94 Publications of all kinds including 4 collections (included in photo above). Worked in 24 countries (70 major presentations including Keynote addresses, Seminars and Workshops)
2026
Imelda McCarthy 2026 “Discussion with the Audience in relation to Don’t Cry” in Metalogos Systemic Therapy Journal. Issue 49 (Video)
Imelda McCarthy and Allan Wade 2026 “Don’t Cry:The Subject of Resistance – an interview with Imelda McCarthy and Allan Wade” in Metalogos Systemic Therapy Journal. Issue 49 (Video)
Imelda McCarthy 2026 “Co-Creating a Fifth Province: A Spiritual, Indigenous and Spiritual Space of Practices in an Irish Context” Australia New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. 47:e70055 https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.70055. https://imeldamccarthy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/co-creating-a-fifth-province-2026-5.pdf
2025
Imelda McCarthy 2025 “A Systemic Field Based Meditation for our World”. Context. 202 December. https://imeldamccarthy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/context202-imelda-mccarthy-1.pdf
Imelda McCarthy 2025 “Foreword” in Psychotherapeutic Competencies. (Eds) Laura Fruggeri, Francesca Balestra & Elena Venturelli. London: Routledge. https://imeldamccarthy.com/foreward-the-psychotherapeutic-competencies/
Imelda McCarthy & Roger Duncan 2025 “Following Ariadne’s imaginal thread through the labyrinth: A systemic practice in a time of ecological crises“. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. Vol 56. Issue 2. December 1-9 46:e70022 https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.70022. https://imeldamccarthy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/duncan-mccarthy-anzjft-article-2025.pdf
2023
Imelda McCarthy & Roger Duncan 0ctober 2023. Imagining Liminal Spaces: Handrails of Hope Metalogos: Systemic Therapy Journal, Issue 44 (Video)
2021
Imelda McCarthy 2021 Remembering and Naturing my life and work in a Fifth Province. The Eco Systemic Return. Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice. 4: (1) https://murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/murmurations/article/view/139
Imelda McCarthy 2021. Fifth Province re-versings: the social construction of women lone parents’ inequality and poverty. Journal of Family Therapy, 23, 3, 253 – 277. Selected as one of the 24th most influential papers on Social Justice and Diversity over 40 years (1980 – 2019) by Family Process (USA) and the Journal of Family Therapy (UK) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)9999-0009.24most-influential-articles. AI Podcast by Academia on https://www.academia.edu/ai_podcast/57458165
Imelda McCarthy 2021 In Memory of Humberto Maturana 1928 – 1921 in Feedback forthcoming.
2019
Imelda McCarthy & Jean Minogue 2019. The Fifth Province approach as a Systemic Meditative Practice Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice. Winter 2019 2: (2) 55 – 69
McCarthy 2019 HISTORICAL RE-TRACING OF A FIFTH PROVINCE DIS-POSITION. Unpublished paper
Imelda McCarthy 2019 FOREWORD – Padraic Gibson Book 2019 Advances in Effective Brief Psychotherapy: Strategies, Relationships, Communication. Dublin: Lettertec.
2018
Lynn Hoffman Obituary. Fokus pa Familien.
Lynn Hoffman Obituary. Journal of Family Therapy.
A Traumatic Intrusion with Transgressive Possibilities, Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice. 1 (2) Autumn
2017
Foreword to Creativity in Times of Constraint: A practitioner’s companion in mental health and social care by Jim Wilson.
The Ocean in the Waves: Unity in diversity and the implications of a Fifth Province approach in complex systems. Metalogos Systemic Therapy Journal, 31.
The Priest and the Motorbike – Re-membering Peter Lang, a true renaissance
man. Metalogos Systemic Therapy Journal, 30.
2016
Ernst Salamon & Imelda McCarthy (2016). Hope and Risk: Systemic practices for supervision and assessment in child protection. In Systemic Therapy as Transformative Practice. Eds. Imelda McCarthy & Gail Simon. Farnhill: Everything is Connected Press.
McCarthy, Imelda & Simon, Gail (2016). Preface. In Systemic Therapy as Transformative Practice. Eds. Imelda McCarthy & Gail Simon. Farnhill: Everything is Connected Press.
2014
Bateson, Nora & McCarthy, Imelda (2014). An Ecology of Mind – Family Therapy in the face of new emerging conditions. Human Systems Journal of Systemic Therapy, 23, 4-16
Celebrating the Legacy of Gianfranco Cecchin in the Fifth Province. Metalogos, 26.
2010
The Fifth Province: Imagining a Space of Dialogical Co-Creations! Context, Dec 2010, 6-11. Originally shared at shared at the ‘Training in a Women’s Voice’ conference organised by KCC in June 2009.
2007
Byrne, Nollaig & McCarthy, Imelda (2007). The Dialectical Structure of Hope and Despair: A Fifth Province Approach. In Flaskas, C., McCarthy, I. & Sheehan, J (Eds.) (2007) Hope and Despair in Narrative and Family Therapy: Reflections on Adversity, Forgiveness and Reconciliation. Hove/NY: Brunner Routledge.
2005
The Fifth Province, Spirituality and Love: Co-Creating a Sacred Space
Therapy Conversations. GROW Magazine.
2004
The Fifth Province and Love: Co-Creating a Sacred Space in Therapy Conversations. Keynote: 20th Anniversary Conference. Institute of Systemic Studies, Hamburg.
4.6.04
Gianfranco Cecchin and Fifth Province. Personal Recollections and Professional Legacies. Connessioni, 16: Febradio, 123 – 127
2002
The Messenger is the message. Spirituality and Systemic Family Therapy. Sri Vasudeva talks with Imelda McCarthy
The Spirit of The Fifth Province: An Ancient Metaphor for a New Millenium. Feedback, Winter 2002, 9, 2: 10 – 13.
Fifth Province Diamonds: Contrasts in Co-ordinated Play
2001
McCarthy, Imelda (2001). Fifth Province re-versings: the social construction of women lone parents’ inequality and poverty. Journal of Family Therapy, 23, 3, 253 – 277.
1999
Byrne, Nollaig & McCarthy, Imelda (1999). Feminism, Politics and Power in Therapeutic Discourse. In Ian Parker (Ed.), Deconstructing Psychotherapy.London: Sage Publications.Add block
1989
Kearney, Philip A., Byrne, Nollaig & McCarthy, I.C. 1989. “Just Metaphors: Marginal Illuminations in a Colonial Retreat”. Family Therapy Case Studies 4(1) 17-31
Imelda McCarthy PhD 
Dear Imelda
I am Charles Bell from KCC and would like to make contact if possible? I very much hope all is well with you and hope it is possible you can send me your email address, so that I can send you a further message?
Very best wishes
Charles
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Hi Charles, I remember you well and would be delighted to hear from you. My email is imeldamccarthy46@gmail.com
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