The impact of social framings of 'non-ordinary experiences' - an exploration with Dr Sabina Wantoch
To be rescheduled - date coming soon!
What relationship is there between the social world contexts we have for divergent states, and the first-person experience of those states?
This question is at the centre of Sabina’s research, which explores how the social framings of non-ordinary experience intertwine with the feeling of those experiences. For example, how the power dynamics of the dominant psychiatric perspective may reach down into the first person experience of reality and trust, in direct as well as indirect, ripple-like ways. Sabina has created a set of ‘arcana’ symbols to illustrate these relationships, which they are planning to present for the first time as part of this webinar.
In terms of the Overton Window around what kinds of states are deemed acceptable, how are we understanding acceptance? What are the roots of what is accepted and what isn’t?
We will explore the notion of ‘otherness’ that has dominated mainstream…