Arts Faculty Profiles

Dr. Eve Watson, Ph.D., M. Sc. (Psychotherapy), Grad. Dip. PsychAn., B.A., Reg. Pract. A.P.P.I.

Eve Watson is Head of the Psychotherapy programmes at Independent College Dublin. As well as having overall responsibility for the running of the psychotherapy programmes, she lectures in the areas of ‘Psychosexual Development,’ ‘Lacan and Language,’ ‘The Family and the Oedipus Complex’ and ‘The Ethics of Psychotherapy’ in addition to supervising research theses at Higher Diploma and M.A. levels.

Having received a B.A. from Brown University, Providence, R.I., U.S.A., she received her clinical training at the UCD School of Psychotherapy at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin. Trained in the Freudian-Lacanian tradition, she is working in private practice in Dublin. She has been involved with the A.P.P.I. (Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland) since 2005 and is currently chair of the Scientific Committee and a member of the Executive Committee. She has been involved as a supervising coordinator in the APPI Program of Formation/Program of Study since 2009. A regular conference contributor in the U.S.A., France and Ireland, she is also a member of the U.S. based Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups (APW) Committee which organizes the Annual stateside APW Conference.

She has published a number of articles in The Letter: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis (2004, 2005, 2006) as well as journal articles and book chapters in publications by the Paris Forums du Champ Lacanian 2009, 2011, in Lacuna (A.P.P.I.) 2010 and in the Annual Review of Critical Psychology 2009. In addition, she is co-editing a book project with Noreen Giffney entitled Clinical Encounters: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory due to be published in 2012 in which twenty-two leading psychoanalysts from across the psychoanalytic traditions in Ireland, U.S.A., U.K., Belgium, Denmark, Israel and France engage with works by established specialists in sexuality studies and consider the implications for clinical practice. She completed a  Ph.D. in the area of psychoanalysis at University College Dublin in the Summer 2011.

Rosina Forlenza (Woods) – Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy

Rosina Forlenza (Woods) is a practicing psychotherapist in Dublin, and is a third level tutor with the Open University and with Dublin Business School. She is also part of an international community of Psychoanalysts, including the Irish Psychoanalytic Association (part of the Irish Council of Psychotherapy), the London Bi-Logic Group (interest in the work of Chilean psychoanalyst Ignacio Matte Blanco), and is part of Antenna di Pisa (interest in the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan).

Donna Redmond (Regd. Pract. A.P.P.I, M.I.F.P.P, M.I.C.P).

Donna holds a degree in Psychoanalysis and a Masters in Clinical Psychotherapy. From 2003-2006 she undertook the further training and supervision in child psychoanalysis, facilitated by members of Espace Analytique, Paris. She also holds Master degrees in Irish Literature (NUI) and Irish Drama (Queens NI).

Donna has worked extensively as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist within the H.S.E dealing with issues associated with domestic violence, addiction and the impact of criminality within society. She also worked within several post primary schools offering psychoanalytic interventions in relation to learning disabilities and Asperger’s syndrome.

Donna is a Director of Solamh, The Parent Child Relationship Clinic. The clinic is dedicated to focusing on the very early stages of the parent child relationship, providing psychotherapy for parents and/or their children from pregnancy through to five years of age. www.solamh.com

Michael O’Rourke

Michael O’Rourke works mostly at the intersections between Queer Theory and continental philosophy. He is the co-editor of Love, Sex, Intimacy and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800 (Palgrave Macmillan 2003, paperback 2007), Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800: Siting Same-Sex Desire in the Early Modern World (Palgrave Macmillan 2006), The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory (Ashgate 2009) and Speculative Medievalisms (in preparation), and the editor of Derrida and Queer Theory (Palgrave, 2010) and Reading Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Gender, Sexuality, Embodiment (in preparation). He is the editor or co-editor of special issues of the journals, Romanticism on the Net (“Queer Romanticisms”), borderlands (“Jacques Rancière on the Shores of Queer Theory”), Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge (“The Becoming-Deleuzoguattarian of Queer Studies”), Medieval Feminist Review (“Queer Methodologies and/or Queers in Medieval Studies”) and Studies in the Maternal (“Encounter-Events: Reading Bracha L. Ettinger’s The Matrixial Borderspace”).

He has published over thirty articles and book chapters, has co-convened The(e)ories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research since 2002, and is the series editor of the Queer Interventions book series at Ashgate and of the Cultural Connections: Key Thinkers and Queer Theory book series at the University of Wales Press. He is also an advisory editor for the journals Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge and Postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. He is a research affiliate of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gender and Sexuality in Europe (CISSGE) at the University of Exeter, UK and the Somatechnics Research Centre at Macquarie University, Australia and is also a member of the Queer(y)ing Psychology Collective and the BABEL Working Group.

