A Political Mind Special -Book Launch ''Unconscious Politics” by Prof Bob Hinshelwood followed by Inequality: The Enemy Between Us Prof Richard Wilkinson

Book Launch ''Unconscious Politics” by Prof Bob Hinshelwood followed by Inequality: The Enemy Between Us Prof Richard Wilkinson

Tuesday 14th January 2025
7.30pm - 9.45pm (GMT)

Hybrid - In person at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and Online
Recording available for 1 week

Prof Wilkinson brings us up to date on the important themes of his book, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone (2009), was a hugely important book by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, it highlighted the “pernicious effects that inequality has on societies: eroding trust, increasing anxiety and illness, (and) encouraging excessive consumption”.

It suggests that health and social problems: physical and mental health, drug abuse, education, imprisonment, obesity, social mobility, violence and child wellbeing, outcomes are significantly worse in more unequal countries, whether rich or poor. Prof Wilkinson will bring us up-to date with his thinking. 
 

7.30pm – Welcome by Prof Bob Hinshelwood discussing the launch of his book
                    ‘Unconscious Politics’       

                    With Karl Figlio, Harriet Wolfe, Kate Pearce and David Morgan
 

8.15pm – Political Mind Seminar: The Enemy Between Us,
Prof Richard Wilkinson, Author of Spirit Level
       Chair/Discussant – Bob Hinshelwood

9.45pm – Meeting close

Food and refreshments will be available for those attending in person

Speaker biographies

Prof Richard Wilkinson is a British epidemiologist, author, advocate, and left-wing political activist. He is a Professor Emeritus of at the University of Nottingham having retired in 2008. He is also Honorary Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCH and Visiting Professor at University of York In 2009, Richard co-founded The Equality Trust and was awarded a 2013 Silver Rose Award from Solidar for championing equality and the 2014 Charles Cully Memorial Medal by the Irish Cancer Society.

Prof Bob Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has been interested all his career in the application of psychoanalysis to social and organisational dynamics and was strongly influenced by the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and Therapeutic Communities. In September, Karnac will publish his new book Unconscious Politics.

He has written extensively on Kleinian psychoanalysis as well as two books of dialogues trying to establish bridges between different schools of psychoanalytic thought. And finally, he is very impressed with the Political Minds Seminars and is pleased that this seminar tonight completes a decade of these seminars which have been running since 2015. 

Please note: This lecture will be recorded and available for 1 week to all registered participants.

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