In his latest, solo-authored book, Professor Brett Kahr shares his multi-decade experience of working with forensic patients from a psychoanalytical perspective, exploring the traumatic origins of devastating crimes such as genital exhibitionism, paedophilia, and murder. He also examines the psychology of what he has entitled as “sub-clinical psychopathy”, namely, the extreme violent fantasies and threats in those individuals who do not actually break the law but who destroy, nevertheless, the sense of safety in their own families. This book offers hope that, if we can encourage more early psychotherapeutic intervention, we will develop the capacity to reduce the risk of global assaults.
Professor Brett Kahr – “The Future of Psychoanalytical Publishing”.
Friday, 3rd October, 2025, between 4.00 p.m. and 6.00 p.m
On Friday, 3rd 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.
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.
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.
