Joint Conference Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS) and Association for Psychoanalysis Culture and Society (APCS) 2024
17th and 18th June 2024
St Mary’s University in Twickenham, London, UK
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Monday, 17/June/2024 | ||||
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Registration and coffee Location: DV Lounge |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Opening plenary Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session Working session Plenary Learning from the Past to Imagine a Better Future |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee break 1 Location: DV Lounge |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Session 1: Ecology & Lived Experience Location: F5 External Resource for This Session Chair: María Mirón Individual Paper Ecology, Psychoanalysis, Global Warming and cats: Fragmentation and Interconnection Individual Paper Rethinking “Climate Emotions” in the Age of Burnout Capitalism Individual Paper Psychoanalysis, the New Rhetoric, and the Metabolism of Experience |
Session 2: Immigration, Hope & Unbelonging Location: F6 External Resource for This Session Chair: Angie Voela Individual Paper Landscapes of Un/Belonging: An Empirical Psychosocial Study of Lithuanian Migration to London Since the Early 1990s Individual Paper A Psychoanalytic Perspective On Iranian Immigrants' Cultural Objects: Transition Or Suspension? Individual Paper Navigating Hope and Containment in the Refugee Journey Individual Paper The Haunting Echoes of an Emptying Split: Reimagining the Emotional Violence and Developmental Effects of Caste Through an Intersubjective Lense |
Session 3: Inter & Transgenerational Memory Workshop Location: Senior Common Room External Resource for This Session Working session Inter and Transgenerational Memory Workshop |
Session 4: Media and Technology from a Psychosocial Lens Location: G3 External Resource for This Session Chair: Candida Yates Individual Paper The Future of Healing Trauma by Theologians: Psychosocial Analysis and Ethical Dilemmas in the Age of AI Explored Individual Paper ‘It can only do so much’: A Psychosocial Study of Undergraduate Students’ Perspectives on AI –Chatbots and Writing. Individual Paper The formative study of Formative Media Individual Paper Romantic Television Dramas as a Cathartic Space for Play: A Psychosocial Case Study |
| Session 5: Navigating Anti-Oppressive Psychotherapy Training: Experiential Insights from Trainers Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session Chair: Maya Mukamel Roundtable Navigating Anti-Oppressive Psychotherapy Training: Experiential Insights from Trainers |
Session 6: Decolonialising Psychoanalysis: Psychoanalysing Colonialities Location: F4 External Resource for This Session Chair: Carol Owens Symposium Decolonialising Psychoanalysis: Psychoanalysing Colonialities Presentations of the Symposium Cultivating A Revolutionary Unconscious: Steps Toward Decoloniality Ghosts Of A Nation: Melancholia In The Shadows Of Colonialism (In The Banshees Of Inisherin) Poor Things? On The Colonialising Of The Adolescent Imaginary The Effects of Colonialism On Psychoanalytic Theory And Technique |
Session 7: Teaching, Learning & Psychic Survival Location: G2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Heidi Burke Individual Paper Winnicott and the “Impossible Profession” of Teaching: Dispatches From the False-self Classroom Individual Paper What Were Trigger Warnings? New Forms of Knowing and The Use of the Classroom Individual Paper The Affective-Relational Nature And Role Of The Learner Teacher Relationship For Those Looked After By Those Other Than Their Parents. Individual Paper Social Isolation, Neoliberalism, And Societal Dis-Ease |
Session 8: Technological Explorations Location: G1 External Resource for This Session Chair: Tom Fielder Individual Paper Digital Intersubjectivity and the Digital Death Drive: Psychosocial Considerations of Zuckerberg’s Metaverse and Musk’s Neuralink Individual Paper Between Regression and Development: #eating Disorders and #recovery on TikTok Individual Paper Undermining Endings and Complicating Temporalities: Centring Experience in Analysing Representations of Self-harm |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Location: DV Lounge |
