The Ikonic Podcast

This presentation was delivered live over zoom on December 8th 2021 at our annual academic symposium. Alexandra was a third-year student at Ikon at the time of recording. This talk is the result of her personal research.

"Discussing political affiliations can provoke and expose social divisions and prejudices, and with no less troublesome outcomes, the field of political psychology elevates this discussion to the leve...

This presentation was delivered live over zoom on December 8th 2021 at our annual academic symposium. Jack was a third-year student at Ikon at the time of recording. This talk is the result of his personal research.

"Every decade or so, research in clinical psychology forces shifts in how we think about the mind and organise treatment in psychotherapy. In the last decade, several eminent theorists have pointed to Sydn...

This presentation was delivered live over zoom on December 4th 2020 at our annual academic symposium. Michael was a third-year student at Ikon at the time of recording. This talk is the result of his personal final research project.

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This presentation will explore how the unconscious is created by an artificial division between mind and body, and man and nature, through the theory of Enactive Cognition; u...

This presentation was delivered live over zoom on December 4th 2020 at our annual academic symposium. Levi was a third-year student at Ikon at the time of recording. This talk is the result of his personal final research project.

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Psychotherapy helps us to grow up. In part through integrating the past and promoting the development of self-awareness, it supports the growth and maintenance of a healthy, rob...

This presentation was delivered live over zoom on December 4th 2020 at our annual academic symposium. Edie was a third-year student at Ikon at the time of recording. This talk is the result of her personal final research project.

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Apparently it is ungraceful of me to mention my period in public, however I bleed each month to help make humankind a possibility. The majority of people are comfortable with th...

This presentation was delivered live over zoom on December 4th 2020 at our annual academic symposium. Jake was a third-year student at Ikon at the time of recording. This talk is the result of his personal final research project.

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Cartesian dualism has dominated dance philosophy since the emergence of Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) and Conscious Dance practices in the west. This has had detrimental epistemo...

Ikon Student Podcast

Subject: Narrative, Identity and Integrative Process

This episode explores the diagnosis of Borderline personality disorder. We discuss the lived experience of BPD as well as the psychotherapeutic models which seek to understand this presentation. We interview philosopher and psychiatrist Paul Cammel who sheds further insight into this complex disorder. (Original recording date December 2020)....

Ikon Student Podcast

Subject: Psychotherapy and the Body in the Treatment of Trauma

Title: Rape as a weapon of war in the DRC

This episode explores rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We explore the experience of women who survive brutal sexual violence in attempting to answer the question “What is it like to be traumatised?”. We discuss the cultural complexities of this heartbreaking situa...

This presentation was delivered live over zoom on December 4th 2020 at our annual academic symposium. Isabelle was a third-year student at Ikon at the time of recording. This talk is the result of her personal final research project.

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In today’s climate of Instagram celebrities, endless selfie taking and cosmetic obsession, sexual self-objectification is more rampant than ever. Images perpetuating cultura...