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Ideas of home.
Questions of being.
William’s academic writing explores displacement and the human subject, bringing questions of place, embodiment and lived experience into conversation.
Academic books.
Academic WorksStructural Displacement Theory: A Lacanian Psychosocial Theory of Displacement, Body, Home and the Other
About this book ↗A study of structural displacement, embodiment and the meanings of home.
Academic WorksTrauma, Dislocation, and the Subject: A Lacanian Reconstruction of Displacement, the Body, and the Limits of Meaning
About this book ↗A Lacanian study of displacement, the body and the limits of meaning.
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William’s research interests include psychoanalysis, displacement, race, trauma, neurodiversity and the human subject. Find publication records and research profiles below.
Book Review: Explaining AuDHD: A Guide to Autism and ADHD by Dr Khurram Sadiq (2025)
William Gomes reviews Khurram Sadiq’s account of co-occurring autism and ADHD. He considers lived experience, diagnostic boundaries and professional understanding, while examining the book’s treatment of evidence, gender and racialised experience.
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Gomes, W. (2025) ‘Book Review: Explaining AuDHD: A Guide to Autism and ADHD by Dr Khurram Sadiq (2025)’. ResearchGate, September. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395246518_Book_Review_Explaining_AuDHD_A_Guide_to_Autism_and_ADHD_by_Dr_Khurram_Sadiq_2025
Understanding Parent Blame: Institutional Failure and Complex Trauma — A Critical Review
William Gomes examines Clements and Aiello’s collection on how public services can shift responsibility for institutional failures onto parents. The review considers disability, safeguarding, systems-generated trauma and the need to listen to families.
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Gomes, W. (2025) ‘Understanding Parent Blame: Institutional Failure and Complex Trauma – A Critical Review’. ResearchGate, September. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395246199_Understanding_Parent_Blame_Institutional_Failure_and_Complex_Trauma_-A_Critical_Review
A psychosocial conceptualisation of refugee experiences: Involuntary loss of home, torture and trauma
William Gomes’s MA thesis explores involuntary loss of home, identity and the experiences of refugee survivors of torture. It places individual suffering within wider social and political contexts and considers the body’s relationship to home, testimony and survival.
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Gomes, W. (2020) A psychosocial conceptualisation of refugee experiences: Involuntary loss of home, torture and trauma. MA thesis, University of Essex. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.32279.09121/1.
Elections and the Quest for Democracy in Bangladesh
William Gomes examines electoral politics, political dynasties and obstacles to democratic accountability in Bangladesh. Published in 2014, the article considers public participation, the role of political institutions and the uncertainties surrounding peaceful political change.
Jurnal Dinamika HAM (Journal of Human Rights), 12(1), pp. 53–58.
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Gomes, W. (2014) ‘Elections and the Quest for Democracy in Bangladesh’, Jurnal Dinamika HAM (Journal of Human Rights), 12(1), pp. 53–58. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394273328_Elections_and_the_Quest_for_Democracy_in_Bangladesh
Summaries introduce the work; full texts remain on their original platforms. The 2025 reviews are author-uploaded research records. Citation details follow the linked publication records. See also William’s parliamentary evidence and human rights writing.