John Adlam
Biographic Data
| ID | 4126338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Adlam |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Adlam |
| SIGNATURE | ADLAM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Henderson Hospital Democratic Therapeutic Community |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Trauma and Repair by Annie Stopford (2020)
No room at the inn? Re-imagining social inclusion at the intersections between climate change, globalisation, homelessness, and human migration
There are two dominant and competing ways of conceptualising the psychosocial dynamics of social inclusion. In ‘Metropolitan’ systems, if you’re the wrong side of that line which denotes who’s ‘in’ and who’s ‘out’, you’re excluded and oppressed, but you can ‘come in from the cold’ if you accept the terms of the invitation. In ‘Cosmopolitan’ systems, there are different accounts and practices, but essentially there’s a ‘comprehending circle’ invol…
Knowing Your Place and Minding Your Own Business: On Perverse Psychological Solutions to the Imagined Problem of Social Exclusion
We draw on ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary psychosocial theorists to analyse the ethical implications of social policies implemented through the welfare state with the espoused objective of achieving social inclusion. We argue that many such policies establish a boundary between domains of inclusion and exclusion that perversely maintains the very problem such policies are designed to solve. They then also provide ‘rationalisations’ for…
Reflexive violence
The (dis)stressing effects of working in (dis)stressed homelessness organisations
Purpose This paper aims to offer a critical analysis of the potentially traumatising nature of working with (dis)stressed and traumatised people with complex needs who are homeless. It also seeks to provide a commentary on the contribution of Psychologically Informed Services: A Good Practice Guide in addressing the impact of these difficult dynamics upon workers, teams and organisations. Design/methodology/approach The paper is an invited piece …
Defacing the Currency?’: A Group-Analytic Appreciation of Homelessness, Dangerousness, Disorder and Other Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
In their work with the homeless, the dangerous and the disordered, helping agencies and the workers they deploy are faced, on a daily basis, with the task of engaging people whose essentially anti-social stance is, or is construed to be, one of a refusal to join in. The premise of our discussion is that, despite considerable attention over recent years having apparently being addressed to the problems of the socially excluded, there remains, and …
Disturbances of “groupishness”? Structural violence, refusal and the therapeutic community response to severe personality disorder
We explore the problematic dynamics in the relationship between societal systems of care and the chronically excluded, with particular reference to severe personality disorder and the “difficult-to-reach” patient. The individual who “refuses” is often met with a violent response: yet his violence must be understood as related to an experience of being violently excluded. We reformulate personality disorder as a disturbance of “groupishness” and s…
Refusal, social exclusion and the cycle of rejection: A cynical analysis
Despite the best, and at times the worst, efforts of systems of care `to include', there remains a group of people whose refusal to be included remains a problem both for themselves and for society as a whole. Our discussion re-locates the problems arising from the anti-social stance at the heart of this refusal from the internal world of the refuser to phenomena associated with what we have called psychosocial dis-memberment and the ` un-housed …
Housing ‘unhoused minds’: Inter‐personality disorder in the organisation
We begin with a discussion of the psychosocial concepts of ‘personality disorder’ and ‘homelessness’, and then seek to re‐define and re‐locate both from the internal world of the patient/client to the psychosocial ‘dis‐memberment’ associated with what we have called the ‘unhoused mind’. We then explore the complex reciprocal relationship between the ‘ordered’ and the ‘dis‐ordered’, the housed and the unhoused, and consider some possible implicati…
Personality Disorder and Homelessness: Membership and ‘Unhoused Minds’ in Forensic Settings
Although not all homeless people are personality disordered, many are offenders and all are de facto anti-social, either in their orientation to the world or in the eyes of the beholding world. We re-define and re-locate the problem from the social fact of the actual homelessness into the interpersonal and intrapsychic world of the ‘unhoused mind’, and explore the complex reciprocal relationship between the housed and the unhoused. The article co…
Refusal, social exclusion and the cycle of rejection: A cynical analysis
Despite the best, and at times the worst, efforts of systems of care `to include', there remains a group of people whose refusal to be included remains a problem both for themselves and for society as a whole. Our discussion re-locates the problems arising from the anti-social stance at the heart of this refusal from the internal world of the refuser to phenomena associated with what we have called psychosocial dis-memberment and the ` un-housed …
The (dis)stressing effects of working in (dis)stressed homelessness organisations
