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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 mind'. We explore the complex reciprocal relationship between the housed and the un-housed, between society's members and those whom society dis-members and we consider some possible implications for individual workers, staff teams and organizations who are tasked with attempting to house, re-member or otherwise to accommodate such people. We conclude with a challenge to practitioners, academics and policy makers to reframe the philosophical basis of their approach towards these complex psychosocial problems.

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 implications for individual workers, staff teams and organisations tasked with attempting to house and/or to care for and support such people.

PurposeThis 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/approachThe paper is an invited piece and is based on the specialist experience and viewpoint of the authors working as psychotherapists with a background in therapeutic community work and of their experience of reflective practice and team development consultancy with teams working in homelessness services.FindingsWith increasing demand and more restricted funding for homelessness resettlement services, the authors raise issues in the complex interaction of institutional and social and interpersonal dilemmas for staff "stuck in the middle" between the (dis)stressing nature of clients' "unhoused" minds and the (dis)stressed response of the systems of care. A group‐analytic, systems psychodynamics approach is used to shed light upon the risks to workers when services do not make time to reflect upon these (dis)stressing and potentially traumatising dynamics. They also point towards some of the personal and professional characteristics required in consulting to staff teams and agencies working with such complex dynamics.Originality/valueThe new operational guidance is welcomed, however, the authors suggest that the successful implementation of Psychologically Informed Environments (PIEs) is reliant on the capacity of any given organisation to build effective cultures and structures to support the development of reflective practice and team development.

11. Flight 9525: Andreas Lubitz and the Psychology of the Lone Terrorist -- Klaus Hoffmann; 12. Terror in the Mind of the Terrorist -- Barry Richards; From the Local to the Part IV -- Creative Structures: Global; 13. The City Project -- Aileen Schloerb; 14. Social Dreaming and Creativity in South Africa: Imag(in)ing the 'Unthought Known' -- Hayley Berman and Julian Manley; 15. The International Criminal Court and Global Justice -- Matt Killingsworth; 16. Finding Stories in a Form that can Be Acted: Creative States in Response to Climate Change Denial and Biosphere Destruction -- Lucy Neal.

Intro -- Violent States and Creative States - From the Global to the Individual. Volume 1: Structural Violence and Creative Structures. Edited by John Adlam, Tilman Kluttig and Bandy X. Lee -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue - Estela Welldon -- Introduction - John Adlam, Tilman Kluttig and Bandy X. Lee -- Part I - Introductorily and Theoretically -- 1. From Human Violence to Creativity: The Structural Nature of Violence and the Spiritual Nature of Its Remedy - John L. Young, Bandy X. Lee and Grace Lee -- 2. Injury and Insult: Reciprocal Violence and Reflexive Violence - John Adlam and Christopher Scanlon -- 3. The Story of Mr A: The Interplay between Individual Trauma and Global Politics - Tilman Kluttig -- Part II - Violent States and State Violence -- 4. Baltimore Past and Present: The Violent State of Racial Segregation - Annie Stopford with Gardnel Carter -- 5. Psychosocial Implications of Political Trauma and Social Recognition I: A Lacanian Approach to State Violence in South America - Gina Donoso -- 6. Psychosocial Implications of Political Trauma and Social Recognition II: Experiences from the Truth Commission of Ecuador - Gina Donoso -- 7. State Violence and State Creativity: Caring for Women and Girls Who Were Raped during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda - Bandy X. Lee, Glorieuse Uwizeye and Thilo Kroll -- 8. Perpetrators of Socially Accepted Violence: States of Mind beyond Pathology and Deviancy - Efrat Even-tzur -- Part III - Terror in the Public Sphere -- 9. Terror, Violence and the Public Sphere - David W. Jones -- 10. '1 in 5 Brit Muslims' Sympathy for Jihadis': What It Means to Be a Muslim Living in Britain Today - Ismail Karolia and Julian Manley -- 11. Flight 9525: Andreas Lubitz and the Psychology of the Lone Terrorist - Klaus Hoffmann -- 12. Terror in the Mind of the Terrorist - Barry Richards

This original edited collection explores the value of public engagement in a wider social science context. Its main themes range from the dialogic character of social science to the pragmatic responses to the managerial policies underpinning the restructuring of Higher Education. The book is organised in three parts: the first encourages the reader to reflect upon the different social and political inflections of public engagement and offers one university example of a social science café in Bristol. The following sections are based upon talks given in the café and are linked by a concern with public engagement and the contribution of social science to a reflexive understanding of the dilemmas and practices of daily life. This highly topical book will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students interested in critical social issues as they impact on their everyday lives