Plenary Learning from the Past to Imagine a Better Future

Lita Iole Crociani-Windland, Lynn Froggett, Marilyn Charles

Ecology, Psychoanalysis, Global Warming and cats: Fragmentation and Interconnection

Anna Harvey

Rethinking “Climate Emotions” in the Age of Burnout Capitalism

Michael Albert

Exploring Lived Experiences Of Nature-Based Interactions To Understand Their Implications Within Therapeutic Practices

Geetika Sawhney

Psychoanalysis, the New Rhetoric, and the Metabolism of Experience

Daniel Adleman

Landscapes of Un/Belonging: An Empirical Psychosocial Study of Lithuanian Migration to London Since the Early 1990s

Asta Binkauskaite

A Psychoanalytic Perspective On Iranian Immigrants' Cultural Objects: Transition Or Suspension?

Mona Jamshidi Nasab

Navigating Hope and Containment in the Refugee Journey

Sheida Zokaeieh

The Haunting Echoes of an Emptying Split: Reimagining the Emotional Violence and Developmental Effects of Caste Through an Intersubjective Lense

Reva Puri, Manali Arora

Inter and Transgenerational memory workshop.

Nigel Williams

The Future of Healing Trauma by Theologians: Psychosocial Analysis and Ethical Dilemmas in the Age of AI Explored

Mandla Nyathi, Tapiwamunashe Nduna

‘It can only do so much’: A Psychosocial Study of Undergraduate Students’ Perspectives on AI –Chatbots and Writing.

Iris Aleida Pinzon Arteaga

The formative study of Formative Media

Steffen Krüger

Romantic Television Dramas as a Cathartic Space for Play: A Psychosocial Case Study

Thi Gammon

Navigating Anti-Oppressive Psychotherapy Training: Experiential Insights from Trainers

Chair(s): Maya Mukamel

Presenter(s): Eiman Hussein, Harbrinder Dhillon-Stevens, Alison Dart

Decolonialising Psychoanalysis: Psychoanalysing Colonialities

Chair(s): Carol Owens

Presentations of the Symposium

Cultivating A Revolutionary Unconscious: Steps Toward Decoloniality

Michael O'Loughlin

Ghosts Of A Nation: Melancholia In The Shadows Of Colonialism (In The Banshees Of Inisherin)

Sarah Meehan O'Callaghan

Poor Things? On The Colonialising Of The Adolescent Imaginary

Carol Owens

The Effects of Colonialism On Psychoanalytic Theory And Technique

Sally Swartz

Winnicott and the “Impossible Profession” of Teaching: Dispatches From the False-self Classroom

Nathan Gerard

What Were Trigger Warnings? New Forms of Knowing and The Use of the Classroom

Kelli Fuery

The Affective-Relational Nature And Role Of The Learner Teacher Relationship For Those Looked After By Those Other Than Their Parents.

Katherine Porter

Social Isolation, Neoliberalism, And Societal Dis-Ease

Hannah Hahn

Digital Intersubjectivity and the Digital Death Drive: Psychosocial Considerations of Zuckerberg’s Metaverse and Musk’s Neuralink

Ryan Meurlin

Between Regression and Development: #eating Disorders and #recovery on TikTok

Jacob Johanssen, Susanne Benzel

Undermining Endings and Complicating Temporalities: Centring Experience in Analysing Representations of Self-harm

Veronica Heney

‘A woman is being beaten’ – Positionings of Female Right-Wing Influencers

Katarina Busch, Steffen Krüger

Men’s Anxieties And Defences Regarding Gender (In)equality In The Workplace: An Object-relations Psychoanalysis Of Organisational Masculinities

Darren Thomas Baker, Nicholas Rumens

Body Modification as Sinthomatic Writing

Anna Fishzon

Learning From The Painful Past: A Queer Phenomenological Exploration Of Published Vignettes Of Erotic Transference Between Women In The Psychoanalytic Clinic Between 1930 And 2000

Harriet Mossop

Constraint And Rebellion: Identity Development Through The Interplay Of Young Men's Experiences Of Sexual Desire And Social Expectations Of Masculinity

Gordon DiQuattro

A Brief Chronicle of Anger

Anita Jain

Unveiling Hidden Struggles Exploring into the Psychosocial Responses to Incestuous Abuse in Adolescent Girls

Sara Subhan, Sadia Abdul Hakeem, Sadia Saleem

Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP): Teaching from the Margins

Pooja Nair, Shruti Chakravarty, Amalina Sengupta, Candice G. Menezes

Making And Working With Images Of Countertransference: An Experiential Workshop On Relational Reflexivity For The Psychosocial Researcher And Adult Educator.

Louise Austin

Oh God! May I Be Alive When I Teach

Chair(s): Nathan Gerard

Presenter(s): Nathan Gerard, Carrie M. Duncan

Did HAL Commit Suicide? Theorizing Instrumental Convergence in Psychoanalysis

Don Kunze

The Application of Wilfred Bion's Group Theory in Social Media

Sheyda Esmaeili

A Psychosocial Comparison of the Yoruba Ifá System of Divination, with Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Olugbenga Taiwo

Paranoia, Perversion, and the Subject of Desire: A Lacanian Exploration of AI Chatbots

Jack Black

Building Trust in the Therapeutic Relationship: A Journey Unveiling Sexual Trauma, Sexual Identity and Emotional Vulnerability

Mehravar Javid, Javid Gedo, Kainaz Patravala, Alexis Morgan, Paul Gedo, Eliana Chapman

Symbolic Decline And The Secretion Of Sexuality

Noah Garberg

Of Heterosexual Desires and Feminist Politics - The Messy, Complicated Relationship Between the Personal and the Political

Ipsita Gauri

From Subject to Master: Sublimation and Ontological Interrogation in Lacan’s Theory of the Signifier

Matthew Collins

Learning – Vicariously - From Experience

Chair(s): Marilyn Charles

Presentations of the Symposium

Until the Last Moment

Vivian Chan, Yussef Cole

Who is Us? Processing the Uncanny Through Eco-Horror

María Mirón Álvarez

Things that Go Bump: The Return of the Real in Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Club

Marilyn Charles

Language and Death: Preservation, Resurrection, and Perversion in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

Anna Sanford

Experiential Learning as Pedagogy

Diamond Oberoi Vahali

Working with The World of the Boy: Examining Positioning In A Psychosocial Response To Gender-based Violence In Schools

Pete Harris, Harriet Cutler

Once upon a time…using Stories as Transitional Objects to support student learning in Social Justice Education

Brian Melaugh

Ontogenesis of Reflexive Praxis in University Classrooms in India: A Qualitative Study

Nikita Jain

The Debt of Privilege Audit-Culture, Universities and the Uncommoning of Mental Space

Helene Aarseth, Steffen Krüger

The Soft Authoritarianism of the Managerial University

Ross Truscott

Splitting and Eros in Contemporary Re-Masculinized Academia

Rebecca W. B. Lund, Helene Aarseth

Psychosis and Sadism in Academic Practice

Calum Matheson

The PhD As Me-search

Trudi Macagnino

A Proposal to Take into Account Semiosis as an Ongoing ‘Sociality’ to Construct Psychosocial Enquiry and Form Psychosocial Research ‘Objects’.

Priya Tiwari

Reflexivity and Experiential Learning in the Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM): Making Visible the "Hidden Interview Partner"

Hanna Baardsen, Birgitta Haga Gripsrud

Ghosts As Gurus - Learning And Failing To Learn From Experience In The Aesthetic Vertex

Shalini Masih

Seeing but Not Seeing - Trauma, Inattention, Repression, and the Failure to Learn from Violence in Institutional Settings.

