investigation.
Without privileging one disciplinary approach over others, Apprey allows the insights offered by philosophy, psychology, and fictional media (especially film) to fluidly inform his readings of the psyche’s hidden sedimentations of history and their toxic reanimations. Apprey the psychoanalyst listens to these otherwise silent layers, noting when they come to life and observing how they are ultimately refashioned to serve contemporary functions. This rich and generous book teaches others how to do the same. It encourages us never to believe that understanding human behavior, cognition, and affect can occur in isolation from deep appreciation of the manifold ways they have been historically conditioned. Apprey’s brilliant deployment of semiology, phenomenology, and Freudian metapsychology yields a number of templates and conceptual lenses for grasping the tensions inhering in the psychic space between unconsciously absorbed toxic forces from the external world and the unconsciously appropriated toxic intrusions he calls internal “dreams” of “urgent voluntary errands.”
As I will argue, one of the remarkable things about the equanimous approach to knowing is that, by seeing comprehensively, it engages a higher cognitive function than abstracting what is general. Equanimity, despite its broad and sweeping attention, is not primarily a search for commonality in the form of a common plan or general order for things. Rather, by also looking for the internal “spirit” (Goethe) or essence of the thing, it appreciates how parts and wholes intertwine. In this way, it challenges traditional ways of seeing/knowing by overcoming separation but not at the level of separation. In other words, if the mind looks for unity by removing differences, then it works abstractly by means of seeing generally. The equanimous mind, by not taking abstractions as ends, works by apprehending things comprehensively, understanding differences as a unity. In this way, it is free to travel in the opposite direction to knowing or thinking abstractly. Equanimity is well suited for attending to the ways things are internally related to each other as dynamic elements of an expansive, indivisible totality. To know such a totality demands more than safe, disengaged spectatorship, inviting instead involvement sometimes as shambolic as the world itself.
Keywords: Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Narrative, Emotions, Schizophrenia, Mixed Methods, Body.
Praise
"This collection of essays examines a favorite topic of medievalists, breathing new life into its analysis. Robertson and Uebel have achieved something remarkable here. The essays are wide-ranging, innovative, and provocative. Medieval labor is granted a complexity and an expansiveness that readers will likely find inspiring. Consistently engaging, lucidly composed, and full of insight, the work gathered in this important book constitutes essential reading for all those interested in the critical reexamination of the past."--Jeffrey J. Cohen, Department of English, George Washington University
Table of Contents
Conceptualizing Labor in the Middle Ages--Michael Uebel * The Idioms of Women's Work and Thomas Hoccleve's Travails--Catherine Batt * "As If She Were Single"--Brian Gastle * "The Workman is Worth his Mede"--Kate Crassons * The Carpenters Company and Lay Spirituality in Late Medieval England--Mark Addison Amos * Reconstructing English Labor Laws--Anthony Musson * Branding and the Technologies of Labor Regulation--Kellie Robertson * The Displacement of Labor in Wynnere and Wastoure--Britton Harwood * Scribal Hermeneutics and the Genres of Social Organization in Piers Plowman--Andrew Cole * Poetic Work and Scribal Labor in Hoccleve and Langland--Ethan Knapp * The Erasure of Labor: Hoccleve, Caxton, and the Information Age--William Kuskin
More details
Race and the Subject of Masculinities
By Harry Stecopoulos, Michael Uebel
Edition: illustrated
Published by Duke University Press, 1997
ISBN 0822319667, 9780822319665
418 pages
Keywords: Anger, Equanimity, Treatment, Function of Anger, Buddhism
sensibilities are shaped and unshaped by architectural space. We will
examine the connections between our pre-reflective sense of
atmospheres and other kinds of apprehension, including the
psychoanalytic. The potentiality of spaces to influence feelings is what is
meant by atmosphere. Our conceptual framework, then, will center on
the question of how felt space can give rise to affectivity, thought and,
more controversially, action. References to film noir (especially Fritz
Lang’s psychoanalytic thriller Secret beyond the Door [1948]), the
paradigmatic genre of atmosphere, will frame the contention that our
disposition to the world comes first, before any cognitive assessment,
and, as such, possesses the force to inspire affective states. It will be
suggested that the ways we test and evaluate atmospheres through the
imagination are potentially the inspiration for violence, an idea echoed by
architects such Bernard Tschumi and psychoanalytic thinkers such as
Marcuse. The goal here is to present multiple entry points for a rich
discussion concerning if, or the extent to which, notions of atmosphere
admit psychoanalytic interrogation, and how or whether analytic
assumptions shift as a result of such an investigation.
