Harry George Daniels.

Lecturer, writer, and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in training.

Having completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford, where I was a Wolfson Postgraduate Scholar in the Humanities, I now teach at Jesus College, Oxford.

My research is concerned with exploring the therapeutic power of literature, and the relationship between literature, psychoanalysis, and religion. I am currently working on a revised and expanded version of my doctoral monograph, provisionally entitled Common Lovingkindness: The ‘Cure of Souls’ in Literature and Psychoanalysis, 1840-1970. My work has been published in Essays in Criticism, Modern Philology, and The Henry James Review, among other places.

‘Theory without experience is empty,’ the late Jonathan Lear once wrote in a formulation adapted from Kant, and ‘experience without theory is blind.’ My scholarly enquiries into the nature of psychological cure and care have been grounded in the clinical encounter. I am currently training as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist at the Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy, London, and I volunteer as a Listener at a major suicide-prevention charity.

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