Email
mluci@essex.ac.ukLocation
5A.122, Colchester Campus
Biography
Dr. Monica Luci is a clinical psychologist, Jungian and relational psychoanalyst, and lecturer and team member within the MAs Refugee Care and Psychodynamic Counselling at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, and member of the Centre for Trauma Asylum and Refugees at the University of Essex. She is a consultant and supervisor for national and international organisations and agencies in the psychosocial and psychotherapeutic work with refugees, especially survivors of torture, women that suffered gender-based violence, unaccompanied minors and individuals and communities that experienced other kind of human rights violations. She is teaching internationally in professional courses, and to Jungian trainees within International Association of Analytical Psychology Developing Groups. She has authored, translated, and edited publications on the themes of trauma, torture, displacement, collective violence, human rights violations, gender, and psychoanalysis among which the monographs Torture, Psychoanalysis, Human Rights (Routledge, 2017), Torture Survivors in Analytic Therapy: Jung, Politics, Culture (Routledge, 2022), Lockdown Therapy: Jungian Perspectives on How the Pandemic Changed Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2023), and Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance (Routledge, 2024). She is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Analytical Psychology.
Qualifications
PhD Refugee Care University of Essex,
MA Clinical and Community Psychology University of Rome - La Sapienza,
Appointments
University of Essex
Lecturer (R), Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex (2023 - present)
Research interests
Psychodynamic understanding of the refugee experience
Refugees, trauma and body
Refugees, violence and human rights
Complex trauma
Complex and combined therapies for refugees
Psychodynamic understanding of collective violence at the crossroads between intrapsychic, interpersonal and social levels
Torture survivors' experience
Gender based violence among refugees
Accompanied and unaccompanied minor refugees
Interdisciplinary studies between psychoanalysis and law
Current teaching responsibilities
Law and the Unconscious: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Law (LW255)
Contexts of Refugee Experience (PA931)
Psychosocial Perspectives on Human Rights (PA932)
Therapeutic Care for Refugees (PA937)
Selected Applications of Analytical Psychology (PA974)
Dissertation - MA Refugee Care (PA982)
Journal articles (24)
Luci, M., (2024). Trauma, flight and migration: psychoanalytic perspectives. Psychodynamic Practice. 30 (2), 202-206
Luci, M., (2024). Disputed Boundaries of the Self, the Group, and their Environment: What We Learn from Refugees about our Psychic Functioning. Journal of Analytical Psychology. 69 (5), 768-787
Luci, M., (2024). Zwangsverschleppungen und Folter heute aus Sicht der Analytischen Psychologie Folterüberlebende und das Undenkbare: ein hyper-präsenter Körper im therapeutischen Prozess. Zeitschrift für Psychotherapie und Psychoanalyse
Luci, M., Carpani, S. and Papič, T., (2024). Editorial of the Special Issue “Analysis & Activism: Do We Really Have the Answer?”. Journal of Analytical Psychology. 69 (2), 167-173
Luci, M., (2023). In Search for Soul: The Contribution of Analytical Psychology to Heal Human Rights Violations. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 39 (3), 611-628
Luci, M. and Juvin, C., (2023). Les disparitions forcées et la torture à notre époque : un point de vue de la psychologie analytique [Enforced Disappearances and Torture Today: A View from Analytical Psychology - Torture survivors and the unthinkable: A hyper-present body in the therapeutic process]. Revue de Psychologie Analytique. 12 (1), 59-70
