Our research

Our academic staff regularly publish work in leading journals. Examples of their most recent work include:

• Psychoanalytic Sociology and the Traumas of History: Alexander Mitscherlich Between the Disciplines by Professor Matt Ffytche in History of the Human Sciences
• Real Fantasies: Reinserting the Imaginary in the Scene of Social Encounter by Professor Matt Ffytche in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
• Throwing the Case Open: The Impossible Subject of Luisa Passerini’s Autobiography of a Generation by Professor Matt Ffytche in History of the Human Sciences
• Growing Up Beside You: A Relational Sociology of Early Childhood by Dr Norman Gabriel in History of the Human Sciences
• Beyond Repair: Interpretation, Reparation, and Melanie Klein’s Clinical Play-Technique by Dr Carolyn Laubender in Journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality
• On Good Authority: Anna Freud and the Politics of Child Analysis by Dr Carolyn Laubender in Psychoanalysis and History
• Panentheism and the Undoing of Disenchantment by Professor Roderick Main in Zygon
• Synchronicity and Holism by Professor Roderick Main in Revue de Psychologie Analytique
• Evolution in the Brain, Evolution in the Mind: The Hierarchical Brain and the Interface Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience by Dr Leonardo Niro Nascimento in Psychoanalysis and History
• Children's Imaginaries in the City: On Things and Materials co-authored by Dr Raluca Soreanu in Children's Geographies
• Supervision For Our Times: Countertransference and the Rich Legacy of the Budapest School by Dr Raluca Soreanu in The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
• The Psychic Life of Fragments: Splitting from Ferenczi to Klein by Dr Raluca Soreanu in The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
• Confusing Cases: Forrester, Stoller, Agnes, Woman by Dr Julie Walsh in History of the Human Sciences

Our academic staff regularly publish books on a wide range of topics. Their most recent work includes:

• The Sociology of Early Childhood: Critical Perspectives by Dr Norman Gabriel
• Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising by Dr Raluca Soreanu
• Narcissism and Its Discontents by Dr Julie Walsh
• Failure and Success in Forms of Involuntary Dislocation: Trauma, Resilience, and Adversity-Activated Development a chapter by Professor Renos Papadopoulos in Jungian Odyssey Series Volume VII 2014 The Crucible of Failure

Some of the best known work produced by the Department in previous years includes:

• The Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche by Professor Matt Ffytche
• Children and Adolescents in Trauma: Creative Therapeutic Approaches co-authored by Dr Chris Nicholson

Our academic staff frequently feature within the wider press and media. Below are some examples of their latest appearances:

• Watch the interview with Dr Chris Nicholson on Psychoanalysis and Self-Awareness on the Dennis Relojo-Howell show on YouTube
• Read the article in The Conversation by Professor Renos Papadopoulos on Asylum By Numbers: This is Not a Quantifiable Crisis
• Read the BBC article Aylesbury Sex Ring: How it Started With an Investigation Into the Victim in which Dr Chris Nicholson is quoted
• Read the article in The Conversation by Susan Kegerreis on Why Some People Find It So Hard To Manage Their Time When Working From Home
• Read the article in The Conversation by Dr Chris Nicholson on More Teenage Girls Are Self Harming Than Ever Before - Here's Why
• Read the article in The Psychologist by Dr Carolyn Laubender entitled From the Bomb to Apollo 13: Bowlby and the Cold War
• Read the article in The Conversation by Dr Chris Nicholson on Why Freud Was Right About Hysteria
• Read the article in The Conversation by Professor Renos Papadopoulos on Forget the Sympathy: Asylum is a Refugees Right
• Read the article in The Conversation by Dr Chris Nicholson on Not All Care Workers Prey on the Weak – But Some Are More Prone to Abuse

Research from the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies examines key issues with real-world impact.

• Read Professor Renos Papadopoulos' research showcase on Improving the Lives of Refugees Around the World