Professor Ivan Leudar

Professor of Analytical and Historical Psychology
- Email: ivan.leudar@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 2563
- Fax: +44 (0)161 275-2588
Teaching
2nd Year: History of Psychology
2nd Year: Language and Communication
3rd Year: Sociocultural approaches to insanity
M.Res.: Ethnomethodology, Conversation analysis, Membership categorisation analysis
Biography
Ivan Leudar studied Psychology at Birkbeck College, University London and did his postgraduate research at the Psycholinguistic research unit at the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London. Subsequently he worked for six years as a research fellow at the Psychology Laboratory, University of St Andrews, investigating language and communication in people with learning disabilities. He joined Manchester University Psychology department in 1984 as a New blood lecturer. In 2006 he was promoted to Professor in Analytical and Historical Psychology.
Collaborators and affiliated staff
Collaborators
- Alan Costal
Psychology, Portsmouth University
Theoretical Psychology - Baudouin Dupret
Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) Damascus Syria
Investigation of war, identity and media - Charles Antaki
Social Science, The University of Loughborough
Conversation analysis of psychotherapy - Jiri Nekvapil
Linguistics Department, Charles' University, Prague
Investigation of membership categorisation and media dialogical networks - Rosemarie McCabe
Queen Mary
Investigations of language of psychosis - Shirley Truckle
Birmingham Trust for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Investigation of the effects of psychotherapeutic practices - Wes Sharrock
Social Science, The University of Manchester
Ethnomethodology, history and philosophy of psychology, organisation of psychotherapy
Selected publications
2009
- Leudar I, Costall A. (2009). Against Theory of Mind (2). Palgrave Macmillan. further details
2008
- Leudar I, Nekvapil J. (2008). La guerre contre la terreur Une semaine dans la vie d'un reseau dialogique. Medias, guerres et identities. Les pratiques communicationnelles de l'appartenance politique, ethnique et religieuse. further details
- Leudar I, Hayes J, Nekvapil J, Turner Baker J. (2008). Hostility themes in media, community and refugee narratives. Discourse and Society, 19, 187-221. further details
- Leudar I, Sharrock W, Hayes J, Truckle S. (2008). Therapy as a "structured immediacy". Journal of Pragmatics, 40, 863-885. further details
2007
- Costall A, Leudar I. (2007). Getting over "the problem of other minds": communication in context. Infant Behav Dev, 30( 2), 289-295. Full text doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.02.001 further details
- Leudar I, Nekvapil J. (2007). Islam and the war on terror: A week in the life of a dialogical network. Etnographic Studies, 9, 44-62. further details
2006
- Leudar I, Antaki C, Barnes R. (2006). When psychotherapists disclose personal information about themselves to clients. Commun Med, 3( 1), 27-41. further details
- Nekvapil j, Leudar I. (2006). Presentations of 9-11:Bush, Bin Laden and others in interaction. Czech Sociological Review, 42, 801-821. further details
2005
- Antaki C, Barnes C, Leudar I. (2005). Diagnostic formulations in psychotherapy. Discourse Studies, 7 (5), 627-647. Full text doi:10.1177/1461445605055420 further details
2004
- Leudar I, Nekvapil J, Marsland V. (2004). Membership categorisation: 'Us', 'them' and 'doing violence' in political discourse. Discourse and Society, 15, 243-266. Full text doi:10.1177/0957926504041019 further details
- McCabe R, Leudar I, Antaki C. (2004). Do people with schizophrenia display theory of mind deficits in clinical interactions? Psychological Medicine, 34, 401-10. Full text doi:10.1017/S0033291703001338 further details
2002
- Leudar I, Sharrock W. (2002). The cases of John Bunyan. Part 1: Taine and Royce. History and Psychiatry, 13, 247-265. further details
- Leudar I, Sharrock W. (2002). The cases of John Bunyan. Part 2: James and Janet. History and Psychiatry, 13, 401-417. further details
- Sharrock W, Leudar I. (2002). Indeterminacy in the past. History of the Human Sciences, 15, 95-115. further details
2001
- Leudar I. (2001). Voices in History. Outlines. Critical Social Studies, 3, 5-18. further details