Forum brings academics, hospital researchers, government and community groups together seeking better systems to help youth at risk

Youth at risk fail at school, have mental health issues and get in trouble with the law. Would they be better served if all three systems – education, mental health and justice – worked together? That question animated discussion at a recent forum organized by the York Centre for Education and Community (YCEC). Sponsored by […]

Professor Deborah Britzman's book examines psychoanalysis, Freud and education

In her new book Freud and Education, author Deborah Britzman follows the threads of the concept of education – its dangers and promises and its illusions and revelations – throughout Sigmund Freud’s body of work. Britzman, a Distinguished Research Professor in York's Faculty of Education, defines how fundamental Freudian concepts such as the psychical apparatus, the […]