Publications – journal papers and book chapters

(2008) Skin toughening and skin porosity: addressing the issue of self-harm by omission, in Relating to self-harm and suicide: psychoanalytic perspectives on practice, theory and prevention, London: Routledge.

(2007) ‘Self-harm by omission: A question of skin containment?’, Psychodynamic Practice 13.3: 229 – 244.

(2006) ‘Why love matters’ by Sue Gerhardt – book review, International Journal of Infant Observation, 9.3: 305-309.

(2006) ‘Sent before my time’ by Margaret Cohen – book review, Psychodynamic Practice 12.1: 111-115.

(2004) ‘The capacity for self-care’, International Journal of Infant Observation, 7.1: 108-125.

(2003) ‘Self-Harmers: a group apart?’, ‘Counselling and Pyschotherapy Journal’, June 2003.

(2003) ‘Acting, feeling and thinking: psychoanalytic psychotherapy with Tracey’, in European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Health, 5.2: 103-119.

(2002) ‘The many faces of self-harm’, in Psychodynamic Practice, 8.2: 197-217.

(2000) ‘Touch, enjoyment and health: in adult life’, in European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Health, 3.1: 61-76.

(2000) ‘Handling and self-handling: an object relations perspective on leisure exercise’, in Psychodynamic Counselling, 6.4: 469-488.

(1999) ‘Working with body storylines’, in Psychodynamic Counselling, 5.3: 301- 317.

(1999) ‘Touch, enjoyment and health: in infancy’, in European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Health, 2.1: 19-35.

(1999) ‘Encountering self-harm in psychotherapy and counselling practice’, in British Journal of Psychotherapy, 15.3: 306-321.

(1998) ‘In sickness and in health? Psychoanalysis and psychosomatics’, in Journal of Psychodynamic Counselling, 4.1: 3-16.

(1997) ‘The role of physical exercise in emotional well-being’, in Journal of Psychodynamic Counselling, 3.2: 165-177.

Single authored books

(2001) Psychosomatic Health: the body and the word, London: Palgrave.

(2003) Hidden Self-Harm: narratives from psychotherapy, London: Jessica Kingsley