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Recent Publications by Centre Staff

Dr Matt ffytche

  •  ‘Investigating Bion’s Aesthetic Turn: A Memoir of the Future and the 1970s’, in Bob Hinshelwood and Nuno Torres (eds.) Bion’s Sources: The Shaping of Genius (Routledge, 2013).
  • ‘Freud and the Neocons: The Narrative of a Political Encounter from 1949-2000’, Psychoanalysis and History, 15, 1, January 2013, pp5-44. ·        
  • ‘Night of the Unexpected: A Critique of the “Uncanny” and its apotheosis within cultural and social theory’, New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics, 75, Summer 2012, pp63-81.
  •  ‘‘The Modernist Road to the Unconscious’, in Peter Brooker, Andrzej Gasiorek, Deborah Longworth, Andrew Thacker (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (Oxford UP, 2010), pp410-428.
  • 'The Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche' (2011) Cambridge University Press
  • ‘The Arduous Path of Appearance: Phenomenology in American Modernist Poetics’, in Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond, Carole Bourne-Taylor and Ariane Mildenberg (eds.) (Peter Lang, 2010).
  • All-Consuming Objects: John Wilkinson’s ‘Saccades’, and How to Survive It’, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Issue 2 (Issue 2, No. 1, March 2010, pp. 7-34))
  • F.W. J. Schelling and G.H. Schubert: 'Psychology in Search of Psyches’, for Joel Faflak (ed) ‘Romantic Psyche and Psychoanalysis’ issue, Romantic Circles Praxis Series (December, 2008).
  • ‘Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul’ in Joel Faflak (ed) ‘Romanticism and Psychoanalysis’ issue, Romantic Circles Praxis Series (December, 2008)
  • The Unconscious: Introduction’, on Deviance, Disorder and the Self', Keele University, Queen Mary University, Birkbeck College, (June 2008)
  • Review of Theodor W. Adorno, Dream Notes for New Formations, no 62, Spring 2008, pp137-140.

Professor Karl Figlio

  • ‘Projective identification - an overview’, Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. New York: Springer Verlag, 2013.
  • 'Seminal Ambivalence: a neglected dimension of masculinity', Bulletin of the British Psychoanalytical Society 48(1): 1–9, 2012.
  • 'The dread of sameness: social hatred and Freud’s "narcissism of minor differences"', Auestad, L. (ed.) Psychoanalysis and Politics: Exclusion and the Politics of Representation. London: Karnac 2012, pp. 7-24.
  • 'Devaluing and Repairing the Internal World' (based on case from Faimberg, H. The Telescoping of Generations. London: Routledge, 2005), Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 17(1): 87–91, 2012.
  • 'The financial crisis:  a psychoanalytic view of illusion, greed and reparation in masculine phantasy', New Formations 72: 33–46, 2011; also in Bennet, D. (ed.) Loaded Subjects: Psychoanalysis, Money and the Global Financial Crisis. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2012, pp. 34-51.
  • 'A psychoanalytic reflection on collective memory as a psychosocial enclave: Jews, German national identity and splitting in German psyche’, International Social Science Journal 62 (203–204): 161–77, 2011.
  • 'Phallic and seminal masculinity: a theoretical and clinical confusion’, International Journal of Psychoanalysis vol. 91(1): pp. 119–39, 2010.
  • ‘The polarization of hope’, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 14: 24-31, 2009
  • 'Sigmund Freud', in J. Scott (ed.) Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists. London: Routledge 2006; Portuguese translation, 50 Grandes Sociólogos Contemporâneos. Sâo Paulo: Editora Contexto, 2009
  • ‘The Citizen psychoanalyst and the psychoanalytic social activist’, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 13: 71-74, 2008

