Warren Colman
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Analytical Psychology
Training Analyst, Society of Analytical Psychology
Training Therapist, British Association of Psychotherapists
Full Member, Society of Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapists
Contact Details
Tel:+44 (0)1727 810337
E-mail: gcr65@ntlworld.com
Professional Biography/Interests
As an undergraduate, I was interested in psychology and philosophy but preferred to study English literature and Sociology due to the positivistic bias of British universities at that time. This early training has informed my subsequent interests in the relation between psyche, society and the arts.
I later trained and worked in social work, counselling and psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy before undertaking my Jungian training at the Society of Analytical Psychology in the late 1980s. Having worked in the psychoanalytically oriented Tavistock Centre in London for 15 years, I have always been involved in the interconnections and conflicts between analytical psychology and psychoanalysis.
Many of my early papers explored the relevance of Jungian ideas to couple relationships, gender and sexuality. I then returned to a longstanding interest in the self – the first of these papers picking up thoughts about Hamlet that went back to my undergraduate days.
My current interest is in the area of metaphor, symbolic function and the imagination.
As Editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology, I wish to maintain and foster its traditions of being firmly grounded in clinical practice while recognising that it represents analytical psychology as a whole. Like many people, it was originally Jung’s breadth of thought that appealed to me and I believe this should also inform the character of the J.A.P. We welcome the expression of different points of view and the opportunity for robust debate conducted in a milieu of high academic standards.
Selected Publications
1993 Marriage as a psychological container. In Psychotherapy with Couples. Theory and Practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies, ed. S. Ruszczynski. London: Karnac Books.
1995 Cross-gender identifications in heterosexual couples. British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol 11:4, 522-535.
1996 Aspects of anima and animus in Oedipal development, Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol 41:1, 37-57.
1998a Contrasexuality and the unknown soul. In Contemporary Jungian Analysis. eds. I. Alister & C.Hauke. London: Routledge.
1998b That within which passes show: Hamlet and the unknowable self. Harvest, Vol 44:1, 7-23.
1999 Creation and discovery: finding and making the self. Harvest, Vol 45:1, 52-69.
2000a Models of the self in Jungian thought. In Jungian Thought in the Modern World. eds. E. Christopher & H. Solomon. London: Free Association Books.
2000b Tyrannical omnipotence in the archetypal father. Journal of Analytical Psychology. Vol 45:4, 521-539.
2001 Celebrating the phallus. In Sexuality. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, ed. C. Harding. London: Routledge.
2003 Interpretation and relationship: ends or means? A commentary on Robert Caper’s ‘Does Psychoanalysis Heal?’ In Controversies in Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis. ed. R. Withers. Hove and New York: Routledge.
2004 Consciousness, the self and the isness business. British Journal of Psychotherapy. Vol 21:1, 83-102.
2005c Sexual metaphor and the language of unconscious phantasy. Journal of Analytical Psychology. Vol. 50:5, 641–660
2006a The Self. In Handbook of Jungian Psychology, ed. R.Papadopoulos. Hove and New York: Routledge.
2006b Imagination and the imaginary. Journal of Analytical Psychology. Vol. 51:2, 21-41.
2006c Is the analyst a good object? British Journal of Psychotherapy Vol. 22:3, 295-310.
2006d The analytic super-ego. Journal of the British Association of Psychotherapists. Vol 44:2, 1-16.
2007 Symbolic Conceptions: The Idea of the Third. Journal of Analytical Psychology. Vol 52:5, 565-583.
2008 On being, knowing and having a self. Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol 53:3, 351-366.
2009 Theory as metaphor: clinical knowledge and its communication. Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol 54:2, 199-215
