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Seduction, resistance, and the value of the Anvil (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Hadjiosif, M. (2024, January). Seduction, resistance, and the value of the Anvil. Paper presented at European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Helsinki, Finland

In this paper I sketch my journey of finding Autoethnography and creative-relational inquiry; orientations to scholarship that are so obviously relevant to my home discipline of Counselling Psychology, yet at the same time, so alien and unwelcome. Wh... Read More about Seduction, resistance, and the value of the Anvil.

Let there be chaos (2023)
Journal Article
Hadjiosif, M., Thomson, C., Ince, A., Martin, J., & McManus, P. (2023). Let there be chaos. Psychologist, 36(7), 28-39

Miltos Hadjiosif makes the case for autoethnography, in its image, and introduces a set of pieces from his students.

Am I a Community Psychologist? (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Hadjiosif, M., & Thompson, M. (2022, October). Am I a Community Psychologist?. Paper presented at Community Psychology Festival, Southampton, UK

In recent years, one of the most visible forms of UK Community Psychology is the Section that sits within the British Psychological Society (BPS). The Section has resisted calls from the BPS to develop specific competencies against which one’s use of... Read More about Am I a Community Psychologist?.

Autoethnography: Let there be chaos (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Hadjiosif, M., Ince, A., & Martin, J. (2022, July). Autoethnography: Let there be chaos. Presented at BPS Division of Counselling Psychology Annual Conference, Royal College of Physicians, London

This symposium aims to reach to the edges of our discipline’s awareness in order to shine a light on a neglected research paradigm that has captured our imagination. Autoethnography is an approach to research that seeks to describe and systematically... Read More about Autoethnography: Let there be chaos.

The evolution of the community psychology festival (2022)
Book Chapter
Hadjiosif, M., & Desai, M. (2022). The evolution of the community psychology festival. In The Palgrave Handbook of Innovative Community and Clinical Psychologies (223-238). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71190-0_12

November 2014 saw the inaugural British Psychological Society (BPS) Community Psychology Festival. The BPS Community Psychology Section Committee had a vision of an accessible, inclusive alternative to an academic conference, which materialised as a... Read More about The evolution of the community psychology festival.

The ethos of the nourished wounded healer: A narrative inquiry (2021)
Journal Article
Hadjiosif, M. (2021). The ethos of the nourished wounded healer: A narrative inquiry. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 23(1), 43-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2021.1881137

Despite a plethora of texts on the 'wounded healer', little systematic research has been conducted on unpacking the implications and embedded assumptions of this concept. This paper takes the 'wounded healer' into the research arena by approaching it... Read More about The ethos of the nourished wounded healer: A narrative inquiry.

‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hadjiosif, M. (2017, October). ‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics. Paper presented at Annual Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society, Rutgers University Continuing Education Conference Center, New Jersey

This paper discusses constructions of psychotherapy in the lyrics of popular songs and identifies relevant discourses that are invoked or crafted. Despite a plethora of academic and clinical descriptions of psychotherapy, less research attention has... Read More about ‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics.

‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics (2017)
Journal Article
Hadjiosif, M., & Coyle, A. (2017). ‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 19(4), 357-377. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2017.1386223

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Despite a plethora of academic and clinical descriptions of psychotherapy, less research attention has been focused on the ways in which psychotherapy is talked about and represented in... Read More about ‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics.

How critical are we? (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Walker, C., Hadjiosif, M., & Desai, M. (2017, September). How critical are we?. Paper presented at 3rd Community Psychology Festival, Bristol, UK

The narrative construction of the ‘wounded healer’ (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Hadjiosif, M. (2016, May). The narrative construction of the ‘wounded healer’. Paper presented at 6th International Qualitative Research in Mental Health Conference, Chania, Crete, Greece

The relational turn in psychotherapy has broken down the therapist – patient divide that has dominated mental health practices, calling for a renewed examination of therapeutic practitioners’ subjectivity and motivations for entering the profession.... Read More about The narrative construction of the ‘wounded healer’.

Professional and ethical practice during training: The 'wounded healer' (2015)
Book Chapter
Hadjiosif, M. (2015). Professional and ethical practice during training: The 'wounded healer'. In R. Tribe, & J. Morrissey (Eds.), Handbook of Professional and Ethical Practice for Psychologists, Counsellors and Psychotherapists (310-321). Hove: Routledge

Book chapter