Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes, the President of the British Psychological Society, is speaking to our Society’s Wessex Branch in Basingstoke this afternoon (Tuesday 6 June).

The afternoon will also see the Branch’s Annual General Meeting, a networking event and a workshop from Dr Fiona Kennedy on ‘Spacing out and cracking up: Identifying and treating dissociation following trauma’.

Dr Kennedy, a former NHS Head of Psychology, has a long-standing interest in dissociation both as researcher and clinician. She has worked in the NHS and privately with many dissociative presentations including those with a military context. She has developed the Wessex Dissociation Scale along with other clinicians from the BPS Wessex Region and co-edited a recent book on dissociation.

In November, again at the The Ark Conference Centre, Basingstoke, the Branch is holding its Fourth Military Conference under the title ‘Resilience Through Change’.

The keynote speakers will be:

• Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Director King’s College London’s Centre for Military Health Research President, Royal Institute of Psychiatrists
• Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes, Director, Institute for Veterans and Families Studies, Anglia Ruskin University President Elect, British Psychological Society

Submissions for the conference are still open – for full details see the conference website.