CALL FOR PAPERS: Law, Literature, and Psychoanalysis, 1890-1950, University of Sheffield, April 11-13, 2019 (DEADLINE 28 NOVEMBER 2018)

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Via Law & Humanities Blog, we learned of a call for papers for a conference on “Law, Literature and Psychoanalysis, 1890-1950”. Here the call:

Keynotes:

Ravit Reichman (Brown University)

Lizzie Seal (University of Sussex)

Victoria Stewart (University of Leicester)

Call For Papers:

The twentieth-century was a period of worldwide literary experiment, of scientific developments and of worldwide conflict. These changes demanded a rethinking not merely of psychological subjectivity, but also of what it meant to be subject to the law and to punishment. This two-day conference aims to explore relationships between literature, law and psychoanalysis during the period 1890-1950, allowing productive mixing of canonical and popular literature and also encouraging interdisciplinary conversations between different fields of study.

The period examined by the conference included: developments in Freudian psychoanalysis and its branching in other directions; the founding of criminology; continuing campaigns and reforms around the death penalty; landmark modernist publications; the ‘Golden Age’ of detective fiction; and multiple sensational trials (Wilde, Crippen, Casement, Leopold and Loeb, to name but a few). Freud’s followers, like Theodor Reik and Hans Sachs, would publish work on criminal law and the death penalty; psychoanalysts were sought after as expert witnesses; novelists like Elizabeth Bowen would serve on a Royal Commission investigating capital punishment; while Gladys Mitchell invented the character of Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley as a literary detective-psychoanalyst.

We therefore hope to consider areas including literature’s connection with historical debates around crime and punishment; literature and authors on trial and/or on the ‘psychiatrist's couch’; and literature’s effect on debates about human rights. The event is linked to and partly supported by an AHRC project on literature, psychoanalysis and the death penalty, but the aim of this conference is much wider. Interdisciplinary approaches, especially from fields such as psychoanalysis, philosophy, law or the visual arts, are particularly encouraged. We also welcome papers on international legal systems and texts. All responses are welcome and the scope of our interdisciplinary interests is flexible, with room in the planned programme for strands of work that might be more or less literary. 

Possible topics might include: 

• psychoanalysis in the real or literary courtroom;
• literary form and the insanity defence;
• canonical authors as readers of crime fiction and vice versa;
• censorship cases;
• the influence of famous legal cases on literary productions or on psychoanalytic theory;
• influences of criminology and criminal psychology on literature;
• representations of new execution methods (for example, the gas chamber and the electric chair);
• portrayals of restorative versus retributive justice;
• literary responses to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
• relationships between modernism and Critical Legal Studies (CLS). 

Please send 250 word paper proposals or 300 word proposals for fully formed panels to Katherine Ebury litlawpsy2019@gmail.com by 28th November 2018.

(Source: Law & Humanities Blog)

BOOK: Thomas GRISSO and Stanley L. BRODSKY, Eds., The Roots of Modern Psychology and Law : A Narrative History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). ISBN 9780190688707, $35.00

(Source: Oxford University Press)

Oxford University Press has just published a book on the history of the interactions between the legal field and the field of psychology.  

ABOUT THE BOOK

Psychology's formal interaction with law began early in the twentieth century, though little in the way of substantive scholarly and professional development occurred until several decades later. The emergence of psychology and law as a modern field of scholarship was marked by the founding of the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS) in 1969, now approaching its 50th anniversary. The scientific foundation upon which the modern field now rests was established by a small group of psychological researchers, legal scholars, and clinicians.

The Roots of Modern Psychology and Law: A Narrative History reveals how the field developed during the first decade following the founding of the American Psychology-Law Society. The contributors to this edited volume, widely considered to be among the "founders" of the field, were responsible for establishing and nurturing many of the subfields and topics in psychology and law or forensic psychology that flourished across the next fifty years. In each chapter, these leaders explain in narrative form how and why the field and the Society developed in its early years through the recounting of key professional events in their careers during the 1970s. In some cases this was their first major research study using psychology applied to legal issues. In others it was their development of seminal ideas or organizational innovations that had a later impact on the field's development. The volume chronicles how an emerging AP-LS and field of psychology and law were shaped by these psychologists, and how their own initial work was, in turn, shaped by the organization.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Thomas Grisso, Ph.D, is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry (Clinical Psychology) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He was president of the American Psychology-Law Society in 1990 and Executive Director of the American Board of Forensic Psychology. He has received outstanding achievement awards from both organizations as well as the American Psychological Association.

Stanley L. Brodsky, Ph.D, is Professor Emeritus and Scholar-in-Residence at The University of Alabama, where has was a faculty member from 1972-2016. He was a founding member of the American Psychology-Law Society and has received awards for Outstanding Achievement from the American-Psychology-Law Society and the American Association of Correctional Psychologists.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents

Contributor List

Editors' Prologue

Stanley L. Brodsky and Thomas Grisso

Chapter 1: The Evolution of Psychology and Law

Thomas Grisso

Section I: Psychological Science and Law

Chapter 2: Eyewitness Testimony: An Eyewitness Report

Elizabeth F. Loftus

Chapter 3: Applying Social Psychology to Law and the Legal Process

Michael J. Saks

Chapter 4: Jury Research

Shari Seidman Diamond

Chapter 5: Mental Health Law and the Seeds of Therapeutic Jurisprudence

David B. Wexler

Chapter 6: Mental Disability, Criminal Responsibility, and Civil Commitment

Stephen J. Morse

Chapter 7: Framing, Institutionalizing, and Nurturing Research in Psychology and Law

Bruce D. Sales

Section II: Assessment, Interventions, and Practice in Legal Contexts

Chapter 8: Forensic Mental Health Services and Competence to Stand Trial

Ronald Roesch

Chapter 9: Predictions of Violence

John Monahan

Chapter 10: Juveniles' Psycholegal Capacities

Thomas Grisso

Chapter 11: Correctional Psychology

Stanley L. Brodsky

Chapter 12: The Founding and Early Years of the American Board of Forensic Psychology

Florence W. Kaslow

Chapter 13: Community Psychology, Public Policy, and Children

N. Dickon Reppucci

Epilogue: Psychology and Law at AP-LS' Fiftieth Anniversary

Thomas Grisso and Stanley L. Brodsky

Index of Names

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