Postgraduate Prospectus

www.essex.ac.uk/centres/psycho | Psychoanalytic Studies
Staff and their research interests
Aaron Balick, MA London, MSc Derby,
PhD Essex (Lecturer)
Integration of different psychoanalytic
disciplines in both theory and practice;
relational psychoanalysis and
psychotherapy; gender and sexual
identities; developments in contemporary
psychotherapy (clinically, socially and
politically); psychotherapy, psychoanalysis
and the media
Marie Bridge, MA Oxford (Fellow,
Institute of Psychoanalysis; Training
Analyst, Institute of Psychoanalysis)
(Honorary Senior Lecturer)
Psychoanalysis and literature; language
and psychoanalysis; French psychoanalysis
Hannah Curtis, MA Essex
(Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist;
Advanced Member of the Lincoln Centre
for Psychotherapy, London; Member of the
British Psychoanalytic Council) (Lecturer)
Dissemination of psychoanalytic thinking
into the workplace; impact upon the
worker of the work with disturbed and
disturbing people; psychotic processes in
everyday life
Matt Ffytche, MA PhD London (Lecturer)
The history of psychoanalysis and
analytical psychology; nineteenth-century
theories of the unconscious; German
romantic psychology and philosophy;
psychoanalysis and critical theory;
modernist poetry and poetics
Karl Figlio, BSc PhD Chicago (Member,
LCP) (Professor)
Psychoanalytic understanding of inquiry,
including historical and scientific inquiry;
masculinity; psychoanalytic theory;
psychoanalysis and society, including
absolutism (fundamentalism) in individuals
and society
Robert Hinshelwood, BSc MB BS
London, FRCPsych (Full Member, British
Psycho-Analytic Society) (Professor)
Application of psychoanalysis to social
sciences; psychoanalysis and philosophy;
therapeutic communities; group dynamics;
history of psychoanalysis
Sue Kegerreis, MA Oxford, PGCE
Roehampton (Member, Association of
Child Psychotherapists; Member, British
Psychoanalytic Council) (Senior Lecturer)
Psychotherapy in children and
adolescents; psychodynamic counselling
with children and adolescents; applications
of psychodynamic thinking in non-clinical
work; organisational dynamics; eating
disorders; training issues with counsellors
and psychotherapists
Narendra Keval, BSc MClin Tavistock
(Adult and Adolescent Psychotherapist;
Chartered Clinical Psychologist) (Senior
Lecturer)
Clinical and applied psychoanalysis;
psychoanalytic psychotherapy;
psychodynamics of racism
Kevin Lu, MA London, PhD Essex
(Lecturer)
Psychohistory, especially the application
of analytical psychology to history; cultural
complexes; psychology of religion
Roderick Main, MA Oxford, PhD
Lancaster (Senior Lecturer and Director
of the Centre)
Historical, philosophical, religious and
cultural contexts of analytical psychology;
depth psychology, religion and modernity;
synchronicity; myth
Nick Midgley, BA Oxford, MSc PsychD
University College London (Member,
Association of Child Psychotherapists)
(Visiting Lecturer)
Child psychoanalysis and psychotherapy;
qualitative and clinical research methods;
children’s film and literature
David Millar, BA CertEd Manitoba, MA
Essex, TQAP Tavistock Clinic (Member,
Association of Child Psychotherapists)
(Honorary Senior Lecturer)
Perinatal psychology; psychotherapy
with victims and perpetrators; institutional
dynamics; psycho-social aspects of child
abuse; self-harm and suicidal behaviour
Chris Nicholson, BA Kent, PhD
Northampton (Fellow, International Institute
of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and
Trustee, Charterhouse Group of
Therapeutic Communities) (Lecturer)
Therapeutic communities; literature and
psychodynamic theory
Renos Papadopoulos, DipClinEdPsych
Belgrade, PhD Cape Town (Member,
IGAP) (Professor)
Analytical psychology and epistemology;
the interface between analytical
psychology and systems, family therapy
and cultures; working with survivors of
violence and disasters; forced migration
and refugees
Joan Raphael-Leff, BA Tel Aviv, MSc
LSE, PhD Essex (Full Member, British
Psycho-Analytic Society) (Visiting
Professor)
Intrapsychic and interpersonal processes
in childbearing and parenting;
psychoanalytic concepts applied to
primary care; cross-cultural aspects of
gender, fertility and childbearing;
psychosocial and ethical issues in
reproductive technology; perinatal
emotional disturbances and
psychotherapy; developmental processes;
comparative psychoanalysis
Frank Röhricht, MD Berlin, MBBS
Germany (Fellow, Royal College of
Psychiatry/FRCPsych; Consultant
Psychiatrist and Clinical Director; EABPaccredited
Body Psychotherapist)
(Honorary Professor)
Evaluation and application of body
oriented psychodynamic psychotherapy
in mental health care services; theory
and history of neo-reichian body
psychotherapy and development of
disorder; specific manualised intervention
strategies for somatoform disorder,
psychosis and depression; body image
phenomenology and ego-psychology,
transcultural variety of ego-pathology;
prodromal psychosis; mental health care
service evaluation; the body and trauma,
implications for the treatment of PTSD;
group psychotherapy and therapeutic
relationship
Andrew Samuels, DipSocAdmin
PGDipSocWStud LSE, DHumLet Pacifica
(Graduate Institute Training Analyst,
Society of Analytical Psychology and
Honorary Fellow, United Kingdom Council
for Psychotherapy) (Professor)
Application of psychoanalytic thinking to
politics; comparative theoretical research
in depth psychology; political, social and
cultural aspects of transference and
countertransference; the father; the
construction of masculinity; the history
of Jungian psychology
Michael Scott, MA Hertfordshire
(Member, IGA) (Honorary Senior Lecturer)
Psychoanalysis of groups and
organizations; clinical supervision;
psychosocial practice in care settings;
management; authority and leadership;
popular culture; psychosis
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