Dr Ann Addison

Biography

Dr Ann Addison is a Lecturer in The Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies. Her research focuses on the history, comparison and contemporary application of psychoanalytic concepts, with particular reference to the work of W.R. Bion and C.G. Jung. She is interested in the interface between the individual and society, and in the possibility for mutual interplay between psychoanalytic concepts and understandings and legal processes. In 2016, she was awarded a PhD for her research, A Study of Transference Phenomena in the Light of Jung’s Psychoid Concept, and she has since published a book on this subject, Jung’s Psychoid Concept Contextualised. Teaching subjects in her portfolio range through Jungian and Object Relations and other psychoanalytic theories; clinical techniques and reflective practice; psychoanalysis and the visual arts; applied psychoanalysis; and research methodology. As a Training Analyst, Society of Analytical Psychology, she also practises as a Jungian Psychoanalyst and Supervisor and has a clinical practice in London working with adults. Her varied career path covers psychoanalysis, teaching, research and the legal field of Intellectual Property. She has experience of working clinically in private practice, in the NHS and with business organisations, and of teaching, supervising and analysing psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic trainees. She has taught in the Central School of Speech and Drama, Birkbeck and Essex University. And , she has also practised in all areas of Intellectual Property with the city law firm Stephenson Harwood and a number of firms of Patent Attorneys. She is a founding member of Essex' Research Group on Psychoanalysis, Law, and Social Phenomena (https://www.essex.ac.uk/departments/psychosocial-and-psychoanalytic-studies/research/psychoanalysis,-law-and-social-phenomena), and co-author of Essex Law School's module, 'Law and the Unconscious'. Other positions she holds include the roles of External Examiner, Birkbeck, University of London, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international peer review Journal of Analytical Psychology. Registrant of the British Psychoanalytic Council; Registrant of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. Formerly, a consultant in the field of Intellectual Property, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, and Member of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office.

Qualifications

• PhD University of Essex, (2016)

Appointments

University of Essex

• Lecturer, Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex (1/9/2021 - present)

Other academic

• External Examiner, School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London (1/10/2022 - present)