Centre for Psychoanalysis
Middlesex University was one of the first universities in the United Kingdom to have enabled and fostered the teaching of psychoanalysis at graduate level, offering a taught MA degree and the opportunity to register for a research degrees (MPhil and PhD) since 1990. The Centre for Psychoanalysis facilitates individual and collaborative research into psychoanalysis.
The Centre:
- provides a focus for the scholarly activity of its members
- hosts international conferences, seminars and workshops at Middlesex University
- provides a productive work environment for many visiting scholars in the field
- develops research projects with colleagues from the European Union, the Middle East, Russia and Latin America
Opportunities for study and research:
We welcome applications for taught or research degrees.
Our MA in Psychoanalysis constitutes an in-depth introduction to the field.
Research Degrees may be undertaken full or part time at three different levels: BPhil, MPhil and PhD, which in principle correspond to one, two, and three years of fulltime research respectively. Fulltime PhD students usually register for an MPhil and transfer to a PhD after one or two years subject to satisfactory progress.
Students who are able to spend only a limited amount of time in the UK can undertake an International MPhil/PhD by distance learning. This can be undertaken by full-time or part-time mode.
An alternative qualification of an MProf/DProf (Professional Masters or Doctorates) in Psychoanalysis, taught in collaboration with the School of Work Based Learning, is also available to applicants.
For further information, please contact Julia Borossa directly.
Members
Staff
Dr Julia Borossa, Director
Julia Borossa is Principal Lecturer and Director of Programmes in Psychoanalysis. She has an interdisciplinary academic background, with an MA in Comparative Literature and a Phd in History and Philosophy of Science. She is the UK coordinator of the Paris based Society for the History of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. Her current research interests are in the history, politics and cultures of the psychoanalytic movement; narratives of trauma and resilience; psychoanalysis and post-colonial theory. j.borossa@mdx.ac.uk
Professor Bernard Burgoyne
Bernard Burgoyne is Professor Emeritus of Psychoanalysis at Middlesex University. He is a founding member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, and a member of the European School of Psychoanalysis, the World Association of Psychoanalysis, the London Society of the Nouvelle Ecole Lacanienne, and of the American Mathematical Society. He works on the relation between mathematics and unconscious structures, and collaborates with logicians and mathematicians as well as psychoanalysts in developing this work.He has given many keynote lectures at international conferences in the fields of psychoanalysis and logic. (b.burgoyne@mdx.ac.uk)
Lucia Corti
Lucia Corti is a Senior Lecturer in Psychoanalysis and a practicing psychoanalyst. Her academic background includes training in Clinical Psychology and an MA in Psychoanalysis. Her current research interests focus on the question of mourning, memory and transmission within the context of totalitarian states, as well as on differential diagnosis and the direction of the treatment, and on psychoanalytic ethics. She is a clinical member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and a member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy. l.corti@mdx.ac.uk
David Henderson
David Henderson is a Senior Lecturer in Psychoanalysis and a member of the Association of Independent Psychotherapists. His educational and professional training includes an MA in Jungian and Post-Jungian 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. His research interests include the sense of vocation of the psychotherapist/analyst; psychoanalysis and religion; and the future of the psychoanalytic perspective. He has published chapters and papers in journals and books, such Psychodynamic Practice, Studies in Spirituality and The Future of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. d.henderson@mdx.ac.uk
Dr Werner Prall
Werner Prall is a Senior Lecturer in Psychoanalysis and a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist. His academic background is in literature and politics. He has been involved in the training and supervision of psychotherapists for many years. His research interests include problems of clinical understanding and interpretation, the ethics of psychoanalysis, and the question of integration of multiple perspectives. He is a member of The Guild of Psychotherapists, Metanoia Institute, and The College of Psychoanalysts. As a UK Council of Psychotherapists representative (for The Guild) he is also involved in the political process concerning the regulation of psychotherapy in this country. w.prall@mdx.ac.uk
Dr Anne Worthington
Anne Worthington is a psychoanalyst practicing in South London. She trained at the Guild of Psychotherapist, where she is a member of the training committee. She is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and a member of the Board of Governors, The College of Psychoanalysts – UK. Her research interests include Psychoanalysis and Female Homosexuality and the Engagement between Psychoanalysis and the State. a.worthington@mdx.ac.uk
Current and Recent Research Students
Tessa Bird: ‘Historical Reconstruction: Cultural Theory and Psychoanalysis’
Barry Geoghean: ‘A Discursive Critique of the ‘Pathological Terrorist’
Alison Hall: ‘Guilt’ (Phd 2010)
Jennifer Matthews: ‘The Structure of Phobia’ (Mphil 2010)
Claudio Munzi: ‘Psychoanalysis and Visual Representation’
Stella Orakwue: ‘Towards a Psychoanalysis of Financial Corruption’
Lisa Overton: ‘Girls Interrrupted: The life histories of tsunami affected young women in South West Sri Lanka’
Hara Pepeli: ‘From Freud’s Unconscious to Lacan’s subject: identification from Freud to Lacan via Conte’
Christos Tombras: ‘Modes of Symbolic Being in Heidegger and Lacan’
Paul de Villers: ‘The Myth of Freud’s ‘auto-analysis’ and the Lacanian Narrative’
Anne Worthington ‘Female Homosexuality, Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis’ (Phd 2011)
Events
Upcoming event
Saturday, 9 June 2012 - Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society - a postgraduate conference
Previous events
2011 Conference
Follow the Centre on our Facebook page. Read our 2011 Summer Newsletter.
Julia Borossa
Head of the Centre for Psychoanalysis
Middlesex University
Hendon
London
NW4 4BT
Tel: +44 (0) 208 411 5850