Elizabeth Monahan B.A., Grad.Dip.PsychAn., M.Sc. Psychoanalysis

Liz is a lecturer at the School of Psychotherapy and lectures on the Higher Diploma and M.A. programs in the areas of Schools of Thought (Foucault, Jung, Verhaeghe, Semiotics) and Addiction theories. As well as running a private psychoanalytic practice in Dublin, she has been involved with recent publications and research for the Family Support Agency (FSA), the National Office for Suicide Prevention and the Probation Office.

Dr James Kelly

Dr. James Kelly is a Clinical Psychologist and a member of the American Psychological Association since 2002. He has been in private practice in Dublin since 2000, and has been involved in third level psychology and counselling education as a lecturer, programme developer and subject leader since 2001, as well as working with various social care projects in Ireland since 1998. In the US he worked for Child Protective Services, and was Director of Mental Health Services in the Hawaii Department of Health Courts and Corrections branch before relocating to Ireland in 1996.

Marie Walshe B.A., Grad. Dip.Psych. Studies, M.A Psychoanalysis (Clin.), Cert. Family Therapy, Reg. Pract. A.P.P.I., M.C.P.I

Marie is a lecturer on the B.A, Higher Diploma and M.A programmes. She lectures on Dreams, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy and the Practice of Psychotherapy, in addition to clinical and thesis supervision. She has also lectured on the Masters in Dispute Resolution in the Law Faculty.

Marie is a fully accredited Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI) and the College of Psychoanalysis in Ireland (CPI). She holds a Graduate Diploma in Psychoanalytic Studies, a Clinical Masters in Psychoanalysis, and a Certificate in Family Therapy.

In her private practice, Marie treats individuals, couples, children and adolescents. She accepts self-referrals, as well as referrals from the primary care and psychiatric services, the Juvenile Liaison Scheme, and the Family Support Agency.

Marie was an inaugural member of the A.P.P.I  Child and Adolescent Analysis group. This group, established in 2003, brought together psychotherapists working with younger clients in the education system, the health service, the justice system and private practice.  As part of this group, Marie received training and supervision from psychoanalysts working at the Espace Analytique, in Paris.

A regular contributor to the annual APPI Congress and journals, Marie has been published in the academic journal, The Letter: Lacanian Perspectives in Psychoanalysis, and in The review, a peer journal of APPI.

Carol Owens – B.A., M.Phil. Psychoanalytic Studies., M.S.c. Psychotherapy, Ph.D. Psychology, Reg. Pract. A.P.P.I

Carol lectures on Clinical Psychodiagnostics/structure, Language and Narrative, and Culture and Subjectivity on the Higher Diploma and M.A. programmes. Her doctoral work on the discursive constitution of heterosexual coupling practices was informed by critical theory, post-structuralism and deconstructionism and gave rise to an interest in the work of Jacques Lacan. She studied psychoanalytic theory at Trinity College Dublin and later undertook a clinical training at the School of Psychotherapy in the Lacanian tradition under Cormac Gallagher’s direction. She is consultant to the Training Committee of the A.P.P.I and convenor of the Dublin Lacan study Group. She works in private practice in Swords, North County Dublin.  She edited The Letter: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis from 2003-2006, edited the Annual Review of Critical Psychology on Lacan and Critical Studies in 2009, and serves on the editorial board of Teoria, critica y psicologia. She has presented work at numerous conferences, workshops and seminars and has published articles/book chapters on Lacanian theory/practice with queer theory, philosophy, feminism, critical psychology, and critical management theory. She is currently working on a book of essays on enjoyment and desire.

Pauline O’Callaghan (B.A, M.A., M.Phil., M.S.c., H.Dip Ed., Reg. Pract. A.P.P.I.)

Pauline lectures on the Higher Diploma in Psychotherapy and M.A. in the areas of Freudian Case Histories, the Interpretation of Dreams, Elementary Psychoanalysis, and Freud and Religion.

She obtained a B.A and H.Dip in Ed. In UCD. She followed that with an M.A in Women’s Studies, also in UCD, which introduced her to the work of Jacques Lacan. She subsequently did an M.Phil. in Psychoanalytic Studies in Trinity College, Dublin. She received her clinical training in the Freudian-Lacanian tradition at the UCD School of Psychotherapy at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin. She has worked with the H.S.E. and currently has a private practice in Rathmines. She has been involved with the A.P.P.I (Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland) since 1999, serving on its Executive Committee and as chair of the Scientific Committee for several years. During this time she was involved in the organisation of several congresses and seminars, including the Joyce-Lacan international conference in Dublin Castle.

For the past two years she was a co-ordinator on the Programme for Ongoing Formation in Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis, run by APPI for qualified psychoanalytic psychotherapists. She has published a number of articles in The Letter: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis as well in The Review and in Eisteach. She has been involved in the supervision of clinical practice and in the training of psychotherapists for many years and is a Registered Practitioner Member of the Association for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Ireland (APPI) www.appi.ie

Pauline also lectures on psychoanalysis in DBS and has lectured on the Master’s programme in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in St. Vincent’s University Hospital.

