Hello, my name is Bob. This first version of my Philopsychy Society Member's Profile has been on the web since 15 October 1996. I am Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield. I am Managing Director of Process Press Ltd. and editor of two journals it publishes, _Free Associations: Psychoanalysis, Groups, Politics, Culture_ and _Science as Culture_. I am primarily an historian and philosopher of ideas about human nature. I am also a psychotherapist, group relations consultant, group therapist, editor and publisher. My writings have centred on the traditions stemming from Marx, Darwin and Freud. You can contact me by e-mail at robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk, or by conventional post at:
26 Freegrove Rd.
London N7 9RQ
England
My WWW home page is located at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/rmyoung/index.html.
Something I've written that might be of some interest to you is called Mental Space: A psychoanalytic exploration of the basic forces at work in the inner world. It is self-published (printed and softbound). Process Press 1994. It is available in computerized form at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/rmyoung/index.html
I've also written the following: Darwin's Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian Culture (Cambridge, 1985; now on web); Whattever Happened to Human Nature? (at my web site); The Culture of British Psychoanalysis and Other Essays (at my web site).
Other Society members are invited to contact me if they are interested in trading their writings for any of the above.
Finally, just so you can get to know me a little, here's something special I'd like you to know:
I have always hovered at the boundary of respectability, wanting to be a free spirit but wanting to be taken seriously by the powers that be. I always thought of myself as a sort of semi-legitimated gadfly. I have facilitated or edited about 300 volumes and founded a passsel of periodicals, all of which I hope are subversive in one way or another.