Purpose This paper aims to offer a critical analysis of the potentially traumatising nature of working with (dis)stressed and traumatised people with complex needs who are homeless. It also seeks to provide a commentary on the contribution of Psychologically Informed Services: A Good Practice Guide in addressing the impact of these difficult dynamics upon workers, teams and organisations. Design/methodology/approach The paper is an invited piece …
Reflexive violence
Housing ‘unhoused minds’: Inter‐personality disorder in the organisation
We begin with a discussion of the psychosocial concepts of ‘personality disorder’ and ‘homelessness’, and then seek to re‐define and re‐locate both from the internal world of the patient/client to the psychosocial ‘dis‐memberment’ associated with what we have called the ‘unhoused mind’. We then explore the complex reciprocal relationship between the ‘ordered’ and the ‘dis‐ordered’, the housed and the unhoused, and consider some possible implicati…
Personality Disorder and Homelessness: Membership and ‘Unhoused Minds’ in Forensic Settings
Although not all homeless people are personality disordered, many are offenders and all are de facto anti-social, either in their orientation to the world or in the eyes of the beholding world. We re-define and re-locate the problem from the social fact of the actual homelessness into the interpersonal and intrapsychic world of the ‘unhoused mind’, and explore the complex reciprocal relationship between the housed and the unhoused. The article co…
Housing ‘unhoused minds’: Inter‐personality disorder in the organisation
We begin with a discussion of the psychosocial concepts of ‘personality disorder’ and ‘homelessness’, and then seek to re‐define and re‐locate both from the internal world of the patient/client to the psychosocial ‘dis‐memberment’ associated with what we have called the ‘unhoused mind’. We then explore the complex reciprocal relationship between the ‘ordered’ and the ‘dis‐ordered’, the housed and the unhoused, and consider some possible implicati…
Refusal, social exclusion and the cycle of rejection: A cynical analysis
Despite the best, and at times the worst, efforts of systems of care `to include', there remains a group of people whose refusal to be included remains a problem both for themselves and for society as a whole. Our discussion re-locates the problems arising from the anti-social stance at the heart of this refusal from the internal world of the refuser to phenomena associated with what we have called psychosocial dis-memberment and the ` un-housed …
Disturbances of “groupishness”? Structural violence, refusal and the therapeutic community response to severe personality disorder
We explore the problematic dynamics in the relationship between societal systems of care and the chronically excluded, with particular reference to severe personality disorder and the “difficult-to-reach” patient. The individual who “refuses” is often met with a violent response: yet his violence must be understood as related to an experience of being violently excluded. We reformulate personality disorder as a disturbance of “groupishness” and s…
Defacing the Currency?’: A Group-Analytic Appreciation of Homelessness, Dangerousness, Disorder and Other Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
In their work with the homeless, the dangerous and the disordered, helping agencies and the workers they deploy are faced, on a daily basis, with the task of engaging people whose essentially anti-social stance is, or is construed to be, one of a refusal to join in. The premise of our discussion is that, despite considerable attention over recent years having apparently being addressed to the problems of the socially excluded, there remains, and …
The (dis)stressing effects of working in (dis)stressed homelessness organisations
Purpose This paper aims to offer a critical analysis of the potentially traumatising nature of working with (dis)stressed and traumatised people with complex needs who are homeless. It also seeks to provide a commentary on the contribution of Psychologically Informed Services: A Good Practice Guide in addressing the impact of these difficult dynamics upon workers, teams and organisations. Design/methodology/approach The paper is an invited piece …
Knowing Your Place and Minding Your Own Business: On Perverse Psychological Solutions to the Imagined Problem of Social Exclusion
We draw on ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary psychosocial theorists to analyse the ethical implications of social policies implemented through the welfare state with the espoused objective of achieving social inclusion. We argue that many such policies establish a boundary between domains of inclusion and exclusion that perversely maintains the very problem such policies are designed to solve. They then also provide ‘rationalisations’ for…
Reflexive violence
No room at the inn? Re-imagining social inclusion at the intersections between climate change, globalisation, homelessness, and human migration
There are two dominant and competing ways of conceptualising the psychosocial dynamics of social inclusion. In ‘Metropolitan’ systems, if you’re the wrong side of that line which denotes who’s ‘in’ and who’s ‘out’, you’re excluded and oppressed, but you can ‘come in from the cold’ if you accept the terms of the invitation. In ‘Cosmopolitan’ systems, there are different accounts and practices, but essentially there’s a ‘comprehending circle’ invol…
Trauma and Repair by Annie Stopford (2020)
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Personality (3 works)