Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS)
12–13 June 2026
St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, UK
Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview |
| Date: Saturday, 13/June/2026 | ||||
| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Registration and coffee 2 Location: D121 |
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| 8:30am - 9:45am |
Silence, Uncertainty, and Epistemic Mistrust Location: Senior Common Room - Day 2 Chair: Noreen Giffney Individual Paper “I Can’t Think Today”: Clinical Encounters with Psychic Paralysis in a World That Won’t Pause Individual Paper Epistemic Mistrust and the Validation Imperative: Toward Real Trust in Therapeutic and Social Worlds Individual Paper Remains Of The Unknown: Silence And The Capacity To Tolerate Not-Knowing |
Supervision & Mentoring Location: K119 - Day 2 Individual Paper Cross Culture Mentoring On International Trainee Teachers And The Importance of Reflexivity To Build Trust In A Multicultural Coaching Or Mentoring Relationship Individual Paper Relational Safety Nets- an Artefact of Trust and Connection Individual Paper When Trust Cannot Be Assumed: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Relational Safety and Rupture in Supervision |
Symposium 4 Location: K107 - Day 2 Chair: Gustavo Machado Symposium Refusing Trust: Scepticism And Institutional Power Presentations of the Symposium In Theory We Trust: Authorising Harm in the Name of Psychoanalysis Trust, Mistrust And Power: Transphobia And Psychosocial studies Of Masters And Monsters: The Subaltern Cannot Be Heard |
Women, Oppression, and ‘Tough Tenderness’ Location: K115 - Day 2 Chair: Marilyn Charles Individual Paper Between Streets and Sessions: Repairing Trust through Social Movements Individual Paper Veiled Desire: Nazar (Evil eye) and the Gendered Politics of the Gaze in India Individual Paper Daughters of Scheherazade : Understanding the Erotic Economy of The Intimate |
| Working Session 2 Location: K110 - Day 2 Chair: Doaa Morsy Working session The Mistrustful Polarization Of Culture In Psychotherapy |
Working Session 5 Location: K115 - Day 2 Chair: Lita Crociani-Windland Working session Social Dreaming |
Reflective Space 5 Location: K14 - Day 2 |
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| 11:30am - 12:00pm |
Coffee break 2.1 Location: D121 |
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Keynote Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Lynn Patricia Froggett Individual Paper Undefeated Despair: Care, Play and Minnows for Revolutionary Tenderness |
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| 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Day 2 Location: DV Lounge |
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Authoritarianism and Social Domination Location: K17 - Day 2 Chair: Lynn Patricia Froggett Individual Paper Under the Skin of Angels: the Psychic Organisation of Political Distrust Individual Paper Soiling Public Trust: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Autocratic Rhetoric Individual Paper Reinventing Distrust: Deconstruction of Domination and Communities of Resistance Individual Paper Runaway Male Fantasies: A Cybernetic Interpretation of Becoming-Fascist |
Hierarchy and Marginalization: Reclaiming Identity Location: K115 - Day 2 Chair: David Jones Individual Paper Mothered By What Is Dead: Death Masquerading As Life In Mormonism Individual Paper Caregiving Without Trust: Nannying and the Burden of Substitute Parenting Individual Paper TV Talk: the Psychosocial Interview as a Walk Down Memory Lane Individual Paper Trust Is A One-Way Path Within An Indian Surrogacy Context |
Rupture and Repair: Building Trust in Health Care Systems Location: K110 - Day 2 Individual Paper The Stolen Insight: Epistemic Agency and the "Analogue" Therapist in the Age of Algorithamic abundance Individual Paper The Cost of Starting Over: How Fragmented Care Undermines Trust Individual Paper Trust, Desire And Responsibility In Psychiatric Care Individual Paper ‘I Like to Think Young People Can Trust Me’ - Problematising Trust in Youth Work Relationships |
Symposium 3 Location: K119 - Day 2 Chair: Jacob Johanssen Symposium Psychoanalysis and Artificial Intelligence Presentations of the Symposium Technotransference and the Machine That Waits: AI Intimacy, Seduction, and a Short Film The Ecology of the Unconscious: Attachment, Attunement, and Digital Technology Becoming Bot: The Threat to Ambiguity and the Importance of the Lie Replika: Giving What You Don't Have |
| Working Session 6 Location: K110 - Day 2 Working session Dorsal Practices: Finding Stability in Choppy Waters |
Film 2 Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room - Day 2 External Resource for This Session Film Daughters of Scheherazade |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee break 2.2 Location: D121 |
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| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Closing plenary and open space Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room - Day 2 External Resource for This Session |
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