Author: Balint Consultancy

Professor Brett Kahr – “The Future of Psychoanalytical Publishing”.

Friday, 3^rd October, 2025, between 4.00 p.m. and 6.00 p.m

On Friday, 3^rd October, 2025, between 4.00 p.m. and 6.00 p.m., Professor Brett Kahr will host a special event at the Freud Museum London, in Swiss Cottage, devoted to “The Future of Psychoanalytical Publishing”.

            This event will be sponsored by the Freud Museum London in association with the Scholars Committee and the Scholars Network of the British Psychoanalytic Council and with the Academic Associates Scheme of the Freud Museum London.

            The speakers will include clinicians and scholars, and, moreover, two of the world’s most impactful psychoanalytical publishers, namely, Susannah Frearson – a publisher of mental health books at Routledge, part of the Taylor and Francis Group – as well as Kate Pearce – the publisher of Karnac Books.

            This will be a hybrid event, with tickets available either in-person or via Zoom.

            Here are the links to the event:

IN-HOUSE – The Future of Psychoanalytical Publishing

ONLINE – The Future of Psychoanalytical Publishing

Professor Brett Kahr

As time has progressed, the psychotherapy profession has flourished hugely, and although the field has grown in size, our profession remains splintered, competitive and, at times, anti-collaborative.   The growth of numerous training institutions, professional bodies, membership organisations and multiple approaches to psychotherapy, ranging from intense psychoanalysis to mindfulness-based short-term interventions, indicates that most practitioners of a particular style regard colleagues from other sectors as poorly-trained or as clinically insufficient.   Professor Kahr will share his experience of how we can not only enhance our own personal skills and careers more efficaciously, helping us to flourish more fully as practitioners with more exciting careers but, also, he will consider how by developing our own verbal potency and our own skills as experts, we will have the capacity to collaborate more fully with other institutions and thus work towards developing greater integration within the profession. He will also explore how we can take fuller ownership of our clinical and psychological wisdom and thus help to expand the respectability and the impact of the British psychotherapy field.   Professor Brett Kahr is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health at Regent’s University London. He serves as Honorary Director of Research and as an Honorary Fellow of the Freud Museum London. He is Chair of the Scholars Committee of the British Psychoanalytic Council and Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. He is the author of twenty-two books and series editor of more than eighty-five additional volumes. He works with individuals, couples and families at his consulting room in Central London. Reception: 7pm Lecture: 8-10pm Cost: £50 Book Now https://www.manorhousecentre.org.uk/counselling-therapy-training/cpd/

Psychological Nudity in Couples: From Sexual Arousal to Sexual Sadism

 May 10, 2025

Course Description: 

Although we have all encountered naked human bodies across our lifetime, very few of us have had the opportunity to explore the fully naked human mind, namely, the true contents of sexual thoughts and fantasies and unconscious wishes and unconscious fears.  In this presentation on “Psychological Nudity” and its impact on couples, our speaker, London-based Professor Brett Kahr, will share the findings of his transatlantic research project, in which he has examined the erotic fantasies of more than 25,000 British and American adults, aged eighteen years and over, investigating the early infantile and early childhood origins of private masturbatory and coital fantasies and the subsequent impact of such private thoughts upon spousal relationships.

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Professor Brett Kahr

           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 23^rd 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.

British Psychoanalytic Council

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Now 2024

23 November

https://www.bpc.org.uk/event/ppnow-2024

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Expanding Psychoanalysis: The Contributions of Susie Orbach

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30 October 2024 – 5 May 2025

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