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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

Ms Elizabeth Brodersen

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

Mr Laner Cassar

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

Miss Valeria Cespedes

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

Mrs Nayla Chalhoub-Mallat

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

Miss Georgia Chalkia

The structuring function of absence

Mr Yiukee Chan

From Freud to Groddeck: Situating Ferenczi's introjection

Mr Jacek Cieplinski

The Structure of Responsibility. Theoretical and empirical investigation of its clinical relevance as a measurable concept in community and individual therapy

Mr Giovanni Colacicchi

The position of ethics in Analytical Psychology and Philosophical Counselling

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

Ms Angela Doran

Glasshouse Scholarship

Ms Sukey Fontelieu

Pan and Contemporary American Cultural Anxieties

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?

Ms Geraldine Godsil

Inter-generational transmission of trauma caused by genocidal conflict: a 3 generational perspective

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

Mr Dominik Havsteen-Franklin

The Dynamics of Proto-metaphorisation: Investigating the Processes that Lead to Implicit Metaphorisation in Art Psychotherapy with Patients Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder

Ms Henriette Heide-Jorgensen

Religion and transformation

Ms Birgit Heuer

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

Miss Mei-Tzu Ho

The Reception of Freudian theory in Taiwanese Culture and History

Miss Vanessa Holmes

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

Mr Josh Holmes

The researcher’s emotional reactions and how they might provide a deeper understanding of the research process

Ms Elisabetta Iberni

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

Mrs Harriet Jackson

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

Mr David Jones

Transformation in Psychoanalysis

Ms Maria Kempinska

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

Miss Fung Ko

Tobacco advertising as a psychotogenic mother in providing a holding environment to perpetuate cigarette addiction

Ms Nancy Krieger

Bridges to Consciousness: Complexes and Complexity

Mr Wolfgang Lassman

Lost to Desire. Stories That Refuse to be Dreamt. The Investigative Burden of the Psychosomatic School of Paris

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 Phillip McCash

How can the field of career studies be critically evaluated and subsequently re-imagined from a Jungian and post-Jungian perspective?

Mr Christian McMillan

Archetypal intuition: Jung and Bergson

Miss Marie-Louise Mederer

Desire and Design : meaningful coincidence in modern and postmodern literature.

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

Mr Tom Minor

The Lachrymose Soul: Greek Tragedy and the Psychoanalytic Possibility of Aesthetic Reparation

Mr Stephen Myers

Mythology for Christians: Dreaming onwards the Christian myth

Miss Tamaki Noro

How the Unconscious Stimulates Sexual Drive in Wartime?

Ms Sheila O'Sullivan

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

Ms Simona Reghintovschi

Hate in countertransference. From consulting room to psychoanalytic group

Mr Gregory Rizzolo

The non-linear dynamics of regressive experience: Organization and chaos in the narcissistic personality.

Mr Patrick Schotanus

The Archetypal Market Hypothesis: The Market's Mind and the Collective Unconscious

Mrs Margaret Sesay

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

Ms Christina Sjöström

Similarities and differences between individuation in analytical psychology and psycho-spiritual transformation in holistic spirituality

Ms Margaret Spelman

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

Ms Kalina Stamenova

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

Dr Gillian Steggles

The nature of the relations between internal objects and mental representations as functional internal concepts of external reality

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 and 'Theosis': The Dynamics of Psychological and Spiritual Development in Carl G Jung and Maximus the Confessor

Mr Marcel Van Den Akker

Religious Renunciation and Individuation

Ms Teodora Velletri

Mircea Eliade and Depth Psychology

Ms Gillian Walker

Sigmund Freud's notion of masochism