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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:12:25 -0400
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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 18:55:09 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: marxism-psych: info sheet
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subscribe marxism-psych

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This is the marxism-psych list info sheet.

Contents:

1  General Information on the list
2  Technical Information and Contact Person
3  Information about other Marxism-Space lists
 
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1  -General Information-


Marxism-psych is a mailing list for the discussion of 
psychological questions from a social and a marxist perspective, 
and marxist questions from a psychological perspective.

While apparently not quite central to the marxist programme, 
this particular list may provide a space for exploring issues 
of whether the role of the psychological in marxist writings 
has been undervalued, and whether
marxism can clarify why psychological issues are becoming 
increasingly prominent features of late capitalist society.


Why for example, does the World Health Organisation predict that
mental illness will be the most expensive health care need in the 
budgets of most countries across the world by 2020?

What are the psychosocial implications of civil (buergerlich)
society?

Contributors are not expected necessarily to think of themselves 
as marxists, although an interest in some aspects of a marxist
approach is rather assumed.

Although the hosts believe that many different themes could 
be developed, this mailing list will be created by the 
contributions of the participants. Complementing, contrasting
and sometimes conflicting.  

It is therefore also something of test of group dynamics. 
It is expected that participants will show some psychological 
sensitivity, and when conflicts of view or experience arise, 
the list itself will help to put them in perspective, and in 
many ways become an ongoing self-regulating community. 


Subscription will be by moderator approval. Suspension initially for a 
week or a fortnight is intended to be used only as a last resort, and 
will be regarded as a failure of group dynamics. Before that time,
if really necessary, an anonymous straw poll would be taken requesting
people's perception of the problem, and the issues fed back to the
group for further reflection.

Some degree of privacy for the group dynamics may be thought to 
be desirable for people with experience in the mental
health field, and the archives will start off as private. Should
this change, new archives will be started and will be accessible 
to outsiders from that date. 

A list of subscribers is available once your own subscription 
is accepted. See technical details below.
Please contact the moderator if you anticipate possible 
unacceptable conflicts of interests or confidentiality.


The initial moderator and person responsible for liaising with
Spoons is Chris Burford. He is a London based psychiatrist interested 
in the multidisciplinary social care of major mental illness. 
He wishes to be a facilitator rather than a conductor so that the actual 
process of moderating the list will increasingly come through 
the contributions of all participants.


How to begin?

That W.H.O. prediction? Is it true? What does it mean?

Or a very brief personal intro (one sentence?) and why you are
interested in the subject of this list?

There is time and space available for your contribution.

Welcome on board.


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2  -Technical Information to use marxism-psych-


To post a message to the list, address it to

marxism-psych-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu

To sub, unsub or otherwise command Majordomo [the software] to do
something for you, you must address your command to

majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu

The body of the message must contain only the command; subject line
is irrelevant.

Basic commands that you will need:

subscribe marxism-psych
unsubscribe marxism-psych

To get a current copy of this info sheet, or that of any other Spoons
list:

info marxism-psych

info listname

To get a list of subscribers if you are a subscriber yourself,
you will need to enter 

who marxism-psych


Chris Burford should be contacted in case of difficulties or questions
at cburford-AT-gn.apc.org.uk



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3  -Marxism Space-


Marxism-psych is one of a suite of mailing lists hosted by Spoons 
collective for the exploration of ideas generated by the work of 
Karl Marx and Friederich Engels, which encompass a great variety of 
traditions. Other lists in "Marxism-Space" include

marxism-general
marxism-international
marxism-and-sciences
marxism-feminism

To get a complete list of all the lists hosted by the Spoons, send the command

    lists

to majordomo-AT-lists.village.jefferson.edu. 
>>>> 
>>>> 










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