Professor Robert Hinshelwood

  • 2013 Research on the Couch: Single Cases, Subjectivity and Psychoanalytic Knowledge London: Routlegde
  • 2013 Bion's Sources. Editors and contributors Nuno Torres and Robert Hinshelwood  London: Routlegde
  • 2012 Personal trauma and collective disorder: The example of organisational psychodynamics in psychiatry. In Hopper, Earl Trauma in/and Organisations. London: Karnac.
  • 2011 Melanie Klein: A Graphic Guide (with Sue Robinson and Oscar Zarate). London: Icon Press
  • 2011 Manual or matrix: How can we know our outcomes? Therapeutic Communities 31: 228-337.
  • 2010 Psychoanalytic research: Is clinical material any use? Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 24: 362–379.
  • 2010 Impressions of Isabel Menzies-Lyth British Journal of Psychotherapy 26: 179-185.
  • 2010 Action as a vehicle of learning (with Enrico Pedriali and Louisa Brunner) Organisational and Social Dynamics 10: 22-39.
  • 2010 Organisational schism: Looking after a psychiatric service. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 24: 202-212
  • 2009 Chapter - ‘Do unconscious processes affect educational institutions?’ for a special issue of Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, edited by Anna Brazier and Bernadette Wren.
  • 2009 Essay Review of Jean-Michel Quinodoz ‘Listening to Hanna Segal’ Psychoanalytic Quarterly
  • 2009 Ideology and identity: A psychoanalytic investigation of a social phenomenon. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
  • 2009 Social science and psychoanalysis: Marriage or infection Organizational and Social Dynamics 8: 115-137.
  • 2008 Foreword to Therapeutic Communities for Psychosis. By John Gale, Alba Realpe and Enrico Pedriali (eds); London: Routledge.
  • 2008 Systems, culture and experience: Understanding the divide between the individual and the organisation. Organisational and Social Dynamics 8: 63-77.
  • 2008 Group therapy as psychic containing International Journal of Group Psychotherapy 58: 283-302
  • 2008 Melanie Klein and countertransference: a historical note . Psychoanalysis & History 10: 95-113

Mrs Sue Kegerreis

Books

Chapters

  • The Theoretical Framework: Chapter 1 in Therapeutic Practice in Schools: Working with the Child Within: A Clinical Workbook for Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Arts Therapists French and Klein (eds) Routledge 2012

Published papers

  • 'Knowing all this just makes it harder - Psychodynamic Ideas on the Frontline' Psychodynamic Practice 19:1, 2013
  • Taking psychodynamic thinking 'home' to the workplace - How can courses manage better the impact on student and employing agency? Psychodynamic Practice 17:1 2011
  • 'Working with Children and Adolescents – is Specialist Training necessary?' Psychodynamic Practice 12:4 2006
  • 'Does Individual Have to mean 'All on Your Own' - Integrating group and institutional thinking in individual training, Psychodynamic Counselling 7:3 2001
  • 'The Effects of Restricting Independent Mobility On Children’s Emotional Development', Chapter in Children, Transport and the Quality of Life, Policy Studies Institute 1993
  • 'From a Gang of Two Back to the Family', Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 7:1 1993
  • 'Is the Truth Always the Awful Truth - Using the Positive', Journal of Child Psychotherapy 17:1 1991
  • 'Saying No to Psychotherapy - Consultation and Assessment in a Case of Child Sexual Abuse', Journal of Child Psychotherapy 13:2 1987
  • Psychoanalytic Insight in the Classroom - Asset or Liability, Journal of Educational Therapy vol 1 1986 reprinted in Lo Spazio Ascolto a Scuola 2005 Cleup Padova
  • 'Review Essay on Deprivation and Delinquency By DW Winnicott', Journal of Child Psychotherapy 11.2 1985
  • Referral and Assessment for Psychotherapy in Journal of Child Psychotherapy EBD School 11:1 1985
  • Getting Better Makes it Worse – obstacles to improvement in children with emotional and behavioural difficulties', Maladjustment and Therapeutic Education, Winter 1985, reprinted in The Emotional Needs of Young Children and their Families 1996
  • Letting go - a Psychotherapist’s View of Endings', Maladjustment and Therapeutic Education, Spring 1984

Dr Kevin Lu

  • Lu, Kevin. (2013). “Can Individual Psychology Explain Social Phenomena? An Appraisal of the Theory of Cultural Complexes” in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.  DOI:10.1057/pcs.2012.43
  • Lu, Kevin.  (2013).  "A Jungian Psychohistory:  A. J. Toynbee's use of Analytical Psychology in his Theory of Civilizations" in The International Journal of Jungian Studies.  DOI:  10.1080/19409052.2012.754364.
  • Lu, Kevin.  (2011).  "Jung and History" in Gottfried Heuer (Ed), Sexual Revolutions:  Psychoanalysis, History and the Father.  London and New York:  Routledge, pp. 11-34.

