Marcus Evans

Marcus Evans is a Psychoanalyst and Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis. He was a consultant adult psychotherapist and mental health nurse with 45 years’ experience in mental health. He was head of the nursing discipline at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust between a 1998-2018. He was also the lead clinician in the adult and adolescent service and one of the founding members of the Fitzjohn’s Service for the treatment of patients with severe and enduring mental health conditions and/or personality disorder.

He has written and taught extensively on the application of psychoanalytic thinking in mental health settings. The first ‘Making Room for Madness in Mental Health: the psychoanalytic understanding of psychotic communications’ was published by Karnac in 2016. This book is also published in Japanese.

His second book Psychoanalytic Thinking in mental health settings introduces front line mental health professionals to psychoanalytic thinking and was published by Routledge in 2020.

His third Book which he has written with his wife Susan Gender dysphoria: a Therapeutic model for working with Children adolescents and young adults is due to be published this month. This is currently publiushed in English Spanish and Polish.

Marcus's Fourth Book: Identity and the Foundational Myth: Psychoanalytic insights into Gender Distress. It is due to be published in November 20125 by Karnac.