Academic Papers

Before I was a novelist I worked in Child Protection and as a pyschotherapst. Writing was involved in both the study and practice of this work, though it was very different from my work as a novelist. Here’s some examples of my academic writing. With the frequent references to films and care work, you can see how my career and my artistic inclinations were always close. 2012 ‘Time, Space and Memory in ‘Last Year in Marienbad’ International Journal of  Psychoanalysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 2010 ‘Editorial Introduction to Papers on Matte Blanco’ Aug.BJP 2010 ‘Death’s Dream Kingdom’ the representation of the Unconscious in the film ‘Apocalypse Now’...