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Professor Michael Rustin

Professor

Department of Social Work Counselling & Social Care , School of Childhood and Social Care

Michael acts as an academic link between UEL and the Tavistock Clinic.

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OVERVIEW

Michael acts as an academic link between UEL and the Tavistock Clinic.

He is a Member of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences, an Associate Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Chair of its Applied Section.

He was the recipient of the Gradiva Award (2002) of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (New York) for published work that advances psychoanalysis.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Member of the Editorial Boards of journals including:

Renewal:

  • Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society (contributing editor) 
  • Trustee of the Amiel Melburn Trust Siya Philaphula, and the Raymond Williams Society, and previously a Trustee of Open Door.
  • Member of the Board of the London East Research Institute at UEL, and of the Organising Committee of the Tavistock Clinic Policy Seminar.

Conferences and Lectures:

In recent years conference and seminar presentations given at universities and psychoanalytic institutions, in Australia, Brazil, Argentina, the United States, South Africa, Italy, France, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, India and Taiwan, as well as in the United Kingdom.

MODULES

Currently on Tavistock-UEL postgraduate courses taught at the Tavistock Clinic. These include the MA in Psychoanalytic Studies (Units on Drama, Psychoanalysis and Society, and Philosophy and Methods of Psychoanalysis) and the Professional Doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (Philosophy and Methods of Research). Previously taught Sociological Theory, Cultural Theory and Urban Sociology in the University.

Current PhD and Professional Doctorate students and their thesis topics include:

  • Diana Webster Thomas - Who do you think you are? Identity, identification and narcissistic phantasy in the psychic structures of the central characters in the prose fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro.
  • Camillus Metcalfe - For God's sake - an exploration of the life and work of women religious in Ireland in the twentieth century
  • David Forbes - Probation officers - the next generation.
  • Lydia Beckler - Who would be a residential social worker?
  • Marie Bradley - No-man's land? Making a map. The contribution of child psychotherapy to decision-making for looked-after children in transition.
  • Geraldine Crehan - A study of the effectiveness of the negative transference in child psychotherapy.
  • Danny O'Shea - Themes presenting in mothers of newborn babies in a neonatal unit.
  • Davina Brown - Reflecting on the meaning of ADHD through child psychotherapeutic practice.

Publications

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Full publications list

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