Luci, M., (2023). Enforced Disappearances and Torture Today: A View from Analytical Psychology 2. Torture Survivors and the Unthinkable: A Hyper-Present Body in the Therapeutic Process: 2. Torture Survivors and the Unthinkable: A Hyper-Present Body in the Therapeutic Process1.. Journal of Analytical Psychology. 68 (2), 337-347
Luci, M., (2022). Papadopoulos, Renos K. Involuntary Dislocation: Home, Trauma, Resilience and Adversity‐Activated Development. London & New York: Routledge. 2021. Pp. 328. Hbk. £120. Pbk. £29.999. Journal of Analytical Psychology. 67 (4), 1186-1188
Luci, M., (2021). A complex treatment for complex trauma.. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 35 (1), 76-77
Luci, M., (2021). Ginzburg, Alessandra and Carvalho, Richard. (2020). ‘Once and for all time, always the same?’ British Journal of Psychotherapy , 36, 3, 430‐44.. Journal of Analytical Psychology. 66 (4), 1021-1024
Zarbafi, A., (2021). Luci, Monica. Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights. Abingdon, New York: Routledge. 2017. Pp. 278. Hbk. £130. Pbk. £29.59. Journal of Analytical Psychology. 66 (2), 362-366
Luci, M. and Kahn, M., (2021). Analytic Therapy with Refugees: Between Silence and Embodied Narratives. Psychoanalytic Inquiry. 41 (2), 103-114
Luci, M., (2021). The psychic skin between individual and collective states of mind in trauma. Journal of Psychosocial Studies. 14 (1), 33-45
Comitato di Redazione con, ML., (2020). Editoriale. STUDI JUNGHIANI (52), 5-12
Luci, M., (2020). Displacement as trauma and trauma as displacement in the experience of refugees. Journal of Analytical Psychology. 65 (2), 260-280
Luci, M., (2019). La disintegrazione del sé e la rigenerazione della "pelle psichica" nella terapia dei rifugiati traumatizzati [Disintegration of the self and the regeneration of ‘psychic skin’ in the treatment of traumatized refugees]. Studi Junghiani (49), 17-37
Luci, M. and Di Rado, D., (2019). The Special Needs of Victims of Torture or Serious Violence: A Qualitative Research in EU. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. 18 (4), 405-420
(2018). Open Letter From A Group of Jungians on The Question of Jung's Writings on And theories About ‘Africans’. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 34 (4), 673-678
Luci, M., (2018). The mark of torture and the therapeutic relationship. International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Education
Luci, M., (2017). Disintegration of the self and the regeneration of 'psychic skin' in the treatment of traumatized refugees.. Journal of Analytical Psychology. 62 (2), 227-246
Luci, M., (2016). Inner and Outer Travels: Analytical Psychology and the Treatment of Refugees. Quadrant: The Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation. XLVI (2), 35-56
Codignola, C. and Luci, M., (2013). La sfida delle famiglie omogenitoriali. PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE. 47 (1), 23-54
(2011). 1. KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND INVITED PLENARY LECTURES – CONTENTS. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 2 (1)
Capozzi, P., Lingiardi, V. and Luci, M., (2004). L'atteggiamento degli psicoanalisti italiani nei confronti dell'omosessualità: una ricerca empirica. Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane. 38 (3)
Books (5)
Bianchi, MG. and Luci, M., (2023). Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance. Routledge. 9781032320588
Carpani, S. and Luci, M., (2022). Lockdown Therapy: Jungian Perspectives on How the Pandemic Changed Psychoanalysis. Routledge. 9781003266402
Luci, M., (2022). Torture Survivors in Analytic Therapy: Jung, Politics, Culture. Routledge. 0367426706. 9780367426705
Luci, M., (2022). Torture Survivors in Analytic Therapy. Routledge
Luci, M., (2017). Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights. Routledge. 1317439236. 9781315694320
Book chapters (12)
Luci, M., I feel therefore We are: The body as an emotional map of the world in the interplay between individual and collective psyche.. In: I feel therefore I am: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Emotions and their Impact. Vol. 1. Editors: Brodersen, E.,
Luci, M., Trauma, Resilience and Forced Migration of Adolescent Unaccompanied Minors. In: Handbook of Resilience among Displaced People. Editors: Fernando, C., Alhosseini, F., Chen, X., Ferrari, M. and Shamim, A., . Springer
Luci, M., (2023). The Wall: Object, Image, and Processes in the Individual and Collective Psyche. In: Collective Structures of Imagination in Jungian Interpretation. Editors: Segal, RA., Blocian, I. and Kuzmicki, A., . Brill. 95- 114. 9789004468740
Luci, M., (2023). Tortured and disappeared bodies: The problem of 'knowing'. In: Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance. Editors: Bianchi, MG. and Luci, M., . Routledge. 171- 187. 9781032320588
Bianchi, MG. and Luci, M., (2023). Introduction. In: Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance. Editors: Bianchi, MG. and Luci, M., . Routledge. 1- 15. 9781003312642
Carpani, S. and Luci, M., (2022). Introduction. In: Lockdown Therapy: Jungian Perspectives on How the Pandemic Changed Psychoanalysis. Editors: Carpani, S. and Luci, M., . Routledge. xxii- xxxviii. 9781003266402
Luci, M., (2022). Floating and taking root: Individuation in contemporary traumatic conditions. In: Individuation and Liberty in a Globalized World: Psychosocial Perspectives on Freedom after Freedom. Editors: Carpani, S., . Routledge. 195- 214. 9780367768966
Luci, M., (2020). The salience of borders in the experience of refugees. In: Political passions and Jungian Psychology. Editors: Carta, S. and Kiehl, E., . Routledge. 9780429291845
Luci, M., (2020). Crossing physical borders and the making of identity. In: Jungian Perspectives on Indeterminate States Betwixt and Between Borders. Editors: Brodersen, E. and Amezaga, P., . Routledge. 3- 27. 9780429323072
Luci, M., (2020). Afterword: Gender, Power and States of Self. In: A Psychoanalytical-Historical Perspective on Capitalism and Politics. Editors: Vianello, M., . Routledge. 65- 89. 9781000329582
Lingiardi, V. and Luci, M., (2012). Chapitre 1. L'homosexualité en psychanalyse. In: L'homosexualité dans les psychothérapies. De Boeck Supérieur. 15- 15. 9782804169206
Lingiardi, V. and Luci, M., (2006). L'omosessualità in psicoanalisi. In: Gay e lesbiche in psicoterapia. Editors: Rigliano, P. and Graglia, M., . Raffaello Cortina Editore. 8860300312. 9788860300317
Conferences (13)
Luci, M., The search for soul: The contribution of analytical psychology to heal human rights violations
Luci, M., Il trauma tra solidificazioni e liquidificazioni collettive e individuali: la Storia e le storie
Luci, M., Binocular view into abhorrent realities: psychoanalysis and analytical psychology face violations of human rights
Luci, M., Jung on the Nature of the Psyche: Psychic and Physical Infections of our Times
Luci, M., Floating and taking roots: individuation in contemporary traumatic conditions
Luci, M., Disputed Boundaries of the Self, the Group, and their Environment: What We Learn from Refugees about our Psychic Functioning
Luci, M., Mapping change processes in psychodynamic psychotherapy
Luci, M., Trauma and Values
Luci, M., Borders, Immigration, Asylum: A Global Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Psycho-Political Meaning of State Borders
Luci, M., (2025). “I feel, therefore We are”: The body as an emotional map of the world between individual and collective states of mind
Luci, M., (2023). Torture survivors and the unthinkable: a hyper present body in the therapeutic process ( Second part of a Joint Presentation with Maria Giovanna Bianchi: "Enforced Disappearance and Torture Today: A View from Analytical Psychology")
Germani, M. and Luci, M., (2013). Early interventions in the treatment and rehabilitation of torture and extreme trauma survivors
Germani, M., Mosca, L., Luci, M. and Lai, C., (2011). Specificity of Dissociative Disorders in Survivors of Torture and Extreme Trauma: Identification of Some Specific "Clusters'' in the Dissociative Experience Scale
