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SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:DECOLONISING COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY – REFLECTIONS FROM PSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVES \n\nThis public-facing seminar series challenges Eurocentric perspectives in traditional therapy and develop politically progressive\, decolonial alternatives in line with University- and sector-wide decolonisation efforts. It examines the psychosocial impacts of colonial violence on contemporary socio-political dynamics. It is funded by the Principal’s Teaching Awards Scheme and is led by Nini Kerr in collaboration with Rhea Gandhi and Mariya Levitanus. \n  \nYou can register for any/all of our events here – they are free and open to everyone! \n\nProgramme Schedule:  \n  \n\n\n13th March\, Wednesday\, 2-4pm: Nini Kerr on ‘Culture as the Bad Object’ and Erica Burman on ‘Child as Method as a resource for decolonial theory and practice‘  – G.07 Meadows Lecturer Theater\, Doorway 4\n\n\n[Special Book Launch Event] 18th March\, Monday\, 4.30-6.30pm: ‘The Rebel’s Clinic’ by Adam Shatz. Register here.\n\n\n\n\n\n12th April\, Friday\, 2-4pm: Mariya Levitanus on ‘Beyond the Norm: Decolonial Queer Perspectives on Counselling and Psychotherapy’ – Sydney Smith Lecture Room – Doorway 1\n\n\n\n\n\n10th May\, Friday\, 2-4pm: Rhea Gandhi & Isaac Yu on ‘Therapy as Political Resistance’ – Sydney Smith Lecture Room – Doorway 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5th June\, Wednesday\,  2-4pm – Lynne Layton ‘Social Psychoanalysis\, Normative Unconscious Processes\, and an Ethic of Repair [room tbc]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12th July\, Friday\, 2-4pm – Sheyda Esmali on ‘Unravelling Xenophobia Psychoanalytically’ [room tbc]\n\n\n\n  \nWe look forward to seeing you there! \n  \nProject Team: \nNini\, Rhea\, and Mariya
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/2671/
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SUMMARY:APS-APCS 2024 Conference
DESCRIPTION:Psychosocial approaches to researching and experiential learning\n\nA joint conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies and the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society \n17th-18th June 2024 \nSt Mary’s University\, Twickenham\, London TW1 4SX \nConference programme: https://www.conftool.net/aps-apcs-2024/sessions.php \nRegistration: https://www.conftool.net/aps-apcs-2024/ \nRegistration information: https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/registration/ \nConference enquiries: conference2024@protonmail.com \n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-apcs-2024-conference/
LOCATION:St. Mary’s University\, Twickenham\, Waldegrave Road\, London\, TW1 4SX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Call for papers:  Confronting Violence: Exploring the Psychosocial Dynamics of Gender-Based Aggression
DESCRIPTION:Call for papers:  \nConfronting Violence: Exploring the Psychosocial Dynamics of Gender-Based Aggression \nSpecial Edition of The Journal of Psychosocial Studies \n \nThe recent report by the National Police Chief’s Council on Violence against Women and Girls has once again highlighted the critical nature of this issue. Declaring the scale of the problem as a national emergency\, comparable to terrorism\, the report underscores alarming statistics: one in six homicides in England and Wales is linked to domestic abuse\, and 20% of all police-recorded crimes—over one million offences annually—are categorized as violence against women and girls. These offences include sexual assault\, stalking\, harassment\, domestic violence\, and controlling and coercive behaviour\, with the true total estimated to be twice as high. \nWe believe that psychosocial perspectives are essential for understanding gender-based violence\, as it is deeply rooted in social and cultural contexts and lives within the intimate worlds of both perpetrators and victims. We seek articles that engage with the inseparable interplay between psychological and social factors\, and offer fresh insights into the complex dynamics that drive these harmful behaviours. \nParticular topics that might be included are (for example): \n  \n\nSexual assault and rape\nStalking\nCoercion and control\nInstitutional misogyny\nINCELS\nOnline abuse and misogyny\nDomestic abuse\nThe impact of abuse and violence\nPreventing VAWG\nHarassment\nViolence in Schools\nPolicing and VAWG\nIntergenerational impacts of abuse and violence\n\n  \nWe can publish both formal research papers (that would need to be written in the expected style and sent out for independent review) and open space articles (less formal articles\, that might be based on personal experiences and reflection that might take the form of prose\, poetry\, visual art). \nDetails are here: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/jps/jps-overview.xml?tab_body=instructions-for-authors \n  \nInterested contributors should:   \nSend an abstract of around 500 words to  Pete Harris (p00096516@brookes.ac.uk) by Friday 17th January 2025. Please make it clear which type of paper you hope to submit. We are likely to be expecting draft of selected papers to be submitted around November 2025.You will be informed within one month of receipt whether we invite the full submission.  Interested contributors are welcome to contact us with queries. \n  \nSpecial Edition Editors \n  \n  \nJane Meyrick – University of West of England (Jane.Meyrick@uwe.ac.uk) \nDavid Gadd – University of Manchester (david.gadd@manchester.ac.uk \nPeter Harris –  Oxford Brookes University (p00096516@brookes.ac.uk) \nDavid W Jones – The open university (david.jones@open.ac.uk) \nIoanna Gouseti – Oxford Brookes University (p0096557@brookes.ac.uk) \nThere are more details about the journal here: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/journal-of-psychosocial-studies
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/call-for-papers-confronting-violence-exploring-the-psychosocial-dynamics-of-gender-based-aggression/
CATEGORIES:Call for papers
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SUMMARY:Performing (Post) Pandemic Grief: Prof Fintan Walsh
