Research

• experiences and needs of forensic mental health staff and qualitative methods.
• psychoanalytic thinking to NHS services and settings.

Recent Publications

• Kurtz, A. & Tweed, A. (2008) ‘Introduction: Towards a psychology of marginalisation’. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 5: 1-6.
• Tweed, A. & Kurtz, A. (2008) ‘Special issue: Qualitative Research and Marginalisation’ (Guest editors). Qualitative Research in Psychology 5.
• Kurtz, A. & Turner, K. (2007) ‘An exploratory study of the needs of staff who care for offenders with a diagnosis of personality disorder’. Psychology and Psychotherapy 80(3): 421-435.
• Kurtz, A. (2005) The needs of staff who care for people with a diagnosis of personality disorder who are considered a risk to others’. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology 16(2): 399-422.
• Kurtz, A. & Richardson, P. (Eds.) (2004) ‘Special section: Novelists in conversation with psychologists’. Psychology and Psychotherapy 77(2): 141-206.
• Kurtz, A. (2004) ‘Introduction’. In Kurtz, A. & Richardson, P. (Eds.) ‘Special Section: Novelists in conversation with psychologists’. Psychology and Psychotherapy 77(2): 141-144.
• Fonagy, P. & Kurtz, A. (2002) ‘Disturbance of conduct’. In (2002) Fonagy, P., Target, M., Cottrell, D., Phillips, J., Kurtz, Z. (Eds.) What Works for Whom?: A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents. New York: The Guilford Press.
• Kurtz, A. (2002) A Psychoanalytic View of Two Forensic Mental Health Services. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 12(2): S68-S80.
• Kurtz, A. (2002) What works for delinquency? A review of studies into the effectiveness of interventions for teenage offending behaviour. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry 13(3): 671-692.