Draft:Graham S Clarke

Graham S. Clarke has been a visiting fellow in the psychosocial and psychoanalytic studies department of the University of Essex since 2005. He has written extensively about Object Relations and the work of Ronald Fairbairn.

Publications
He was lead editor with David Scharff on Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition (Karnac, 2014)., and has published three other books: Personal Relations Theory (2006) which has been translated into German and published as Theorie persönlicher Beziehungen (Psychosozial-Verlag, 2017), as wells Thinking Through Fairbairn (2018) and The American Dream and American Cinema in the Age of Trump (2023).

Clarke has published papers on Fairbairn and psychoanalysis in the IJPA, the British Journal of Psychotherapy, ATTACHMENT, and the Journal of the British Association of Psychotherapists. These include developing Fairbairn and Object Relations Theory in relation to cinema, examples of which include his Masters thesis on Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective - ‘Dynamic Structure, Psychic Growth and Mature Dependance’ (in preparation as a part of Psychoanalysis and Cultural Objects: A Fairbairnian Approach, with Fire in the Mind - Phoenix Publishing) and the articles ‘Notes towards an object relations view of cinema’, ‘Failures of the ‘moral defence’ in the films Shutter Island, Inception and Memento: Narcissism or schizoid personality disorder?’ and ‘L.A. Confidential: object relations and psychic growth’ in the British Journal of Psychotherapy, March 2003. as well as the aforementioned The American Dream and American Cinema in the Age of Trump (2023).

Clarke has also published the chapter 'A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Singularity: Why We Cannot Do Without Auxiliary Constructions' in The Technological Singularity: Managing the Journey.