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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

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....

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...

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...

Shona is Reader and Research Degrees Director in the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University. She is a member of the Centre for Race Education and Decoloniality and the founder of WhiteSpaces. Her scholarship covers welfare politics and governance, state practices, identities and the broader material-cultural-affective politics through...

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...

Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the Open University, was involved in the founding of Psycho-social Studies, with particular emphasis on the use of psychoanalysis as an epistemology and ontology. In this perspective she has researched and written about gender subjectivity, dynamics of identity change (notably first-time mothers) and depth-hermeneutic qualitative...

Ambrose Hogan works part-time in teacher education, balancing academic responsibilities with childcare, other public service duties, and exploring how psychoanalytic thinking can assist us understand day-to-day teaching. He is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, a Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council, and is also engaged in performance...

I'm a PhD researcher in Psychoanalysis and Culture at Ulster University, School of Communication and Media. My PhD project aims at understanding cinema and television spectatorship based on relational psychoanalytic concepts with a special focus on repetitive spectatorship and the experience of being moved in our moving image experiences.

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...

Adopting a discourse analytic and psychoanalytic approach to social and political analysis, my research engages broadly with theories of ideology, political economy, and democracy, seeking to delimit a field of investigation I call critical fantasy studies. I am especially interested in the role fantasy can play in helping us understand...

Dr Noreen Giffney is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and a psychosocial theorist. She is the author of the book, ‘The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic’ (Routledge 2021), and the author and/or editor of a number of articles and books on psychoanalysis, psychosocial studies, and gender and sexuality studies....

I am a clinical neuropsychologist from India who is currently training in neuroimaging. I have a deep interest in neurorehabilitation and how group processes may be integral to recovery of functioning and wellbeing.

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...

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

Psychotherapist, group therapist and liberation oriented educator and researcher.

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,...

Lynn Froggett is Professor Emeritus of Psychosocial Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Over the last twenty years she has led a succession of research programmes concerned with the ‘uses’ of art and the nature of aesthetic experience in settings as diverse as health, social care, criminal justice, education,...

Tom Fielder is an Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck College. He has a PhD in Psychosocial Studies and has published academic articles in History of the Human Sciences and the Journal of Psychosocial Studies. His doctoral thesis was titled "Admitting Demons: Brexit and psychoanalysis". He is currently co-editing a psychoanalysis and...

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...

I am a practising relationally-oriented psychotherapist and creative supervisor with a research PhD that used auto-fiction as a means to explore contemporary life and practice. My work sits wholeheartedly within the creative-relational space that has been finding form at the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at University of Edinburgh. I am...

Psychologist, Director of the Else-Frenkel-Brunswik Institute and the Centre of Excellence for Research on Right-Wing Extremism and Democracy, both at the University of Leipzig. Chair of Social Psychology and Intercultural Practice at Sigmund Freud University Berlin. Together with Elmar Brähler, he is responsible for the Leipzig Authoritarianism Studies on right-wing...

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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...

I am a counselling psychologist, based in Malta. I'm a senior lecturer at the University of Malta, teaching within the Psychology and Counselling departments. I'm also in private practice. Over the last few years, I have developed an interest in society, politics, and group analysis.

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,...

Christina Buxton BSc, DipPsych, MA, MPhil, PGCertHE, FHEA, C.Psychol, AFBPsS, CSci, Reg MBACP I am a Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the BPS, and a Chartered Scientist and currently work as programme lead at the University of Chester for the Professional Doctorate in Psychological Trauma and Counselling and Psychotherapy. I...

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...

Asta holds a PhD in Psychosocial Studies from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and has an interest in visual methodologies. She also holds an MA in Art Psychotherapy and a Postgraduate Diploma in Group Analytic studies, as well as a BA and MA in Fine Arts.

John is a group psychotherapist and independent researcher and a founder member of the Association for Psychosocial Studies. He lives in Brixton in South London and works for the most part in the National Health Service, where he is Consultant Adult Forensic Psychotherapist at Bethlem Royal Hospital and Principal Adult...

Helene Aarseth is Professor at Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo. She is interested in psychosocial theory, Bourdieu and Frankfurt School Theory. Her research focuses on gender, class and everyday life, with a particular emphasis on parenting and social class. She is currently involved in a research project on...