Forthcoming publications:

  • Lu, Kevin.  (forthcoming).  "Reply to Thomas Singer" in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.
  • Lu, Kevin.  (forthcoming).  "Jung, History and His Approach to the Psyche" in Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies.

Book Reviews:

  • (2012). Review of Chris Hauke and Luke Hockley (Eds), Jung and Film II: The Return in Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Group Politics, 63. URL: http://freeassociations.org.uk/FA_New/OJS/index.php/fa/article/view/53
  • (2010). "Review of Paul Bishop's 'Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller and Jung: Volume 1: The Development of the Personality" in The Heythrop Journal, 51(3), pp. 496-97.
  • (2009). “The Jung-White Letters. Edited by Ann Conrad Lammers and Adrian
  • Cunningham. London: Routledge, 2007. xxxi + 384 pages. £50.00 hardcover”. The Heythrop Journal, 50(3), pp. 543-44.
  • (2009). “The Jung-White Letters. Edited by Ann Conrad Lammers and Adrian Cunningham. London: Routledge, 2007. xxxi + 384 pages. $80.00 hardcover”. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 19(1), pp. 73-75.
  • (2008). “Meyer, Ruth. ‘Clio’s Circle: Entering the Imaginal World of Historians’. New Orleans, Louisiana: Spring Journal Books, 2007. xiv + 211 pages. $23.95 paperback”. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 53, pp. 722-23.

Professor Roderick Main

  • L. Burnett, S. Bahun, and R. Main (eds.) Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious (London: Karnac, [forthcoming 2013]).
  • Main, R., 'Myth, synchronicity, and re-enchantment', in L. Burnett, S. Bahun, and R. Main (eds.) Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious (London: Karnac, [forthcoming 2013]).
  • Main, R., 'Secular and religious: the intrinsic doubleness of analytical psychology and the hegemony of naturalism in the social sciences', Journal of Analytical Psychology 58 ([forthcoming 2013])
  • 'In a secular age: Weber, Taylor, Jung', Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society 18:4 ([forthcoming 2013]).
  • International Journal of Jungian Studies, guest-edited special issue on 'Myth, Literature and the Unconscious', 4:2 (September 2012) (with Leon Burnett).
  • 'Anomalous phenomena, synchronicity, and the re-sacralisation of the modern world', in S. Kakar and J. Kripal (eds.) Seriously Strange: Thinking Anew About Psychical Experiences (New Delhi: Penguin Viking, 2012) pp. 1-27, 275-83.
  • 'Synchronicity and the limits of re-enchantment', International Journal of Jungian Studies 3:2 (2011) pp. 144-58.'
  • Jung's uncertain separation of psychology from philosophy: a response to Segal', Journal of Analytical Psychology 55:3 (2010) pp. 385-8.
  • 'Jung as a Modern Esotericist', in G. Heuer (ed.) Sacral Revolutions (London and New York: Routledge, 2010) pp. 167-75.
  • 'Religion, Science, and Synchronicity', in L. Storm (ed.) Synchronicity: Multiple Perspectives on Meaningful Coincidence (Pari, Italy: Pari Publishing, 2008) pp. 25-41.
  • 'Psychology of religion: An overview of its history and current status', Religion Compass 2:4 (2008) pp. 708-33.
  • 'Secularisation and the 'holistic milieu': social and psychological perspectives', Religion Compass 2:3 (2008) pp. 365-84.

