Staff Research Interests
- Historical, philosophical, religious and cultural contexts of the work of C. G. Jung;
- Depth psychology (especially Jungian psychology), religion and modernity;
- Analytical psychology and society;
- Synchronicity;
- Myth.
- Psychoanalytic understanding of scientific inquiry;
- Masculinity, including the masculinity of scientific naturalism and ideas of nature;
- Psychoanalytic theory in the tradition of Freud, Klein, Bion and Object Relations;
- Psychoanalytic and historical understanding of fundamentalism, prejudice, memory and reparation.
- Application of psychoanalysis to social sciences;
- Psychoanalytic Ethics;
- Epistemology and Methodology of Psychoanalytic Studies;
- Therapeutic communities;
- Group dynamics;
- History of psychoanalysis.
- Trauma, forced migration and refugees;
- Working with survivors of violence and disasters;
- The interface between Analytical Psychology and systems, family therapy, and culture;
- Analytical Psychology and epistemology.
- The interface between Analytical Psychology and Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
- Application of psychoanalytic thinking to politics;
- Comparative theoretical research in depth psychology;
- Political, social and cultural aspects of transference and counter-transference;
- The father;
- The construction of masculinity;
- The history of Jungian psychology.
- Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
- Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Adolescents
- Applications of Psychodynamic Thinking in non -clinical work
- Organisational Dynamics
- Eating Disorders
- Training issues with Counsellors and Psychotherapists
- The history of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology
- Psychosocial Studies and integrations of psychology with sociology
- Nineteenth-century theories of the unconscious
- German Romantic psychology and philosophy
- Psychoanalysis and critical theory
- Modernist poetry and poetics
- C. G. Jung, analytical psychology, Jungian and Post-Jungian theory
- psychoanalytic history and psychohistory, especially the application of analytical psychology to the discipline of history
- cultural complexes
- Psychology of Religion
Primary Interests:
- Issues facing 'looked after' children, particularly trauma, transitions and leaving care
- Assessment of children and adolescents
- Therapeutic Communities
Additional Interests:
- The poetry and other works of Robert Graves
- The relationship between psychodynamic theory and literature
- Attachment and development issues for looked after children;
- Creating effective learning environments;
- Psychoanalytic perspectives on organisational dynamics.
- Executive coaching and consultancy practice in organisations
- Leadership development-psychodynamic perspectives
- Perinatal psychology;
- forensic psychotherapy with victims and perpetrators;
- institutional dynamics;
- psycho-social aspects of child abuse;
- the application of therapeutic models in professional work with children and adolescents.
- Psychoanalysis of groups and organizations;
- Clinical supervision and psychosocial practice in care settings;
- Authority and leadership;
- Popular culture;
- Psychosis.
- The creation of psychological space in group settings;
- The application of linguistic theory to the practice of psychotherapy.
- Fairbairn's object relations theory
- Personal Relations Theory - Fairbairn, Suttie and Macmurray
- An object relations theory of creativity
- An object relations theory of film and dramatic narrative
- Political theory and object relations
- Critical realism and psychoanalysis
- Fairbairn and multiple personality
- Jung's views on education, development, children and childhood
- Theories of psychological development
- History of children and childhood
- Psychological issues related to children's rights
- Child psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
- Qualitative and clinical research methods
- Understanding the therapeutic process
- Depression in adolescence
- The experience of psychoanalytic treatment
- Psychoanalysis and the arts (including film and children's literature)
- Intrapsychic and interpersonal processes in childbearing and parenting;
- Psychoanalytic concepts applied to primary care;
- Cross-cultural aspects of gender, fertility and childbearing;
- Psycho-social and ethical issues in reproductive technology;
- Perinatal emotional disturbances and psychotherapy;
- Developmental processes;
- Comparative psychoanalysis (British Group of Independent Psychoanalysts)
- Modern Orthodox Theology of Personhood
- Russian Religious Thought of the XIX-XX c. (N. Berdyaev; S. Bulgakov; P. Florensky etc.)
- New Testament Studies (esp. modern personalistic approaches)
- Clinical Supervision
- Psychosomatics and groups
- Psychoanalysis and popular culture
- Psychoanalysis of organisations
- Dynamic Administration
- Female development and gender identity;
- Mother-daughter relationship;
- Masculinity;
- Culture and Psychic Structure;
- Bion; masculinity and fascism
I am interested in the impact of mental health work upon the clinician, what people bring to this work and what they need from it. I am also interested in how to use psychoanalytic thinking in an applied way in settings other than the consulting room.
Organisational change and cultures of work
Kleinian theory and group dynamics
Psychoanalytic methodology in academic research
Public healthcare policy and implementation
- health conditions: medically unexplained symptoms / somatoform disorder / psychosomatic medicine; psychosis; trauma and PTSD; chronic mental health problems;
- psychotherapy: analytical / relational body psychotherapy;
- other/theory: the body in psychoanalysis; Wilhelm Reich and Neo-Reichian analysis; healthcare pathways; embodiment and nonverbal communication.
-Organisational and Group Dynamics
- Leadership development
- Application of psychodynamic thinking to the work environment
- Individual and Organisational Transition
-Women relationship and relatedness to work
- Career development
• Clinical psychoanalysis and the case study
• Psychic survival
• Comparative theories of aggression – survival of the object or the death instinct
• The specificity of psychoanalytic treatment today
• Female sexuality and hysteria today
• French psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalytic paradigm shifts
• Psychoanalytic theory and cultural criticism (literature, film, TV, advertising etc)
• Theories and practices of libidinal economy since the Enlightenment
• The political, economic and cultural history of psychoanalysis
• Censorship and the arts
• Modernist and postmodernist cultural theory and practices (including music and literature)
Relational Psychoanalysis
Online Social Networking
Using the media to promote psychological thinking
Gender and Sexual Identities
Psychoanalytic analysis and criticism of film and television
Young people, psychology, and the media
Contemporary psychotherapeutic theory and practice