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Professor Janet SayersProfessor of Psychoanalytic Psychology |
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Research interests
General research interests
Psychoanalysis, gender, and mental health
Current research projects
Art, psychoanalysis, and Adrian Stokes (1902-1972)
Also view these in the Kent Academic Repository
Books
Sayers, Janet (2007)
Freud's Art: Psychoanalysis Retold.
Routledge, London & New York, 212 pp. ISBN 9780415415682.
Sayers, J. (2003)
Divine Therapy: Love, Mysticism and Psychoanalysis.
Oxford Medical Publications. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 250 pp. ISBN 9780198509813.
Abstract
Many debate whether religion is good for our health. Starting with this question, Janet Sayers, author of Mothering Psychoanalysis and Freudian Tales, provides a fascinating account of today's psychotherapy. Divine Therapy is told through love stories. They highlight the risks and healing transformations of what some call 'at-one-ment' with another in love, mysticism, art and psychoanalysis. Sayers movingly explores this by drawing on the philosophical and psychological writings of William James, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Sabina Spielrein, Simone Weil, Erich Fromm, Paul Tillich, Viktor Frankl, Melanie Klein, Adrian Stokes, Marion Milner and Donald Winnicott. She ends with one of the major figures of current psychoanalysis, Wilfred Bion, and with the insights of his followers, notably Christopher Bollas, Neville Symington and Julia Kristeva. Illustrated with love letters, pictures, biographical details and case histories, Divine Therapy tells an intriguing chronicle of science, religion and therapy that also constitutes an engaging overview for students, specialists and general readers alike.
Articles
Sayers, Janet (2007)
Beyond abjection: Art, religion, psychoanalysis.
Annual of Psychoanalysis, 34/35. pp. 165-178. ISSN 0092-5055.
Sayers, Janet (2007)
Picasso cure: Personality, psychoanalysis, Les demoiselles d'Avignon centenary.
International Journal of Art Therapy, 12 (1). pp. 39-48. ISSN 1745-4832.
Sayers, Janet (2005)
Healing aesthetics: Kristeva through Stokes.
Theory & Psychology, 14 (6). pp. 777-795.
Sayers, J.V. (2004)
Therapy as research: Focusing on empathy.
Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 4 (2). pp. 86-93. ISSN 1471-7646.
Sayers, J.V. (2004)
Therapeutic community -- beauty or beast?
Contemporary Psychology, 49 (1). pp. 65-67. ISSN 1554-0138.
Sayers, J.V. (2004)
Transforming at-one-ment: Spielrein, Jung, Bion.
Psychoanalysis and History, 6 (1). pp. 37-56. ISSN 1460-8235.
Sayers, J.V. and Avery, D. (2001)
Nothingness, politics, and Psychoanalysis: Simone Weil & Marion Milner.
Psychoanalytic Studies, 3 (2). pp. 209-221. ISSN 1460-8952.
Abstract
Explores the theme of nothingness in the lives and work of two women writers, Simone Weil and Marion Milner. Ways in which Milner and Weil were able to make a contribution to philosophy and psychoanalysis by embracing nothingness; Paradox of how the writers' influence continues to grow while that of more apparently successful theorists declines.
Sayers, J. (2000)
Teenage dreams: Feminism, psychoanalysis, and adolescence.
Signs, 25 (3). pp. 817-839. ISSN 0097-9740.
Sayers, J.V. (1997)
Reviving compassion.
Psychologist, 10 (11). pp. 505-505. ISSN 0952-8229.
Sayers, J. (1995)
Fatherless Families - Teenage Gods, Adult Loves.
Psychologist, 8 (6). pp. 254-254. ISSN 0952-8229.
Sayers, J. (1993)
From mastery to analysis - theories of gender in psychoanalytic feminism - Elliot,P.
Feminism & Psychology, 3 (2). pp. 257-258. ISSN 0959-3535.
Sayers, J. (1993)
The bonds of love - psychoanalysis, feminism and the problem of domination - Benjamin,J.
