Mr. Ross Skelton Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Room 5015 E-mail: rskelton@tcd.ie Phone: +353 (0)1-896-1528

Mr Ross Skelton is a Senior Lecturer in the department. He graduated from T.C.D. in 1969. He has mainly worked in the area of overlap between philosophy, logic and psychoanalysis. Together with Professor Berman he has inaugurated an M.Phil Theory course in psychoanalysis. With Professor Michael Fitzgerald and others he has initiated an MSc clinical psychotherapy course at St James Hospital. He is general editor of the 2006 Edinburgh International Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis.

RESEARCH AREAS

Evolutionary theory and psychology, Psychoanalysis, Existentialism

SELECTIVE PUBLICATIONS

Books

Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis , Editor and contributor Ross Skelton, Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh, 2006 (pp. 518).

Editorial Board: Bernard Burgoyne (London), James Grotstein (Los Angeles), Murray Stein (Chicago), Cleo van Velsen (London)

General Description: The 1000 entries of the Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis cover in depth and at length the most important authors and movements in a single volume of some 400,000 words. As well as including essays by distinguished contributors on key concepts, it features 'Portraits' of movements, biographies of key figures and clear and concise definitions of technical terms. Its 329 authors are drawn from most countries of the world and give the Encyclopaedia a truly ‘international’ flavour.

Awarded CHOICE 2008 Distinguished Academic Publication

Some reviewers comments:

“An absolutely first-class achievement, Ross Skelton has succeeded on producing a superb piece of work.” Paul Roazen

“This book is unique. It will be of great value to students, teachers and practitioners. As an added reward, it is a pleasure to read.” Robert Michels. Cornell University.

Articles

"Matte Blanco and the Death Drive," in Deaths and Endings Routledge London, 2007.

"Imagination Dead Imagine - Counterfactuals in Psychoanalysis," Gradiva: Psychoanalytic Journal of the ICHPA (Chile), 2007.

"Logic in Literature: bilogic strands in the poems of Louis MacNeice," in Philip Coleman (ed.) On Literature and Science. Four Courts Press. Dublin, 2007.

"Comparison of Lacanian Clinical Technique With that of Jung" Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2002.

"Bion's Use of Modern Logic," International Journal of Psychoanalysis 76 (2), 1995.

"Is the unconscious structured like a language?," International Forum of Psychanalysis 4, 1995, pp. 168-178.

"A Note on the Uncanny in Louis McNeice," Journal of the Irish Forum of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 5, 1995.

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