Richard Skues
Richard Skues is a Principal Lecturer in Social Science with academic qualifications in sociology and politics. He teaches statistics and data analysis (including SPSS) and has particular responsibility for quality assurance matters within the Department.
His research specialism is in the early history of psychoanalysis and the life of Sigmund Freud
Email: r.skues@londonmet.ac.uk
Qualifications
BA Social Theory and Institutions, University of Wales
MSc Sociology with Politics, University of London
PhD University of London
Recent Publications
The First Casualty: the War over Psychoanalysis and the Poverty of Historiography. History of Psychiatry, Vol 9 Part 2, pp. 151-77 (1998)
On the Dating of Freud’s aliquis Slip. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Vol 82 Part 6, pp. 1185-1204 (2001)
Dreaming about Irma. Psychoanalysis and History. Vol 4 No. 2, pp.167-96 (2002)
Response to Marco Rivalta. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Vol 83 Part 4, pp. 945-9 (2002)
Sigmund Freud and the History of Anna O.: Reopening a Closed Case. Palgrave Macmillan (2006)




