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Architecture on the couch: A transdisciplinary exploration of buildings as psychological subjects (2023)
Journal Article
Mosley, J., Crociani-Windland, L., Warren, S., & Williams, N. (2023). Architecture on the couch: A transdisciplinary exploration of buildings as psychological subjects. ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 8(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.55588/378

The paper introduces the research project ‘Architecture on the Couch: The psychology of buildings’ that radically re-conceptualises architecture as a psychosocial subject, entwined with the psychology of its creators and its inhabitants. Seeking to u... Read More about Architecture on the couch: A transdisciplinary exploration of buildings as psychological subjects.

Foreword (2022)
Book Chapter
Crociani-Windland, L., & Silver, R. (2022). Foreword. In R. R. Mersky (Ed.), The Social Dream-Drawing Workshop A Guide for Professionals. London: Routledge

Editorial (2022)
Journal Article
Crociani-Windland, L., & Charles, M. (2022). Editorial. Journal of Psychosocial Studies, 15(2), 83-86. https://doi.org/10.1332/147867321X16575521436529

In this special issue, we continue a conversation that began with a 2019 Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) conference panel focused on the relationships between mothers and daughters. The panel arose from recognition am... Read More about Editorial.

Mothering, caring and educating: Learning from experience and psychosocial pedagogy (2022)
Journal Article
Crociani-Windland, L. (2022). Mothering, caring and educating: Learning from experience and psychosocial pedagogy. Journal of Psychosocial Studies, 15(2), 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1332/147867321X16575387662320

This article takes its starting point from aspects of the author’s biography and her experiences of supervising students who have in common experiences of being so-called ‘parental’ or ‘parentified’ children. Bion’s work and biography are used to und... Read More about Mothering, caring and educating: Learning from experience and psychosocial pedagogy.

Beyond divisions (2022)
Journal Article
Crociani-Windland, L. (in press). Beyond divisions. New Associations,

On transience and other hatreds (2020)
Journal Article
Crociani-Windland, L. (2020). On transience and other hatreds. Journal of Psychosocial Studies, 13(2), 179-191. https://doi.org/10.1332/147867320X15894733016410

This article originates in a free associative extended reflection on what the author sees as the many faces of our relationship to transience in Western culture. It begins with the image of plastic flowers in graveyards, wild flowers pushed to verges... Read More about On transience and other hatreds.

Masculinity, affect and the search for certainty in an age of precarity (2020)
Journal Article
Crociani-Windland, L., & Yates, C. (2020). Masculinity, affect and the search for certainty in an age of precarity. Free Associations, 78, 119-140. https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i78.332

This article examines the affective dynamics of masculinity as a psychosocial process within a mediatised realm that includes parts of the informal cyberspace known as the Manosphere. Focusing on the relationship between masculinity and discourses of... Read More about Masculinity, affect and the search for certainty in an age of precarity.

Between Scylla and Charybdis: Losing balance in an age of extremes (2019)
Journal Article
Crociani-Windland, L. (2019). Between Scylla and Charybdis: Losing balance in an age of extremes. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 24(3), 344-362. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-019-00132-w

This article charts a course from the literature of the classical world through to a select number of classic texts in sociology by Marx, Weber and Bauman, and some more recent psychoanalytically informed studies, to offer a metaphor for the vicissit... Read More about Between Scylla and Charybdis: Losing balance in an age of extremes.

The researcher’s subjectivity as a research instrument - from intuition to surrender (2018)
Book Chapter
Crociani-Windland, L. (2018). The researcher’s subjectivity as a research instrument - from intuition to surrender. In A. Cummins, & N. Williams (Eds.), Further Researching Beneath the Surface: Psycho-Social Research Methods in Practice. London: Routledge

This chapter tracks different ways of framing the use of subjectivity in psycho-social research, by offering different, yet convergent, ways of understanding its ontological basis. For this purpose, it tracks dualities in the work of Bergson and Bion... Read More about The researcher’s subjectivity as a research instrument - from intuition to surrender.