Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:12:25 -0400 From: owner-marxism2 >From spoons-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Sun Oct 13 19:02:47 1996 Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 18:55:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU> To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU, marxism2-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU, marxism-news-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU, marx-administration-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Subject: marxism-psych: info sheet Sender: owner-marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu To subscribe to the list described below, send the message subscribe marxism-psych to majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ------ 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 - ---------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------- 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. >>>> >>>> --- from list marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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