​Welcome to my website

The site is intended, first and foremost, to indicate my own publications.  I have annotated my bibliography with some personal details.

I have published work on clinical psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and the history of psychoanalysis, and various aspects of the application of psychoanalysis.
 
I have included some biographical details that I hope will help to place this work in a systematic, yet also personal context.  The sections are partly thematic, and partly chronological, and you will see them via the Menu.
 
The site will change from time to time as I add new items to the bibliography, and indeed new interests as they develop.

From time to time I propose to upload text files of some papers in draft form that I am working on.  And any comments will be gratefully received.

I would be very pleased to hear any comments you have, quarrels with, or criticisms of, my work.

Thank you for your interest. I hope that you will return again, and will find it helpful and informative.

E-MAIL ADDRESS:  [email protected]
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​[I am grateful to Georgia and Georgiou Chalkia for creating this website for me]
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​ In prospect:
  • In 2001, I began to develop, with Enrico Pedriali, a series of workshops now referred to as Learning from Action, intended for care workers to 'read' communications from cared-for persons in their behvaiour and relationships, rather than words.  Although Enrico died 10 years ago, these have been taken over and developed by Luca Mingarrelli.  Luca and I have now edited a book, Learning from Action: Working with the Non-Verbal, recently published, June 2022. Here is a link
  • W.R. Bion as Clinician: Steering between conccept and action (to be published in The New Library Series of the Londnon Institute) has now appeared, right at the end of December 2022. Here is a link
  •  And Herbert Rosenfeld: A Contemporary Introduction​ (Routledge) has just appeared in January (2023). Here is a link
  • For many years, even decades, I have been fascunated by the fact that emotions are at the centre of interest making people come for psychoanalysis, and yet it is noted over and over again that there is no satisfactory psychoanalytic theory of emotions! Shortly, Phoenix Publishing House will publish a book that I have completed on affects/emotions - The Mystery of Emotions: Seeking a Theory of What We Feel.  This is an attempt at a survey of many of the varied attempts, with some qualitative meta-analysis and conclusions. Here is a link
  • Further prospects: One further prospect is a book on the aspects of politics for which a knowledge of the psychoanalytic unconscious would be vluable, and probably essential. It is to be called (at this stage Unconscious Politics: Alienation, Social Science and Psychoanalysis​ to be published by Phoenix.

MY WORK

Books
Book chapters
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Video Interview