Dr Chris Nicholson

  • Nicholson, C , Irwin, M, Dwivedi, KN. (2010) Children and Adolescents in Trauma: Creative Therapeutic Approaches. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Papers

  • ‘Relational Ruptures: The Psychodynamic Processes Influencing Care Leavers and Care Organisations’ The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities. issue 32 (3) 2011
  • Nicholson, C. (2006) No More Ghosts: The Exorcism of Traumatic Memory in Children & Adolescents in Therapeutic Communities: International Journal of Therapeutic Communities 27
  • Nicholson, C. (2004) The Rights Of Passage - Gender-specific Initiation Rites in the Understanding of Self-Harm in The International Journal Of Therapeutic Communities 25
  • Nicholson, C. (2004) Creating The Self through Self Harm in The International Journal Of Therapeutic Communities 25
  • Nicholson, C. (2000) Memorial Tribute to the Poet & Author Martin Seymour-Smith in Gravesiana: The Journal of the Robert Graves Trust

Book Reviews

  • Essay Review The Book That Loved Children – A review of Childhood, Well-Being And A Therapeutic Ethos Edited by Richard House and Del Loewenthal, London: Karnac, 2009 in Psychodynamic Practice, Spring 2012
  • Transformative Tales: How Stories Can Change People by Rob Parkinson London: Jessica Kingsley, 2009 in The Eastern Journal of Psychiatry Vol. 13 No 1 - 2 Feb- Aug 2010

Articles

  • Nicholson, C, Monster in the Closet. Young Minds Magazine, Issue 103 December/January 2009/10, p.33

Interviews

  • Live Radio Interview on The Dave Monk Show 20.01.2012 BBC Radio Essex

Conference papers

  • 2011 The 3rd European Conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Educational Setting: From Organisational Complexity to Nurture: The Introjection of Well-being
  • 2011 The 3rd European Conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Educational Setting: Deracinated identities in children’s school transitions
  • 2011 Association of Therapeutic Communities Annual Conference: Change, Transition and Transformation or The Poetics and Psychodynamics of Change.
  • 2011 Community of Communities Annual Forum – College Centre for Quality Improvement: Royal college of Psychiatrists All Therapeutic Communities use a psychodynamic approach, whether they call it that or not
  • 2010 Association of Therapeutic Communities Annual Conference: Relational Ruptures – The Psychodynamics of Leaving Care
  • 2010 Care Matters Annual Leaving Care Conference: “Who will I be now?” - Deracinated Identities in Leaving Care
  • 2009 The Association of Therapeutic Communities International Conference at Cumberland Lodge: ‘Dear Little Monsters’: Attachment, Adolescence And Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
  • 2009 Center for Psychoanalytic Studies: Open Seminars Series: No More Ghosts: The Exorcism of Traumatic Memory in Children & Adolescents
  • 2007 Eighth International Robert Graves Conference – St John College Oxford University 'The needle dips and pokes': Graves, Childhood & Psychoanalysis
  • 1995 Robert Graves Centenary Conference – St John’s College, Oxford University The Battle of Being & Thinking (in the work of Robert Graves)

Professor Andrew Samuels

  • 'The transcendent function and politics: NO!' Journal of Analytical Psychology, 55:2, pp. 241-253 (2010)
  • 'Novos desenvolvimentos no campo pos-junguiano'. Revista da Sociedade Brasiliera de Psicologia Analitica, pp. 19-32 (2010)
  • 'Promiscuities'. In Understanding Non-Monogamies, edited by Meg Barker and Darren Langdridge. London: Routledge, 2009.
  • 'Improving Access to Psychological Therapies – For and Against'. Psychodynamic Practice, 15:1 2009
  • 'The renaissance of Western politics: the good-enough leader, relational economics, and an empathic foreign policy'. Tikkun: Politics, Spirituality, Culture, July/August 2009, pp. 43-49 (2009)
  • 'From economic sadism to economic sacrifice'. Self and Society, 37:3, pp. 19-25 (2009)
  • 'Transformation via "criminality": the role of the Trickster in clinical and cultural crisis.' Clinical Psychology Journal of Japan, Vol 13, pp. 10-14 (2009)
  • 'Carnal critiques: promiscuity, politics, imagination, spirituality and hypocrisy'. Psychotherapy and Politics International, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 4-17 (2009).
  • 'Transforming aggressive conflict in political and personal contexts.' International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Vol. 6(4), pp. 283-299 (2009).
  • 'The hidden politics of healing: foreign dimensions of domestic practice'. British Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, Vol 2, Issue 1, pp 37-50 (2008).
  • 'New developments in the Jungian field'. Introductory chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Jung (second edition), eds. Polly Young-Eisendrath and Terence Dawson. Pp. 1-18 (2008).