Dr. David Henderson

Senior Lecturer in Psychoanalysis

Department: Psychology

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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

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