About
Dr Lucian Chaffey, PhD (University of Melbourne)
Academic interest areas include:
Radical psychotherapies, activisms, Felix Guattari, Institutional Analysis, Georges Bataille, sci-fi/fantasy serial screen media.
Creative themes and modes include:
Creative activism, feminist surrealism, post-anthropocene living, music video.
Bibliography
Chaffey, L. (2014) Affect, excess and cybernetic modification in science fiction fantasy TV Series Farscape, Body & Society (20): 85–110. doi:10.1177/1357034X13497521 [Video abstract]
Leitan N. D. & Chaffey L. (2014) Embodied cognition and its applications: A brief review. Sensoria: A Journal of Mind, Brain & Culture. 10: 3–10. doi: 10.7790/sa.v10i1.384
Nedeljkovic, M., Chaffey, L., Murray, G., Brennan, C., (2014). Postgraduate clinical psychology placements in Victoria: The experience of students and supervisors, Australian Psychologist. 49: 348–357. doi: 10.1111/ap.12067
Projects
Radical Psychotherapies – The Art of Asylum
Investigating the theories and practices of intellectual, psychotherapist and activist Felix Guattari and his precursors and contemporaries, and how these might be useful today.
Part 1) Historical analysis of movements arising from radical Catalan psychiatry and other anti-fascist radical psychotherapy movements, critical synthesis of other post-WW2 movements opposed to mainstream psychiatry and psychology.
Part 2) Theoretical explanations of Institutional Analysis and atmospheric diagnostics.
Part 3) Applications and tools for psychotherapists and social workers.
Â