Without privileging one disciplinary approach over others, Apprey allows the insights offered by philosophy, psychology, and fictional media (especially film) to fluidly inform his readings of the psyche’s hidden sedimentations of history and their toxic reanimations. Apprey the psychoanalyst listens to these otherwise silent layers, noting when they come to life and observing how they are ultimately refashioned to serve contemporary functions. This rich and generous book teaches others how to do the same. It encourages us never to believe that understanding human behavior, cognition, and affect can occur in isolation from deep appreciation of the manifold ways they have been historically conditioned. Apprey’s brilliant deployment of semiology, phenomenology, and Freudian metapsychology yields a number of templates and conceptual lenses for grasping the tensions inhering in the psychic space between unconsciously absorbed toxic forces from the external world and the unconsciously appropriated toxic intrusions he calls internal “dreams” of “urgent voluntary errands.”
As I will argue, one of the remarkable things about the equanimous approach to knowing is that, by seeing comprehensively, it engages a higher cognitive function than abstracting what is general. Equanimity, despite its broad and sweeping attention, is not primarily a search for commonality in the form of a common plan or general order for things. Rather, by also looking for the internal “spirit” (Goethe) or essence of the thing, it appreciates how parts and wholes intertwine. In this way, it challenges traditional ways of seeing/knowing by overcoming separation but not at the level of separation. In other words, if the mind looks for unity by removing differences, then it works abstractly by means of seeing generally. The equanimous mind, by not taking abstractions as ends, works by apprehending things comprehensively, understanding differences as a unity. In this way, it is free to travel in the opposite direction to knowing or thinking abstractly. Equanimity is well suited for attending to the ways things are internally related to each other as dynamic elements of an expansive, indivisible totality. To know such a totality demands more than safe, disengaged spectatorship, inviting instead involvement sometimes as shambolic as the world itself.
Keywords: Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Narrative, Emotions, Schizophrenia, Mixed Methods, Body.
The Encyclopedia:
examines every area of men's personal and social lives as shaped by gender
covers masculinity politics, the men's groups and movements that have tried to change men's roles
presents entries on working with particular groups of boys or men, from male patients to men in prison
incorporates cross-disciplinary perspectives on and examinations of men, gender and gender relations
gives comprehensive coverage of diverse cultural and historical formations of masculinity and the bodies of scholarship that have documented them.
The Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities is composed of over 350 free-standing entries written from their individual perspectives by eminent scholars in their fields. Entries are organized alphabetically for general ease of access but also listed thematically at the front of the encyclopedia, for the convenience of readers with specific areas of interest.
Bonn-Miller MO, Harris AHS, Trafton JA. Prevalence of cannabis use disorder diagnoses among veterans in 2002, 2008, and 2009. Psychological Services. 2012;9(4):404–416. doi: 10.1037/a0027622
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Target Audience
The primary target for this presentation is mental health clinicians at VA health care facilities (VHA), and this includes psychiatrists, clinical social workers, psychologists, LPCs, LMFTs, and psychiatric NPs.
Outcome/Objectives
At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:
1. Identify indications for cannabinoid use in the Veteran population, as well as evaluate claims not currently supported.
