Publications & Presentations


“Working within and between organisations – the teacher’s role in developing groupwork agencies” (1988) in Brown A., Lumley J., Marchant H., Morgan-Jones R., Smith P. Training Social Workers for Groupwork. Practice & Development Exchange National Institute for Social Work. London


The Structure and dynamics of users’ management groups in community development” In house paper for Community Development Foundation 1976


"Social Anthropology and Psychotherapy" chapter in "Counselling: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" eds. Thorne B. and Dryden W. OUP 1993


Competencies: Reservations, Risks and Developments" BJ of Psychotherapy Spring 1995


"The Why, What and How of Competencies” unpublished paper given to the London Centre for Psychotherapy Ilse Seglow workshop October 1995.


"Going Public in Psychotherapy: Competencies, assessment and standards in psychotherapy: the current debate" Unpublshed paper given to the Brighton Association for Analytic Psychotherapy in March 1996.

 “Taming the fires of hell - clinical dilemmas in working with a patient with a severe risk of suicide.” Unpublished paper given to staff at the Henderson Hospital (a unit for patients with psychopathic personality disorders) April 1998, Association of Group and Individual Psychotherapists 2000, the London Centre for Psychotherapy 2001 and the Brighton Association for Analytic Psychotherapists 2003.

“Psycho/Analytic Psychotherapy Trainings: A Guide” (2001) by Richard Morgan-Jones (main author and editor) with Jan Abram (copyright of idea and foreword) Free Association Books – a survey of all the trainings inspired by analytic ideas in individual, group, couple, child and adolescent and educational psychotherapy.

“Supervision in a forensic unit: How recycled trauma  shapes the container in team supervision.” (2006) chapter 8 in Dilemmas in Practice Vol. 4 London Centre for Psychotherapy eds. Foster, Dickinson, Bishop & Klein, Karnac, London.


The management of risk of re-cycling trauma in the context of conflicting primary tasks: An analysis of the use of the group dynamic of incohesion basic assumption activity in the avoidance of the terror/excitement in violence in a medium secure forensic unit.” (2006) Organisational and Social Dynamics Journal  6:1.

"Retainment " of staff: The challenge to the system in managing the presence or absence of staff for the work task (2007) Organisational and Social Dynamics Journal 7:1

The Work Group as an Object of Desire: experiences of embodiment. Paper given to the Opus conference  November2007

The Body Speaks: protomental health risks to psychotherapists Paper given to Psychotherapy Sussex & the London Centre for Psychotherapy November 2007

Tackling the shamelessness of organisational perversity: can restorative justice address the case? Paper given to Opus conference November 2008

The Body of the Organisation and its Health: (2010) London Karnac

The Body Speaks: Bion's Protomental System at Work: British Journal of Psychotherapy 2009 25:4

The Attempted Murder of Money and Time: Addressing the Global Systemic Banking Crisis. Published in Long S. & Sievers B. (2001). Towards a socioanalysis of money, finance and capitalism: beneath the surface of the financial industry. London Routledge.

What are we celebrating in the celebrities? Published in Brunning H. (2011). Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Modern World. London Karnac.




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