Dr Luis Jimenez

Dr Luis Jimenez

Senior Lecturer

Psychology

Department of Professional Psychology , School Of Psychology

Luis Jimenez is a senior lecturer and Research and Assessment Lead on the BSc (Hons) Counselling course.

Qualifications

  • MD, MSc, DipPsy, PhD
Dr Luis Jimenez

OVERVIEW

Luis Jimenez is a senior lecturer and Research and Assessment Lead on the BSc (Hons) Counselling course.

Memberships & Professional Organisations

  • Association of Psychosocial Studies UK (2013 - founding member, & member of the board of directors)
  • Executive Committee – The Association for Psychosocial Studies
  • International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (2000 - Present)
  • International Erich Fromm Society (2002 - Present)
  • British Sociological Association (2002 - Present)
  • British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (2023 - Present)
  • Centre for the Application of Psychoanalysis (Spain) (2008 - Present)
  • GESES (Grup d'Estudis Sentiments, Emocions, Societat) Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (2013 - Present)

Editorial Board – Journal of Psychosocial Studies UK [2013 --]

CURRENT RESEARCH

Research Student Supervision

  • PhD Psychology - "Finding Meaning in Secure Care: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis" [L. Quane - part time PhD registered: 2017 due: 2023] - Director of Studies.  
  • Prof. Doc./Counselling Psychology – "Exploring Men’s Journey to Fibromyalgia". [K. Rahman – registered; 2016 due:2019] - Director of Studies
  • Prof. Doc./ Counselling Psychology – "Selective perception? An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Counselling Psychologists’ experiences, who have worked with men having experienced Intimate Partner Violence". (S.T Russu - registered: 2014 – due: 2019) Director of Studies
  • Prof. Doc./ Counselling Psychology "Understanding transgender: An exploration of the Transitioned Female to Male Experience" (K. Coker – registered 2014 – due 2019) Director of Studies

PUBLICATIONS

Published research

  • Jimenez, L [2023] The existential relevance of Fromm’s fear of freedom, social character, habitus and structures of feeling beyond normative neoliberalism. Paper presented at the 3rd International Erich Fromm research conference "Humanistic Transformation". Berlin International Psychoanalytic University. June 2023.
  • This paper will be part of a special issue [2024] in Journal of Psychosocial Studies;/ Humanistic transformation and contemporary pathologies of normalcy. Guest editors: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kühn, Professor Social and Organizational Psychology, IPU Berlin. Dr. Rainer Funk, Director Erich Fromm Institute Tübingen [Both co-directing the Erich Fromm Study Center, IPU Berlin]
  • (2020) Jimenez, L "The psychosocial significance of social character, habitus and structures of feeling in research on neoliberal post-industrial work" Journal of Psychosocial Studies. © Policy Press 2020 Online ISSN 1478-6737
  • (2019) Jimenez, L. "Revisiting Erich Fromm’s concept of Social Character and Social Unconscious: A Psychosocial examination of its contemporary application within working class de-industrialised communities in the UK" In press: Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189). Special issue: Putting Society on the Couch. No. 23/2019, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag) Internationale Erich Fromm Gesellschaft
  • - (2016) Jimenez, L. "Male to Gay Male Emotional Communication and Erich Fromm’s Notions of Being Centrally Related to the Patient and Mature Love" (book chapter) in: Funk, Rainer., & Mc Laughlin, Neal (Eds). Towards a Human Science, The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today. Giesen [Germany] Psychosozial-Verlag, pp. 123-137. ISBN 978-3-8379-2535-7.
  • (2014) Jimenez, L. "Fromm's Notion of Psychoanalysis and its Impact on Psychotherapeutic Treatment, Empirical Research and Education". Keynote address presented at the International Erich Fromm Research Conference. Berlin (June 2014) Berlin International University/Erich Fromm Institute [Tubingen]
  • (2014) Jimenez, L. "Intergenerational Traumatic Transmission of Aspects of Masculinities Through Shame and Embarrassment Amongst Unemployed Young men and their Fathers" International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 23, Issue 3- Clinical Practice, Conflict and Alienation. Pp.151-160.
  • (2014) Jimenez, L. "Social Catastrophe and Social Trauma Amongst Unemployed Working Class Men in a Post-Industrial Community." Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISBN 1437-1189), 17 / 2013, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 29-34.
  • (2013) Jimenez, L. "Mammy’s Boys, Gays, Women & Others: A Psycho-Social Approach to Traumatic Loss and Melancholic Negotiations of Working Class Male Identities in Post-Industrial Times". Revista de Psicoanalisis del Centro Psicoanalitico de Madrid, Revista de Psicoanalisis del Centro Psicoanalitico de Madrid. Vol. 26, pp.1-22
  • - Key publication - (2012) Walkerdine V. & Jimenez L. "Gender, Work and Community after De- Industrialisation: A Psychosocial Approach to Affect". (book) Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 9780230247062.
  • (2012) Jimenez L., & Walkerdine V. "Shameful Work: a Psychosocial Approach to Father/Son Relations, Young Male Unemployment and Femininity in an Ex-steel Community". Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Vol.17, 278-295 DOI: 10.1057/pcs.2011.14. • DOI
  • (2012) Jimenez, L. "Social Catastrophe and Social Trauma Amongst Unemployed Working Class Men in a Post-Industrial Community" - Key note paper presented on at the XVII International Forum of Psychoanalysis (Mexico city, October 2012)
  • - Key publication (2011) Jimenez, L. & Walkerdine V. "A Psychosocial Approach to Shame, Embarrassment & Melancholia amongst Unemployed Young Men and their Fathers". Gender and Education, Vol.23, No.2, March 2011, 85-199. ISSN 0954-0253 print ISSN1360-0516 Online DOI: 10.1080/095440253.2010.490202.
  • (2010) Hoggett P., Beedell P. Jimenez L., Mayo M., & Miller C. "Working Psychosocially and Dialogically in Research" Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 15, 173-188

