Marcus Evans
Fellow British Psychoanalytical Society. Author: Making Room for Madness in Mental Health Settings & Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings & Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Approach. Applying psychoanalytic lens to contemporary issues.
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Developing a Mind of One’s Own (opens the original)
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Developing a Mind of One’s OwnThe seductive pull of belongingOver recent years, I have sometimes found my clinical views attacked and my experience discredited by people who have never met me, discussed my clinical work with me or tried to understand how I arrived at my position. This does not mean that my views are necessarily right. Clinical experience does not place anyone beyond criticism, and people are entitled to question my conclusions. What interests me is the way disagreement can becom
On line Half Day Conference into Gender Distress for Mental Health Clinicians. 20 Nov 2026. (opens the original)
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Gender-related distress presents clinicians with complex psychological and clinical questions.How do we take a person’s experience seriously while remaining open-minded about what that experience means? How can we understand gender distress within the wider context of psychological development, relationships, family life, adolescence, sexuality and the changing body? And how can clinicians maintain their capacity to think when patients, families and professionals may all feel considerable pressu
ADHD, Brain Scans and the Seduction of Certainty (opens the original)
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Channel 4’s recent documentary The Great ADHD Myth? fronted by NHS psychiatrist Dr Max Pemberton, asks a question that much of British psychiatry would rather not entertain in public: is ADHD adequately understood through the predominantly biological meaning now commonly attached to the term neurodevelopmental disorder, or does that understanding underestimate the part played by psychological development and the environment?I am glad this documentary has been made because it opens up a much need
Introducing Understanding Trans Identity (opens the original)
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Introducing Understanding Trans IdentityOver the past several years, many readers have asked where they can find our papers, lectures, interviews, books and other educational resources in one place. Until now, they have been scattered across publishers’ websites, journals, podcasts, conference recordings and media interviews.Susan Evans and I are therefore pleased to announce the launch of our new website:https://understandingtransidentity.comThe website brings together the work we have develope
Ron Britton: A Tribute followed by an Introduction to the Foreword of Identity and the Foundational Myth (opens the original)
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This piece serves as both a tribute to Ron Britton and an introduction to the foreword of my book Identity and the Foundational Myth: Psychoanalytic Insights into Gender Distress (Karnac, 2025), which was developed from interviews I conducted with him in the final weeks of his life.Ron Britton was one of the foremost psychoanalytic thinkers of his generation. Trained at the Tavistock Clinic, he became a training analyst and later served as President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. His b
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