Ivan Ward

Ivan Ward is the former Director of Education at the Freud Museum, where his work variously involved teaching student groups in the museum and managing the Public Programme of conferences and lectures. He has published a number of papers on the application of psychoanalytic ideas to social theory, and was editor of Ideas in Psychoanalysis, a series of short books which explain psychoanalytic concepts in relation to the everyday world. He is the author of Introducing Psychoanalysis (2000),...See more

Ivan Ward is the former Director of Education at the Freud Museum, where his work variously involved teaching student groups in the museum and managing the Public Programme of conferences and lectures. He has published a number of papers on the application of psychoanalytic ideas to social theory, and was editor of Ideas in Psychoanalysis, a series of short books which explain psychoanalytic concepts in relation to the everyday world. He is the author of Introducing Psychoanalysis (2000), Phobia (2002) and Castration (2003) published by Icon Books. Previous conference publications include The Psychology of Nursery Education (1998) and The Presentation of Case Material in Clinical Practice (1997). See less