Alongside my clinical work, I write about themes that recur in psychotherapy and everyday life: the relationship between our own experience and the gaze of the other, desire, guilt, love and intimacy.
Crossing the River
From Living in the Minds of Others to a Life of Your Own. A book about the psychology of ordinary life and the way back to an experience that can truly become our own.
READ AN EXCERPT →Predicting symptoms of depression from reports of early parenting
Kerver, M.J., van Son, M.J.M. & de Groot, P.A. (1992).
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 86(4), 267–272.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1992.tb03265.x · PMID: 1456070.
This prospective study followed 1,000 people from the province of Utrecht for one year. It examined whether reported parental overinvolvement and lack of affection could predict later depressive symptoms.
VIEW IN PUBMED →Psychological Risk Factors in the Aetiology of Depression
Kerver, M.J. (1990).
Doctoral dissertation, Utrecht University. Grapress, Zoetermeer.
A prospective study found that a strong self-esteem-protective attitude considerably increased the risk of developing depression (RR = 22.1).
Inleiding in de interpersoonlijke psychotherapie
Blom, M.B.J., Kerver, M.J. & Nolen, W.A. (1997).
Houten: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum.
A book on interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), a brief psychotherapy originally developed for depression.
A Child Has Been Known Before Being Found
Kerver, M.J. (2026).
Submitted to The International Journal of Psychoanalysis.