Meet our Scholars

Michael Uebel has taught literature and theory at the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, and the University of Kentucky. He has also taught at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Social Work where he was appointed Lecturer, and is currently Affiliate of the Office for the Associate Dean for Research. He has been a candidate and instructor at the Austin Center for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and he maintains a private practice in Austin. Uebel was Fellow at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute (now The Center for Psychoanalytic Studies) in 2006-7. He is the author of over 45 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on cultural and intellectual history and on mental health practice. Author and editor of several books, including Race and the Subject of Masculinities (Duke University Press) and Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages (Palgrave), he is currently working on Masochism in America, examining the formation of moral and social consciousness in the post-war period. His recent book entitled The Seeds of Equanimity: Knowing and Being (Mimesis International Press, 2025) describes the concept of equanimity from Eastern and Western philosophical perspectives.

I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice and also a novelist under the pen name of William Rose. As well as my work with patients in psychotherapy I have carried out a considerable amount of teaching and supervision for psychotherapy trainings. For ten years I was Chairman of the Trustees of The Squiggle Foundation, the organisation formed to study and disseminate the work of Donald Winnicott. I have also independently lectured on psychoanalytic topics and on aspects of fine art history, particularly the artistic and literary movement known as Symbolism. This I have seen as a cultural element that was contemporaneous to Freud’s earliest development of psychoanalysis. I have always had a special interest in this period in which there was a growing exploration and understanding of the unconscious. My first novel, originally published by Karnac and then republished by Sphinx Books, ‘The Strange Case of Madeleine Seguin’, was largely situated in the Salpêtrière hospital of Jean-Martin Charcot and set at a time close to that in which Freud was studying there under Charcot. The study of Hysteria and the use of hypnotism were prominent at this time and these were most relevant to the themes in the novel. I have always had a special interest in this period. My second novel, ‘Camille and the Raising of Eros’ also made much use of psychoanalytic theory and history, with Princess Marie Bonaparte, who played such an important part in Freud’s life, as a principal character. I continue with my psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice, and to write and lecture. In my lectures I take items of psychoanalytic interest and attempt to enrich the subject matter with the use of images from fine art.

Ruth Williams is an IAAP Training and Supervising analyst based in London, UK. She is an Hon. Lecturer at the Dept. for Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Studies at the University of Essex. She is the author of Jung: The Basics (Routledge 2019), Exploring Spirituality from a Post-Jungian Perspective: Clinical and Personal Reflections (2023), Animal-Human Telepathic Connections: A Jungian Perspective (Routledge forthcoming 2026). She is currently writing a fourth book. See www.RuthWilliams.org.uk.

Dr Deborah L. S. Wright, is a BPC registrant, a Psychotherapist in private practice and an Academic, Senior Lecturer (FHEA), and Programme Director of the Clinical Professional Doctorate Programs, in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at The University of Essex, (Professional Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program, Professional Doctorate in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program, Professional Doctorate in Analytical Psychology Program, and Professional Doctorate in Psychodynamic Counselling Program). Deborah is also an Artist, Printmaker, and Illustrator. Her academic and art works explore human’s relationships with spaces, places and rooms and her book, ‘The Physical and Virtual Space of the Consulting Room: Room-object spaces’ explores Room-object spaces and spatialisation.

Naomi Wynter-Vincent writes on the work of Wilfred Bion in relation to literary criticism, experimental and creative writing, and creative process. She is currently Assistant Professor within the English faculty at Northeastern University London. Her book, Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism, was published by Routledge in 2021, and she has presented in conferences in the UK, Italy, Finland, and Brazil. She holds a first degree from the University of Cambridge, master's degrees from Sussex and UCL, and completed her PhD with the University of Sussex. She is also an experienced somatic therapist (certified Advanced Rolfer and Rolf Movement practitioner) and coach in private practice, focusing on embodiment, body dysmorphia, and resilience.

Professor Candida Yates (PhD, MA, BA, FHEA, FRSA) is an interdisciplinary scholar, teacher and group practitioner with a background in psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis and their application to politics, culture, media and society. She works with scholars, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and creative practitioners to provide new understandings of emotion and affect in the public sphere - creating bridges between therapeutic, cultural and academic fields of research and practice. Prof Yates is Co-Director of the BU Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and Social Justice; an Executive Board Member and Trustee of the Association for Psychosocial Studies and an Academic Associate of The Freud Museum; she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Prof Yates has published on a range of psychosocial, cultural and political themes in monographs, including 'The Play of Political Culture and Emotion' and 'Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema', and also edited books: 'Media and the Inner World', 'Culture and the Unconscious', 'Television and Psychoanalysis', 'Emotion; New Psychosocial Perspectives', and also numerous journal articles and special editions. She is a Consulting Editor on Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society (Palgrave), The Journal of Psychosocial Studies (Policy) and Joint Editor of the book series Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture (Routledge). Prof Yates lectures on the Master Politics Programmes at Bournemouth University, and supervises PhD students in the areas of psychosocial studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, politics and society. She is currently leading a research project on the psychodynamics of the maritime imagination.

Caroline Zilboorg is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and a scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. She is the editor of the Aldington-H.D. correspondence as well as H.D’s Bid Me to Live and the author of Transgressions, a historical novel about H.D. and Aldington. Her most recent work is a biography of her father, the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg. She is currently writing a memoir entitled A Psychoanalytic Childhood: Growing Up in Mid-Century New York. She lives in a granite farm house in Brittany with her six cats.