Marita Vyrgioti is Lecturer in Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Studies at the University of Essex. Before joining the University of Essex she taught psychosocial studies at the University of East London, Goldsmiths and Birkbeck College. She received her PhD from Birkbeck, University of London in 2018 for her thesis, The Cannibal Trope: A Psychosocial Critique of Psychoanalysis. Her latest work involves a book chapter included in the collective volume ‘Wilding Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life’ in Routledge’s Beyond the Couch series, edited by Shaul Bar-Haim, Helen Tyson and Elizabeth Coles. She is a trainee psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London.
Over the past decades, psychosocial studies has demonstrated its strengths and influence across diverse sites of theory and practice; it continues to grow as an area of transdisciplinary research... (more)