Alex is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex and an Associated Researcher at the Project Madness, Media, Milieus. He holds a PhD in Psychology from Ghent University (Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting) and will be awarded a PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University in Spring 2025. His dissertation research focused on the intersections of psychoanalysis, the social sciences, and philosophy, particularly in the French tradition, and his work has been published in Psychoanalysis and History, October, Psychoanalytic Psychology, and the Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental, among other venues.
His current project focuses on an in-depth study of the history, the operations, and the recent closure of the 388 (Centre for the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Young Psychotic Adults) in Quebec City. This entails bringing an interdisciplinary approach to psychosis and its treatment, the Centre and its institutional history, and the social, theoretical, and clinical innovations that enabled the Centre’s long and celebrated 43-year run. It likewise means attending to the long precarious position the Centre occupied in Quebec’s public system, and the broader political, institutional, and epistemological dimensions that lead to its abrupt and contested forced closure. The project is thus situated at the intersection of psychoanalytic theory and practice, institutional analysis (in both French and critical traditions), empirical philosophy, psychosocial ethnography, and critical approaches to psychiatry and mental health.
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychosocial and Clinical Ethnography
- Psychosis Research, Critical Medical Anthropology, and Critical Psychiatry
- 20th Century French Thought
- Discourse Theory
Publications (in print)
Miller, A. (2024). Psychose et société. Le traitement psychanalytique des psychoses. Sa clinique et ses résultats. Editions GIFRIC.
Bonny, P. & Hamon, R. & Vanheule, S. & Miller, A. & Gall, G. (2023). The feminine and the transgender sinthome: clinical and theoretical issues. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental, 26. 10.1590/1415-4714.e230210.
Miller. A. & Vanheule, S. (2023). What Holds You Together: The Social Link in Durkheim, Saussure, and Lacan. Psychoanalysis and History, Volume 25 Issue 1, pp. 5-29.
Miller, A. (2022). Formation and Development of the Concept of Discourse in Lacan and Benveniste. Psychoanalysis and History, Volume 24 Issue 2, pp. 151-179.
Miller. A. (2021). Commemorating Mass Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. Psychoanalytische Perspectieven, 39, 3, pp. 281-303.
Miller, A. & Apollon, W. (2021). The Human Remains to be Discovered: An Interview with Willy Apollon. Psychoanalytische Perspectieven, 39, 3, pp. 397-416.
Miller, A., Malabou, C., Apter. E., Szendy, P., Bianchi, E., & Galloway, A. (2021). On Epigenesis. October, 175, pp. 109–144.
Dulsster, D., Vanheule, S., Cauwe, J., Ingouf, J., Hennissen, V., & Miller, A. (2021). Lacanian discourse theory and the process of change in Lacanian-oriented talking therapies. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 38(4), pp. 319–327.
Publications (in progress)
Miller, A. Symbolic Castration and the Cultural Montage of the Sexual. In Librett, J. & McNulty, T. (Eds.) A Psychoanalysis for the Future of the Human: The Metapsychology of Willy Apollon. SUNY Press [In progress].
Miller, A. & Chamberlin, C. Reader’s Guide to “Radiophonie.” In Neill, C., Hook, D., & Vanheule, S. (Eds). Reading Lacan’s Autres Ecrits. Routledge [In progress].