Professor Karl Figlio
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Professor; Registrant of the British Psychoanalytic Council; Senior Member of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of the British Psychotherapy Foundation; Clinical Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Psychoanalytic understanding of scientific inquiry
Masculinity, including the masculinity of scientific naturalism and ideas of nature
Psychoanalytic theory in the tradition of Freud, Klein, Bion and Object Relations
Psychoanalytic and historical understanding of fundamentalism, prejudice, memory and reparation
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Research Methodologies and Research Design (PA805)
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Research Proposal (PA806)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Doctorate
Awarded date: 12/6/2019
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 15/2/2019
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 30/4/2018
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 17/5/2017
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 7/12/2016
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 24/6/2015
Degree subject: Psychoanalytic Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 4/12/2014
Publications
Journal articles (28)
Figlio, K., (2023). Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity. Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity: From Toxic to Seminal, 1-268
Figlio, K., (2020). A memory of Simon Clarke. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 25 (1), 94-95
Figlio, K., (2014). Psychoanalysis, Reparation, and Historical Memory. American Imago. 71 (4), 417-443
Figlio, K., (2011). A psychoanalytic reflection on collective memory as a psychosocial enclave:
Figlio, K., (2010). Phallic and seminal masculinity: A theoretical and clinical confusion. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 91 (1), 119-139
Figlio, K., (2010). INTRODUCTION. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 26 (4), 394-396
Figlio, K., (2005). EDITORIAL. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 22 (1), 1-2
Figlio, K. and Jordanova, A., (2005). The First Formal Reaction to C.G. Jung's Departure From Psychoanalysis: Sándor Ferenczi's Review of Symbols of Transformation. Psychoanalysis and History. 7 (1), 51-62
Figlio, K., (2004). Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Self-Awareness of Society. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 9 (1), 87-104
Figlio, K. and Richards, B., (2003). The Containing Matrix of the Social. American Imago. 60 (4), 407-428
FIGLIO, K., (1999). Psychoanalysis and the scientific mind: Robert Boyle. The British Journal for the History of Science. 32 (3), 299-314
Figlio, K., (1998). Historical imagination/psychoanalytical imagination. History Workshop Journal. 45 (1), 199-222
Figlio, K., (1993). The Field of Psychotherapy: Conceptual and Ethical Definitions. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 9 (3), 324-335
Figlio, K., (1991). Commentary on the Paper by Cecilia Clementel‐Jones on the Italian Register. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 7 (4), 423-425
Dyne, D. and Figlio, K., (1989). A Comment on Jonathan Pedder's ‘Courses in Psychotherapy’: A Future for Training in Psychotherapy*. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 6 (2), 222-226
Figlio, K., (1988). Oral History and the Unconscious1. History Workshop Journal. 26 (1), 120-132
Phd, KF., (1986). For the Social History of Medicine: A Reply to David Armstrong. Holistic Medicine. 1 (2), 135-143
Figlio, K., (1984). The Civilized Body: Social Domination, Control and Health (Book).. Sociology of Health & Illness. 6 (1), 99-100
Figlio, K. and Weindling, P., (1984). Was social medicine revolutionary? Rudolf Virchow and the revolutions of 1848.. The Society for the Social History of Medicine bulletin. 34, 10-18
Figlio, K., (1983). What is an accident?. The Society for the Social History of Medicine bulletin. 33, 27-29
Figlio, K., (1980). Medical Mythology. Sociology of Health & Illness. 2 (3), 335-340
Figlio, K., (1978). Chlorosis and Chronic Disease in 19th-Century Britain: The Social Constitution of Somatic Illness in a Capitalist Society. International Journal of Health Services. 8 (4), 589-617
Figlio, K., (1978). Chlorosis and chronic disease in nineteenth‐century Britain: The social constitution of somatic illness in a capitalist society∗. Social History. 3 (2), 167-197
Figlio, K., (1977). Social roots of medical ideas: disease and civilization in the 19th century.. The Society for the Social History of Medicine bulletin. 21, 16-18
Figlio, K., (1977). The Historiography of Scientific Medicine: An Invitation to the Human Sciences. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 19 (3), 262-286
Figlio, KM., (1976). The Metaphor of Organization: An Historiographical Perspective on the Bio-Medical Sciences of the Early Nineteenth Century. History of Science. 14 (1), 17-53
Figlio, KM., (1975). Theories of Perception and the Physiology of Mind in the Late Eighteenth Century. History of Science. 13 (3), 177-212
HUTCHENS, JO., FIGLIO, KM. and GRANITO, SM., (1963). An isopiestic comparison method for activities. The activities of L-arginine--hydrochloride.. The Journal of biological chemistry. 238, 1419-1422
Book chapters (20)
Figlio, K., (2023). Forgiveness in the recognition of actuality. In: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health. Routledge. 147- 165
Figlio, K., (2023). Phallic Defence in the Boy. In: Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity. Routledge. 57- 75
Figlio, K., (2023). The Uniquely Masculine. In: Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity. Routledge. 3- 22
Figlio, K., (2023). Seminal Masculinity. In: Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity. Routledge. 113- 133
Figlio, K., (2023). Male Internal Genital Space. In: Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity. Routledge. 25- 35
Figlio, K., (2023). Parthenogenic Procreation. In: Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity. Routledge. 94- 110
Figlio, K., (2023). Misogyny in the Production of Masculinity. In: Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity. Routledge. 155- 178
Figlio, K., (2023). The Unease in Normal Masculinity. In: Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity. Routledge. 223- 246
Figlio, K., (2023). Incapacity and Ambivalence in Seminal Masculinity. In: Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity. Routledge. 134- 151
Figlio, K., (2023). Phallic Monism. In: Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity. Routledge. 76- 93
Figlio, K., (2023). Conclusion. In: Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity. Routledge. 221- 246
Figlio, K., (2023). Toxic Masculinity in the Financial Crisis. In: Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity. Routledge. 199- 219
Figlio, K., (2023). Social Misogyny. In: Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity. Routledge. 179- 198
Figlio, K., (2023). Being Inside. In: Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity. Routledge. 36- 54
Figlio, K., (2022). The lost subject of medical sociology. In: Sociological Theory and Medical Sociology. Routledge. 77- 109
Figlio, K., (2022). Money as the currency of value1. In: Psychoanalysis, Science and Power. Routledge. 164- 183
Figlio, K., (2019). Chlorosis and Chronic Disease in 19th-Century Britain: The Social Constitution of Somatic Illness in a Capitalist Society. In: Women and Health. Routledge. 213- 241
Figlio, K., (2018). The dread of sameness: Social Hatred and Freud’s “narcissism of minor differences”. In: Psychoanalysis and Politics: Exclusion and the Politics of Representation. Editors: . Karnac Books Ltd. 7- 24. 9781780490076
Figlio, K., (2007). Sigmund Freud. In: Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists. Reaktion Books. 50- 54. 1789145791. 9781789145793
(2003). Regimes of Memory. In: Regimes of Memory. Editors: Hodgkin, K. and Radstone, S., . Routledge. 152- 166
Conferences (1)
Figlio, K., (1996). SCIENCE, TRANSFERENCE AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
