Noreen Giffney

New issue of #NewAssociations #psychoanalytic magazine on relationality with @jilltba.bsky.social’s article on #WorldComesAlive VR experience on page one. Illustration by Allen Fatimaharn. For info re the issue: noreen.giffney@bpc.org.uk & emmanuelle.smith@bpc.org.uk www.bpc.org.uk/about-us/our...

Looking forward to speaking at the Freud Lacan Institute’s hybrid event on #psychoanalysis & research this Saturday 4 October in the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), Dublin freudlacaninstitute.com/research-sym...

I’ll be giving a talk re #psychoanalysis, reflective practice and #VR as part of the Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy’s clinical seminar series on Saturday 20 September at 10 am-1pm Irish time. The hybrid event will take place in Dublin, Ireland & online www.eventbrite.ie/e/our-attune...

I’ll be speaking @ a symposium re #psychoanalysis & #research on 4 October in Dublin. Speakers include clinical practitioners & researchers in psychoanalysis, #psychiatry & #psychology to discuss the place & importance of research.

Attend in person or online freudlacaninstitute.com/research-sym...

#NewAssociations 46 (2025) has been published. This is the 1st complete issue of the #psychoanalytic magazine Emmanuelle Smith & I have edited. We’ve framed this issue around the themes of conflict & trauma. Email emmanuelle.smith@bpc.org.uk & noreen.giffney@bpc.org.uk for a copy of our editorial

I enjoyed working with my talented colleagues at the #WorldComesAlive: VR & #Psychoanalysis event @ the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London this week: (l-r) me, @lynnfroggett.bsky.social, @jilltba.bsky.social, @gailkenning.bsky.social & Anna Harvey www.artsandhealth.ie/2025/06/11/w...

@jilltba.bsky.social @gailkenning.bsky.social @lynnfroggett.bsky.social

‘World Comes Alive: #Psychoanalysis & Virtual Reality’, London, Thursday 19 June www.artsandhealth.ie/2025/06/11/w... We will be focusing on how #VR experiences might be incorporated into clinical training & CPD training re reflective practice. (Photo from #WorldComesAlive, the fEEL Lab 2025)

Interested in writing an article or review for #NewAssociations #psychoanalytic magazine, published by the British Psychoanalytic Council? Listen to this new podcast with Emmanuelle Smith (Co-Editor), Niamh Downes (Managing Editor) & me (Co-Editor) re how to pitch s301.podbean.com/pb/653013c43...

@jilltba.bsky.social @lynnfroggett.bsky.social @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social @gailkenning.bsky.social

#Psychoanalysis Meets Virtual Reality: Experiential event re #WorldComesAlive, a new Virtual Reality (VR) experience & the 1st underpinned & framed by psychoanalytic thinking. Thur 19 June 3-8 pm in the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/world-come... DM me for the brochure

@jilltba.bsky.social @gailkenning.bsky.social @lynnfroggett.bsky.social @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social

Join Jill Bennett, Gail Kenning, Lynn Froggett, Anna Harvey & me for ‘World Comes Alive’, a new Virtual Reality (VR) experience & the 1st VR app underpinned by #psychoanalytic thinking. Thursday 19 June 3 pm-8 pm in the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, London. Email n.giffney@ulster.ac.uk for info

Congratulations to the editors of this exciting new collection, which interrogates psychosocial studies as a scholarly praxis of “creative disruption”. Including a playful piece of my own about Brexit, drawing on @profcand.bsky.social work on political culture: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The Allure of Fascism: Infinite Discontent with Alasdair Cannon Join us for our next APS online reading group, with Alasdair Cannon on the allure of fascism in contemporary societies.

Please join us for our next reading group! Writer and podcaster Alasdair Cannon will be presenting a psychosocial perspective on fascism, based on his timely new book. Thursday 1 May, 6pm.
@profcand.bsky.social @tjfielder.bsky.social @heidis-ann.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-allure...?

The Journal of Psychosocial Studies invites submissions for a special section dedicated to examining the ongoing political crisis marked by the results of the elections in the USA, and the rise of populism and authoritarianism across the USA and Europe.

