Roger Willoughby

Roger Willoughby is an independent psychoanalytic scholar currently writing on the development of psychoanalysis in Britain, the works of Esther Bick, and Jonathan Hanaghan, and the links between religion and violence. With degrees in philosophy, child psychology, and clinical psychology, he also holds doctorates in psychoanalytic studies from the Universities of Kent and Oxford. A clinical psychologist, consultant, writer, and supervisor, he has taught at various universities, latterly at Newman in Birmingham as the MA Education Course Coordinator. His book 'Masud Khan: The Myth and the Reality' (Free Associations, 2005) met with widespread critical acclaim. His most recent book 'Freud's British Family: Reclaiming Lost Lives in Manchester and London' (Routledge, 2024) breaks significant new ground in Freud Studies. He is a Fellow of the RSA and the RHistS and an Emeritus Fellow of Birmingham Newman University.