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Session 10: Gender & Beyond Location: G1 External Resource for This Session Chair: Anthony Faramelli Individual Paper ‘A woman is being beaten’ – Positionings of Female Right-Wing Influencers Individual Paper Men’s Anxieties And Defences Regarding Gender (In)equality In The Workplace: An Object-relations Psychoanalysis Of Organisational Masculinities Individual Paper A Brief Chronicle of Anger |
Session 11: Gender, Affect & Expectations Location: G2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Tom Fielder Individual Paper Constraint And Rebellion: Identity Development Through The Interplay Of Young Men's Experiences Of Sexual Desire And Social Expectations Of Masculinity Individual Paper Unveiling Hidden Struggles Exploring into the Psychosocial Responses to Incestuous Abuse in Adolescent Girls Individual Paper Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP): Teaching from the Margins Individual Paper 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 |
Session 12: Making And Working W Location: Senior Common Room External Resource for This Session Working session Making And Working With Images Of Countertransference: An Experiential Workshop On Relational Reflexivity For The Psychosocial Researcher And Adult Educator. |
Session 13: Decolonizing the Clinic: Some Pedagogical Observations Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session Chair: Angie Voela Roundtable Decolonizing the Clinic: Some Pedagogical Observations |
| Session 14: Psychosocial Systems Location: F5 External Resource for This Session Chair: Carol Owens Individual Paper Did HAL Commit Suicide? Theorizing Instrumental Convergence in Psychoanalysis Individual Paper The Application of Wilfred Bion's Group Theory in Social Media Individual Paper A Psychosocial Comparison of the Yoruba Ifá System of Divination, with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Individual Paper Paranoia, Perversion, and the Subject of Desire: A Lacanian Exploration of AI Chatbots |
Session 15: Sexuality & Desire Location: G3 External Resource for This Session Chair: Luis Jimenez Individual Paper Building Trust in the Therapeutic Relationship: A Journey Unveiling Sexual Trauma, Sexual Identity and Emotional Vulnerability Individual Paper Symbolic Decline And The Secretion Of Sexuality Individual Paper Of Heterosexual Desires and Feminist Politics - The Messy, Complicated Relationship Between the Personal and the Political |
Session 16: Learning – Vicariously - From Experience Location: F4 External Resource for This Session Symposium Learning – Vicariously - From Experience Presentations of the Symposium Until the Last Moment Who is Us? Processing the Uncanny Through Eco-Horror Things that Go Bump: The Return of the Real in Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Club Individual Paper Organizing the Unconscious: The Structural Potential of Rhythm |
Session 9: Experiential Learning in the Classroom Location: F6 External Resource for This Session Chair: Lita Iole Crociani-Windland Individual Paper Working with The World of the Boy: Examining Positioning In A Psychosocial Response To Gender-based Violence In Schools Individual Paper Once upon a time…using Stories as Transitional Objects to support student learning in Social Justice Education Individual Paper Ontogenesis of Reflexive Praxis in University Classrooms in India: A Qualitative Study |
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| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Coffee break 2 Location: DV Lounge |
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| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Session 17: Academia & Its Discontents Location: G3 External Resource for This Session Chair: Nikol Alexander-Floyd Individual Paper The Debt of Privilege Audit-Culture, Universities and the Uncommoning of Mental Space Individual Paper The Soft Authoritarianism of the Managerial University Individual Paper Splitting and Eros in Contemporary Re-Masculinized Academia Individual Paper Psychosis and Sadism in Academic Practice |
Session 18: Identity & Inquiry Location: F5 External Resource for This Session Chair: Anthony Faramelli Individual Paper The PhD As Me-search Individual Paper Reflexivity and Experiential Learning in the Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM): Making Visible the "Hidden Interview Partner" Individual Paper Ghosts As Gurus - Learning And Failing To Learn From Experience In The Aesthetic Vertex |
