QMiP at the European Congress of Psychology, 3rd-6th July, 2023
2023; British Psychological Society; Volume: 1; Issue: 36 Linguagem: Inglês
10.53841/bpsqmip.2023.1.36.52
ISSN2396-9598
Autores Tópico(s)Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
ResumoThe 18th European Congress of Psychology (ECP) began with rows of pristinely coordinated shiny pink waistcoats cutting through a darkened auditorium.This was the Brighton Gay Men's Chorus taking their place, stage right, to welcome us to the ECP opening ceremony.Effortlessly harmonising through a selection of camp classics, as the Chorus reached the Pet Shop Boy's It's a Sin, I was hit by the poignant connection to psychology's harmful tendencies.Thinking of Pauline Collier's (2023) harrowing account of aversion therapy, the affective qualities of the song's opening lyrics took up a pointed meaning:When I look back upon my life It's always with a sense of shame I've always been the one to blame For everything I long to do (Lowe & Tennant, 1987) In that moment, the song as sung, infused with both a sense of melancholy and defiance, seemed to (re)foreground the role that psychology had played in pathologising sexual diversity and the horrors of dehumanisation.Acknowledging and holding these feelings as we -a room filled with colleagues from all manner of psychological contexts sat, looking forward to an invigorating congress -felt necessary.To briefly collapse the chronology of this review, the rehumanising antidote of qualitative enquiry served as a hope-filled centre to Hannah Frith's invited address.Delivered as the
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