DESCRIPTION:Register here \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nWe are incredibly happy to invite you to join us for our next APS online reading group! We are delighted to welcome Fintan Walsh to present his research on the reckoning with grief in pandemic theatre. \nPlease join us to learn more about the vital contribution of theatrical performance to the ongoing work of public mourning in the wake of COVID-19. \nIn advance of the session\, please access Prof Walsh’s new book: Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres. The text is quite short but we especially invite participants to read sections 1\, 4 and Coda. \nAbstract: \nThis Element explores how theatre responded to the death and loss produced by the COVID-19 pandemic\, by innovating forms and spaces designed to support us in grief. It considers how theatre grieved for itself\, for the dead\, for lost ways of living\, while also imagining and enacting new modes of being together. Even as it reckoned with its own demise\, theatre endeavoured to collectivise grief by performing a range of functions more commonly associated with funerary\, health and social care services\, which buckled under restrictions and neglect. These pandemic theatres show how grief cannot only be let mourn over individual losses in private\, but how it must also seep into the public sphere to fight to save critical services\, institutions\, communities and art forms\, including theatre itself. \nAuthor biography: \nFintan Walsh is Professor of Performing Arts and Humanities at Birkbeck\, University of London\, where is the founding Director of Birbeck Creative Practice Lab and Head of the School of Creative Arts\, Culture and Communication. His research focuses on theatre\, performance and cross-disciplinary arts practice\, with monographs including Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres (Cambridge University Press\, 2024)\, Performing the Queer Past: Public Possessions (Methuen Drama\, 2023)\, Theatre & Therapy (Methuen Drama\, 2013; expanded and reissued 2024)\, Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2016)\, and Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2010). Edited volumes include Writing Queer Performance: Contemporary Texts and Documents (Methuen Drama\, 2025)\, Theatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary (Methuen Drama\, 2020)\, That Was Us: Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance (Oberon Books\, 2013)\, Performance\, Identity and the Neo-Political Subject (with Matthew Causey\, Routledge\, 2013)\, Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances from Ireland (Cork University Press\, 2010)\, and Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture (with Sara Brady\, Palgrave Macmillan\, 2009). Fintan is the founder and Senior Editor of the series Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts (Cambridge University Press) and is a former Senior Editor of the journal Theatre Research International (Cambridge University Press).
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/performing-post-pandemic-grief-prof-fintan-walsh/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Rising Authoritarianism and the Implications for Counselling and Psychotherapy\, Friday\, 11th April 2025 
DESCRIPTION:Rising Authoritarianism and the Implications for Counselling and Psychotherapy\, Friday\, 11th April 2025 \n \nWe warmly invite students\, staff\, and the wider therapeutic community to a mini symposium exploring the impact of rising authoritarianism on counselling and psychotherapy. As political landscapes shift globally\, we will examine how authoritarian dynamics influence personal and collective psychosocial wellbeing\, therapeutic practice\, and the profession itself.\n\nJoin us for a morning of insightful discussions with leading thinkers in the field by registering here.\n\nDate: Friday\, 11th April 2025\nTime: 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM\nVenue: Hybrid; Mclaren Stuart Room\, Old College\, University of Edinburgh\nPlease note: this event is hybrid for accessibility – it is free and open to all. We highly encourage in-person attendance for those in and around Edinburgh. \n\n\nSymposium Programme\n\n10:00 – 10:10 AM | Opening Remarks by Nini Kerr\n10:10 – 10:50 AM | William Kerr – Nationalism and the Global Rise of Authoritarianism\nBreak\n11:00 – 11:40 AM | Susie Orbach – The Seductions and Perils of Authoritarianism\nBreak\n12:00 – 12:40 PM | Barry Richards – Toxic Confusions In and Around Authoritarianism Today\n12:40 – 1:10 PM | Small Group Discussion – Rising Authoritarianism and the Implications for Counselling and Psychotherapy\n1:10 – 1:30 PM | Final Plenary\n\n \nThis symposium offers a space for critical reflection on the rise of authoritarianism and its implications for therapeutic practice and communities. the role of the therapist and of course\, We see our coming together as a political act of engagement in these turbulent times and look forward to your participation in this timely conversation. The symposium is funded by Student Experience Grant\n\nSymposium Convenors: Nini Kerr\, Rhea Gandhi\, and Jahnavi Dutta\nSymposium Anchors: Yaxin Hu (Prof Doc)\, Beca Sammon (MSc in ICC)\, Ally Fukada (MSc in CS)\, Kartika Ladwal (Prof Doc)\n\nIf you have any queries regarding registration\, please contact Rhea\, who is able to advise you: rhea.gandhi@ed.ac.uk\n\n 
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/rising-authoritarianism-and-the-implications-for-counselling-and-psychotherapy-friday-11th-april-2025/
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SUMMARY:Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - Annual Conference 2025
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URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/hope-and-despair-crisis-and-opportunity-annual-conference-2025/
LOCATION:St. Mary’s University\, Twickenham\, Waldegrave Road\, London\, TW1 4SX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:WORLD COMES ALIVE: Virtual Reality and Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:World Comes Alive \nExperience & discussion of psychoanalytically informed Virtual Reality \nTavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust\, London \n  \nThursday 19 June 2025 at 5.00 – 8 pm \n(VR experiences by appointment from 3 – 4.30 pm \nBook your place here\n  \nEvent brochure: World Comes Alive Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Final document-1
URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/world-comes-alive-virtual-reality-and-psychoanalysis/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260612T080000
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SUMMARY:APS Conference 2026
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URL:https://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/event/aps-conference-2026/
LOCATION:St. Mary’s University\, Twickenham\, Waldegrave Road\, London\, TW1 4SX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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