Books

Book Chapters

  • (2019) Jimenez, L. "Revisiting Erich Fromm’s concept of Social Character and Social Unconscious: A Psychosocial examination of its contemporary application within working class de-industrialised communities in the UK" Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189). Special issue: Putting Society on the Couch. No. 23 / 2019, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag) Internationale Erich Fromm Gesellschaft
  • (2016) Jimenez, L. "Male to Gay Male Emotional Communication and Erich Fromm’s Notions of Being Centrally Related to the Patient and Mature Love" (book chapter) in: Funk, Rainer., & Mc Laughlin, Neal (Eds). Towards a Human Science, The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today. Giesen [Germany] Psychosozial-Verlag, pp. 123-137. ISBN  978-3-8379-2535-7.

Research Student Supervision

  • - PhD Psychology- “Finding Meaning in Secure Care: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis” [ L. Quane - part time PhD registered: 2017 due: 2023] - Director of Studies.
  • Prof. Doc./Counselling Psychology – “Exploring Men’s Journey to Fibromyalgia”. [K. Rahman – registered; 2016 due:2019]- Director of Studies
  • Prof. Doc./ Counselling Psychology – “Selective perception? An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Counselling Psychologists’ experiences, who have worked with men having experienced Intimate Partner Violence”. (S.T Russu - registered : 2014 – due: 2019) Director of Studies
  • Prof. Doc./ Counselling Psychology “Understanding transgender: An exploration of the Transitioned Female to Male Experience” (K. Coker – registered 2014 – due 2019) Director of Studies

Research Grants and Contracts

  • 2008/2009 - ESRC – "A Psychosocial Approach to Unemployed Young men in a South Wales Town" (RES - 000-22-2497) Co-principal investigator with Prof. Valerie Walkerdine.  Funding: £81,197.66. This involved research management, budget setting, recruiting and managing RAs.
  • 2004/2007 - ESRC - "Regenerating Identities: Subjectivity in Transition in a South Wales Workforce", (RES-148-25-0033) National ESRC Identities and Social Action Research Programme) Grant holder: Professor Valerie Walkerdine Co-applicant: Professor Peter Fairbrother Research Fellow: Dr Luis Jimenez. Funding: $171,145.77
  • 2003/2005 - ESRC – "Negotiating Ethical Dilemmas in Contested Communities", (RES-000-23-0127) Grant holder: Professor Paul Hoggett, Co-applicants: Professor Marjorie Mayo, Professor Christopher Miller (Research fellow Luis Jimenez) Funding £129,682.22

TEACHING

BSc (Hons) Counselling

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Modules

  • GC5802 Psychodynamic Counselling Module Leader
  • GC5805 Research in Counselling Module Leader
  • GC6804  Rsearch Dissertation - Module Leader