Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis

Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 176
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98206
- ISBN 13 : 9781032959474
- ISBN 10 : 1032959479
About the Editor(s)
Priscilla Roth is a training and supervising analyst at the British Psychoanalytic Institute, where she was head of the training. Following her degree in psychology, she worked as a research assistant at the University of California at Berkeley. In the early 1970s she moved to the UK and trained first as a child and adolescent analyst at the Tavistock Clinic, London, and shortly thereafter as an adult analyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society. She has lectured at both institutions, and the University College, London. She has taught internationally in Europe and America and had been elected as a Distinguished Fellow by the British Psychoanalytical Society in 2022.
Ignes Sodre was born in Brazil, where she qualified as a clinical psychologist before coming to London in 1969 to train at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is a Fellow and a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She has taught extensively in London and abroad, and was the first visiting professorial Fellow in Psychoanalysis at Birkbeck College. She has published many papers on psychoanalysis and on literature; as well as two books.
Dr Tomasz Fortuna trained as a psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London. He is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Hanna Segal Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. He had worked as a psychiatrist in the NHS for sixteen years and, currently, he works at the Portman Clinic and is in private psychoanalytic practice. At the Portman Clinic he conducts individual forensic psychotherapy as well as group work and assessments. He offers consultations and reflective practice to prison staff.
He is a Visiting Professor at the psychiatry department of the Universiti Putra Malaysia.
He teaches and supervises in the UK and abroad (including Poland, Russia, China, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea). His professional interests include the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts, understanding of severe emotional disturbance and criminal behaviour. He is interested in current developments in Bion’s thought and is a member of the Bion in Marrakech seminar.
Dr Fortuna is a Course Lead for the ‘Foundations in psychodynamic approaches to risk and complexity’, a one-year course offered at the Portman Clinic (Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust). In addition, he teaches courses at the Tavistock Clinic and the Institute of Psychoanalysis.
He co-authored a book Melanie Klein: The Basics and was a guest-editor of Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication.