Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS)
9-10 June 2025
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: 21st Apr 2025, 07:48:50am BST
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Session Overview |
| Date: Tuesday, 10/June/2025 | |||
| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Registration and coffee 2 Location: D121 |
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| 8:30am - 9:45am |
Academia and Pedagogy Location: F6 Chair: Neena Samota Chair: Nahiyan Rashid Individual Paper Navigating the Void: Academic Acceleration, Emptiness, and the Journey Toward Transformation Individual Paper The Exhaustion of the Argument Culture and a Reclaimed Reading Ethics: A Modest Pedagogical Proposal Individual Paper Hope in the Neoliberal University of Despair? Individual Paper "Eco-anxiety In University Students: Knowledge Is Power" |
Affect and Emotion: Between Desire and Despair Location: F5 Chair: Thi Gammon Chair: Niyamat Narang Individual Paper Eroticism in the Intersectionality of Gender and Race: Nascent East Asian Female Counsellors’ Erotic Feelings of Working with White Male Clients Individual Paper There is (a) Nothing to be Anxious About (or Finding Love in a Hopeless Place) Individual Paper Melancholia: Lost and/Or Found Individual Paper In Searching for the Truth: a Comparison of Negative and Spiritually Sensitive Psychoanalysis |
Media and Technology Location: G3 Chair: Jim Parris Chair: Melanie Gomes Individual Paper Saying “No” to Tech Bros Individual Paper Digital Self-Work and Solipsistic Authoritarianism Individual Paper Fragile Hope: Unraveling the Online Relations Sought by Schizoid Personalities in the Social Media Context." |
| Reflective Space 5 Location: F4 Throughout the conference, room F4 will serve as a reflective space. Its purpose is for attendees to come together whenever they wish to reflect on, associate with, speak about or otherwise freely engage with the conference themes. There are no chairs, panels or time limits in the reflective space. It can be made into whatever those in the room at any given time wish to create. Alongside the reflective space, there will also be some flipcharts on which attendees can write down ideas, share information about research, calls for papers, or other opportunities. |
Social Dreaming Location: Senior Common Room Working session Social Dreaming |
Violence Location: G1 Chair: Elizabeth Frost Chair: Javeria Anwar Individual Paper The Irish Catholic Maternal: Articulating Embodied Research Practice with Luce Irigaray in Response to the Permanent Polycrisis Individual Paper Crisis and Acts of Interpersonal violence - Reflection in the Criminal Justice System as an Opportunity for Change. Individual Paper Psychotherapy in Times of Violence: Confronting the Crisis of Relationality Individual Paper #JewGoal and the Online Normalization of Antisemitism: A Lacanian Perspective |
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| 10:00am - 11:30am |
Crisis, Solidarity and a Psychoanalysis-to-Come Location: G2 Chair: Raluca Soreanu Chair: Yingjie Ouyang Symposium Crisis, Solidarity and a Psychoanalysis-to-Come: Freepsy Symposium Presentations of the Symposium Opportunities in Crisis: The Free Clinics Movement and the Reimagining of Psychoanalytic Practice Crises between Critique and Creativity: A Post-human Feminist Intervention Psychoanalytic Ecologies: A Network Exercise for a Psychoanalysis-to-Come Solidarity: A Psychoanalytic Stretch War and the Bonds that Hold: Nelly Wolffheim and Edith Gyömrői |
Environments and Boundaries Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room Chair: Rhea Gandhi Chair: Kartika Ladwal Individual Paper The Despair And Hope Of ‘Home’: The Enablement Of A Safe Enough ‘Home’ Space Now And In The Future: Self-sufficiency, Off-grid Green Living, Climate Change and Mars Individual Paper The UK and Europe: Crisis as Conversion Disorder Individual Paper Community Life In A Wounded Neoliberal Chile: Embodied Communitarian Gestures As Healing Tools Individual Paper 'The Dogs of Hell': How Communities Fight Terrorist Narratives |
Healthcare Challenges Location: G3 Chair: Heidi Sear Chair: Ruth Toba Llewellyn Individual Paper Such A Shame- Always Too Much, Never Enough Stories Of Shame, Resilience and Performance in Health and Social Care professionals Individual Paper A Character : The Humanitarian Health Worker Individual Paper The Secret Self: Collaborative-Autoethnography As Meaning Making Of Embodied MAO Inhibition, And Familial Child Sexual Abuse Trauma. An Exploration Of Female MAO Inhibition, Its Sequalae In Women And What It Can Tell Us About Meaning Making And The ‘Hard Question Of Consciousness’. Individual Paper Dreams and reflections of a cyborg: Telepresence teaching in Higher Education |
| Is There a Canary in the Room, or is it an Elephant? Location: G1 Chair: Elizabeth Frost Chair: Jahnavi Dutta Working session Is There a Canary in the Room, or is it an Elephant? |
Opposing Fascism Location: F4 Chair: David Jones Chair: Niyamat Narang Individual Paper Ironic Trolling and Far-Right Phallocentrism: From Small Hands to Little Hans Individual Paper Falun Gong: A Transnational History of Metamorphosis through Crises Individual Paper Control Fascism: Finance, Precarity, and the Drive to Fascism Individual Paper On Being and Not Being Psychosocial - Secret Sadness Versus the Communist Big Other |
Unheard Voices / Unthought Known Location: F5 Chair: Marilyn Charles Chair: Yaxin Hu Individual Paper Trust, Truth and Authenticity: Bizarre Objects and the Failure to Think Individual Paper Voices of the Dying: The Internet and End of Life Why online support communities matter in times of crisis Individual Paper Voices and Dreams from a Tide Isle: Creating a Psychosocial Soundscape from Portland Bay Individual Paper Navigating Coloniality: Unspoken Struggles in Counselling Psychology Training in Hong Kong |
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| 11:30am - 12:00pm |
Coffee break 2.1 Location: D121 |
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Plenary - Farhad Dalal Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room Chair: Lynn Patricia Froggett Chair: Jahnavi Dutta Roundtable A Meditation on Hope in a Time of Despair |
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| 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Day 2 Location: DV Lounge |
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Capacity, Incapacity and Subjectivity Location: G1 Chair: Anthony Faramelli Chair: Kartika Ladwal Individual Paper Speaking Back to the False Certainty of our Times: Cultivating a Revolutionary Unconscious Individual Paper Beyond the Pressure Principle: Disorientation, Trained Incapacity, and Psycho-Rhetorical Approaches to Crisis Individual Paper The Crisis Of Losing Sight In Mexico: The Social Unconscious Towards People With Blindness Individual Paper The Trauma-Crisis Caregiving Model: Understanding Special Needs Parenting as a Chronic Trauma Experience |
Hope Against Grief and Despair Location: G2 Chair: Heidi Sear Chair: Javeria Anwar Individual Paper Breaking Up With My Mother: An Autoethnographic Account of Transference and Estrangement. Individual Paper 'It's a Shame I Was Born in These Times': Hope-Against-Hope as the Floor Collapses Individual Paper Navigating Loss: Supporting Grieving Children In School Settings |
Reflective large group Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room Chair: John Adlam Working session Learning or not learning from experience? – “What’s Going On?” |
| Writing For Publication Location: F6 Chair: Nahiyan Rashid Working session Writing For Publication |
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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 |
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