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İlkan Can İpekçi (they/he) is a postdoctoral research fellow at Sabancı University on a cross-cultural psychological research on young and aging populations and their memory and cognitive performances. They completed their Ph.D. in Gender Studies at the same university with a dissertation on queer* trauma and the lived experiences of...

PhD university of Essex, dept pps Director, literary agency, artellus ltd 8 books of collected essays, biannual conferences, one monograph on Vico and jung (routledge); one upcoming on ghostwriting; numerous publishing in journals

I am a critical and cultural theorist who employs psychoanalytic thinking to theorise the interrelation of social and symbolic change, with a particular interest in the philosophy, theory, politics and aesthetics of social reproduction and care. In my monograph, Donald Winnicott and the Politics of Care, published in the Palgrave...

I am currently pursuing a professional doctorate in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the University of Essex. Before that, I trained as an individual and couple psychodynamic psychotherapist at Tavistock Relationships, the internationally renowned centre of excellence in relationship therapy, where I remain a visiting clinician. I train and supervise NHS therapists...

Professor of Cultural and Gender Studies, recently took "voluntary" redundancy, now retraining as a psychodynamic psychotherapist.

I use insights from STS, psychoanalysis, and affect theory to understand how emotions shape relationships between science, technology, and society. I am particularly interested in emerging technologies such as neural interfaces, digital touch, and AI. My research seeks to understand the affective dimension of a range of technopolitical issues such...

I'm a Mres Visual Culture student in Goldsmiths, University of London. I study domestic space and production of familial subjectivity between Deleuzian philosophy, institutional psychotherapy and non-representational theory.

Ahammed Fazariya is a mental health professional and researcher with a Master’s in Applied Psychology (Clinical and Counselling Practice) from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and a Bachelor's in Psychology from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. His work is rooted in rights-based, trauma-informed, and anti-oppressive practices that foreground...

A commitment to understanding human development and behaviour threads through my teaching and research. My professional journey began with training and volunteering at Youthline and working for the Intellectually Handicapped Children's Society (IHC). These experiences led me into counselling young adults, case-managing at-risk tertiary students, managing and mentoring professional staff,...

I am a PhD Scholar (GCAS College, Dublin) working on the themes of silence, to explore meanings beyond creative and destructive ways to engage within silence. I am a Practicing Psychotherapist and my academic journey extends to MA Psychoanalytic Studies (Birkbeck, University of London), MA Psycho-social Clinical Studies and BA...

I am a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Organisational Analyst by training.

I am a psychoanalytic candidate and poet.

Evan Sedgwick-Jell is a Marxist cultural theorist, sociologist and psychosocial scholar. Their work examines movements challenging capitalism, and their articulations of psyche, mental health, and the social oragnisation of mental healthcare a means of questioning its dominance.

My name is Arju Kumar; I am a PhD scholar at Jawaharlal University, New Delhi. My research is socio-psychological work using the ethnographic method; I am trying to understand the various forms of violence that manifest themselves in the Urban Poor neighbourhood, also known as Slums or JHUGGI, in Delhi....

Bita Riazati is a Lacanian psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and supervisor in private practice in Melbourne. She is a member of the Colorado Analytic Forum (Connected to the School of the Lacanian Field IF-EPFCL) and Lacan UK. Currently, she is working on the Tehran Lacan Psychoanalytic Project, a group dedicated to...

Currently studying PGdip counselling and psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh and have received and email about the conference. I have been feeling more and more concerned by the topics within the email and would love to join the conference. I am unsure if I can attend in person.

I am a MA Cultural and Critical Theory student at the University of Leeds, and am particularly interested in psychoanalytically-informed approaches to social change.

I am a 3rd year mental health nursing student with an interest in the history of mental illness and its role in society, in particular the meaning of “hysteria” and the concept of personality disorder. I have also completed degrees in philosophy in which my focus was on the ontology...

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I started my PhD in October 2023 at the University of Essex, and my research project is "A psychoanalytic perspective on the role of cultural objects in Iranian immigrants’ integration." Understanding the process of immigration from a psychoanalytic perspective could anchor me in the unknown world of a new country....

Final year PhD student at the University of Essex.

Group Analyst and organisational consultant

I’m a psychotherapist that works mainly in private practice, but also works with the ex homeless, those afflicted with addiction and black men in forensic psychiatric hospital.

Iris Aleida Pinzón Arteaga is a psychologist, social researcher, and Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at University of Albany, New York. She’s a member of the interdisciplinary research group ‘Violence, Language, and Cultural Studies’ of the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga (Colombia). Her research involves the deployment of psychoanalytic concepts and critical...

Callum Blades MA, BA (hons) is an interdisciplinary lecturer and PhD researcher at Bournemouth University with a background in psychosocial studies, psychodynamics and psychoanalysis, applying to political culture, conspiracy theories and contemporary society. He works with scholars, academics, counsellors and political theorists in order to contribute further knowledge of psychosocial...

COSCA qualified relational psychodynamic psychotherapist and qualitative researcher at the University of Edinburgh.

Tosin Tunrayo Olonisakin is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and Behavioural Studies at Ekiti State University, Nigeria. She has Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in psychology. She is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Health Sciences, Hamburg...

Julian Manley's research is focussed on the use of advanced psychosocial group methods such as social dreaming, theorised from a Deleuzian perspective and applied to situations of social and affective complexity such as climate change and community wealth building.

I am a lecturer in psychotherapy at King's College London, and an associate senior lecturer in language and intercultural education at King’s College London, working previously as programme director in counselling and psychotherapy in the Psychosocial Research Dept at Birkbeck College in London. I am also a doctoral researcher at...

Jane is a psychodynamic counsellor and psychotherapist and the director of two counselling and psychotherapy centres in Colchester and Ipswich. She has managed health services for more than 23 years and been practicing for over 20 years in a variety of healthcare and mental health settings. She is interested in...

Stephen Frosh is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. He has a background in academic and clinical psychology and was Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Vice Dean at the Tavistock Clinic, London, in the 1990s. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences,...

Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP is a psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center; Co-Chair, Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS); and Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. Affiliations include Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis; Universidad de Monterrey; Harvard Medical School. Books include: Patterns; Constructing Realities; Learning from...

Jem was one of the founders of the Association of Psychosocial Studies. Formerly a sociologist at the University of the West of England and Pro-VC. Now, and for some time, a psychotherapist and member of Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy, the British Psychoanalytic Council and the College of Psychoanalysts. Occasionally teaching...