11TH INTERNATIONAL INTER-UNIVERSITY
SEMINAR
FOR CLINICAL STUDIES ON DISABILITY
SIICLHA
Disability: an identity in-between
Université Paris 7 Diderot
Friday 25 and Saturday 26 November 2016
* Call for communications
* Call for posters
Final date for submissions: 1 March 2016
siiclha2016@gmail.com
Like the 10 previous SIICLHA Seminars, the 11th edition will devote considerable time to debate and
workshops, as also to discussion around the posters. Its objective is to get practitioners engaged in
research, students and teachers-researchers together to exchange views. The Seminar organizes
dedicated workshops for PhD students who can exhibit and discuss their current or completed works
relating to the clinical study and treatment of disability.
Researchers and professionals, as also students from Quebec, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Algeria,
Morocco, Tunisia, Great Britain and other countries will be actively taking part in the network.
Since its inception, the Seminar has adopted two boldly asserted commitments: to explore all the stages
in life and to work from clinical approaches that reach out to a variety of disciplines and theories
(psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, and education sciences).
This is done through taking an interest in works that address the complexity of intrapsychic and
intersubjective dynamics in their most unconscious or most conscious dimensions, from the most
individual to the most collective level, none of which factors can be considered in an isolated fashion.
Each Seminar leads to a book being published under the aegis of an editorial committee (a work in
English is to come out with Karnac publishing house in 2015).
From the very beginning, the founders of SIICLHA sought to explore the fundamental issues relating to
theories in their dynamic interaction with practice. They were also keen to accompany and anticipate
major evolutions in the nature of discussion and speculation on this
Thematic outline of the 11th SIICLHA Seminar
Disability: An identity in-between
The disabled person’s identity is often to be found in a kind of in-between – neither fully able in body
and mind nor yet completely infirm, neither included nor excluded, neither the same nor yet alike. Such
people are “on the threshold”, in a zone of liminality. Between normality and abnormality, between
specialised institution and the ordinary everyday world, between performance and deficiency, they seek
a place for themselves in society, in the family, at school or in the workplace, without always
succeeding in doing so. These difficulties emerge in clinical situations, where they lead to specific
transferential effects and arouse particular counter-transferential reactions among professionals.
Following on from Siiclha 2015, that studied the transitions at different ages in life, the 2016 edition
will focus on the stances the disabled person has to adopt and come to terms with. This involves taking
a subjective position in relation to the categories and spaces offered (or assigned) to them by others and
arranging one’s life to achieve a dialogue with those categories.
On the matter of identity, disabled people can be considered to be much like pioneers or precursors.
They command knowledge on the issue that may afford a source of enrichment for both the reduced
(families) or wider (society) groups to which they belong. Thus, disabled people, while in principle
considered to be deficient, lacking in resources, can teach us a great deal on the complex processes
involved in the construction and evolution of identity. They create modalities of existence of true
wealth, capable of nourishing innovative thinking as to the very question of identity, revealing
unexpected insights into the matter.
In this light, we can see the development of original personality constructions, attesting to the fact that
identity is multifarious and undergoes constant change, being subject to anthropological mutations, and
close to the new contemporary, virtual and hybrid identities that pervade the social networks. This
brings into question the categories that emerged from both disability studies and gender studies,
suggesting another model that could well be the new paradigm of métissage as proposed by Edouard
Glissant.
Almost unwittingly, disabled people have been led to explore the domains of identity, on the margins,
in the unusual, the strange and original, and in so doing they may offer a major contribution to the
wider human community.
Final date for submissions: 1 March 2016
Please send in Word format to:
siiclha2016@gmail.com
You can present:
1) A spoken communication, only on the theme of the Seminar.
2) A poster, only on the theme of the Seminar.
3) A current thesis (PhD student workshop that must relate to the issue of disability but not
necessarily on the exact theme of the Seminar).
4) An already organized workshop (three speakers at most to leave time for discussion) with a
thematic outline specific to that workshop that must necessarily be on the topic of the Seminar. In
that case, abstracts for the three proposed communications must be given.
Marco Araneda MCF (CRPMS) Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot ; Albert Ciccone professeur
(CRPPC) Université Lyon 2 ; Marcela Gargiulo MCF (PCPP) Université René Descartes SorbonneParis-Cité ; Simone Korff-Sausse MCF (CRPMS) Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot ; Sylvain
Missonnier professeur (PCPP) Université René Descartes Sorbonne-Paris-Cité ; Roger Salbreux
pédopsychiatre (ANECAMSP) Paris ; Régine Scelles professeur (CLIPSYD) Université ParisLumières.