Dr Laurence Spurling
Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychosocial Studies
Birkbeck University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Laurence Spurling joined Birkbeck in 1986 as a tutor on what was then the Department of Extra-Mural Studies, teaching on the Diploma in Adult Counselling. In 1994 he became a Lecturer in Counselling in the School of Psychology. He is now Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psycho-social Studies, with overall responsibility for the counselling and psychotherapy provision within the department. He is Programme Director of the MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling & Psychotherapy, where he teaches in the third year, and of the Foundation Degree in Short-term Dynamic Counselling and CBT.
Research Interest
Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytic theory and technique
Publications
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Spurling, L. (2005). 'Combined therapy with Borderline patients'. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 21(4), 543-558
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Spurling, L. (2010) 'Can there be an analytic practice of a non-analytic therapy?' Psychodynamic Practice vol.16, no.1. 45-59.
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Spurling, L (2012) ‘Characters in interpersonal and psychoanalytic therapy: a comparison’, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, vol.26, no.3, 230-244
