Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Our research students

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Discover the research students in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies

Our research students investigate a broad range of exciting topics and are supervised by our academic staff.

To visit an individual research student's profile and find their contact details, please click on the links below:

Research students

Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: Analytical Psychology; Phenomenology; Narrative Theory
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Youth engagement/mentoring, Youth offending, Serious violence, Adolescents, Psychosocial, Social Justice, Diversity and Inclusion, Life stories, Violence prevention Research interests: Youth justice
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Freud, Anxiety and Academic Performance, Specialist Mentoring, Mentoring, Young adults, Adolescents, Psychoanalysis, History of Art, Italian Renaissance, Mannerism,
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Treatment of trauma
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Refugee Care, Analytical Psychology, Wellbeing, Humanitarian Staff Care, Mental Health/ Psychiatry
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: Alchemical Practice; Jungian Psychology; Arts-Based Research; Phenomenology ; Synchronicity; Surrealism (particularly surrealist poetry)
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Exploration of Culture, Race, and Racism Research interests: Psychoanalysis and critical theory; Philosophy of Culture, Race, and Racism
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Menopause; The psychological impact and treatment
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Addiction, Recovery, Drug-Dreams research, Structural Dream Analysis, Dreams, Dreaming, Rehabs, Art Therapy, Jungian Analysis, Therapeutic Communities Research interests: Drug-Dreams, Addiction, Recovery, Jungian Art Therapy
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Freud and his dogs, working psychodynamically with children/ adolescents and using dogs as part of the therapeutic process.,
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Writers & Writing; Gifted & Talented; Normative Multiplicity; Imaginal Ethics Research interests: Normative Multiplicity; Gifted and Talented Adults -- Authorship; Writers’ Notebooks
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: My reaserch thesis
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Jung and India ; Culture, psyche, myths; Indian philosophy & literature; Anima and animus, individuation; Archival research ; Group Relations ; The Ramayana; Psyche and Ecology; Jung, Yoga philosophy and India Research interests: Psyche and Culture
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Objects Relations Theory, Immigration, Cultural Objects, Group Dynamic and Analysis Research interests: Development of psychoanlytic perspective in different social context
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychoanalytic formulations of internalised misogyny
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: C. G. Jung’s Liber Novus; Jung and the idea of initiation; Initiatory rites; The study of esotericism; Clinical and forensic counselling; Clinical supervision
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Melanie Klein, Object Relations Theory, Contemporary Psychodynamic Approaches, Relational Psychodynamic Theory, Female Subjectivity, Greek Mythology and Psychoanalysis, Creative approaches
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Siblings and their relationship to identity development; The only-child adult and the search for a sibling; The only-child adult and the phantasy sibling transference Research interests: The inner world of the only-child adult ; Siblings and their relation to identity development
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Intersectionality in student mental health ; LGBTQ+ mental health; psychodynamic therapy; mental health training; supervision Research interests: Intersectionality in student mental health ; Yoga and mental health; Cold water swimming and mental health
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Lacanian psychoanalysis; Post-Lacanian psychoanalysis; Poststructuralist feminism; Schizoanalysis; Feminist-new materialism; Capitalism
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Voice and the Therapeutic Space: A study of how voice intonation, melody and prosody are experienced in the therapeutic dyad
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Queer theory; Erotic transference; Patients' perspectives in psychoanalysis; Zine making as a research methodology; Queering the history of psychoanalysis Research interests: Queer female sexuality in psychoanalysis
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Object relations and neurodevelopmental conditions; Adolescence; Gender; Parent-Infant mental health; Parent work and schizoid mechinisms
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: I am a practicing Psychotherapist
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychotherapy for children & adolescents experiencing gender related distress
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Intersubjectivity, Mutuality, Objects Relations Theory, Cultural Objects, Activism and Psychoanalysis Research interests: Radical Psychoanalytic Praxis
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests: Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Childhood sexual abuse ; Object relations - early developmental functioning; Gender; Severe and enduring mental health challenges; PTSD and related trauma
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychoanalytic informed research of management and oganisations Research interests: Psychoanalytic perspectives on organisational dynamics; Leadership development-psychodynamic perspectives; Psychodynamic role and (professional) identity theory
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychoanalytic Research in Social Contexts; Relational Perspectives; Culture and Psyche; Qualitative Methodologies; Migration and Forced Displacement; Home Research interests: Critical Psychoanalysis, Cultural Psychology, Psychosocial Studies, Relational Perspectives
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Counselling offenders in the community using the mobile phone
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Colonial Literature, Deconstruction, Derrida, Subalternity, Spivak Research interests: Literature and Psychoanalysis- Interdisciplinarity
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: analytical psychology, couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy Research interests: Transgenerational affect transmission; Couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy - Narcissistic power relations
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Psychoanalysis, C.G. Jung Analytical Psychology, Ethnomusicology, Shamanism, Music, Dreams, Archetype, Synchronicity, Childhood, Trauma, Metaphysics Research interests: Rumination, Earworm and Carl Jung's Synchronicity ; C. G. Jung's Concept of Music Dreams; Creativity: Lyrics and Music Composition through Collective Unconscious by C. G. Jung; Psychoanalytic View on Sound Frequency and Brainwave Activity; Analytical Psychology and Ethnomusicology (especially Shamanism); Childhood Trauma and Music Preferences in Psychoanalysis
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Ask me about: Jungian psychology Research interests: Jungian Psychology and Divinatory Techniques; Jung and Synchronicity; Asian Culture and Jungian Psychology; Chinese Society and Psychoanalysis; The Development of C. G. Jung's Thoughts; Depth Psychological Interpretations of Ancient Narratives
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Postgraduate Research Student, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
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Contact us
Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
Telephone: 01206 873640