The representation of black lives in writing, art, politics and society bears a legacy of erasure, suppression and denial, a practice sometimes referred to by critics as "whitewashing". This legacy, undoubtedly linked to the growth of modern European imperialism in the wake of Columbus's American encounters, can often obscure the history of black people and their cultural output in different periods. From the "whitening" of Ancient Egypt--whereby it was situated within a European Mediterranean world, as opposed to an African one--to quiescence about the presence of black people in Britain prior to the Second World War, black representation in world history often featured as a kind of absence prior to the 1960s. This module aims to examine representations of black lives and cultural output over a broad range of fields, including the visual arts, literature, history and politics, and in different historical periods. It investigates what it means to be black--generally understood as a social category or construct relating to Africans and their descendants, whether Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin, African American or Black British--in relation to critical discourses of ethnicity, race and postcolonialism.

This module aims to provide you with an understanding of psychodynamic observation and the skill and qualities involved. In addition, you will start to develop professional skills involved in assessment and case presentation. You will learn to apply your growing grasp of psychodynamic theory to everyday events and encounters and develop your appreciation of the role of unconscious and emotional communication in ordinary life. This will enable you to become perceptive in terms of detail and more subtle in you understanding of the meaning of what you observe and what they themselves bring to the learning experience. It will enable you to reflect on your own process in observations and in groups and to become more self-aware. You will become more alert to first, the conscious and unconscious ways in which your capacity to observe and participate in learning is influenced by their experiences, and second, the way your own self-awareness affects your capacity to provide therapeutic attention to others.

What place does trauma have within psychoanalytic thinking? What impact does loss have on children? Or on adolescents and adults? Explore human development and organisational dynamics by studying themes of child abuse, deprivation, loss and trauma. Understand the implications for organisations working with traumatised people.

Study a range of difficulties encountered by some children, such as developmental trauma, autism and ADHD. Learn how these can impact on children’s development and increase your knowledge of the strategies that have been developed to try and improve their situation.

This module will introduce you to a wide and diverse range of refugee narratives presented through song, poetry, stories, art, drama, film, photography, autobiography, oral history, and charity sector, media and political reports. You will explore the complexity and uniqueness of these narratives, gaining understanding of different factors potentially influencing the construction and interpretation of narratives. People may seek to narrate their own stories, speak for themselves and give their own accounts of personal lived refugee experiences. You will reflect upon the challenges people may encounter in communication personal refugee experiences to others and consider the extent to which first person accounts may be said to belong to those who give them. The terms ‘refugee’ and ‘asylum seeker’ are used in particular ways in legal discourse, but the way they are used in different types of public discourse varies greatly. You will develop critical insight into how and why stereotypical ideas about people seeking refugee arise, and furthermore the ability to question and challenge stereotypical ideas. You will gain an appreciation of the complex, diverse, messy lived experiences of those who seek refuge and come to recognise that whilst there may be elements of suffering and disorientation, not everyone who seeks refuge is traumatised by their experiences. Indeed, whilst those seeking refuge may experience human rights violations, at times they may experience resourcefulness, creativity, liberation, growth and joy. You will reflect on people’s experiences of being labelled an ‘asylum seeker’ or ‘refugee’, deepening their understanding of the complex psychosocial reasons why such labels may sometimes be embraced, at other times rejected and of the dynamic, fluid nature of refugee experience. The module will examine concepts of ‘voice’, ‘representation’ and ‘power’, considering who may secure spaces to present refugee narratives and who may pay these presented narratives any attention.

In this module, you’ll explore three interrelated phenomena – dream, myth, and magic – that emerge at the intersection of the conscious and unconscious mind. Each was deeply involved, explicitly or implicitly, in the development of depth psychology, and each continues to be a site of reflection and controversy within the field.