Scholars’ Network Spotlight: Dr Andrew Howe
Dr Andrew Howe is a psychiatrist, psychodynamic therapist and scholar with academic interests in Jungian theory, hallucinations and therapeutic communities.
Andrew Howe is a consultant psychiatrist and psychodynamic therapist working in NHS Crisis Services. He is undertaking a PhD and is an honorary lecturer at the University of Essex, particularly interested in analytical psychology and how this can be used in contemporary healthcare.
Andrew’s academic interests and publications include bringing analytic thinking into the NHS, helping us think about acute mental illness, hallucinations, psychotic experiences and applying Jungian thinking to contemporary psychiatry. His current PhD is investigating the use of short-term psychodynamic therapy for hallucinations.
Andrew’s article “An Analytical Psychology Conceptualisation of Psychosis in Modern Psychiatry: Jung’s Vision and Perspective” written with Arsime Demjaha won the Brill Scholarship Award for Best Article Published in 2022 in the International Journal of Jungian Studies. Other works discuss working with severe mental illness from a Jungian standpoint, therapeutic communities and how we can access mythology in the present day. A list of publications can be found by clicking here, many of which are open access.
Dr Andrew Howe has written an article for the most recent issue of New Associations entitled “More than symptoms: why hallucinations matter”, an article that invites the reader to “consider hallucinations in the hope we might progress them from symptoms to meaningful human experiences.” The issue will be out very shortly for New Associations subscribers and BPC registrants.
