James Norris

Biography

James is an ACP-registered psychotherapist, who studied his pre-clinical MA in Psychoanalytic Observation Studies at the Tavistock Clinic and his clinical training at the Birmingham Trust for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. His research is using clinical material from psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children to consider whether, in specific circumstances, ADHD can be shown to be a dissociative disorder, rather than a neurodevelopmental condition. Outside of this, he is a tutor for Child Development Research on the M7 Psychoanalytic Observation course in Birmingham, through the University of Essex. He works in a West Midlands CAMHS service as a senior child psychotherapist, with professional/research interests in perinatal mental health, trauma, adolescence and the role of the unconscious in macro-social contexts. Publications: Norris, J. (In Review). (Overcoming) Attacks on Thinking: The importance of psychoanalytic thinking in leading the charge against systemic fragmentation of the public mental health sector. Norris, J. (In Review). The Memory Matrix: Towards a Psychoanalytic Understanding for a Spectrum of Dissociative Forgetting. Norris, J. (In Review). Psychoanalytic Child Psychotherapy as a Treatment for Symptoms of ADHD in Cases where Domestic Violence is an Historic Factor. Research and Conference Activities: Dreaming and Dissociating: Diagnostic Labels and Meaning in a Changing World; University of Essex PGR Conference · 24th May, 2023 Beyond the Borders of Public Health Structures and Psychiatric Dogma; University of Essex PGR Conference · 26th May, 2023 Little Ones: How Professionals can Support Parental Bonding in the Early Years; Happy Healthy Lives (Coventry and Warwickshire Health and Care Partnership) · Infant Mental Health Week Conference · 9th Jun, 2021

Qualifications

• Psychoanalytic Supervision of Child Psychotherapists and Core Professionals Birmingham Trust for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2018)

• ACP Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children Birmingham Trust for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2017)

• PgDip Psychoanalytic Observational Studies (M7) Tavistock and Portman NHS/University of East London (2010)

• MA Psychoanalytic Studies (M16) Tavistock and Portman NHS/University of East London (2009)

• BSc Psychosocial Science University of East Anglia (2005)

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