Dr Lita Crociani-Windland's Outputs (16)

Architecture on the couch: A transdisciplinary exploration of buildings as psychological subjects (2023)
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The paper introduces the research project ‘Architecture on the Couch: The psychology of buildings’ that radically re-conceptualises architecture as a psychosocial subject, entwined with the psychology of its creators and its inhabitants. Seeking to u... Read More about Architecture on the couch: A transdisciplinary exploration of buildings as psychological subjects.

Editorial (2022)
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In this special issue, we continue a conversation that began with a 2019 Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) conference panel focused on the relationships between mothers and daughters. The panel arose from recognition am... Read More about Editorial.

Mothering, caring and educating: Learning from experience and psychosocial pedagogy (2022)
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This article takes its starting point from aspects of the author’s biography and her experiences of supervising students who have in common experiences of being so-called ‘parental’ or ‘parentified’ children. Bion’s work and biography are used to und... Read More about Mothering, caring and educating: Learning from experience and psychosocial pedagogy.

Beyond divisions (2022)
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On transience and other hatreds (2020)
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This article originates in a free associative extended reflection on what the author sees as the many faces of our relationship to transience in Western culture. It begins with the image of plastic flowers in graveyards, wild flowers pushed to verges... Read More about On transience and other hatreds.

Masculinity, affect and the search for certainty in an age of precarity (2020)
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This article examines the affective dynamics of masculinity as a psychosocial process within a mediatised realm that includes parts of the informal cyberspace known as the Manosphere. Focusing on the relationship between masculinity and discourses of... Read More about Masculinity, affect and the search for certainty in an age of precarity.

Professor Simon Clarke: A personal and professional tribute (2020)
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Between Scylla and Charybdis: Losing balance in an age of extremes (2019)
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This article charts a course from the literature of the classical world through to a select number of classic texts in sociology by Marx, Weber and Bauman, and some more recent psychoanalytically informed studies, to offer a metaphor for the vicissit... Read More about Between Scylla and Charybdis: Losing balance in an age of extremes.

Deleuze, art and social work (2017)
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© 2017 GAPS. This article outlines the value of Deleuze’s philosophy to social work in offering a different understanding of the constitution of reality and being human and the importance of the visual by way of artistic and craft activities. The key... Read More about Deleuze, art and social work.

Old age and difficult life transitions: A psycho-social understanding (2013)
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This paper develops a psycho-social understanding of difficult and disabling life transitions, particularly in relation to old age. The paper brings together a biographical case study and theoretical analysis that draws on three sources: the work of... Read More about Old age and difficult life transitions: A psycho-social understanding.

Towards a psycho-social pedagogy as a relational practice and perspective (2013)
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This article focuses on social pedagogy as a relational practice and revolves around the number three. Its central organising principle is thirdness, as defined in the work of Benjamin (2004) and it has three connected aims. First it aims to introduc... Read More about Towards a psycho-social pedagogy as a relational practice and perspective.

Politics and affect (2012)
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Until very recently Political Studies has largely ignored the role of the human passions. Understanding the difference between emotion and affect seems vital to this task, as without the latter emotion becomes cognitivised and over-civilised. In this... Read More about Politics and affect.

From farmyards to town square, managing continuity through rupture: Montepulciano’s Bruscello theatre (2008)
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Montepulciano’s Bruscello declares itself to be the only survivor of a popular theatre tradition once present across the whole of Tuscany and parts of Emilia-Romagna. The
original agrarian tradition consisted of a range of calendrical musical repres... Read More about From farmyards to town square, managing continuity through rupture: Montepulciano’s Bruscello theatre.

Humouring aggression (2004)
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This paper has its origin in research on festivals in Central Italy, focused on the themes of body, territory and aggressive/competitive dynamics. The comparisons between two festivals in particular alerted me to a potentially interesting angle by wh... Read More about Humouring aggression.

Learning as a lived and living process-reflexivity in research in the light of Bion and Bergson (2003)
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This paper takes its starting point from diary notes of a moment of reflection in fieldwork based research. This episode highlights the need for the researcher to bring renewed attention to her own cultural background asking for assumptions of knowl... Read More about Learning as a lived and living process-reflexivity in research in the light of Bion and Bergson.

What can’t be cured… may be enjoyed. Integrative dynamics and Siena's Palio (2003)
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This paper analyses the role of aggression as an integrative force in society through a study of the complex social system in the city of Siena, based on a territorial division of the city into 17 wards or contrade which compete against one another i... Read More about What can’t be cured… may be enjoyed. Integrative dynamics and Siena's Palio.