Session 19: Learning & Not Learning Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session Chair: David Jones Individual Paper The Desire For Change In The 2019 Chile Revolt: Learning From Experience Individual Paper Learning (or not learning) from Brexit with Ali Smith Individual Paper Scansion And What Springs From The Limit |
Session 20: Learning to Live with Problems- Embracing Paradoxical Journeys of the Self (un)made in Vital Encounters Location: F4 External Resource for This Session Symposium Learning to Live with Problems- Embracing Paradoxical Journeys of the Self (un)made in Vital Encounters Presentations of the Symposium From Denial to Co-existence: The Value of Suffering and Empathetic Identification Hate Scars and Other Problems- Recovering Histories of Hospitality as Salve Between Stone and Skin: Listening to Stories as Portals of Eros “I Have More Souls Than One…”: Between Chaos and Creation in Musings on ‘Creative Living’ |
| Session 21: Methodology & Meaning Location: F6 External Resource for This Session Chair: Jacob Johanssen Individual Paper Towards a Schizoid Methodology Individual Paper Creating a Culturally-appropriate Measure of Psychic Pain: Online Sampling of Mexican Adult’s Self-Experiences Individual Paper Is The Learning Only In My Imagination? Social Dreaming of South African Use for Student-centred and Social Justice-orientated Leadership Learning Individual Paper Collaborative Fragmentation: Psychosocial Experiments in Writing-as-Encounter |
Session 22: Narrative & Identity Location: G1 External Resource for This Session Chair: Thi Gammon Individual Paper ‘Autobiographical Narratives And Free-associative Discourse: The Use Of Personal Artefacts As A Meaning-making Device In Psychosocial Research’ Individual Paper 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 Individual Paper 'Beyond the narrative: A Psychosocial Exploration of Adolescent Development' Individual Paper 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 |
Session 23: The Future Clinic What if Café Location: G2 External Resource for This Session Working session The Future Clinic What if Café |
Session 36: Psychosocial Perspectives on the Role of Nostalgia Location: Senior Common Room External Resource for This Session Chair: Callum Blades Roundtable Psychosocial Perspectives on the Role of Nostalgia |
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| 5:15pm - 6:45pm |
Roundtable: The Relationship between Shame, English Identity and the Maritime Imagination Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session Roundtable The Relationship between Shame, English Identity and the Maritime Imagination |
Session 24: -K: Foreclosed Learning? Location: F5 External Resource for This Session Chair: David Jones Individual Paper From Repetition to Metabolization: Metacognitive Capacities in an Inpatient Eating Disorder Sample Individual Paper Fear Of Thinking? Learning And The Avoidance Of Learning In Social Work Group SupervisionnA Individual Paper Revisioning Counselling And Psychotherapy From The Lens Of The Caste System Of The Indian Subcontinent And Its Diaspora Individual Paper Use of Psychoanalysis for Psychosocial Learning, Development, and Healing Among Children Impacted by War, Trauma, and Forced Displacement |
Session 25: Art and Aesthetics Location: G1 External Resource for This Session Chair: Jim Parris Individual Paper Fictioning Psychotherapy in Unspeakable Psychosocial Conditions Individual Paper #MeToo Backlash in Barbie and Tàr Individual Paper The Psychosocial Impact of Mural Art in Northern Ireland |
Session 26: Children & Identity Location: F6 External Resource for This Session Chair: Nigel Williams Individual Paper Who Are Children Being Raised By?: The Systemic Neglect of Underserved Children and Therapy’s Role in Socialization Individual Paper Exploring the Dynamic Role of Therapy Dogs in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Enhancing Emotional Engagement, Learning, and Processing Individual Paper Maternal Ambivalence in the Age of Intensive Mothering Individual Paper Tracing A Covidian Pathography Through Recollections Of Work In A Child Mental Health Clinic During Lockdown |
| Session 27: Dangerous Conversations In Difficult Places: Creating And Sustaining The Agora In A Forensic Secure Unit Location: G2 External Resource for This Session Chair: JOHN ADLAM Roundtable Dangerous Conversations In Difficult Places: Creating And Sustaining The Agora In A Forensic Secure Unit |
