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Sabah Siddiqui
Krea University
(India)
Dr Sabah Siddiqui completed her PhD from the University of Manchester on faith healing practices, where she investigated how medical science and traditional/alternative medicine intersect in mental health service provision. She used methods from critical psychology, ethnography, and social geography. She also explored the place of fiction in social science methodologies through the trope of ghost stories. She was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester twice, in 2016 and 2018. Her work on faith healing has been published in the form of a book, chapters in edited volumes, and journal articles.
Dr Siddiqui has worked on the intersections of sex, gender, and power. She has worked as a research consultant and writer on topics such as gendered violence, domestic and sexual abuse, violence against women and girls with disabilities, and violence against women deemed mad. In 2018, she was one of the editors of the special issue for the Annual Review of Critical Psychology on Sex and Power in the University, which explored the questions of sexual harassment and violence in the university setting.
Dr Siddiqui is a psychodynamic psychotherapist, with a three-year MPhil in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from Ambedkar University Delhi. She brings together psychoanalytic insights from Freud, Lacan, Object Relations, and Group Analysis to inform her work. She co-edited the book Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam, which was nominated for the 2019 Gradiva Award for Best Edited Book. She is currently a member of the editorial boards of Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society, and the Annual Review of Critical Psychology.
Isabel Fernandes de Oliveira
UFRN (Brazil)
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Ian Parker
University of Leicester
(United Kingdom)
Ian Parker was co-founder in 1991, and is currently co-director (with Professor Erica Burman), of the Discourse Unit (www.discourseunit.com). His research and writing has been in the field of psychoanalysis, psychology and social theory, with a particular focus on discourse, critical psychology, mental health and political practice. He is Emeritus Professor of Management at the University of Leicester, and has visiting professorial posts in Brazil, South Africa, Spain and the UK. He is a practising psychoanalyst, and is currently Secretary of Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix and Managing Editor of the Annual Review of Critical Psychology. He is a Fellow of the BPS and the RSA.
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Current posts
Psychoanalyst in independent practice in Manchester, UK
Emeritus Professor of Management, University of Leicester, UK
Visiting Professor in the Instituto de Psicologia at Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Visiting Professor in the School of Human and Community Development at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Visiting Professor in Cibersomosaguas, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
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David Pavón-Cuellar
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
(Mexico)
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Desmond Painter
Stellenbosch University
(South Africa)
Desmond Painter is an Associate Professor in Psychology at Stellenbosch University. He teaches mainly theoretical and philosophical psychology, critical social psychology, and qualitative methods. His research areas include language and social psychology, the history and foundations of critical psychology, the emergence and globalisation of ‘psychological cultures’ (with a particular focus on the history of psychology in South Africa), and psycho-geographies of urban experience. Along with the publication of journal articles and book chapters, he is also co-editor of a number of academic books, including Interiors: A History of Psychology in South Africa (with Clifford van Ommen), a special edition of Theory & Psychology on Critical Psychology, and three recent editions of the Annual Review of Critical Psychology. He has published poetry, fiction and literary essays and regularly writes opinion pieces for newspapers and participates in other forms of public intellectual and cultural engagement. These include interviews and interventions on television and radio and at literary festivals and book launches. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including South African Journal of Psychology, Psychology in Society (PINS), Social Dynamics, and the Journal of Social and Community Psychology.
Research Topics
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Race and racism (including psychosocial studies of whiteness)
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Nationalism, ethnicity and language ideologies
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Gender and sexualities
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Histories and consequences of psychologization in the global South
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Politics, society and subjectivity in the history of South Africa, and the city and the self
Mirla Cisne
UERN (Brazil)
Psychology Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Coordinator of Marxism & Education Research Group.
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Member of the National Board of Psychology National Association on Research and Post-Graduation (2010-2012).
Her field of interests is Social Psychology, Psychology, Marxian Social Theory, Social Policies, Psychological Practice and Training.
Professor of Marxism, Social Psychology and Psychoanalysis at the State University of Michoacán (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico). He is the author of the books Marxisme lacanien (Paris, Psychophores, 2009),From the Conscious Interior to an Exterior Unconscious: Lacan, Discourse Analysis and Social Psychology (London, Karnac, 2010), andElementos políticos de marxismo lacaniano (Mexico, Paradiso, 2014), as well as co-editor, with Ian Parker, of Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy (London & New York, Routledge, 2013). He belongs to the Editorial Boards of Annual Review of Critical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Politics International, Teoría y Crítica de la Psicología, and Revista Marxismos: Educación, Política y Sociedad. He is interested in critical psychology, discourse analysis, Lacanian Discourse Analysis, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Freudo-Marxism, Marxism, communism, liberation psychology and the Zapatista movement.
Social Work Professor at State University of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN). Coordinatot of Post-Graduate Program in Social Work and Social Rights.
Member of Editorial Board of Socialis Publisher, member of the board of Federal Council of Social Work.
Her interests coversfeminism, social movements, social relations of sex, race, and class.
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Bruno Peixoto Carvalho
UFPR (Brazil)
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Ilana Lemos de Paiva
UFRN (Brazil)
Athanasios Marvakis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Professor at Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), working with the Laboratory of Historical-Cultural Psychology. Studies Social Psychology, School Psychology, and Developmental Psychology, specially subjects like: Psychological Assessment, Mental Health and Psychopathology, Works, Theory and History of Psychology, Historical-Cultural Psychology.
Psychology Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Coordinator of the Observatory of Child and Youth Population in Contexts of Violence.
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Researcher associated to the Marxism & Education Research Group. Regional Dire
Pesquisadora associada ao Grupo de Pesquisa Marxismo e Educação (GPM&E/UFRN). Regional Director of the National Network of Researchers on Youth and the Ibero-american Network for Teaching and Researching in Children's Rights.
Athanasios Marvakis, German educated psychologist (Dipl.-Psych., Dr. rer. soc., both University of Tübingen/Germany), is Professor in Clinical Social Psychology at the School of Primary Education at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Greece. Since 1990 teaching and/or research experience, presentations and invited lectures in Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Austria, Croatia, Greece, United Kingdom, Austria, Turkey, South Africa, Luxemburg, China, Canada, Denmark, Mexico, Brazil and Chile.
His interests revolve around psychology and its relations with the various forms of social inequalities and social exclusion (e.g., racism, nationalism, ethnicism, multiculturalism); youth as a social group; refugees and migrants in Greece; solidarity as theoretical and practical issue and tool in the social sciences. Furthermore, in the last years he is engaged in the critical psychology of learning, the ‘schooling-complex’, and the neoliberalisation of the psychological regime.