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Professor Robert Hinshelwood BSc MB BS Lond. FRCPsych (part-time)

Staff positionProfessor of Psychoanalysis; Full Member British Psycho-Analytical Society
E-mailrhinsh (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk)
Telephone3962 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number)
Fax2746
Room4SB.6.13
Office hoursBy Appointment
Biography

Previously:
1993-97 - Clinical Director, The Cassel Hospital
2002-03 - Visiting Professor, Committee for Social Thought, University of Chicago

Websitehttp://rdhinshelwood.net/
Qualifications

Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society

Fellow, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Current research

Epistemology of psychoanalytic research

JUST PUBLISHED  2013

                    Bion Studies: The Shaping of his Paradigms (London: Routledge)

                   Research on the Couch: Subjectivity, Singles Cases, and Psychoanalytic Knowledge (London: Routledge)

Research interests
  • Application of psychoanalysis to social sciences;
  • Psychoanalytic Ethics;
  • Epistemology and Methodology of Psychoanalytic Studies;
  • Therapeutic communities;
  • Group dynamics;
  • History of psychoanalysis.
Teaching responsibilities

Supervision of research students

PublicationsLink to publications for Robert Hinshelwood
Additional information

I am currently supervising the following PhD students:

Previous research students:

  • Jacek Cieplinski
  • Nuno Torres
  • Dimitris Vonofakos
  • Christine Franke
  • Filipa de Castro
  • Christina Wieland
  • Matias Sanfuentes

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