TRAINING

Richard Morgan-Jones is a training therapist and supervisor for the London Centre for Psychotherapy as well as for a number of the London Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy trainings. He has also taught on and managed a diploma course in psychodynamic counselling . He is available for supervision for psychotherapists and  counsellors from different orientations.

His original training in psychotherapy covered Freud's still vital theory about the experience of the emerging unconscious in psychoanalysis. Freud, Jung and the pioneers of depth psychology were central as were the works of the original object relations thinkers, Klein, Fairbairn and Winnicott, Bowlby's attachment theory as well as Wilfred Bion and the post-Kleinians. His orientation continues to belong to the Independent tradition of British psychoanalysis however he has been much influenced by more modern thinkers including Jacques Lacan from Paris, Michael Eigen from New York, Thomas Ogden from San Franscisco and Andre Green from Paris.

In offering group psychotherapy he  has been shaped by Michael Foulkes who pioneered group analysis as well as by Wilfred Bion. In couple therapy he is influenced by the work of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Therapy following the work of Henry Dicks as well as the work of Robin Skynner who was one of his teachers. In supervision he is most influenced by Patrick Casement who was one of his supervisors as well as by Thomas Ogden.

He has jointly edited a book describing the different ways that people can train as a psychotherapist in the analytic tradition in the UK, including individual, group, couple and child psychotherapy:

“Psycho/Analytic Psychotherapy Trainings: A Guide” (2001) by Richard Morgan-Jones with Jan Abram  Free Association Books

He is available for one-off consultations with anyone interested in finding a training and a personal psychotherapy to accompany it.