Session 28: Educational Challenges Location: G3 External Resource for This Session Chair: Nini Kerr Individual Paper The De-humanization And Pathologization Of Poverty Individual Paper Intersubjectivity and the Role of Schools: A Relational Context for Adolescent Identity Formation ion Individual Paper Considerations On The Popular Teaching Of Psychoanalysis Individual Paper Experiential Links: A Psychosocial Approach to Ethics Approval and Fieldwork Preparations in Sensitive Research |
Session 29: Societal Dis-Ease Location: F4 External Resource for This Session Chair: Heidi Burke Individual Paper Learning about Subjectivities in Contexts of Political Instability and Cultural Ruptures: “Interlocking Violence” in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia Individual Paper Implications of Incarceration and Perpetual Misunderstanding Individual Paper Learning Psychosocial Informed: Identification and Ambivalence in People-to-People Interactions Individual Paper Pedagogy in Times of Loss and Suffering: Psychic Survival and Subjectivation |
Session 30: The Limits to Learning: Tough Lessons from Psychoanalysis Location: Senior Common Room External Resource for This Session Chair: Marilyn Charles Symposium The Limits to Learning: Tough Lessons from Psychoanalysis Presentations of the Symposium Desire or Dead End: Psychoanalytic Didactics Learning from Experience Negative Empathy: or Knowing that You Cannot Understand as a Path to (Un)Learning This ain’t no Classroom! Working with the “Subject supposed to know” in the Clinic of Adolescence |
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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: Tuesday, 18/June/2024 | ||||
| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Registration and coffee 2 Location: DV Lounge |
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| 8:30am - 9:45am |
Session Location: G3 External Resource for This Session |
Session 31: Editing the Handbook of Psychosocial Studies Location: G1 External Resource for This Session Roundtable Editing the Handbook of Psychosocial Studies |
Session 32: Learning and Unlearning: Dreaming as a critical pedagogy Location: F6 External Resource for This Session Chair: Nirit Gordon Roundtable Learning and Unlearning: Dreaming as a critical pedagogy |
Session 33 Location: G2 External Resource for This Session |
| Session 34: Social Dreaming Location: Senior Common Room External Resource for This Session Working session Social Dreaming |
Session 35: Unveiling Perceptions: Exploring Artistic Methodology in 'Corps Composé.s /Composite Body(ies)' Location: F4 External Resource for This Session Chair: María Mirón Working session Unveiling Perceptions: Exploring Artistic Methodology in 'Corps Composé.s /Composite Body(ies)' |
Session 37: Writing Psychosocially for Publication Location: F5 External Resource for This Session Working session Writing Psychosocially for Publication |
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| 10:00am - 11:30am |
Session 38: Developmental Methodologies Location: F5 External Resource for This Session Chair: Nigel Williams Individual Paper Through the Kleinian Lens: Psychic Encounters of a (Becoming) Psychotherapist and a Person in India Individual Paper This Is (not) Me: Autotheory and Writing the Psychosocial Self |
Session 39: Electronic Containment: Immersive Experiences, VR, AI in Relational Practice Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session Working session Electronic Containment: Immersive Experiences, VR, AI in Relational Practice |
Session 40: Free Clinics and the (re)inventions of Psychoanalysis Location: G3 External Resource for This Session Working session Free Clinics and the (re)inventions of Psychoanalysis |
Session 41: From Performative to Declarative Identity: How do We Come to Be and to Know Who We Are? Location: G1 External Resource for This Session Chair: Amy Taylor Roundtable From Performative to Declarative Identity: How do We Come to Be and to Know Who We Are? |
| Session 42: Psychosocial Critiques Location: F6 External Resource for This Session Chair: Anthony Faramelli Individual Paper Postone and Psychosocial Critique Individual Paper Trauma and Empty Signifiers: Understanding Revolution from a Perspective of Temporality Individual Paper The Mystical/Religious Discourse and Criminality: The Case of the Moral Manifesto of the Knights Templar of Michoacán |
Session 43: Grief Dances: The Price we Pay for Love Location: Senior Common Room External Resource for This Session Chair: Angie Voela Individual Paper Dancing Grief: Reflections on Artistic Practice as a Psychosocial Space for Exploring/Experiencing Shared Affects Working session Grief Dances: The Price we Pay for Love |
