Dr. David Henderson
Senior Lecturer in Psychoanalysis
Department: Psychology
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0) 02 8411 5674
- E-mail: d.henderson@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
MA (Essex), PhD (London)
Research Interests
- Freud/Jung relationship;
- psychoanalysis and religion;
- apophasis and psychoanalysis
- identity of the analyst/psychotherapist;
- survival of the psychoanalytic perspective;
- comparative psychoanalytic theory
Teaching Interests
MA Psychoanalysis
- Dreams
- Conscious/unconscious
- Freud/Jung relationship
- Jungian theory
- War and psychoanalysis
- Virtual reality
- Winnicott
- Bion
- Fairbairn
- Autistic states
- Attachment theory
- Psychoanalysis and religion
Psychotherapy trainings (teaching, supervising, examining)
- Association of Independent Psychotherapists
- Institute for Psychotherapy and Social Studies
- Guild of Psychotherapists
- Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy
- Philadelphia Association
- Truro College, Cornwall
Biography
Publications:
Book chapters:
(2003), 'Colonising the Heart: Shame and the Regulatory Project' in The Future of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, edited by Lucy King and Rosemary Randall, London, Whurr ISBN 1861 563744
(2002), 'Self-experience in Merton and Jung,' A Mind Awake in the Dark, Pearson, Sullivan & Thomson (eds.), Abergavenny: Three Peaks Press, ISBN 1 902093
(1999), 'From Shaman to Therapist' in Therapy on the Couch, Susan Greenberg (ed), David Henderson (Consulting Editor), London, Camden Press ISBN 9 780948 49154
(1998),'Solitude and Solidarity: A philosophy of supervision', Psychoanalytic and Jungian Supervision, Petruska Clarkson (ed), London, Whurr ISBN 1 897635 94 X
Refereed articles:
(2011), 'Aspects of negation in Freud and Jung,' in Psychodynamic Practice, 17(2), ISSN 1475-3634
(2010), 'The Coincidence of Opposites: C.G. Jung's Reception of Nicholas of Cusa,' in Studies in Spirituality, Titus Brandsma Institute, Nijmegen University, Nijmegen, ISSN 0926-6453
(2009), ' Reverting to Type: A meditation on change,' in Supervision Review, British Association for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Supervision
(2006), 'Shame as an achievement in analytic training', in Psychodynamic Practice, 12(3), ISSN 1475-3634
(2003), 'C.G. Jung and Thomas Merton: Apophatic and Kataphatic Traditions in the 20th Century', in Studies in Spirituality, Titus Brandsma Institute, Nijmegen University, Nijmegen, ISSN 0926-6453
Conference papers:
2011 - 'Flirting with re-enchantment: anima and objet a,' Regional conference, International Association for Jungian Studies, SOAS, London
2010 - 'Where is love?' - contribution to symposium on Plato's Symposium and Psychoanalysis, International Forum for Psychoanalysis, Athens, Greece
2009 - 'Aspects of negation in Freud and Jung,' International Association for Jungian Studies, Cardiff University
2008 - 'The coincidence of opposites in Jung and Cusa,' International Association for Jungian Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
2006 - 'Apophatic elements in the theory and practice of analytical psychology', International Association for Jungian Studies, University of Greenwich, London
2005 - 'Neoplatonism and Analytical Psychology', International Association for Jungian Studies, Texas AM University, College Station, Texas
2000 - 'Self-experience in Thomas Merton and C.G. Jung', Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Oakham, England
Education and professional training:
- PhD, Goldsmiths, University of London
- MA in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex
- Diploma in Psychotherapy, Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, London
- Diploma in Transpersonal Psychology, Centre for Transpersonal Psychology, London
- Diploma, Centre for Group Work and Sensitivity Training, London
- Diploma in Supervision, Westminster Pastoral Foundation, London
Professional Membership:
- Association of Independent Psychotherapists
- British Association for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Supervision
- UKCP registered (Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis)
Academic Societies:
- The Higher Education Research and Information Network in Psychoanalysis (THERIP)
- International Association for Jungian Studies
- International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
- International Society for Intellectual History
- American Academy of Religion
- Eckhart Society
Languages spoken
Portuguese



