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I'm a relational psychodynamic psychotherapist (regd. MBACP) and a qualitative researcher based in Edinburgh, UK.

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....

Currently studying Psychology as an undergraduate. Mostly interested in Occupational Psychology and social studies involving inequality in society.

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...

I am a staff tutor in the school of Psychology and Counselling at the Open University and studying for a PhD at the University of the West of England (UWE). My research interest is currently in the psychological and emotional impacts of the climate and ecological crisis. I am also...

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...

I am course director of the MPhil in Psychoanalytic Studies and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. I have trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and clinical psychologist. I have previously held the role of course director of the MSc in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Trinity College Dublin, in...

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,...