Published
Becoming Myself: Transgender Authentic Selfhood in the Chinese Context
Qiao, X. (2026). Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 47(5).
Research
How does psychoanalytic understanding grow — in people, through practice, across media?
Three foundationsthree programmes running in parallel
01
Psychoanalytic Literacy
How do people learn to think psychoanalytically — through reading, creating, and being held?
Research site: 何苦开心 — 20,000+ readers, 260+ course subscribers. Course paper June 2026; McCary Fund grant proposal August 2026.
Full programme →02
Buddhism × Psychoanalysis
What do two independent systems of mind classification see — and don't see — about each other?
Systematic comparison of 51 Buddhist mental factors with psychoanalytic affect theory. Pilot completed (greed, May 2026). First paper targeting Contemporary Buddhism.
Full programme →03
Gentle Structure Lab
How can technology, design, and AI support working through without controlling it?
Products: Palimpsest (AI writing tool), 博雅精神分析 (260+ subscribers), Enough Today (prototype). Research through Design methodology.
Full programme →Also investigating additional lines
Chinese Subjectivity
Psychoanalytic approaches to Chinese experience; narcissistic structures, cultural unconscious.
Full line →Gender, Queerness & Trans Experience
Transgender selfhood, queer temporality, existence as a structural condition.
Full line →Laplanchian Clinical Theory
Compulsive translation, conditions of free vs. forced translation, toward a clinical system.
Full line →Selected talks presentations
Ghostly Persistence: Disavowal, Remainder, and the Indigestible Queer Subject in China
AGLP Annual Meeting · May 2026
Invited presentation
British Psychoanalytic Foundation · May 2026
From Silence to Song
Cisteria Conference
Academic publications
Peer-reviewed, forthcoming & invited
reverse chronological
Peer-reviewed · published
Published
From Silence to Song: True Self-Emergence Through Creative Mourning
Qiao, X. (2025). Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 26(4), 318–330.
Published
Deprivation and Disruption: The Development of Narcissistic Vulnerability and Toxic Masculinity in Some Chinese Contexts
Qiao, X. (2025). Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 20(2), 237–253.
Erika Schmidt Essay Prize — First Prize
Published
Gaming the Unconscious: The Relational and Social Unconscious in a Contemporary Chinese Case Study
Qiao, X. (2025). Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China, 8(1–2), 14–24.
Published
The Role of Social Media in Shaping Mental Health Discourse
Qiao, X. (2025). Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China, 8(1–2), 115–125.
Published
Mother Archetypes in Chinese Cultural Narratives
Qiao, X. (2024). Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China, 7(1–2), 139–153.
Accepted · forthcoming
Forthcoming
Ghostly Persistence: Disavowal, Remainder, and the Indigestible Queer Subject in China
Qiao, X. (forthcoming). Journal of LGBTQ+ Mental Health.
Outstanding Trainee Paper Award
Forthcoming
Self-Hollowing: Ghosts Within Ourselves
Qiao, X. (forthcoming). Psychoanalysis, Self and Context.
Forthcoming
Oedipal Variations in Chinese Luoshan Motif
Qiao, X. (forthcoming). Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China.
Invited · commissioned
Invited
Confusion of Tongues in the Chinese Context
Qiao, X. (invited). Psychoanalytic Inquiry — journal commission.
Invited
Chapter in Radicalising Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Theories and Tools for Resistance
Qiao, X. (invited). Routledge edited volume.
Invited
Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Public Humanities
Qiao, X. (invited). Humanities — special issue.
Book translation
Translation
Dear Candidate [Chinese translation]
Qiao, X. (2027). Wanqian Xinli Press.
Ralph Roughton Paper Award — Runner-up, APsaA (2025)
Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQ+ Essay Award — ICPLA (2025)