Jane Haynes

Jane Haynes is a psychotherapist and a partner of the Group Analytic Practice, Baker Street , London , where she has her consulting room. Jane Haynes is interested in the practice of psychotherapy as the expression of a therapeutic dialogue and works from the precept that not only do people have unspeakable experiences or thoughts but that they can be made more unspeakable by the absence of a skilled listener.

Jane Haynes has a specialist interest in creativity, infertility and partnership relations. She works with individuals, couples and families. She also works with adolescents. She has co-edited and contributed to the first book on the psychology of infertility: Inconceivable Conceptions: psychological aspects of infertility and reproductive technology (Routledge, 2003).

After working with R.D. Laing at Kingsley Hall, Jane originally trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst and is a member of UKCP , The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and the Guild of Analytical Psychology and Spirituality. Jane Haynes also qualified as a student counsellor at Birkbeck College , University of London . Jane is involved in mental health issues in Russia and is a Clinical Consultant to the Eastern European Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies in St. Petersburg . Jane Haynes has also lectured at the Moscow School of Political Studies on the Politics of Subjectivity. Most recently Jane has become interested in the ways in which our emotions are affected by our habitual patterns of breathing. She is working on a research project regarding the ways in which Yogic meditation and psychotherapy can mutually enhance each other.

In April 2005 Jane Haynes was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Eastern European Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies in St. Petersburg for her personal contribution to the reinstatement and professional development of Psychoanalytic Studies in Russia.