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Mr Narendra Keval

Visiting Lecturer

Contact at: kevalr@regents.ac.uk

Department

School of Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology

Faculty

HASS (Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences)

Professional affiliation(s):

• Health Professionals Council (2009)
• British Psychological Society  (1986)
• British Psychoanalytic Council 1995)
• Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists (1995)
• UK Register of Expert Witnesses (2003)

Qualifications

• Bsc(Hons) Psychology
• M. Clin. Psychol
• T.Q.A.P.

Biography

Qualified as a Clinical Psychologist and  trained as an Adult and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London. Worked as a Senior Clinician  in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in a range of outpatient settings, specialising in work with patients suffering from complex personality disorders. Clinical Supervisor, Trainer and Visiting Senior Lecturer at a number of Universities and Training Institutes both in the UK and abroad.
From 2006-08 involved in the Psychodynamic teaching on the Clinical Psychology Training Program at University of Cape Town and University of Western Cape, South Africa. Guest Member of the Cape Town Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Clinical Supervisor for some of it's member professionals.

Clinical Director on the Doctoral Training Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of East Anglia from 2008-10 and recently joined the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies as Senior Lecturer to continue a longstanding interest in the applications of Psychodynamic Thinking.

PhD and Doctoral Research Supervision and Examining

None

Research Interests 

• Clinical Psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
• Trauma
• Suicidal states
• Race and Racism

List of Publications

• Keval, N. (2005) Racist States of Mind: An Attack on Thinking  and Curiosity,  In Psychoanalytic Ideas for Social Work Practice: Thinking  Under Fire, Ed. M,Bower, Routledge, Oxfordshire, UK, pp 31-  43. 
• Keval, N. (2005) Understanding Unbearable Anxieties: The Retreat into Racism, In Race, Culture and Psychotherapy, Eds, Moodley, R. & Palmer, S.,Routledge UK, pp 150- 59. 
• Keval, N. (2003) Triangulation or Strangulation: Managing the Suicidal Patient, Psychoanalytic  Psychotherapy, Vol.17,  No1, pp.35-51. 
• Keval., N. (2002) Filling the Psychic Gap,: Understanding Psychosomatic Problems in a Multi-Cultural Clinic, Journal of Social Work Practice,Vol, 16, No. 2., pp 175-84.  
• Keval, N. (2001) Understanding the Trauma of Racial Violence in a black Patient, British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol 18, No1, pp 34- 51. 

Conference Presentations

• Keval, N. (2007) Skin deep or Scar deep: Understanding the internalized brutality of racial hatred in the new South Africa, Key Note Speaker at The Community Healing Network Conference, Grassy Park, Cape Town.
• Keval, N. (1998 )Conference on Loss of Identity : Migration and Persecution,   Re-integration through Psychotherapy, European Federation of Psychoanalytic  Psychotherapy in the Public Sector, Cologne, Germany. 
• Keval, N. (1997) Understanding Cultural Identity, Freud Museum Day Conference,  SOAS, University of London. 
• Keval, N. (1997) Understanding the trauma of racial violence in an assessment   interview, Goldsmith College, University of London.