Members

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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.

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...

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...

Dr. Martin Lüdemann holds an MA in Organisational Analysis from the University of East London and is a graduate of the Psychology Diploma Programme (industrial and organizational psychology) of the University of Darmstadt, Germany. He has been working as a psychologist and supervisor for 30 years. He consults, supports and...

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 am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a retired academic from the Faculty of Education, U of Cambridge.

I am a counselling psychologist working in the NHS. My background in therapeutic community work oriented me towards attending to the role of power in psychological therapy practice. This, and my involvement in service user led initiatives, motivated me to research user involvement in NHS mental health services, using psychosocial...

Candida Yates is Professor of Culture and Communication at Bournemouth University; she applies a psychosocial approach to culture, politics and society and has published widely in that field. She works with academics, clinicians, creatives and cultural organisations to create new understandings of emotion and affect in the public sphere. At...

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...

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 am a professor at the Department of Caring and Ethics at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Stavanger, Norway, and leads the research group “Professional Relations in Welfare Professions”. Through a psycho-social perspective, I have a special interest in the emotional, existential, relational, and ethical aspects...

Currently, I'm a PhD student researching shame, trauma and compulsive sexual behaiour in adult men. The research is being conducted using psychosocial research methods. I'm also a psychosexual therpaist in private practice. It is this clinical experience that has lead me to my research area, but also psychosocial methods of...

Dr Christopher Scanlon (DPhil) independent psycho-socialist Researcher/Consultant, Consultant Adult and Forensic Psychotherapist, Training Group Analyst (Institute of Group Analysis (UK) and the Irish Group Analytic Society), professional associate Tavistock Institute for Human Relations, associate lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the Tavistock Clinic and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education...

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...

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.

Dr Jane Woodend MSc BACP (Accred): I am co-director of Five Valleys Counselling Practice Ltd in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and undertake counselling, supervisory and mentoring roles for a wide range of people and organisations. I qualified as a psychodynamic counsellor with the Westminster Pastoral Foundation (WPF) in 2000 and have been...

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist Group Analyst Group Supervisor Sociology and Theology Visual Artist

Jim Parris has successfully worked for many years in the world of music and has also collaborated in spoken word, dance, theatre and outdoor arts. In 2021 Jim was awarded a Ph D from the School of Social Work, Community and Care at the University of Central Lancashire for his...

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 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.

Matthew Rich-Tolsma is a South African and Dutch organisational consultant, mediator, and teacher. He works with senior leaders and boards in a wide range of global organisations, in addition to strategy consulting this work has often entailed team building and adaptations of reflective practice. Matthew is also involved in leading...

Dr. Stroud’s PhD research at the University of Aberdeen focused on analysing Real Life magazines through a psychosocial lens, drawing on her extensive experience as a journalist working on national newspapers and Real Life magazines. Her research highlights the neoliberal agenda embedded in the production and consumption of these magazines,...

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...

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.

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....

My name is Durga Menon. I am an indian psychodynamic psychotherapist new to the field of mental health. I have worked and trained in other sub-fields of psychology before beginning my career as a psychotherapist, and have graduated with a Masters' of Science in Psychology in India. Apart from my...

After a brief early career as a clinical psychologist in the British National Health Service, Barry was an academic at the University of East London, and then at Bournemouth University, where he is now Emeritus Professor of Political Psychology. Amongst his books are Disciplines of Delight: the Psychoanalysis of Popular...

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...

Raushan is psychodynamic psychotherapist (MBACP, COSCA) and an academic tutor practising in Edinburgh, UK. She is a Clinical Fellow at The Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and a Psychoanalytic Fellow at The Washington-Baltimore Centre for Psychoanalysis. Her research interests lie in intergenerational histories and the ways in which these...

Roger Willoughby is an independent psychoanalytic scholar currently writing on the development of psychoanalysis in Britain, the works of Esther Bick, and Jonathan Hanaghan, and the links between religion and violence. With degrees in philosophy, child psychology, and clinical psychology, he also holds doctorates in psychoanalytic studies from the Universities...

Psychotherapist, group therapist and liberation oriented educator and researcher.

I am a PhD student at the University of Central Lancashire, researching the development of adolescent identity from a psychosocial position. Previously working for many years as a teacher, I currently tutor undergraduate and postgraduate students in psychology and the social sciences, also providing mental health support.

Member of the executive committee of the Association for Psychosocial Studies and Associate Professor in Communications, St Mary's University.

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...

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,...