Andrew Shepherd

The Desire For Change In The 2019 Chile Revolt: Learning From Experience

Gustavo Sánchez

Learning (or not learning) from Brexit with Ali Smith

Tom Fielder

Scansion And What Springs From The Limit

Miles Beattie

Learning to Live with Problems- Embracing Paradoxical Journeys of the Self (un)made in Vital Encounters

Chair(s): Honey Vahali

Discussant(s): Shifa Haq, Deepti Sachdev, Anshumita Pandey

Presentations of the Symposium

From Denial to Co-existence: The Value of Suffering and Empathetic Identification

Honey Vahali

Hate Scars and Other Problems- Recovering Histories of Hospitality as Salve

Shifa Haq

Between Stone and Skin: Listening to Stories as Portals of Eros

Deepti Sachdev

“I Have More Souls Than One…”: Between Chaos and Creation in Musings on ‘Creative Living’

Anshumita Pandey

Towards a Schizoid Methodology

Cosima Cobley Carr

Creating a Culturally-appropriate Measure of Psychic Pain: Online Sampling of Mexican Adult’s Self-Experiences

María Mirón, María Elena Díaz, Ana Emilia Fortuny, Cecilia Bernadette Martínez, Luis Marcelo Cantú

Is The Learning Only In My Imagination? Social Dreaming of South African Use for Student-centred and Social Justice-orientated Leadership Learning

Neo Pule

Collaborative Fragmentation: Psychosocial Experiments in Writing-as-Encounter

Elena Gkivisi, Clau Di Gianfrancesco

‘Autobiographical Narratives And Free-associative Discourse: The Use Of Personal Artefacts As A Meaning-making Device In Psychosocial Research’

Maria-Jose Lagos-Serrano

The Contagion of Suffering: A Collaborative, Long-Term Autoethnography That Explores Two Indian Psychotherapist’s Experiences of Working Through the Pandemic in Times of Misinformation

Smiti Srivastava, Rhea Gandhi

'Beyond the narrative: A Psychosocial Exploration of Adolescent Development'

Heidi Burke

Art To Formulate And Art To Illustrate; Methodological Use Of Art Work As A Psychosocial And Psychoanalytic Methodology, As Well As The Higher Education Teaching And Learning Context, And Case Study Research Methods For Data Analysis

Deborah L S Wright

The Future Clinic What if Café

Lita Iole Crociani-Windland

Psychosocial Perspectives on the Role of Nostalgia

Chair(s): Callum Blades

Presenter(s): Ruth Llewellyn, Hillary Stevenson

From Repetition to Metabolization: Metacognitive Capacities in an Inpatient Eating Disorder Sample

María Mirón, Barbara Huerta, María Perdomo, Mariel Soberón, Dulce Paola Alejo, Maylén Muñoz

Fear Of Thinking? Learning And The Avoidance Of Learning In Social Work Group SupervisionnA

Henry Smith

Revisioning Counselling And Psychotherapy From The Lens Of The Caste System Of The Indian Subcontinent And Its Diaspora

John Fen Raju

Use of Psychoanalysis for Psychosocial Learning, Development, and Healing Among Children Impacted by War, Trauma, and Forced Displacement

Jahnavi Pandya

Fictioning Psychotherapy in Unspeakable Psychosocial Conditions

Melissa Dunlop

The Courage of Non-Learning: From the Excess of Life to the Plight of Experiences

Milad Ravanbakhsh Bosjin, Kamran Baradaranrazaz, Mohsen Esfehanizadeh

#MeToo Backlash in Barbie and Tàr

Rosemary Overell

The Psychosocial Impact of Mural Art in Northern Ireland

Niamh Callaghan

Who Are Children Being Raised By?: The Systemic Neglect of Underserved Children and Therapy’s Role in Socialization

Elizabeth Shein, Ryan Meurlin

Exploring the Dynamic Role of Therapy Dogs in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Enhancing Emotional Engagement, Learning, and Processing

Fiona Hannah

Maternal Ambivalence in the Age of Intensive Mothering

Mariann Ita

Tracing A Covidian Pathography Through Recollections Of Work In A Child Mental Health Clinic During Lockdown

