My friend Coline Covington, who has died aged 70 of a brain tumour, was a distinguished Jungian psychoanalyst who wrote books and articles combining psychoanalytic ideas with political and social theory. Many of them explored large themes such as identity, evil and patriotism.
After studying political theory at Princeton University and for a diploma (now MPhil, 1976) at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, she gained a PhD (1980) from the London School of Economics with a thesis on juvenile crime. In 1975 she helped set up the first victim-offender mediation project in the UK with the Metropolitan police.