The Psychoanalytic Writing for Publication Workshop taking place on Tuesday 13 May at 7 pm-8.30 pm is almost fully booked. Register for one of the remaining places at www.bpc.org.uk/event/new-as...

The new issue of #NewAssociations #psychoanalytic magazine has been published by the British Psychoanalytic Council. It is the first issue published in my role as joint editor-in-chief with Emmanuelle Smith. Subscribe @ www.bpc.org.uk/about-us/new... Back issues @ www.bpc.org.uk/about-us/new...

Emmanuelle Smith & I will talk through how to turn an idea into an article or review for #NewAssociations #psychoanalytic magazine, published by the British Psychoanalytic Council. Join us for an online workshop on Tuesday 13 May 2025 at 7 pm-8.30 pm (UK time): www.bpc.org.uk/event/new-as...

Do join us for the next @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social reading group on 19 Feb! Prof Fintan Walsh will be presenting his latest research on theatre, performance and post-pandemic grief @noreengiffney.bsky.social @profcand.bsky.social @jacobjohanssen.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performing...

Thanks very much for such a generous blurb re your experience of reading the book @tswingard.bsky.social! It was a very enjoyable collaboration with colleagues @dianewatt.bsky.social & Michelle Sauer

See us online at 2pm today with Patricia Gherovici, @noreengiffney.bsky.social @hzeavin.bsky.social and chair Raluca Soreanu for a discussion about how Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham’s relationship is portrayed in the movie Freud’s Last Session - tickets from @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social

Thanks to Ruth for the photo!

Queer Encounters with psychoanalytic history at the Freud Museum – the relationship between Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham (Online Symposium) - Freud Museum London All registrants will receive their link to join via ZOOM. Attendees will also receive access to the recording on the Monday after the event, available to

I’ll be reflecting on the film, Freud’s Last Session, tomorrow with @harrietmossop.bsky.social, Raluca Soreanu, @hzeavin.bsky.social & Patricia Gherovici www.freud.org.uk/event/queer-... Organised by Harrie & hosted by @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social

Congrats @harrietmossop.bsky.social & Agnes Meadows on a thoroughly engaging & enlightening tour @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social re Anna Freud & Dorothy Burlingham’s relationship (l-r) Harriet, Raluca Soreanu, me, Agnes. Still time to sign up for tomorrow’s online www.freud.org.uk/event/queer-...

Queer Encounters with psychoanalytic history at the Freud Museum – the relationship between Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham (In-House Tour) - Freud Museum London In the 1970s and ‘80s, when the Freud Museum archive was being established, conservative social attitudes about lesbian relationships meant that Anna

Harriet is also organising an in-person event on Friday 31 January at the Freud Museum, London. Harriet & Agnes Meadows will be speaking & the event includes an exclusive tour of the Museum www.freud.org.uk/event/queer-...

I’ll be taking part in a discussion re the film Freud’s Last Session & Anna Freud & Dorothy Burlingham on Sat 1 Feb. Organised by @harrietmossop.bsky.social & hosted by @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social Speakers incl. Raluca Soreanu, Patricia Gherovici & Hannah Zeavin www.freud.org.uk/event/queer-...

The #Psychoanalysis & the #Psychosocial Group discussed Nini Kerr’s evocative & reflective article, ‘Culture as the Bad Object’ @ our 3rd session. It’s available open access & well worth reading link.springer.com/article/10.1... & www.bpc.org.uk/event/psycho... @ninikerr.bsky.social

Really looking forward to these 2
#psychoanalytic
events @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social, organised by @harrietmossop.bsky.social, on 31 Jan-1 Feb on the relationship between Anna Freud & Dorothy Burlingham & its portrayal in the film
#Freud’sLastSession
. Join us in London (also online on 1 Feb)

I have been appointed Joint Editor-in-Chief (with Emmanuelle Smith) of #NewAssociations, a #psychoanalytic magazine published by the British Psychoanalytic Council, that brings psychoanalytic thinking to social, cultural & political issues: www.bpc.org.uk/about-us/new... Email for more info