Feminism & Psychology, 3 (2). pp. 250-251. ISSN 0959-3535.
Sayers, J. (1993)
The interpretation of the flesh - freud and femininity - Brennan,T.
International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 74. pp. 652-653. ISSN 0020-7578.
Sayers, J. (1993)
Women and mental-health - challenging the stereotypes - Barnes,M, Maple,N.
British Journal of Psychiatry, 163. pp. 271-272. ISSN 0007-1250.
Sayers, J. (1993)
Social-theory and psychoanalysis in transition - self and society from freud to kristeva - Elliott,A.
Sociology-the Journal of the British Sociological Association, 27 (4). pp. 714-716. ISSN 0038-0385.
Sayers, J. (1992)
A pows reply.
Feminism & Psychology, 2 (2). pp. 269-270. ISSN 0959-3535.
Book Sections
Sayers, Janet (2007)
Liquid love, psychoanalysing mania.
In: Elliott, A. The Contemporary Bauman. Routledge, London, pp. 154-167. ISBN 9780415409681.
Reviews
Sayers, Janet (2007)
The poetics of psychoanalysis: In the wake of Klein.
Review of: The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the wake of Klein by Jacobus, M. Comparative Literature, 59 (1). pp. 90-92. ISSN 0010-4124.
Sayers, J.V. (2004)
Book Review: Building on Bion: Branches.
Review of: Building on Bion: Branches by Lipgar, R. and Pines, M. Group Analysis, 37 (4). pp. 568-569. ISSN 0533-3164.
Sayers, J.V. (2004)
Face to Face with Children: The Life and Work of Clare Winnicott, Joel Kanter (ed.).
Review of: Face to Face with Children: The Life and Work of Clare Winnicott by Kanter, Joel. British Journal of Social Work, 34 (8). pp. 1203-1205. ISSN 0045-3102.
Sayers, J.V. (2001)
Jung on Mythology.
Psychodynamic Counselling, 7 (1). pp. 121-123. ISSN 1353-3339.
Sayers, J.V. (1999)
Interpreting Kristeva.
Review of: New maladies of the soul by Kristeva, J. and Guberman, R. Theory & Psychology, 9 (4). pp. 565-567. ISSN 0959-3543.
Sayers, J. (1998)
Misogyny, Feminist Gothic and Difference: Ann Oakley and Juliet Mitchell (eds) Who's afraid of feminism? Seeing through the backlash.
European Journal of Women's Studies, 5 (2). pp. 273-274. ISSN 1350-5068.
Sayers, J. (1995)
Feminist Perspectives On Eating Disorders - Fallon,P, Katzman,M, Wooley,S.
Review of: Feminist Perspectives On Eating Disorders by Fallon, P and Wooley, S and Katzman, M. British Journal of Psychiatry, 166. pp. 692-693. ISSN 0007-1250.
Sayers, J. (1995)
Women And Gender - A Feminist Psychology - Unger,R, Crawford,M.
British Journal of Psychology, 86. pp. 558-559. ISSN 0007-1269.
Sayers, J. (1992)
The haunting of plath,sylvia.
Review of: The Haunting of Sylvia Plath by Rose, J. Feminism & Psychology, 2 (1). pp. 78-80. ISSN 0959-3535.
Teaching
SP639 Freud and Post Freud
Other academic activities
Associate Fellow British Psychological Society (AFBPsS)
Associate Member, British Association of Psychotherapists
Editorial Boards:
Feminism and Psychology; Changes; Psychoanalytic Studies; Journal of Eating & Weight Disorders; International Journal of Critical Psychology
Referee for ESRC research proposals and reports, Feminism & Psychology; Journal of Gender Studies; Women; European Journal of Women's Studies; Journal of Clinical & Consulting Psychology; Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology; Social Science On Line, Polity, Routledge, Macmillan, Free Association Books, Oxford University Press
Contact
School of Psychology
Keynes College
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent
CT2 7NP
United Kingdom
Email: J.V.Sayers@kent.ac.uk