General research interests

Psychoanalysis, gender, and mental health.

Current Research Projects

'Most recent book: Freud's Art : Psychoanalysis Retold (Routledge 2007) is leading to research for a book, provisionally called Art & Psychoanalysis: Lives of Adrian Stokes '.

Research Supervision

Delighted to supervise anyone in the above areas (i.e. psychoanalysis, gender, mental health). Current and past supervised PhD theses include: representing femininity with special reference to women's magazines geared to Japanese students; psychoanalytic perspectives on serial murder; psychiatry, empathy, and the body; traumatising abortion; gender and moral development.

Past Projects

Previous books:
Biological Politics (1982), Sexual Contradictions (1986), Mothering Psychoanalysis (1991), Freudian Tales (1997), Boy Crazy: Remembering Adolescence (1998), Kleinians (2000), Divine Therapy: Love, Mysticism & Psychoanalysis (2003)

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• Divine Therapy: Love, Mysticism & Psychoanalysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
• Adrian Stokes' Kleinian aesthetics? Psychoanalysis and History, 2003, 5(2):213-4
• Ambivalence and war, Psychodynamic Practice, 2003, 9(3):325-34
• Divining psychoanalysis: Melancholia, Dostoevsky, and Kristeva, Women: A Cultural Review, 2003, 14(3):281-291
• Divine therapy? Dreaming and the brain, The Psychologist, 2003, 16(9):466-7
• Transforming at-one-ment: Spielrein, Jung, Bion, Psychoanalysis and History, 2004, 6(1):37-55
• Feminist Jung? European Journal of Women's Studies, 2003, 10(2):233-5
• Therapeutic community -- beauty or beast? Contemporary Psychology, 2004, 49(1):65-66
• Patriarchal victim, psychoanalytic pioneer, European Journal of Women's Studies, 2004, 11(2): 249-51
• Empathy, femininity, and psychotherapy: Intuition and projection, British Journal of Psychotherapy, 2004, 20(3): 373-8

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• Sex Gender Socialisation (SO531) - Michaelmas term, 2nd & 3rd year social sciences module
  
• Psychoanalysis - Freud (SP549) - Michaelmas term, 2nd & 3rd year social sciences module
  
• Mental Health (SO532) -- Lent term, 2nd and 3rd year social sciences module
  
• Psychoanalysis - Post-Freud (SP550) - Lent term, 2nd and 3rd term social sciences module
  
• Feminism & Psychoanalysis (SO905) - one term postgraduate MA module
  
• Research supervision - as above

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Memberships

• 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

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Professor Janet Sayers

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