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PhD Study Areas

Ms Ann Addison

A Study of Transference Phenomena in the Light of the Jung’s Concept of Psychoid Processes

Dr Aida Alayarian

Resilience, creativity and psychoanalysis; the Experience of Refugees

Miss Aleka Alexopoulou

Using “Archetypal Family Therapy” for meta-analyzing family therapy procedures applied in single-parent families of depressed children

Miss Zibiah Alfred

Constructing refugee narratives; an investigation of a Refugee Communities History Project

Mr Tracy Bennett

Effeminate men: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis, Analytical Psychology, and Cultural Studies - New Models of Gender Identity Formation

Ms Elizabeth Brodersen

Laws of Inheritance: On the Psychology of the Relationship between the First and Others - A Post-Jungian Perspective

Mrs Nayla Chalhoub-Mallat

Thirdness, Maternal Imogoes and the Question of Femininity in Eating Disorders

Miss Georgia Chalkia

Narcissism: The aborted hope?

Mr Yiukee Chan

From Freud to Groddeck: Situating Ferenczi and his psychoanalytic thinking

Mr Jacek Cieplinski

The Opportunity for Reparation. Facilitating Maturational Processes in Depressive Patients

Mrs Clare Crellin

What Value Does Jung's Theory of Personality Have? A Critical Historical Study

Ms Kelly Dickeson

No Quick Fix: Applied Psychoanalysis for the Organization

Mr Paul Ford

The Implications of Bisexuality for the Theories of Containment and Agency

Ms Jennifer Ford

A Spirited Artist: Jungian and Post Jungian Thoughts on Marc Chagall, Art, and Religion

Ms Jane Frances

Why is inclusive education so difficult for pupils and staff when a child has a disfigurement?

Miss Luiza Hamilton-Hill

Creativity and Instincts: The implications of Literature on a Modern Understanding of the Death Drive

Mrs Josephine Harman

Emotional disturbance during pregnancy: Mitigation of anxieties and expectations of childbirth by therapy and effects on the dynamics of childbirth

Ms Birgit Heuer

Toward Sanatology: A Clinical Theory of Health and Healing in the Context of Contemporary Quantum Research and Mysticism

Miss Vanessa Holmes

The Commercial Psyche: An Application of Concepts and Approaches from Analytical Psychology to Commercial Branding

Mrs Harriet Jackson

A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Psychoanalytic Origins of Religious Experience from a Relational/Object Relations Perspective

Ms Nancy Krieger

Bridges to Consciousness: Complexes and Complexity

Ms Angela Loulopoulou

Positive Psychology and the Refugee Experience: Literature review; viewing refugeedom from a positive psychology spectrum

Miss Eleni Loupou

An exploration and reflection on the work of teachers with Emotionally and Behaviourally disturbed pupils and the dynamics operating in Pupil Referral Unit classroom

Miss Monica Luci

Torture as a no man's land of mind

Mr Mathew Mather

The alchemical Mercurius

Mr Tiago Mendes

Portuguese and British Mental Health Care Institutions: a Cross-Cultural study on Social Defence Systems

Mr Christos Mertzanakis

Does a prison form part of an Oedipus Complex for a sex-offender member of an analytic group conducted in a prison setting? An empirical enquiry

Ms Ewa Rudvik

The beginnings of Psychoanalysis

Mrs Margaret Sesay

Factors that lead to positive responses (resilience and adversity-activated development) of Sierra Leonean refugee women living in the UK

Ms Margaret Spelman

The Evolution of Winnicott’s Thinking: A study of the Concept of Transitional Phenomena over Three Generations

Ms Christina Sjöström

To what extent is New Age Spiritual Development Qualitatively Similar to Jungian Individuation?

Ms Alejandra Spezzi

Animals and the relationship between body and spirit. Symbolic and cultural perspectives derived from the work of C.G.Jung

Ms Kalina Stamenova

The Foreigner in Me - Psychoanalytic Perspective on Identity Changes and Foreign Language Learning

Mr Nick Stratton

Analytical Psychology and Learning Theory

Mr Luke Swan

The Hermaphrodite in Modern British Society

Ms Metasebia Tadesse

Constructing Identities among Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Adolescents in exile

Mr Grigorios Chrysostomos Tympas

Individuation in Jungian Psychology and Spiritual Development in Maximus the Confessor: a comparative investigation

Ms Teodora Velletri

Mircea Eliade and Depth Psychology

Mr Marcel Van Den Akker

Religious Renunciation and Individuation

Mrs Angeliki Yiassemides

Jung and Time

Mr Laner Cassar

Bridging Imaginal Pathways: The Jungian technique of Active Imagination and the 'Reve-eveille-dirige' method

Mr Dominik Havsteen-Franklin

Investigating the use of metaphor and the art object in art psychotherapy treatment with borderline personality disorders: a psychoanalytic perspective

Mr Stephen Myers

Mythology for Christians: Dreaming onwards the Christian myth

Ms Sukey Fontelieu

Pan and Contemporary American Cultural Anxieties

Miss Tamaki Noro

How the Unconcious Stimulates Sexual Drive in Wartime?

Miss Valeria Cespedes

The Virgin Mary in Zeitoun: An investigation of the Marian Apparitions

Ms Maria Kempinska

The Acquisition of Comedic Skills as a Component of Growth and Individuation: Post-Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Ms Simona Reghintovschi

Hate in countertransference. From consulting room to psychoanalytic group

Ms Sheila O'Sullivan

'Without Child': A Study of Elective and Non-Elective Childlessness

Ms Elisabetta Iberni

Attachment theory and analytical psychology. An exploration in a cross-cultural perspective: the case of post-conflict Kosovo.