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

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...

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...

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...

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.

Group Analyst and organisational consultant

Final year PhD student at the University of Essex.

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 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...

I am a social theorist working within the field of International Relations

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

BSc Psychology, MA Psychosocial Studies (both from Birkbeck, University of London), currently: PhD student in IDSR (Interdisciplinary Social Research), Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada.

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....

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.

I am a psychoanalytic candidate and poet.

I am a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Organisational Analyst by training.

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...

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,...

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'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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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