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Hessel presents his clinical and academic work to peers and the public in professional and public meetings and conferences. His presentations and publications include themes about affect and the body as these manifest itself in psychotherapy and analysis, but also in his work with children and families as a clinical psychologist.
Trans, truth, and the reinterpreted past: a child’s experience of living in two families. Presentation at the 29th annual conference of the International Association of Forensic Psychotherapy, 24 April 2021
Emotional Abuse: Assessment, Siblings, Intervention. Presentation for the Essex Family Justice Board, Chelmsford, Essex, March 2019
Urban, E. & Willemsen, H., Safeguarding: What is it and what does it mean to us? Public paper presented at the Society of Analytical Psychology, Cambridge, October 2018
Early trauma and affect: The importance of the body for the development of the capacity to symbolise. Paper presented at the IAAP developing group in Budapest, Hungary, September 2018
Primo Levi’s bearing witness and the reinterpreted past: Post truth and the authoritarian other. IVth European Congress of Analytical Psychology, Avignon, France, August/September 2018
Urban, E. & Willemsen, H., Safeguarding: What is it and what does it mean to us? Paper presented at the Society of Analytical Psychology, London, October 2017
Evanescence and shame: The body as driver of temporality. Paper presented at the Society of Analytical Psychology, London, July 2017
Evanescence and shame: The body as driver of temporality. Public Event Paper presented at the Society of Analytical Psychology, London, November 2016
We are the Hollow Men: Affect and schizoid space. Paper presented at the Society of Analytical Psychology, London, June 2016
Early trauma and affect: The importance of the body for the development of the capacity to symbolise. Paper presented at the IAAP developing group in Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 2014
Early trauma and affect: The importance of the body for the development of the capacity to symbolise. Paper presented at the 12th International Conference if the Journal of Analytical Psychology, Berlin, June 2014
Fathers, sons and Matte-Blanco’s basic matrix: Schreber revisited. Paper presented at the Society of Analytical Psychology, London, December 2013
Do we need neuroscience to analyse affect – Reclaiming the unconscious. Paper presented at 11th International Conference of the Journal of Analytical Psychology, Boston, April 2013
Disorganised attachment and early trauma – Thoughts on affect, void and representation. Paper presented at the Society of Analytical Psychology, London, January 2013
On lost affect: Void, representation and disorganised attachment. Public Event Paper presented at the Society of Analytical Psychology, Cambridge, September 2013
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