John McCarron

John lectures on the M.A. in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Philosophy of Science and on the M.A. and Higher Diploma in The Philosophy of Mind. He has been involved in third level education for many years and has taught courses on epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, history of psychology, biological foundations of behaviour, ethics, philosophy of religion and world religions.

John describes himself as ‘a product of the early influence of existentialist philosophers and writers and the later influence of his philosophical training, at Dublin University, the University of California (Santa Barbara) and the University of Cambridge, in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition’. The latter emphasizes independent thinking, critical examination of assumptions, analysis by careful examination of linguistic usage, and rigorous argument.

John has wide ranging interests including music and astronomy. He is currently working on a book on religious conflict.

Noreen Giffney BA (NUI), PhD (NUI)

Dr. Giffney teaches Research Methods in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of the Social Sciences on the MA in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Theoretical Developments in the object relations tradition of psychoanalysis (Freud, Klein, Bion, Winnicott) on the Higher Diploma in Psychotherapy Studies.

She is the co-editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory (Ashgate 2009), The Lesbian Premodern (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), Queering the Non/Human (Ashgate 20008), Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies (Taylor and Francis 2007), Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference (forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan), as well as special issues of The Journal of Lesbian Studies 11.1-2 (2007) and 11.3-4 (2007), The History Review 12 (2001) and 13 (2002), Irish Feminist Review 3 (2007) and Studies in the Maternal 2 (2010). She served as the Humanities Book Review Editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Duke University Press, 2007-2011), and established and acted as the series editor, with Michael O’Rourke, of the Queer Interventions book series at Ashgate Publishing (2006-2009, http://www.ashgate.com/queerinterventions) and the Cultural Connections: Key Thinkers and Queer Theory book series at the University of Wales Press (2006-2009). She is on the editorial boards of a number of international, peer-reviewed journals in the areas of critical and cultural theory, and gender and sexuality studies. She is currently conducting research for a project entitled With/out Desire: An Experience in Reading W.R. Bion; finishing a book, with Eve Watson, entitled Clinical Encounters: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory; and co-editing, with Michael O’Rourke and Anne Mulhall, a special cluster of essays on Lisa Baraitser’s Maternal Encounters for the journal, Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She has organised, with Michael O’Rourke, The(e)ories: Critical Theory & Sexuality Studies for the past ten years, which has included among its speakers the foremost specialists in the field, and has collaborated with Anne Mulhall on a series of academic events since 2005.

She is, at present, completing an MSc in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (clinical specialisation) at Trinity College Dublin, in association with the Irish Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (IIPP). She convenes Film: In Session, a nine-month course on psychoanalysis and film at the Donnybrook Centre for Psychotherapy, Counselling and Onward Professional Development (http://www.donnybrooktherapy.com). Contact: noreen.giffney@gmail.com

Caroline Mellows (B.A. Phil, Dip Counselling & Psychotherapy)

Caroline lectures on the Higher Diploma course in Philosophical Ethics. She has worked in Education for the past ten years in a variety of roles. Upon graduating from the Milltown Institute of Philosophy and Theology she lived and taught abroad for a number of years, undertaking a Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy on return to Ireland. As well as working with the Donnybrook Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling in psychotherapeutic practice, Caroline works with the organisation ALONE and is currently completing an Msc in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at St.Vincent’s Hospital and UCD. Her areas of special interest include the philosophical ethics of animal rights and the work of Soren Kierkegaard.

Elizabeth Monahan, B.A., Grad. Dip. PsychAn., M.Sc.(Psychotherapy), Reg. Pract. A.P.P.I.

Liz has been lecturing in psychoanalytic psychotherapy for many years and for the last 4 years on the Higher Diploma and M.A. programmes at Independent College. Her courses include Schools of Thought 1 and 2, Addiction and thesis supevision.  She lectures at the U.C.D. School of Medicine & Medical Science and has lectured in eating disorders, grief, mourning & loss, and Freud’s meta-psychology papers.

Liz is active in A.P.P.I. and as well as presenting at the Annual conferences she is a member of the U.S. based Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups (APW) committee. She has attended many international conferences in France and in the US, including Formation Clinique du Champ Lacanien in Paris and the APW conferences. She is an active member of the Dublin Lacan Study Group and the A.P.P.I. Program of Continuing Study group.

Trained in the Freudian-Lacanian tradition Liz works in private practice in the Carysfort Clinic in Blackrock, Co. Dublin. She has been involved with recent publications and research for the Family Support Agency (FSA), the National Office for Suicide Prevention and the Probation Office. Her areas of special interest and research include discourse analysis and the concept of ‘The Name of the Father’ in contemporary society.