Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies - Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity

Vivian Chan, DO, MS; and Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, present at the APS annual conference at St. Mary's University in London.

Dr. Chan will present "Severance: A Capitalistic Tale of Technology Promoting Traumatic Splits and the Healing Power of Office Romance and Unions" on the panel: Severed Selves: Romance in the Gothic and Digital Ages. She also will present "Age Against the Machine: Abject Revelation of the Feminine Midlife Crises in The Substance and Babygirl" on the panel: Oppression of Women.

Dr. Charles will present "Crisis and Opportunity: The Death Drive Reformulated through Aulagnier’s Primal Layer of Experience" on the panel: Symbolization and Meaning-Making. She will also present "Tales from the Dark Continent: Romance in the Gothic and Digital Ages" on the panel: Severed Selves: Romance in the Gothic and Digital Ages. In addition, she is chair and presenter on the roundtable: Women in Leadership: Oxymoron or Redemption?