This presentation was delivered live over zoom on December 8th 2021 at our annual academic symposium. Alexandra was a third-year student at Ikon at the time of recording. This talk is the result of her personal research.
"Discussing political affiliations can provoke and expose social divisions and prejudices, and with no less troublesome outcomes, the field of political psychology elevates this discussion to the level of academic inquiry as researchers and theorists attempt to explain why individuals vote for a given party. This symposium serves as a critique to the inconclusive and heterogenous field of political psychology and in lieu offers provisional suggestions as to a new theoretical framework for future study. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, Gregory Bateson and developmental psychotherapy, a more complex conception of the dynamic interplay between the political and the personal is offered. Finally, this systemic analysis is applied to the field of psychotherapy, revealing the implicit politics of therapy and the hidden ideological bent of psychological theories."
- Alexandra Scoleri, Bachelor of Counselling and Psychotherapy