2011-2022

Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil)

Thesis: Freud's Britain: Family, Followers and the Dissemination of Ideas Before and After the Great War

Psychodynamic Studies, Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, UK

2010

Master of Arts (MA)

University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland

2006-2008

Advanced Course in Group Analysis

Irish Institute of Group Analysis and the School of Psychotherapy, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

2005

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, intensive course

St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

1991-2002

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Thesis: Public, Private and Secret Narratives in the Life and Work of Masud Khan

Department of Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Kent, UK

1997

Statement of Equivalence in Counselling Psychology

British Psychological Society, UK

1994-1995

Introductory General Course in Group Work

Institute of Group Analysis, London, UK

1990-1994

Diploma in Clinical Psychology (DipClinPsychol)

Thesis: Persons into Patients: Factors in the Development of Distress and Help Seeking

British Psychological Society, UK

1998-1990

Master of Arts (MA) in Child Psychology (Developmental)

Thesis: Communication and the Human Subject

Child Development Research Unit, University of Nottingham, UK

1987-1988

Certificate in Counselling Skills

St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland

1983-1987

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Honours, majoring in Philosophical Psychology and Psychoanalysis

Thesis: Free Association and Psychoanalysis: Current Philosophical Criticism

University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland