PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
12th Annual Conference 1999

WORK, WELFARE, WELLBEING
Saturday 23rd January 1999
VENUE: University of East London Conference Centre
         Duncan House, High Street, Stratford, London E15 2JB

        Our society is largely organised around work and anxieties about
work or
the lack of it. Mental health and wider welfare policy increasingly hinges
on an assumption that to work is good for us. At the same time, more people
are increasingly employed, and we are enjoined not to depend on the idea of
a job for life. Not to work is damaging and excluding, but work leads to
overwork, 'stress at work', and an ethos of superficial attachment. This
conference will explore the ambiguities in our time of 'working in order to
live' and 'living in order to work'.
        This one day event 'Work, Welfare, Wellbeing' aims to develop a
dialogue
between people engaging with public policy, poverty, psychoanalytically
informed thinkers and those involved in the welfare sector. Sally Witcher,
ex-Director of Child Poverty Action Group, and Nick Davies author of _Dark
Hear and columnist on crime and social issues, will address the conference
in open plenary session. Andrew Cooper and Julian Lousada (Tavistock
Clinic) will bring a Psychoanalytic perspective on welfare and work, in
open plenary session.
        Small discussion groups will follow the plenary sessions. Workshops
will be
opened by invited speakers with differing perspectives on the theme:
Mental Health and Work
Welfare Services and Exclusion
Marriage, the Family and Unemployment
Professionals who work and overwork
The Marginalised, Work and Welfare

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