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DESCRIPTION:The Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry\, and the P
 olitics of Psychic Life Speaker Series will host:\n\nRasmus Birk\, PhD\, A
 ssistant Professor\, Department of Communication & Psychology\, Aalborg Un
 iversity\, Denmark.\n\nHe will present:\n\n“This city is not doable anymor
 e”: On psychological ecologies and ‘idioms of urban distress’ in Southeast
  London \n\nPlease register HERE\n\nBIO:\n\nRasmus Birk is Assistant Profe
 ssor in Psychology at the Department of Communication & Psychology\, Aalbo
 rg University\, Denmark\, and Affiliated Research Associate at King’s Coll
 ege London. His work explores topics such as the relationships between urb
 an life and mental health\, the rise of “digital phenotyping”\, and the de
 velopment of novel (neuro)ecosocial theories for understanding\, conceptua
 lizing and theorizing mental health.\n\nABSTRACT:\n\nIn this presentation\
 , I will take my point of departure in the many quantitative studies that 
 have demonstrated empirical relationships between living in cities and the
  development of mental distress. Specifically\, I will explore some of the
  ways experiences of distress become entangled with experiences of\, and r
 eflections on\, urban life more broadly. Drawing on the well-known concept
  of ‘idioms of distress’\, I will use qualitative empirical materials to i
 llustrate how young people living in Southeast London use ‘idioms of urban
  distress’. These idioms of urban distress both reflect culturally availab
 le repertoires about contemporary\, precarious urban life and they are sim
 ultaneously expressions of particular experiences of mental distress. I wi
 ll argue that this suggests that\, in a time of increasing focus on urban 
 mental health\, there is a need for conceptual and empirical engagement wi
 th how particular ‘psychological ecologies’ furnish us with ways of reflec
 ting on and experiencing the world.\n
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SUMMARY:Politics of Psychic Life Speaker Series
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