Licensure: 

Massachusetts #11781

Academic qualifications:

• Doctoral degree in clinical psychology, California Lutheran University, California, US (PsyD).

• Master's degree in psychoanalysis, history and culture, Birkbeck University of London, England (MA).

• Master's degree in clinical psychology, The Institute of Applied Psychology in Lisbon, Portugal (MSC).

• Master's degree in philosophy from the New University in Lisbon, Portugal (MA).

• Post-graduated training in Neuropsychology, Alcoitao School of Health in Lisbon, Portugal.

• The Post-Foundation Course in Psychoanalysis. The London Institute of Psychoanalysis, England.

• The Foundation Course in Psychoanalysis, The London Institute of Psychoanalysis, England.

• Advanced course on Existentialism, University of Oxford, England.

Articles:

• Conceicao, I. (2026). Why Psychosis is Not so Crazy: A Road Map to Hope and Recovery for Families and Caregivers: By Stijn Vanheule. New York: Other Press, 2024. 219 pp. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 95(2), 316–328. 

• Conceicao, I. (2025). Freud and the Changing World: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and its Troubles: By Stefano Bolognini and Luca Nicoli. Oxfordshire: Karnac Books, 2025. 165 pp. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 94(4), 785–794. 

• Conceicao, I. (2017). The Uses of Nostalgia: A Commentary on “Representations of autobiographical nostalgic memories: Generational effect, gender, nostalgia proneness and communication of nostalgic experiences”. Journal of Integrated Social Sciences, 7(1), 89-97.

Blog texts:

• The Psychopathology of Normality: https://www.freeassociation.pt/post/the-nomopath-next-door-the-psychopathology-of-normality

• Psychotherapy and its Discontents: https://www.freeassociation.pt/post/psychotherapy-and-its-discontents-i-have-always-promised-you-a-rose-garden 

• Psicoterapia e Mal Estar: https://www.freeassociation.pt/post/psicoterapia-e-mal-estar-eu-sempre-te-prometi-um-jardim-de-rosas 

• Robert Frank: Creativity, Art, and Loss: https://www.freeassociation.pt/post/robert-frank-creativity-art-and-loss 

• Life Without Gravity: Subjectivity and Clinical Work in Contemporary Society: https://www.freeassociation.pt/post/life-without-gravity-subjectivity-and-clinical-work-in-contemporary-society 

• Civilization, Sexuality, and Enjoyment: https://www.freeassociation.pt/post/civilization-sexuality-and-the-dis-satisfactions-of-enjoyment 

Videos:

• Interview for the Psychoanalytic Quarterly Journal 

• Free Association Lisbon: Unconscious Literacy - On finding the unconscious today. Iuri Conceicao invites Danielle Knafo