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I am a Lacanian psychoanalyst and a registered psychologist practicing in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to my clinical work, I conduct online psychoanalysis classes with participants in Iran as part of an ongoing project. I am a member of the Colorado Analytic Forum (School of the Lacanian Field) and Lacan/UK,...
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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.
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Tanya is an HCPC registered and BPS Chartered Counselling Psychologist. She is also an Associate Fellow of the BPS, an Executive Committee member of the Division of Counselling Psychology and a BPS Senior Practitioner Specialising in Psychotherapy. Tanya has had 13 years of clinical and managerial experience at the Priory...
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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.
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I teach theory at the School of Humanities at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. I publish on psychoanalysis and coloniality as well as capitalism and modernization in Malaysia / the Malay world.
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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 am an experienced psychodynamic psychotherapist with a background in culture, arts and economics. I worked as an Associate Psychotherapist with young people and students at a university. I am currently a Professional Doctorate research candidate at the University of Essex. I hold a postgraduate degree in: - Psychodynamic Psychotherapy...
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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....
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I am Nikita Jain, and I work as an assistant professor of psychology at Christ University Delhi NCR Campus, India. I am trained in 'The Vygotskian Tradition', and I work in the area of Educational Psychology. I look at how the ontogenetic history of teachers' lived world lays materiality for...
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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.
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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...
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Dr Thi Gammon is a Research Associate with King’s College London’s Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries. She has a PhD in Media Studies from the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and a master’s degree in Global Media from the University of Westminster. Prior to her academic career,...
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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...
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I am currently a PhD candidate in Psychology interested in exploring how young children (ages 6 - 9 years old) construct their 'racial' identity within a specific educational context in South Africa. I am using a psychosocial framework and particularly interested in narrative/discursive methods alongside psychoanalytic understanding (contemporary attachment theory)...
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I am Professor of Health Humanities and Psychosocial Studies at the University of Stavanger in Norway. I have a humanities background and hold a PhD in Cultural Studies (University of Leeds, 2006). In broad terms, my research is characterized by interdisciplinary engagement across the humanities, social sciences, health sciences and...
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COSCA qualified relational psychodynamic psychotherapist and qualitative researcher at the University of Edinburgh.
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Currently a retired social worker but busy involved in writing 2 manuscripts on race and racism issues with hope of publishing the books in the near future.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Sophie Savage is an Associate Lecturer in Sociology working at the University of the West of England. Sophie is a disabled academic, and psycho-social researcher with an interest in Disability Rights, Post Humanism and Autoethnography.
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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,...
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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...
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Researching a PhD at QMUL: a non-fiction novel centred on a relative’s experiences of high-security psychiatric institutions (Broadmoor, Ashworth, Rampton) in England from 1972-2002. My work combines social histories and theoretical analysis of life in psychiatric carceral institutions and explores experiences of mental distress in the context of inter-generational trauma,...
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Have worked in Public Health for 17 years and recently completed a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University using an ethnographic psycho-social method to understand how volunteering affects psychological wellbeing in the contexts of health inequalities.
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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...
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I am a Lecturer in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, as well as co-director, alongside Dr Jordan Osserman, of the BA in Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Studies. I teach and write about psychoanalysis, colonialism, 'race' and racism. I have published articles and chapters on Frantz Fanon, Octave...
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Joanna Fortune is an accredited psychotherapist specialising in the parent-child relationship. She is the author of 4 best-selling books (15-Minute Parenting 0-7 years; 8-12 years; Teenage years and Why We Play). She is the host of the 15-Minute parenting podcast. She founded the Solamh Parent Child Relationship Clinic in Dublin...
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Jacinta Kent is a Group analyst in Training, Trauma-Informed Therapist and Intersectional Practice Consultant, with experience of working in the NHS, private practice, and third sector. She specialises in working with survivors of trauma and psychosocial activism. She is an associate member of the Institute of Group Analysis and registered...
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Rebecca Hutten is an independent researcher and Associate Lecturer, in Psychology and Social Sciences, at The Open University. She trained as a social anthropologist and worked as a policy analyst in Central Government before joining the University of Sheffield as Research Fellow in applied psychological therapies to work on the...
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Dr Deborah L. S. Wright, is a BPC registrant, a Psychotherapist in private practice and an Academic, Lecturer, and the Programme Director of the Clinical Professional Doctorate Programs, in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at The University of Essex, as well as an Artist, Printmaker, and Illustrator. Her...
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Luis Jimenez, MD, MSc. DipPsy, PhD Research Director/ Senior Lecturer/ UEL/School of Psychology/ BSc[Hons] counselling Executive Board/ Association of Psychosocial Studies UK Editorial Board/ Journal of Psychosocial Studies International Erich Fromm Society British Sociological Association British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences/ The Open University
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Tom Fielder is a PhD researcher in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck. His doctoral research engages Brexit and psychoanalysis to think through the subjective dimension of contemporary politics. He has published academic articles in History of the Human Sciences and the Journal of Psychosocial Studies.
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Peter Redman has worked in the Sociology Department at the Open University for over 25 years. He has a background in cultural studies and is a former editor of 'Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society' and the Palgrave 'Studies in the Psychosocial' series.