Explore My Publications
Over the years, I have contributed significantly to the field through numerous publications. Below are key books and papers I have edited and authored. Make an AppointmentAbout MeBooks & Publications
Surviving Space
Surviving Space is a collection of papers on infant observation and related issues by contemporary experts in the field…
Waiting To Be Found
This book is about children in State care and its title – Waiting to be Found – is derived from an observation…
Towards Belonging
This book includes contributions from a wide range of interested observers and practitioners in the field of children in care…
The Impact of Father Absence on Child Mental Health: Three Possible Outcomes
Zac Fine and Sue Parker Hall (author of Anger, Rage, Relationship) discuss The Impact of Father Absence on Child Mental Health: Three Possible Outcomes, by Andrew Briggs in The Palgrave Handbook Of Male Psychology And Mental Health (2019). Zac and Sue made this video for their project The Other Half which explores masculinity to support therapists and their clients with non-ideological, non-judgmental perspectives that might encourage therapeutic change.
Click Here to go to The Masculinity Therapist (Zac Fine’s) Youtube channel.
Peer-Reviewed Papers
In addition to books, I have authored numerous peer-reviewed papers that span new ideas about clinical work with children and parents and address practice difficulties created by under-resourced CAMHS. Some notable papers include:
A little boy’s use of his male child psychotherapist to help him understanda painful conundrum?
Containment lost: the challenge to child psychotherapists posed by modern CAMHS
Adapting the Model: Therapeutic Work with Children from Army Families
Under-nourishment and clinical risk: two concerns of CAMHS clinicians
Masculinity in the consulting room: A child psychotherapist’s experiences
The importance of clinical observation for understanding a difficult to reach young boy
The Impact of Father Absence on Child Mental Health: Three Possible Outcomes
Oral History Project
In collaboration with Professor Michael Roper at the University of Essex, I undertook an oral history project titled “The Birth of a Profession.” This project involved in-depth interviews with child psychotherapists who were supervisees or trainees of the founding mothers—Anna Freud and Melanie Klein—or their immediate circle (particularly Esther Bick). The interviews sought to understand how their experiences as trainees, and then as qualified practitioners, shaped and developed them into highly-skilled practitioners. These interviews are digitally accessible in the British Library.
Current Projects
I am continually engaged in research and writing. Here are some of the projects I am currently working on:
Refinding the Father in Clinical Work
• An exploration of the role of the father in therapeutic settings and how it is conceptualised in psychoanalytic literature.
The Unconscious at Work: Impotence in the Face of the Climate Emergency
• Investigates the psychological impact of the climate crisis and how individuals and organisations can address these challenges.