Professor Susan Kegerreis
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873263
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Location
5A.209, Colchester Campus
Research and professional activities
Research interests
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
Ethical approval for qualitative and clinical research
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Counselling Contexts: Preparing for Placement (PA215)
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Psychodynamic Observation for Counsellors (PA216)
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Personal Development (PA221)
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The counselling relationship and counselling techniques (PA256)
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Research Methodologies and Research Design (PA805)
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Research Proposal (PA806)
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Advanced Clinical Practice (PA809)
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Psychodynamic Theory and Practice 1 (PA961)
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Psychodynamic Theory and Practice 2 (PA963)
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Using Psychosocial and Psychodynamic Thinking in Practice (PA964)
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Applications of Research to Psychodynamic Practice (PA965)
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Personal Development (PA967)
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Professional Development 1 (PA968)
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Professional Development 2 (PA969)
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Research Methods and Dissertation (PA981)
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Dissertation (Child and Adolescent) (PA984)
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Dissertation (Adult) (PA985)
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Psychodynamic Concepts (PA217)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 24/6/2025
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 21/3/2025
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 16/3/2022
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 4/3/2021
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 27/11/2019
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 27/11/2019
Degree subject: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Doctorate
Awarded date: 12/6/2019
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 7/12/2018
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 6/11/2018
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 4/1/2018
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 23/3/2017
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 20/3/2017
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 1/2/2017
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 4/11/2015
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 27/11/2014
Publications
Journal articles (25)
Kegerreis, S., (2025). Cohort size and group dynamics in psychodynamic trainings. Psychodynamic Practice. 31 (2), 121-141
Kegerreis, S., (2024). Editorial. Psychodynamic Practice. 30 (4), 325-328
Taylor, L., Kegerreis, S. and Rohleder, P., (2023). Loss and Survival: Experiences of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists Working Remotely During the COVID-19 Pandemic. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 39 (1), 182-197
Kegerreis, S., (2023). Editorial. Psychodynamic Practice. 29 (1), 1-3
Matheson, C. and Kegerreis, S., (2023). ‘The Genie's Out of the Bottle’: The Impact of Working Online with Individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Therapists and Clients, and its Lessons for Psychodynamic Training. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 39 (3), 573-591
Kegerreis, S., Wright, DLS., Hall, S., Horne, M., Langley, J., Norris, J., Quaile, E. and Shemesh, R., (2023). Becoming a researcher: psychotherapists’ experience of starting a professional doctorate. Journal of Child Psychotherapy. 49 (3), 474-489
Kegerreis, S., (2022). Life lessons from The Truman Show: parenting, adolescence and the therapeutic process. Journal of Child Psychotherapy. 48 (1), 110-122
Kegerreis, S., (2022). The role of our own history in our therapeutic work. Psychodynamic Practice. 28 (3), 243-253
Kegerreis, S., (2022). The Experience of Time Boundaries in Remote Working. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 38 (4), 754-768
Kegerreis, S., (2021). Editorial. Psychodynamic Practice. 27 (3), 223-227
Kegerreis, S., (2020). Immigration panics, borders and eating disorders. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 25 (2), 155-173
Kegerreis, S., (2020). Training for counselling young people – What is added by a child and adolescent specialism?. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling. 22 (3-4), 173-191
Kegerreis, S., (2020). Some thoughts on working psychoanalytically through the pandemic – The state of the good object. Psychodynamic Practice. 26 (4), 364-368
Kegerreis, S., (2019). Managing our time and ourselves in the way we now work. Psychodynamic Practice. 25 (1), 67-73
Willemsen, J., Della Rosa, E. and Kegerreis, S., (2017). Clinical Case Studies in Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Treatment. Frontiers in Psychology. 8 (FEB), 108-
Micklewright, D., Kegerreis, S., Raglin, J. and Hettinga, F., (2017). Will the Conscious–Subconscious Pacing Quagmire Help Elucidate the Mechanisms of Self-Paced Exercise? New Opportunities in Dual Process Theory and Process Tracing Methods. Sports Medicine. 47 (7), 1231-1239
Kegerreis, S., (2016). Further thoughts on research: a response to Michael Rustin. Journal of Child Psychotherapy. 42 (2), 198-207
Kegerreis, S., (2013). Freud and Klein in the Lion King. Journal of Child Psychotherapy. 39 (3), 334-345
Kegerreis, S., (2013). Knowing all this just makes it harder?: Psychodynamic Ideas on the Frontline. Psychodynamic Practice. 19 (1), 4-21
Kegerreis, S., (2013). ?When I Can Come on Time I'll be Ready to Finish?: Meanings of Lateness in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 29 (4), 449-465
Kegerreis, S., (2011). Taking psychodynamic thinking 'home' to the workplace ? How can courses manage better the impact on student and employing agency?. Psychodynamic Practice. 17 (1), 23-39
Kegerreis, S., (2006). Working with children and adolescents – Is specialist training necessary?. Psychodynamic Practice. 12 (4), 403-418
Kegerreis, S., (2001). Does ‘individual’ have to mean ‘all on your own’? Integrating group and institutional thinking in individual training. Psychodynamic Counselling. 7 (3), 261-278
Kegerreis, S., (1993). From a gang of two back to the family. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 7 (1), 69-83
Kegerreis, S., (1991). Using the positive : Is the truth always the awful truth?. Journal of Child Psychotherapy. 17 (1), 41-59
Books (1)
Kegerreis, S., (2009). Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Young People: An Introduction. Palgrave Macmillan. 9780230551961
Book chapters (2)
Kegerreis, S. and Midgley, N., (2014). The Psychodynamic Approach. In: The Handbook of Counselling Children & Young People. SAGE. 1473909139. 9781473909137
Kegerreis, S., (2011). The Theoretical Background to Psychodynamic School Counselling. In: Therapeutic Practice in Schools Working with the Child Within: A Clinical Workbook for Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Arts Therapists. Editors: French, L. and Klein, R., . Routledge. 9780415597906
Grants and funding
2022
Working therapeutically online
Westminster Pastoral Foundation
2021
Cataloguing and classifying an archive of past doctoral theses for ACP
Association of Child Psychotherapists
2010
PhD STUDENTSHIP GRANT
The Glass-House Trust