Tim Smith

Dangerous Conversations In Difficult Places: Creating And Sustaining The Agora In A Forensic Secure Unit

Chair(s): John Adlam

Presenter(s): Surgery Daniel, Gerard Drennan, Earl Pennycooke

The De-humanization And Pathologization Of Poverty

Lucy Stroud

Intersubjectivity and the Role of Schools: A Relational Context for Adolescent Identity Formation ion

Constance Catrone

Considerations On The Popular Teaching Of Psychoanalysis

Luíza Canato

Experiential Links: A Psychosocial Approach to Ethics Approval and Fieldwork Preparations in Sensitive Research

Valeh Amooi

Learning about Subjectivities in Contexts of Political Instability and Cultural Ruptures: “Interlocking Violence” in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia

Meriem Mokdad Zmitri

Implications of Incarceration and Perpetual Misunderstanding

Kendall Greer

Learning Psychosocial Informed: Identification and Ambivalence in People-to-People Interactions

Linda Lundgaard Andersen

Pedagogy in Times of Loss and Suffering: Psychic Survival and Subjectivation

Ana Archangelo, Fabio Villela

The Limits to Learning: Tough Lessons from Psychoanalysis

Chair(s): Marilyn Charles

Presentations of the Symposium

Desire or Dead End: Psychoanalytic Didactics

Conor McCormack

Learning from Experience

Marilyn Charles

Negative Empathy: or Knowing that You Cannot Understand as a Path to (Un)Learning

Stephanie Swales

This ain’t no Classroom! Working with the “Subject supposed to know” in the Clinic of Adolescence

Carol Owens

Editing the Handbook of Psychosocial Studies

Chair(s): Stephen Frosh

Presenter(s): Stephen Frosh, Marita Vyrgioti, Julie Walsh

Learning and Unlearning: Dreaming as a critical pedagogy

Chair(s): Nirit Gordon, Chera Reid

Presenter(s): Chera Reid, Nirit Gordon

Social Dreaming

Lita Iole Crociani-Windland

Unveiling Perceptions: Exploring Artistic Methodology in 'Corps Composé.s /Composite Body(ies)'

Lara Bouvet

Writing Psychosocially for Publication

Elizabeth Frost, David Jones, Lucy Stroud

Learning To Think And Feel Together: Incorporating A Psycho-social Group Analysis Method In A Large Research Team

Roni Eyal-Lubling, Michelle Lefevre

Through the Kleinian Lens: Psychic Encounters of a (Becoming) Psychotherapist and a Person in India

Manali Arora

Jungian Psycho-Social Studies: Akira, Greta Thunberg, and Archetypal Thematic Analysis (ATA)

Kevin Lu

This Is (not) Me: Autotheory and Writing the Psychosocial Self

Elena Gkivisi

Electronic Containment?

Noreen Giffney, Lynn Froggett, Jill Bennett, Gail Kenning

Free Clinics and the (re)inventions of Psychoanalysis

Ana Minozzo, Raluca Soreanu, Ana Tomcic, Ana Čvorović, Julianna Pusztai, Lizaveta van Munsteren

From Performative to Declarative Identity: How do We Come to Be and to Know Who We Are?

Chair(s): Amy Taylor

Presenter(s): Nathan Smith, Godhuli Bhattacharya, Jeffrey Zeuner, Grier Potter

Postone and Psychosocial Critique

Alexander Yonkel Perelson

Trauma and Empty Signifiers: Understanding Revolution from a Perspective of Temporality

Yuchen Li

The Mystical/Religious Discourse and Criminality: The Case of the Moral Manifesto of the Knights Templar of Michoacán

Ana Sofia Hernandez Vega, Hada Soria Escalante

Decolonizing the Clinic: Some Pedagogical Observations

Chair(s): Angie Voela

Presenter(s): Michael O'Loughlin, Anxhela Kanani, Emily Linn, Chrystal Marte, Andrea Pereyra, Meriem Mokdad

