Birkbeck Fellowship Scheme

This scheme offers a distinguished psychoanalyst, nominated jointly by Birkbeck College and the British Psychoanalytical Society to hold a fractional appointment as a Visiting Fellow at the College. The duration of appointment is negotiable, but is normally for 12 months.

The aim is to enable the Fellow to complete a substantial writing project and to contribute to academic life in the College, through Institute for Social Research (BISR) and Institute for the Humanities (BIH). These are interdisciplinary research hubs for a wide variety of research taking place at Birkbeck and beyond. Many members of the two institutes are involved in research and scholarship drawing on psychoanalytic theory. Further details can be seen on the BIH website and on the BISR website

Dr Rosine Perelberg 2011 - 2012
Rosine Jozef Perelberg is a Training Analyst and Supervisor and a Fellow of the British Psycho-Analytical Society where she is currently Chair of the Fellowship Programe (Post Graduate Programe) and Member of the Training Staff and Education Committees. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, Corresponding Member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris. She gained  a PhD in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics, University of London. She is the Professorial Fellow for Birkbeck University and the British Psycho-analytical Society for 2011-12.  She co-edited with Joan Raphael-Leff Female Experience: Four Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women (1997, second edition 2008). She has edited Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide (1998, translated Violence et Suicide, 2004, PUF)), Dreaming and Thinking (2000, 2003, 2005, 2008), Freud:  A Modern Reader ( 2005)  and Time and Memory (2007). She has written Time, Space and Phantasy (2008).  In 2006 she was named one of the ten women of the year by the Brazilian National Council of women. She has a psychoanalytic private practice in London. During the academic year she will be offering a Public Inaugural Lecture and a series of open workshops, centered on the themes of Maternal and Paternal Functions in Psychoanalysis and Legend

Gregorio Kohon              2010 - 2011
Gregorio Kohon is a psychoanalyst at the British Psycho-Analytical Society and joint visiting professorial fellow in the Institute for Social Research and the Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, 2010-11. He has edited The British School of Psychoanalysis - The Independent Tradition (Free Associaion Books  1986), and The Dead Mother - The Work of André Green (Routledge, 1999). He also published No Lost Certainties to be Recovered (Karnac, 1999) and Love and its Vicissitudes (co-authored with André Green) (Routledge, 2005).  His novel Papagayo Rojo, Pata de Palo (Finalist, 2001 Fernando Lara Prize, Editorial Planeta, Barcelona) was published by Libros del Zorzal (Buenos Aires, 2003). The English translation of the novel (Red Parrot, Wooden Leg) was published by Karnac in 2007. Gregorio Kohon has also published four books of poetry in Spanish. His latest collection, El Estilo del Deseo, was published in 2008 by Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires. He is a training and supervising analyst at the BPAS.

Ignes Sodre                    2009 - 2010