Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS)
12–13 June 2026
St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, UK
Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 3rd Apr 2026, 12:00:17am BST
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Agenda Overview |
| Date: Friday, 12/June/2026 | ||||
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Registration and coffee Location: D121 |
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| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Opening plenary Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee break 1 Location: D121 |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
‘Illness’ and Identity Location: K115 Chair: Lita Crociani-Windland Individual Paper Trust Without Certainty: Chronic Illness, Not-Knowing, and the Relational Work of Bearing Uncertainty Individual Paper Practices of Care in the Age of Organisational Auditing Individual Paper A Schizoanalytic Cartography of Mixtapes Individual Paper Benevolence, Breakdown, and the Body: Hysteria and Fractured Fantasies |
AI and Relationships Location: K110 Chair: Noreen Giffney Individual Paper The Fragility of Trust in Simulated Holding Environments Individual Paper Embedding Trust – Automated Forms Of Interaction In Therapeutic Uses Of Artificial Intelligence Individual Paper ‘Almost Like a Friend’: A Psychosocial Reading of Trust in Generative AI Chatbots Individual Paper Trust, Enlivening Chatbots and the Aesthetic Container. |
Obedience, Betrayal, and the Ethics of Trust Location: K17 Chair: Marilyn Charles Individual Paper On the Outside Looking In: When Obedience Replaces Thought Individual Paper Lives Under Suspicion: Trust and the Fate of Experience Individual Paper The Inner Compass and the Broken Idol: Betrayal, Wellness Authority, and the Ethics of Trust Individual Paper Opacity and Repair: Nonviolence, Decoloniality, and the Group-as-a-Whole in Institutional Life |
Power and Pedagogy Location: K107 Chair: Harriet Mossop Individual Paper Rhizomatic readings of Trust and Mistrust within Further Education Individual Paper Changing Society While Staying in Place: Institutional Mistrust and Powerlessness Individual Paper Mistrust in Schools, Trust in the Market: Private Tutoring and the Reconfiguration of Educational Trust in India Individual Paper Surrender and Its Discontents: Trust, Regression and the Ethics of Pedagogical Relationships |
| Working Session 1 Location: K119 Chair: John Adlam Working session Trust, Mistrust and Community – “What’s Going On?” – A Large Study Group |
Reflective Space 1 Location: K14 |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Location: DV Lounge |
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Collective Trauma and Moral Injury Location: K119 Chair: Harriet Mossop Individual Paper Dynamics of Rupture and Repair: Collective Trauma, Trust and Agency in an Art Therapy Open Studio Individual Paper Containing Mistrust in the Context of Ongoing Trauma and Moral Injury Individual Paper When Trust Has Nowhere to Land: Witnessing in Times of Disconnection Individual Paper Trust, Mistrust, and the Politics of Listenability: Double Testimony and Formative Empathy in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein |
Roundtable 1 Location: K107 Roundtable World Comes Alive: virtual immersion and trust in change |
Symposium 1 Location: K115 Chair: Marilyn Charles Symposium Re-Finding the Feminine: (Re)Membering and Working Through Presentations of the Symposium Writing Her Story: Re-Writing History Autopoietic Voices: Feminine Truth Beyond Narrative Permission Reclaiming Her-Story: Trust, Storytelling, and Identity Development in a Women’s Process Group |
Symposium 5 Location: Senior Common Room External Resource for This Session Chair: Michael O'Loughlin Symposium Writing otherwise: The Possibilities of Fugitive, Embodied, Collaborative, and Critical Forms of Knowing Presentations of the Symposium Anyway, I Gave Birth Twice’ (Lorde): Writing Together to Re-present our Absent Sister(s) What is the Riddle I Pose Under the Guise of my Knowledge? Collaborative Writing as a Field of Play Trust in Psychoanalysis: Psycho-political Becoming in Uncertain Times |
| Trust and Integrity in Online Encounters Location: K17 Chair: Thi Gammon Individual Paper The Question of Trust in Therapeutic Online Interactions Individual Paper Trust, Honour and Integrity in Middle-earth Tabletop Gaming Individual Paper Trust In The News Among Young Audiences In The Age Of Generative AI Individual Paper Reverie and Revolution – Parents’ worries about the kids’ digital lives |
Working Session 4 Location: K110 Chair: Oshea Johnson Working session Force as care: Fear, Control and Distress in the UK’s Criminal Justice Pipeline |
Reflective Space 2 Location: K14 |
