Dr. Lee Richardson is the Head of the School of Arts at DBS and is both a Chartered Psychologist and Chartered Scientist. In his Ph.D., Dr Richardson specialised in the development of animal models of Alzheimers's disease and has a number of publications within the field including conference presentations, abstracts, and peer-reviewed journal articles.

 

 

Dr. Rik Loose

Dr. Rik Loose is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist with eleven years experience of working with addicts in a residential setting. He also lectures on the Masters in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy programme run by University College Dublin in association with St. Vincent's Hospital. He regularly holds seminars on his research in psychoanalysis and addiction in England, the United States, Australia and on the continent where he is involved in a research project on addiction theory and treatment. In addition to numerous book chapters, journal articles and reviews he published his book The Subject of Addiction: Psychoanalysis and the Administration of Enjoyment in 2002.

 

 

Dr. Barry O'Donnell

Dr. Barry O'Donnell is Head of the Department of Psychotherapy at DBS School of Arts. He is Programme leader of the MA in Psycholanalytic Psychotherapy and also lectures on the Higher Diploma in Psychoanalytic Studies. One of the first graduates of the latter programme Dr. O'Donnell has a Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy in UCD and a MSc in Psychotherapy from the School of Psychotherapy in St. Vincent's University Hospital. As well as a psychoanalytic private practice Dr. O'Donnell works as a counsellor in the Drug Treatment Centre Board. He has also participated in government requested discussions on the place and status of psychotherapy in the mental health services.  His research interests and activities currently centre on the question of training and transmission in the field of psychotherapy and on the differences in the fundamental principles between the traditions of psychotherapy.

Dr Garry Prentice

Dr. Garry Prentice coordinates the MA in Addiction Studies and is a chartered psychologist with research experience within the area of addiction. For the past nine years Dr Prentice has been a consultant researcher with an addiction treatment unit in Northern Ireland. His research work has included constructing measures suitable for assessment of treatment programme outcomes, setting up of addiction treatment databases, and analysis of client progrss within treatment programmes. In his Ph.D, Dr Prentice specialised in the investigation of risk factors for positive drug attitudes and addictive behaviour. Dr Prentice has a number of publications within the addiction and psychoogy fields, including conference presentations, abtracts, reports andpeer-reviewed journal articles.

 

 

 

Ms. Terry Ball

Terry Ball is the Course Director of the Higher Diploma in Arts in Psychoanalytic Studies and is also the subject leader of undergraduate Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. She lectures in Psychoanalysis on the MA in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, the Postgraduate Higher Diploma in Psychoanalytic Studies, and she also lectures on undergraduate Psychology. She has worked on the Scientific Committee and the Training Committee of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI) and from 2003-2007 she was editor of the APPI Newsletter. Areas of special interest include the psychoanalytic understanding of human sexuality, the theory and practice of dream interpretation and the application of psychoanalytic theories to the structure and workings of organisations.