2. Identify the common pharmacological targets of cannabinoids, endo/phytocannabinoids
3. Discuss common formulations utilized by patients (e.g., edibles, vapor, tincture, whole flower) and risk-benefits associated with their use
4. Understand the evolution of cannabinoids from recreational to medical use
OBJECTIVES: At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to will be able to:
• Explain historical developments in asylum architecture that bear upon mental health care outcomes.
• Compare case studies in psychiatric space as rethought by patients suffering from severe mental illness.
• Discuss the importance of space for creativity.
SPEAKERS: Michael Uebel, PhD, LCSW
FORMAT: Didactic lecture enhanced by PowerPoint presentation
ABSTRACT: This presentation looks at how the space of the 19th- and 20th-century asylum shapes—and unshapes—the artistic creativity of institutionalized psychotic and neurasthenic patients. The architecture of the asylums was considered integral and essential to curing “madness,” and this presentation will examine how the built environment contributed to the structures and themes of two institutionalized patients, Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930) and Martin Ramirez (1895-1963). While focusing on the work of Wölfli and Ramirez, other drawings and paintings from psychotic artists will be shown as points of comparison and to support a fuller look at the principal themes emerging: how the divisions between sanity/insanity, freedom/confinement, privacy/the public, and creativity/destruction are negotiated by patients, their treating clinicians, and the architects of the environment in which they lived.
References:
Spoerri, E. (Ed.) (1997). Adolf Wolfli: Draughtsman, writer, poet, composer. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Topp, L., Moran, J. E., & Andrews, J. (Eds.) (2007). Madness, architecture and the built environment: Psychiatric spaces in historical context. New York: Routledge.
Yanni, C. (2007). The Architecture of madness: Insane asylums in the United States. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Objectives:
1. Summarize the conceptual ground upon which shame theory in psychoanalysis is built
2. Discuss the ethical frames of reference for understanding shame in relation to self and other.
Organiser: Dr Constantinos Repapis
The impulse for this workshop is to explore what is the evolving nature of art, and how this can relate and inform the way we understand economics. Gotthold Lessing in his seminal enlightenment work, Laocoön wrote about the strengths of the arts in representing different aspects of reality, and created the groundwork both for renewing the link between the perception of reality and mimetic representation, and for distinguishing the domain of the different arts in what they can faithfully capture. In contrast, August Schlegel's work, distinguished between ancient and the modern aesthetics, by both problematizing the very nature of representation in art, and as a consequence the distinct separation of fields of art. Schlegel is chiefly remembered today as a central figure of the German Romantic movement. He argued that modern art relates to an environment that arose within specific historical conditions, and, as a result, requires a completely new framework of understanding. Art cannot be seen to mimic nature, an aspiration of ancient art that was reaffirmed in the enlightenment and the classicist tradition. For Schlegel, art could not be a mere 'imitation' or 'representation' of nature; it is the product of a creative force and therefore of expression. Thus he writes in relation to poetry, "the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire" (Schlegel, 2015 [1845], 10). This workshop will examine the relation and dialogue that plastic arts and economics can have. Both terms are used widely, but definitions are elusive. If plastic arts essentially relate to the world as something that can be moulded, shaped and transformed, then it is nothing more than a mode of expression, a state of mind. Is, then, economics with all its devises and other trappings another plastic art? According to some of its practitioners, economics appears to be a rational-enlightenment inspired-machine to uncover social and economic reality. However, at the same time, economics, as a field, has debated on what are its links with reality. Economic theory has been described as representing, predicting, abstracting, imagining, mimicking and simplifying reality, in its effort to define how it relates to the social sphere. Furthermore, traditions that emanate from different epochs and strands within the discipline come up with a range of answers. At the same time, it may be more accurate to see economic theory as a romantic re-engineering of our society, its values and its processes. Therefore, does it explain and uncover natural, immutable and ever-present tendencies or does it form and transform our understanding of the social environment by appealing to modern aspirations? How does art mediate this difficult relation between reality, representation and transformation? These are the themes that this workshop will investigate.