Session 44 Location: F4 External Resource for This Session Chair: Candida Yates |
Session 45: Understanding Public Violence and Harm Location: G2 External Resource for This Session Chair: Nikol Alexander-Floyd Symposium Understanding Public Violence and Harm Presentations of the Symposium Extremism, Trauma and Adversity: A Dialogical Narrative Analysis Self-harm in Popular Film c. 1977-2003: a feminist-psychoanalytic analysis Hidden in public sight: Coercive control in Stanley Milgram’s “Obedience to authority” series Violence and the Public Sphere |
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| 11:30am - 12:00pm |
Coffee break 2.1 Location: DV Lounge |
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Plenary: Frosh Kelllond Minozzo Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session Chair: Jacob Johanssen Individual Paper In(security) Individual Paper Co-Poiesis and the Risk of Encounter Individual Paper Mothering and In/Security |
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| 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Day 2 Location: DV Lounge |
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| 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
Plenary Kerr and Davids Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session Chair: Marilyn Charles Roundtable The Tyranny of 'Relationality’ |
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| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Coffee break 2.2 Location: DV Lounge |
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| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Session 46: Colonisation & Identity Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session Chair: Carol Owens Individual Paper On Afro-pessimism and Psychoanalysis Individual Paper Penetrating colonial and western Lacanian psychoanalysis Individual Paper Shifting Selves, Becoming 'Raced' - Proposing a Psychosocial Methodological Approach To Exploring Young Children's 'Racial' Identity Construction Individual Paper From Procrustes’Bed Epistemology to Equitable Encounter: A Tunisian Researcher’s Journey of Decolonizing Psychoanalytical Theories in Favor of the Host Context |
Session 47: Oh God! May I Be Alive When I Teach Location: G2 External Resource for This Session Roundtable Oh God! May I Be Alive When I Teach |
Session 48: Gender & Wellbeing Location: F4 External Resource for This Session Chair: Thi Gammon Individual Paper LGBTIQ+ Break-ups: Combining Affect Theorical and Psychosocial Perspectives Individual Paper LGBTIQA+ Mental Health and Wellbeing: Temporal and Relational Insights from a Photoelicitation Study Individual Paper “Don’t Live…I Love You”: Exploring Marriage as an Object Laced with Maternal Envy Individual Paper Saying Hello and Saying Goodbye - A Case and Possibilities of Narrative Therapy |
Session 49: Learning & Liminal Space Location: G3 External Resource for This Session Chair: Marilyn Charles Individual Paper Learning From Moving Image Experience Individual Paper Laocoön’s Despairing Gaze: Lacunae, Metaphor, and the Repression of Despair. Individual Paper What Chairs Have to do with It?’ Some Reflection on Non-human Agents in Experiential Learning |
| Session 50: Learning from Intergenerational Experience for Living and Working in Neoliberalism Location: F6 External Resource for This Session Chair: Ryan Meurlin Roundtable Learning from Intergenerational Experience for Living and Working in Neoliberalism |
Session 51: Transformation: Possible & Impossible Location: F5 External Resource for This Session Chair: Lita Iole Crociani-Windland Individual Paper “A Sea of Griefs is not a Proscenium” Individual Paper “I Formed an Idea of my Own”: Experiential Fantasy and Scenographies of Reading Individual Paper Exploring the Transformative Power of Art: A Collaborative Residency in Healthcare Individual Paper On The Failure Of Universality In Trade Unions |
Session 52: War: Screening the UnScene Location: G1 External Resource for This Session Chair: Jessica Datema Symposium War: Screening the UnScene Presentations of the Symposium Wandering: "Occupied City" Zones of Interest Representability of the "Zone": Sound and Vision |
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| 5:00pm | Closing plenary and open space Location: Waldegrave Drawing Room External Resource for This Session |
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