Publications

Does anyone really know what makes a good psychoanalyst? The psychogeographer Ian Sinclair in his latest book "London Orbital" about his tramp round the M25 describes the road as follows ... "a doughnut ring of perpetual diesel fug and muck, road heat, visible from...

Theory Introduction The first most well known cases of the homeless are those of Christ and the Buddha. Upon discovering enlightenment, the following words by the Buddha can be read as the advocating of homelessness. I wandered through the rounds of countless births,...

A paper given at the Hayward Gallery’s “Flights of Fancy” conference at the Royal Festival Hall on 25th March, 2000. A preface to what I wish to say is a reference to the relation between Art and Psychoanalysis. The traditional view installs Psychoanalysis as one form...

(Paper for WTC and Freud Museum conference, Women Today, June 2002.) In the early eighties, just a few years after the founding of the WTC, and as a budding therapist in all the excitement of the new Marxist and feminist therapy, it took me some time to realise that...

A comprehensive review of existing perspectives and applications of narcissism, a psychoanalytic concept that has been extremely influential in the fields of psychotherapy, social science, arts and humanities. Ten authors from different disciplines write on the topic...

The Journal of a Psychotherapist by Jane Haynes, with a foreword by Hilary Mantel Jane Haynes is interested in the practice of psychotherapy as the expression of a therapeutic dialogue. She works from the precept that not only do people have unspeakable experiences,...