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FPR: Calendar of Events
Calendar
Upcoming events from the FPR and its funded programs:
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BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE:
Understanding Trauma:
Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives
Cambridge University Press
- Hardcover: (ISBN 13:9780521854283 | ISBN -10:0521854288)
- Paperback: (ISBN-13: 9780521726993)
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Edited by: Laurence Kirmayer McGill University, Montréal Robert Lemelson University of California, Los Angeles Foundation for Psychocultural Research Mark Barad University of California, Los Angeles |
This book analyzes the individual and collective experience of and response to trauma from a wide range of perspectives including basic neuroscience, clinical science, and cultural anthropology. Each perspective presents critical and creative challenges to the other. The first section reviews the effects of early life stress on the development of neural systems and vulnerability to persistent effects of trauma. The second section of the book reviews a wide range of clinical approaches to the treatment of the effects of trauma. The final section of the book presents cultural analyses of personal, social, and political responses to massive trauma and genocidal events in a variety of societies. This work goes well beyond the neurobiological models of conditioned fear and clinical syndrome of post-traumatic stress disorder to examine how massive traumatic events affect the whole fabric of a society, calling forth collective responses of resilience and moral transformation.
- Interdisciplinarity - presents neurobiological, clinical and cultural perspectives
- Multi-level analysis - focuses on severe forms of trauma occurring within different contexts
- International in scope - chapters in both the clinical and cultural sections cover Indonesia, southeastern Asia and Africa, as well as North America
Book Reviews
“[the editors' ]... introduction neatly summarizes the challenges inherent in interdisciplinary integration.” --- Sandra L. Bloom, MD, April 2008, Book Review, Psychiatric Services, 59, 449, a journal of the American Psychiatric Association (click here to read the full Psychiatric Services review)
“Clinicians working with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds are likely to find material in this volume to be particularly helpful."--- Sandra L. Bloom, MD, April 2008, Book Review, Psychiatric Services, 59, 449, a journal of the American Psychiatric Association (click here to read the full Psychiatric Services review)
"Understanding Trauma is an important book. Its multidisciplinary, multicultural perspectives will benefit a wide audience. It explains the complexity of trauma so eloquently that readers will see the dots begin to connect. Its successful integration of multidisciplinary research ... takes the study of trauma to the next level." – PsycCRITIQUES
This book is a must read for anyone seriously interested in the predisposition, cause, course, treatment, and outcome prognosis for people experiencing trauma and post trauma consequences... The authors have created a state-of-the-art review that is fascinating, informative, and extremely useful to all concerned with understanding trauma and its effect on all of our lives. - Murray A. Brown, MD Clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral, Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Director, UCLA/San Fernando Valley Psychiatry Residency Training Program.
"One striking feature of this presentation is the authors' awareness of each other's research. They reference each other effectively...Reading this book, one cannot help but wonder if the future of research in so many fields will depend on how well we gather scholars from different disciplines...The authors should be commended for covering an extensive territory." Robert and Colleen Furey, PsycCRITIQUES
Book in Process:
Formative Experiences:
The Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental Psychobiology
Edited by:
Carol Worthman, Emory University
Paul Plotsky, Emory University School of Medicine
Daniel S. Schechter, Columbia University
Constance Cummings, The FPR
Cambridge University Press
The FPR-UCLA Center for the Study of Culture, Brain and Development
Biweekly public FORUM on CULTURE, BRAIN, and DEVELOPMENT
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The FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development presents: The Culture, Brain, and Development Forum Series, Spring 2006
Select Tuesdays, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Anthro Reading Room, Haines 352
=======================================================Our CBD Forum Series consists of important researchers from UCLA and beyond whose work integrated knowledge across anthropology, neuroscience, and developmental psychology in order to understand the interrelations of culture, brain, and development.
The Fora takes place on select Tuesdays, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch will be served at 12:15.
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Future Fora:
May 23, 2006
Andrea Wong
Department of Applied Linguistics
UCLA
"A Neurobiology for the Interactional Instinct."
All are welcome; lunch will be served.
For more information about the FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and Development, please go to http://www.CBD.UCLA.edu/.
FPR-Hampshire College Program in Culture, Brain, and Development
2006-2007 Distinguished Lectures
Fall Term 2006
A Genomic Approach to Human Origins
by Svante Pääbo
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
5:30 p.m, in Franklin Patterson Hall, Main Lecture Hall
Pääbo is Director of The Department of Evolutionary Genetics at The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He is a biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics. Recently, his research team isolated the long segments of genetic material from a 45,000-year-old Neanderthal fossil from Croatia. The work should reveal how closely related the Neanderthal species was to modern humans, Homo sapiens.
Adversity and Trauma - an Alternative View
by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Thursday, November 30, 2006
5:30 p.m., in Franklin Patterson Hall, Main Lecture Hall
Scheper-Hughes is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley where she directs the doctoral program in Critical Studies in Medicine, Science, and the Body. Scheper-Hughes' lifework concerns the violence of everyday life examined from a radical existentialist and politically engaged perspective. Her examination of structural and political violence, of what she calls "small wars and invisible genocides" has allowed her to develop a so-called 'militant' anthropology, which has been broadly applied to medicine, psychiatry, and to the practice of anthropology.
The full event archive can be found at www.hampshire.edu/cms/index.php?id=2496.
For more information about the FPR-Hampshire College Program in Culture, Brain, and Development, please go to www.cbd.hampshire.edu.
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FPR Workshops and Conferences: |
The Fourth FPR workshop on Brain, Mind and Culture:
The fourth annual FPR Workshop took place on July 28-31, 2004, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The event, which was co-sponsored by the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University, and the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, was a training workshop for Indonesian professionals.
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FUTURE CONFERENCE: 2009 |
Please check back for updates
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PAST CONFERENCE |
The Third FPR-UCLA Interdisciplinary Conference
Seven Dimensions of Emotion:
Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives on Fear, Disgust, Love, Grief, Anger, Empathy, and Hope
March 30-April 1, 2007
Friday-Sunday
at University of California, Los Angeles
Download a conference flyer here.
This conference brings together specialists from different fields to discuss the implications of recent advances in emotion research in neurobiology, psychology, history, philosophy, and anthropology. It will particularly focus on seven emotions -- fear, disgust, love, grief, anger, empathy, and hope -- that are deeply embedded in human social life and cultural environments. Each of the emotion-themes will be illustrated by a case study drawn from laboratory experiments, neuroimaging studies, clinical case presentations, or fieldwork ethnography. The case study will serve as the basis of discussion by an interdisciplinary panel of leading researchers and scholars, with the goal of mapping biological research onto cultural realities (and vice versa).
For more information: http://www.thefpr.org/conference2007
The Second FPR-UCLA Interdisciplinary Conference:
Four Dimensions of Childhood:
Brain, Mind, Culture, and Time
February 11-13, 2005
Friday-Sunday
at University of California, Los Angeles
Presented by the Foundation for Psychocultural Research (FPR) and UCLA Graduate Division
Sponsored by UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute in cooperation with the FPR and UCLA
With the support of National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
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FPR Graduate Fellowships: |
Annual applications for Postdoctoral fellowships are due on:
Letters of intent: September 30
Completed applications: February 15
NOTE: The next available fellowships will be for 2008. Letters of intent due by September 30, 2007.
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FPR Booth Exhibits: |
Please check back later for further information.