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| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Coffee break 2 Location: D121 |
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| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Facing Loss: Building Community Location: Senior Common Room External Resource for This Session Individual Paper Field Notes: Reflections on the Meaning of Labour Politics Individual Paper Trust, Disappearance And Containment: George Shaw And Neighbourhood Care In A Time Of Reform Fatigue Individual Paper Net Zero (Inter)subjectivities: Relationalities and the Interpretive Study of Socio-technical Risk Objects Individual Paper Radioactive Patriarchy: The Impact of Nuclear Militarism on the Village of Garelochhead |
Race, Culture, Stigma, and Identity Location: K110 Chair: Rhea Gandhi Individual Paper 'Just Phillip': Dreaming Race in 'Slave Play' Individual Paper Democracy And The Crisis Of Trust In Post-Truth: A Psychosocial Study Individual Paper What’s In A Name? Reflections on Trust, Identity and the Therapeutic Encounter Individual Paper “I Couldn’t See My Own Image”: White Anxiety and the Photograph |
Roundtable 3 Location: K119 Roundtable Travelling Into The Unknown Territory of Post-work Existence: A Psychosocial Conversation About Ageing and Identity |
Symposium 2 Location: K115 Symposium Myth, Media, Violence and the Formation of Community Presentations of the Symposium AI’s Oedipus and The State’s Founding Violence The Ne Zha Complex The Digital Mortification of the Self Founding Brothers: Fratriarchy, the Law of the Mother, and the mythic violence of the State |
| Trust, Power, ‘Reform’, and Criminal ‘Justice’ Location: K14 Individual Paper Fostering Trust in Low Trust Institutional Environments: – Clinical Work in Carceral settings Individual Paper Explain or Reform? Negotiating the Dynamics of Trust and Mistrust in Criminal Justice Practice Individual Paper The Orchestrated Collapse of Trust: Re-education and the ‘New Man’ in Victoria Baltag’s The Pitesti Experiment Individual Paper Negotiating Trust: Relationality, Power and Feminist Methodology in Death Penalty Mitigation Interviews in India |
Working Session 3 Location: K17 Chair: Lynn Patricia Froggett Working session Building a Psychosocial Bot |
Reflective Space 3 Location: K107 |
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| 5:15pm - 6:45pm |
Care, Care-less-ness and Complexity in Children’s Services Location: K119 Individual Paper Trust, Complexity, and Anti-Racism in Children’s Services: Black Feminist Ways of Knowing in Uncertain Systems Individual Paper You Can Only Belong If You Are Happy: Feeling Rules and the Production of Mistrust in Institutional Settings Individual Paper Between Rocks and Hard Places- Negotiating Institutional Care and Care-less-ness in Care Experienced Young People’s Experiences of School Individual Paper Political Trust, Mistrust, Distrust and the Lived Experiences of Nursery and Reception Class Teachers in England: A Psychosocial Analysis |
Catastrophe and Climate Crisis Location: K115 Chair: Lita Crociani-Windland Individual Paper The Ethical Imagination: Epistemic Instability, Resistance and Agora in Organisational Life in the Shadows of Climate Disaster Individual Paper A Psychosocial And Psychodynamic Exploration Of Young People's Experience Of Betrayal Within The Climate Crisis Individual Paper Outlines of a Critical Anthropocentrism Individual Paper Ecological states of Mind; How to Trust in the End of the World |
Ethics of Care and Judgement: Conspiracy or Ideology? Location: K107 Chair: Ruth Llewellyn Individual Paper Can We Trust Psychological Science? Methodological bureaucratism in science as a defense against the anxiety of not-knowing Individual Paper Repair Without Innocence: Conversations Between a Lawyer and a Psychotherapist Individual Paper "The Whole is the False:" Conspiring with Adorno Individual Paper Trust, Conspiracy Theories and Ideology |
Roundtable 2 Location: K17 Roundtable Women with Women: Building Community Across Differences: A Roundtable Conversation |
| Working Session 7 Location: K110 Chair: Harriet Mossop Working session Ripping Up The Psychoanalytic Archive: Zine-making As A Creative Method Of Enquiry Into Trust, Mistrust And Community |
Film Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session Chair: Rhea Gandhi Film Cultural Encounters |
Reflective Space 4 Location: K14 |
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| 7:30pm - 8:00pm |
Wine reception Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session |
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| 8:00pm - 10:00pm |
Dinner Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session |
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| 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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