The Relationship between Shame, English Identity and the Maritime Imagination

Chair(s): Candida Yates

Presenter(s): Lynn Froggett, Lita Crociani-Windland, Siobhan Lennon Patience, Samantha Iwowo, Candida Yates

Understanding Public Violence and Harm

Chair(s): Laura McGrath, David Jones

Discussant(s): Nina Fellows, Deepti Ramaswamy, David Kaposi, David Jones

Presentations of the Symposium

Extremism, Trauma and Adversity: A Dialogical Narrative Analysis

Deepti Ramaswamy

Self-harm in Popular Film c. 1977-2003: a feminist-psychoanalytic analysis

Nina Fellows

Hidden in public sight: Coercive control in Stanley Milgram’s “Obedience to authority” series

David Kaposi

Violence and the Public Sphere

David Jones, Laura McGrath

In(security)

Stephen Frosh

Co-Poiesis and the Risk of Encounter

Ana Minozzo

Mothering and In/Security

Joanna Kellond

The Tyranny of 'Relationality’

Chair(s): Charles Marilyn

Presenter(s): Nini Kerr, Fakhry Davids

On Afro-pessimism and Psychoanalysis

Derek Hook

Penetrating colonial and western Lacanian psychoanalysis

Bita Riazati

Shifting Selves, Becoming 'Raced' - Proposing a Psychosocial Methodological Approach To Exploring Young Children's 'Racial' Identity Construction

Ghida Bernard, Lisa Saville Young

From Procrustes’Bed Epistemology to Equitable Encounter: A Tunisian Researcher’s Journey of Decolonizing Psychoanalytical Theories in Favor of the Host Context

Meriem Mokdad Zmitri

Grief Dances: The Price we Pay for Love

Iselin Brogeland

Dancing Grief: Reflections on Artistic Practice as a Psychosocial Space for Exploring/Experiencing Shared Affects

Iselin Brogeland

LGBTIQ+ Break-ups: Combining Affect Theorical and Psychosocial Perspectives

Annukka Lahti

LGBTIQA+ Mental Health and Wellbeing: Temporal and Relational Insights from a Photoelicitation Study

Nicholas Hill

“Don’t Live…I Love You”: Exploring Marriage as an Object Laced with Maternal Envy

Reva Puri

Saying Hello and Saying Goodbye - A Case and Possibilities of Narrative Therapy

Damini Butalia

Learning From Moving Image Experience

Shahrzad Hashemi

Laocoön’s Despairing Gaze: Lacunae, Metaphor, and the Repression of Despair.

Patrick Fuery

Human Rights Violations: The Immigrant As A Virus And A Dehumanized Object

Ruth Lijtmaer

What Chairs Have to do with It?’ Some Reflection on Non-human Agents in Experiential Learning

Donata Puntil, Lizaveta Van Munsteeren, Emma Skala

Learning from Intergenerational Experience for Living and Working in Neoliberalism

Chair(s): Ryan Meurlin, Elizabeth Shein

Presenter(s): Michael O'Loughlin, Artemis Christinaki, Elizabeth Shein, Nini Kerr, Jacob Johanssen, Jordan Osserman, Nigel Williams

“A Sea of Griefs is not a Proscenium”

Calum Neill

“I Formed an Idea of my Own”: Experiential Fantasy and Scenographies of Reading

Madeleine Wood

Exploring the Transformative Power of Art: A Collaborative Residency in Healthcare

Lara Bouvet

On The Failure Of Universality In Trade Unions

Thomas Compton

War: Screening the UnScene

Chair(s): Jessica Datema, Manya Steinkoler

Discussant(s): Jessica Datema, Manya Steinkoler, Ernesto Pezzi

Presentations of the Symposium

Wandering: "Occupied City"

Jessica Datema

Zones of Interest

Manya Steinkoler

Screening Zones of Occupation

Ernesto Pezzi