Bethany Morris - Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Critical Psychology
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
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🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Bethany Morris is an assistant professor of psychology at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she teaches and does theoretical and qualitative research. Dr. Morris is a transdisciplinary scholar whose work bridges critical psychology, literature, philosophy, history, psychoanalysis, and film studies.
Early in her career, at Prince Edward Island University and Brock University in Canada, she studied alternative anti-psychiatric interventions for early-onset schizophrenia as illuminated by children's literature. During this time, she was also thinking critically about issues of women's stigmatization and oppression.
In recent years, her work has focused on using the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to gain a further critical understanding of the oppression of women, psychology's medical model, and other issues related to social justice.
Her recent publications include the co-authored book Subjectivity in Psychology in the Era of Social Justice, as well as her first solo-authored book, Sexual Difference, Abjection, and Liminal Spaces. Throughout her work is a sustained critique of Borderline Personality Disorder, both as a diagnostic category and the way that it is used toward misogynistic ends in popular culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Madden America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice. |
| 0:13.8 | Hello, and welcome to the Madden America podcast. I'm Micah Engel, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of West Georgia, and a research |
| 0:23.0 | newswriter for the Madden America website. Today I'm joined by Dr. Bethany Morris to talk about her |
| 0:29.1 | work utilizing Lacanian psychoanalysis and a critique of psychology's medical model, as well as sociopolitical |
| 0:36.0 | issues, ranging from the stigma of borderline personality |
| 0:39.1 | disorder to what a psychoanalytic understanding of gender has to offer to contemporary social |
| 0:44.9 | justice debates around sex and sexuality. Dr. Morris is a professor of psychology at Point |
| 0:51.6 | Park's clinical community psychology Program in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:56.1 | Bethany began her graduate educational journey as a student in child and youth studies at Brock University |
| 1:02.0 | in Ontario, Canada. There, she studied alternative anti-psychiatric interventions in early onset |
| 1:08.8 | schizophrenia as illuminated by children's literature, as well as issues |
| 1:13.5 | around women's stigmatization and oppression in the context of borderline personality disorder. |
| 1:20.6 | Morris is a transdisciplinary scholar whose work bridges literature, philosophy, history, psychoanalysis, |
| 1:26.6 | and film studies. |
| 1:28.3 | In recent years, her work is focused on using the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques |
| 1:33.3 | Lecon to gain a critical understanding of the oppression of women, psychology's medical model, |
| 1:39.3 | and other issues related to social justice. |
| 1:42.3 | Recent publications from Dr. Morris include the co-authored book, |
| 1:46.5 | Subjectivity in Psychology in the Era of Social Justice, as well as her first solo |
| 1:52.0 | authored book, Sexual Difference, Abjection, and Liminal Spaces. |
| 1:56.7 | Welcome, Dr. Morris. |
| 1:58.0 | Glad to be speaking with you. |
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