Mr Nicholas Bayley
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Biography
Nicholas Bayley has been a counsellor and psychotherapist since 1998, having previously taught English in secondary schools. As course leader to the professional qualifying counselling courses two days a week at Rewley House, he also works in private practice as a psychotherapist in Reading.
Research interests
Nicholas's research interests are in poetry and psychoanalysis (interviews with poets who have had therapy, applying the study of poetics to psychotherapy), in humour in the consulting room (Can we laugh? Should we?), and in the processes of psychoanlaysis (we know it works, but how does it?).
Publications
'Who Dares, Speaks: Critical psychotherapy and the poetics of suffering' in the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, (2014) Vol 16 No. 4.
'Chewing It Over: Conversation with a Poet, Sitegeist 8, 2012.
'From Counter Transference to Alterity: the Otherness of the Analyst' in Sitegeist No.2, 2002
Book reviews for Psychodynamic Practice:
2015 - Swales, S. (2012) Perversion: a Lacanian psychanalytic approach to the subject
Book reviews for the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling:
Miller, M. (2011), Lacanian Psychotherapy:Theory and Application
Feltham, C. (2012) Failure
Book review for Sitegeist:
Sitegeist 12 2016, a review of Mona Hatoum at Tate Britain in 2016
Sitegeist 11 2015, Burton, R. (2013) A Strong Song Tows Us; The Life of Basil Bunting
Sitegeist 9, 2013: Dinnage, R, (2012) The Long Vacation
Presentations
‘A Long-legged Fly Upon the Stream: poetry, memory and the unconscious’, Conference: ‘Poetry and Memorization’ at Homerton College Cambridge, March 2015.
'Chewing It Over' College of Psychoanalysts UK Research Study Day 13 July 2013
'Who Dares, Speaks: critical theory, psychoanalysis and the poetics of confession' at the Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association annual conference, 2 November 2013.