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Professor Susan Kegerreis

Professor
Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Professor Susan Kegerreis
  • Email

  • Telephone

    +44 (0) 1206 873263

  • 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

Open to supervise

Ethical approval for qualitative and clinical research

Key words: Ethical approval

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Counselling Contexts (PA215)

  • Psychodynamic Observation for Counsellors (PA216)

  • Personal Development (PA221)

  • Reflective Practice and Professional Development (PA250)

  • The counselling relationship and counselling techniques (PA256)

  • Therapeutic Practice (PA408)

  • Research Methodologies and Research Design (PA805)

  • Research Proposal (PA806)

  • Psychodynamic Theory and Practice 1 (PA961)

  • Psychodynamic Theory and Practice 2 (PA963)

  • Using Psychosocial and Psychodynamic Thinking in Practice (PA964)

  • Applications of Research to Psychodynamic Practice (PA965)

  • Personal Development (PA967)

  • Professional Development 1 (PA968)

  • Professional Development 2 (PA969)

  • Research Methods and Dissertation (PA981)

  • Dissertation (Child) (PA984)

  • Dissertation (Adult) (PA985)

Previous supervision

Raymond James Ingram
Raymond James Ingram
Thesis title: A New Conceptual and Empirical Approach to Stuttering Based in Psychoanalysis.
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 16/3/2022
 Anusnigdha
Anusnigdha
Thesis title: Psychoanalysis and Asexuality: An Exploration of the Phenomenon and Implications for Therapeutic Work Using a Psychoanalytic Theoretical Framework
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 4/3/2021
Helen Neame
Helen Neame
Thesis title: The Pull to Fusion: An Exploration of Observed Links Between Autism and Hoarding
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 27/11/2019
Yvonne Marcia Osafo
Yvonne Marcia Osafo
Thesis title: Parent-Infant Psychotherapy with a Child Showing Early Signs of Autism: Is Improvement in the Nature of Internal Parental Representations a Key Factor in Therapeutic Change? An In-Depth Qualitative Study of a Single Case
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 27/11/2019
Deborah Lillian Somerville Wright
Deborah Lillian Somerville Wright
Thesis title: Being in the Consulting Room: A Study of the Physical Space of the Consulting Room and its Role in the Therapeutic Process
Degree subject: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Doctorate
Awarded date: 12/6/2019
Beverley Janice Mears
Beverley Janice Mears
Thesis title: Is There a Connection Between Object Relations (As Described By Klein), Problems with Sexual Intimacy and Obsessive Compulsive Dis-Order.
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 7/12/2018
Barry Patrick Keane
Barry Patrick Keane
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 6/11/2018
Mahin Golbandi-Nazif
Mahin Golbandi-Nazif
Thesis title: Borderline Patient's Quest for Empathy: Four Female Patients in a Therapeutic Community
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 4/1/2018
Simona Reghintovschi
Simona Reghintovschi
Thesis title: The Emotional Radioactivity Behind Conflict in Psychoanalytic Institutions
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 23/3/2017
Fiona Anne Louise Henderson
Fiona Anne Louise Henderson
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 20/3/2017
Sheila Marie O'sullivan
Sheila Marie O'sullivan
Thesis title: An Exploration of How Childlessness and the Decision Whether to Become a Parent Is Understood By Psychoanalytic Practitioners
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 1/2/2017
Jennifer Butler
Jennifer Butler
Thesis title: 'the Unexamined Death': Patients' Experiences of the Premature Termination of Analysis Due to the Sudden Death, or Terminal Illness, of the Analyst
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 4/11/2015
Angela Mary Doran
Angela Mary Doran
Thesis title: Beginnings and Endings: A Study of How UK Secondary School-Based Psychodynamic Therapists At Different Stages of Their Careers Approach Initial and Final Phase Practice
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 27/11/2014

Publications

Journal articles (23)

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

Contact

skeger@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1206 873263

Location:

5A.209, Colchester Campus