Jo Nash
PGDip Ed (Shef), PhD (Shef), MA (Kent), BA Hons (Middx)
Lecturer (0.6) in Mental Health
Jo is Module Leader and tutor for the Psychodynamics of Social Processes and Research Methods modules on the MA in Psychoanalytic Studies by Distance Learning . Prior to working as an academic she worked in mental health services for over 15 years as a psychiatric nurse, residential social worker, advocate, and researcher into service development and policy issues.
Address: Mental Health Section, School of Health & Related Research, Regent Court, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DA
Tel: ++44 (0)114 222 2977
Email:J.T.Nash@sheffield.ac.uk
Research interests
- Mindfulness based health interventions and their use in a variety of health educational contexts.
- Psychodynamic psychology of learning in relation to development through the life cycle.
- Theories of knowing that consider the role of affect and the body in thinking; especially the interface between Bion's psychoanalytic epistemology and Buddhist psychology.
- Difference and mental health, particularly the study of age, ethnicity, gender and religion in relation to emotional well-being
- Ethics and boundary issues in health and social care relationships.
Activities
ScHARR Teaching:
- Module Leader, author of content, and tutor: HAR 6102 Psychodynamics of Social Processes 2003 to present
- Module Leader and tutor PSI 6430 Research Methods 2001 to present
- Dissertation supervisor PSI6450 (MA Psychoanalytic Studies) 1998 to present
- Residential school co-ordinator and lecturer (MA Psychoanalytic Studies) 2001 to present
- Module Leader and contributing Lecturer: HAR114 ‘Mental Health, Madness and Meaning’ for BMedSci in Health and Human Sciences: (Service user involvement, madness and film, difference and mental health) 2005 to 2007
- Author of content units: PSI 6140 Foundations of Psychoanalysis (Bion, Bion and groups, Psychoanalytic Feminism) 2006-7
- Course Director: MA Psychoanalytic Studies by Distance Learning 2001-2006
- Course designer and creator: Online WebCT MA Psychoanalytic Studies 2002 to present
- Module Leader and tutor PSI 6140 Foundations of Psychoanalysis 1998- 2002
- Module Leader and tutor HAR6420 Contemporary Issues in Psychoanalysis 1999-2003
- Assessor HAR6103 Psychoanalysis and the Arts 1998 to present
- Assessor PSI Foundations in Psychoanalysis 1998 to present
- Assessor MSc Psychosocial Interventions 2006
ScHARR Teaching Related Activities:
- Member of ScHARR Teaching Committee 2001-2006
- Chair ScHARR Flexible Learning Advisory Group 2002-2005
- Chair of MA Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Exam Board 2002-2005
- ScHARR Distance Learning Representative to Pro VC for Teaching and Learning 2002-2005
- External Moderator for Faculty of Collegiate Studies: MA Existential Psychotherapy at NSPC London, 2003-2006
- Mentor for MBChB students 2004 to present
Personal Tutor to MA Psychoanalytic Studies students 1998 to present
Collaborations:
2006- 2007 contributor to international team of scholars researching and writing for the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, eds. Leeming, D and Madden, K. New York, Springerlink (forthcoming 2008) a project of the
Blanton-Peale Institute in New York.
Research Students:
Lead supervisor to Silvia Pimentel (FT) : 'Imagination and Resilience in Female Psychotherapists That Have Overcome Childhood Abuse: a Quantitative and Qualitative Study', a PhD study exploring how female psychotherapists use their experience of overcoming abuse in childhood to inform their clinical practice (awarded PhD in 2007).
Lead supervisor to Joe Dodds: (PT) 'Spaces of Resistance: the Mobilisation of Affect in the Global Response to Climate Change.' Cyber-ethnographic research using Deleuze, complexity theory and psychoanalysis to explore the mobilisation of affect via the internet in response to climate change.
Panel member: Chris Blackmore (PT) 'The Online Self in E-learning and Psychotherapy Training' with Dr Nick Fox and Professor Digby Tantam.
Recent Publications:
Nash, J (2008) 'Cultivating the Good Heart- integrating an ethic of mutual care into the development of an Indian school community' Good Enough Caring Journal June 2008
Nash, J (2007) forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion eds. Leeming, D and Madden, K. New York, Springerlink the following articles; 'Affect', 'Ecstasy', 'Libido','Mindfulness'.
Nash, J (2006) 'Mutant Spiritualities in a Secular Age: The Fasting Body and the Hunger for Pure Immanence' Journal of Religion and Health, Vol. 45:3 310-327
Nash, J (2004) 'Identification, Loss and Reparation: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict' in Free Associations Volume 11 Part 4: 519-545
Nash, J (2002) Critical Review of Cognitive Models and Spiritual Maps: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Religious Experience edited by Jensine Andersen and Robert K. C. Forman
Human Nature Review 2002 Volume 2: 503-506 (2 November)
Nash, J and Williams, J (2001) 'Learning from Experience: Meeting the Advocacy Needs of People who have been Abused by Health and Social Care Practitioners: Jennie Williams talking to Jo Nash' The Journal of Applied Social and Community Psychology Vol. 11: 361-370
Nash, J(2000)The Thinking Body: A Feminist Revision of the Work of Melanie Klein E book published on the
Nash, J; Blunden, F.(1999) 'Introducing the Prevention of Professional Abuse Network.'Adult Protection Vol. 1: 1 July 1999
Nash, J. Blunden, F.(1999) 'Prevention of Client Abuse in the Counselling Relationship.' Counselling News pp. 28-30
Nash, J. (1999) 'The Function of Femininity as a Hollow Container: a feminist revision of Klein's theory of thinking.' Psychoanalytic Studies Vol.1:2:159-176
Nash, J (1999) 'Preventing Client Abuse in Psychotherapy.' Psychotherapy Review Vol.1:6: 272-277