Harriet Mossop

Biography

HARRIET MOSSOP is a PhD student and Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, at the University of Essex, and Research and Development Officer in the Centre for Anthropological Mental Health Research in Action at the School for Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research focuses on queer female sexuality in the psychoanalytic clinic. She is a co-founder of the Queer Encounters research network for psychosocial researchers in gender and sexuality (www.queerencounters.org), a member of the Queer Analytic Circle, and convener of the ‘Other Women’ reading group for queer women and non-binary people. Her work has been published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy, the Psychoanalytic Review, and Feminisms and Psychology. She has presented papers based on her early research at clinical and academic conferences in the UK. PUBLICATIONS Articles Mossop, H. (2025). Was Anna Freud a “friend of Dorothy”? A queer phenomenological historiography of Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham’s personal and professional relationship. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 41(1), 139–158. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12929 Mossop, H. (2022). Annotated bibliography of psychoanalytic texts on queer female sexuality. Stillpoint Magazine https://stillpointmag.org/articles/other-women/ Reviews Mossop, H. (2024). Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans*, Patricia Gherovici & Manya Steinkoler (Eds.). Routledge, 2022. The Psychoanalytic Review, 111(2), 219–230. https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2024.111.2.219 Mossop, H. (2024). The Psychotherapist and the Professional Complaint: The Shadow Side of Therapy, edited by Adah Sachs and Valerie Sinason. Published by Karnac books, London, 2023; 238 pp, £29.99 (paperback) £23.99 (ebook). British Journal of Psychotherapy, 40(2), 280–283. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12889 Mossop, H. (2023). Queering Psychotherapy, ed. Jane C. Czyzselska. Feminism and Psychology, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535231177516 CONFERENCES Paper: Slave Play in the Psychoanalytic clinic: a self-theorisation of overwhelming experiences of queer, racialised erotic transference. Freudian Research Seminar Series. Online, March 2025 Symposium: Queer encounters with psychoanalytic history at the Freud Museum. London, February 2025 Paper: Learning From The Painful Past: A Queer Phenomenological Exploration Of Published Vignettes Of Erotic Transference Between Women In The Psychoanalytic Clinic Between 1930 And 2000, APS-APCS Conference, London, June 2024 Panel: Longing or belonging? What place do dreams of queer desire have in psychoanalysis? University of Essex Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies PGR Conference, May 2024 Paper: What we don’t know about Anna Freud’s sex life: exploring the usefulness of Gozlan’s “trans state of mind” – University of Essex Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies PGR Conference, and CHASE Feminist Network Conference, 2023 Paper: ‘Invisible fire’: unanswered questions about queer female erotic transference in the psychodynamic and psychoanalytic literature – British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy research conference, Dundee, May 2022 Paper: Finding space for queer female eroticism in the psychoanalytic consulting room: a queer analysis of the clinical case literature on erotic transference and countertransference between female psychoanalysts and female patients – Feminisms and Spaces conference, London, July 2022

Qualifications

• MA (Cantab.) Natural Sciences University of Cambridge

• MSc Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health King's College London