Psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and author Susie Orbach on how to make a life full of substance and sustenance
Author: Balint Consultancy
We are very pleased to announce that the British Psychoanalytic Council has recently awarded its “Outstanding Professional Leadership Award” to Professor Brett Kahr, one of our Consultant Psychotherapists at The Balint Consultancy, in recognition of his contributions to the mental health profession.
Lee Smith, the Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council, presented this award to Professor Kahr at the organisation’s annual conference on “Psychoanalysis, Ethics, Regulation and the Law; Tensions and Interactions”, held on 23rd November, 2024, at the headquarters of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in South London.
The British Psychoanalytic Council generously paid tribute to Kahr’s multi-decade work as a clinician, as an academic, as a researcher and writer, as a mental health broadcaster, and as an organisational worker.
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Balint Events
British Psychoanalytic Council
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Now 2024
23 November
https://www.bpc.org.uk/event/ppnow-2024
Freud Museum Event
Expanding Psychoanalysis: The Contributions of Susie Orbach
A dialogue between Dr Susie Orbach and Professor Brett Kahr to celebrate their new publication
19 November
Freud Museum Exhibition
Women and Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists
30 October 2024 – 5 May 2025
Freud Museum Event
What do Women Want (of Freud and Therapy)?
An in-house conversation between Susie Orbach and Lisa Appignanesi
16 December
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Expanding Psychoanalysis
The Contributions of Susie Orbach
Expanding Psychoanalysis explores the work of the acclaimed psychoanalyst, writer, and activist Susie Orbach.
The book studies Orbach’s multifaceted career in five sections, examining her multitudinous contributions to the mental health profession, from the creation of feminist psychotherapy to the enhancement of media psychology, to the growth of political and social consultation. The book contains clinical, historical, and personal chapters, examining Orbach from a range of perspectives. Each chapter investigates a key aspect of Orbach’s work and its impact on the professional, the social, and the personal level. The book concludes with an epilogue by Orbach herself.
Expanding Psychoanalysis will be essential for all readers interested in the work of Susie Orbach.
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Professor Brett Kahr has been asked by Shepherd to reveal his favourite reads in 2024
Don‘t forget about my book 😀
Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head: The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies
By Brett Kahr
What is my book about?
Based upon a transatlantic study of the private sexual fantasies of over 20,000 British and American adults (aged eighteen and older), this book investigates the deep psychological underbelly of the erotic thoughts of human beings. A very experienced psychotherapist and psychologist, Professor Brett Kahr has examined not only the nature of sexual fantasies (both coital fantasies and masturbatory fantasies) but, also, the deep-seated origins of these private mental thoughts, often based upon traumatic, early-life experiences. For those individuals whose secret sexual preoccupations might have become a source of distress within one’s personal intimate relationships or, indeed, within one’s private life, Kahr’s book offers an opportunity to understand this little-discussed part of the human mind and might thus help those in distress to seek proper psychological treatment.
A dialogue between Dr Susie Orbach and Professor Brett Kahr to celebrate their new publication.
19 November, 7:00 pm- 8:30 pm
Freud Museum, London
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PROFESSOR BRETT KAHR
INTERVIEW AT THE FREUD MUSEUM LONDON
ON SURVIVING CANCER WITH
RICHARD TYLER
On 20th September, 2024, Professor Brett Kahr, Consultant Psychotherapist at The Balint Consultancy and Honorary Director of Research at the Freud Museum London had the huge privilege of interviewing a most impressive man, Richard Tyler – a former West End star who subsequently retrained as a psychotherapist – about his new memoir As a Kite Falls: A Voyage Through Descent, in which Tyler has described his bold journey of navigating the diagnosis, treatment, and recovery from a rare form of severe, Stage 4 cancer.
Part of the Freud Museum London’s series, “Freud’s 4pm Session”, Kahr speaks with Tyler about the traumatisation of such a profound diagnosis and explores how Tyler managed to draw upon his psychological sturdiness to endure such an incomparable challenge.
Kahr hugely recommends Tyler’s extremely well-written memoir, for which he holds the honour of having written a foreword.
Published by the esteemed psychoanalytical publishing house, Karnac Books, the book can be explored by clicking on the following link:
https://www.karnacbooks.com/Author.asp?AID=25620
The interview can be watched on YouTube by clicking on the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuYVAOqQBrA
The first reviewer on YouTube generously described the interview thus:
“What an impressive exchange! Well done to two eminent, eloquent, and spiritually adept gentlemen, for sharing such intimate experiences and beneficial tutorials about navigating cancer with courage, candour and creativity, to effect the happiest and most inspired survival.”
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Dr Susie Orbach
at IAHIP – Keynote Speaker
26th October, Clontarf Castle, Dublin
https://iahip.org/conference2024
Join us for a transformative one-day conference centred around the theme “The Changing Face of Psychotherapy,” featuring renowned psychotherapist and author Susie Orbach. This exclusive event is designed to provide space for insights, knowledge, discussion and connection in the ever-evolving landscape of psychotherapy.
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An audience with Susie Orbach
November 16 @ 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
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How The Light Gets In London 2024
Susie Orbach will be appearing a panel discussion ‘It’s A Woman’s World’ and will also be ‘In Conversation” Further retails to be announced.