PESI – International Women’s Trauma Conference – 18/19 November 2021
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Professor Brett Kahr
NEW BOOK BY PROFESSOR BRETT KAHR.
FREUD’S PANDEMICS:
SURVIVING GLOBAL WAR, SPANISH FLU,
AND THE NAZIS.
In this compelling book, the first in the new “Freud Museum London Series”, Professor Brett Kahr describes how Sigmund Freud endured innumerable emotional pandemics during his eighty-three years of life, ranging from unsubstantiated accusations by medical colleagues to anti-Semitic abuse, the loss of one daughter to Spanish flu and the arrest of another child by the Gestapo, to his own painful cancer treatments and his final flight from Adolf Hitler’s Austria. Freud navigated these personal and political tragedies while simultaneously creating a method of healing which has helped countless millions deal with unbearable trauma and distress.
Kahr argues that, by having created psychoanalysis, Freud not only saved himself from destruction but also provided the rest of the world with the means to achieve a form of psychological vaccination against emotional and mental distress.
The Freud Museum London and Karnac Books have joined forces to publish a new book series devoted to an examination of the life and work of Sigmund Freud alongside other significant figures in the history of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and depth psychology more broadly. The series will feature works of outstanding scholarship and readability, including biographical studies, institutional histories, and archival investigations. New editions of historical classics as well as translations of little-known works from the early history of psychoanalysis will also be considered for inclusion.
REVIEWS AND ENDORSEMENTS.
“A vivid account of how Sigmund Freud coped with the great ‘pandemics’ of his time, from the Great War and Spanish Flu to cancer and the Nazis. By assessing how my great-grandfather might have addressed COVID-19 – the pandemic of our own times – Professor Kahr opens up a series of insights into the life of the man who championed the radical innovation of actually listening to people suffering from mental affliction. Meticulously researched, and written with real pace, this book is a timely reminder of the psychological roots of our response to national trauma.” – Lord Freud, great-grandson of Sigmund Freud and President of the Freud Museum London
“Never has there been a time when Freud was needed so badly. Post-pandemic blues would not have been new to Freud as Brett Kahr describes in his phenomenal book, which I feel was sent to save us from confusion and turmoil. A must read!” – Jane McAdam Freud, artist, and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud.
“Brett Kahr’s immersion in Freud – the gift that keeps on giving – will help us survive the trauma of pandemics in our own lives. Kahr draws insightful parallels from Freud’s own struggles and serves as a timely and fascinating reminder of the ubiquitous nature of pandemics and why suicide isn’t the answer.” – Professor the Baroness Hollins, Past President of the British Medical Association, Past President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Professor Emerita at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London.
CONTENTS OF THE BOOK.
Prologue: Fundraising for Freud
Introduction: “Wouldn’t it be better if we all killed ourselves?”
Chapter 1: The Fraudulent Jewish Pervert: Navigating Decades of Collegial Hatred
Chapter 2: The Great War and the Spanish Flu: An Imprisoned Son and a Dying Daughter
Chapter 3: From Compulsive Cigar-Smoking to Deadly Carcinoma: Freud’s Battle with Physical Pain
Chapter 4: Death Wishes and the Nazis: How Freud Escaped from Austria
Chapter 5: Freud’s Recipe for Creativity and Survival: The Writing Cure and the Role of Penetrativity
Conclusion: If Sigmund Freud Could Have Supervised Anthony Fauci
Acknowledgements
Scholarly Clarifications
Endnotes
References
Index
Publisher: Karnac Books
Published: September 2021
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
Dimensions: 15.6 x 1.73 x 23.4 cm
DISCOUNTED PURCHASE OF THE BOOK.
Karnac Books Shop.
Freud Museum London Shop.
Freud’s Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu and Nazis – Brett Kahs
Psychotherapist Susie Orbach and broadcaster Jeff Brazier discuss the power and limitations of resolve in managing grief and mental health.
to listen to the podcast, visit: https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/YT-D8hAAACUAOlM5
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Book Review by Susie Orbach
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Dr Susie Orbach on EXPeditions
EXPeditions brings the world’s leading intellectuals to video
Resisting the exploitation of our bodies https://www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/314
The problem of body image and the construction of a false body https://www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/312
How our relationship to our bodies has been constructed https://www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/310
Also:
The Hidden Spring – Mark Solms in conversation with Susie Orbach
https://www.freud.org.uk/event/on-demand-the-hidden-spring-a-journey-to-the-source-of-consciousness/
Mark Solms in conversation with Susie Orbach
Available On Demand at https://www.freud.org.uk/event/on-demand-the-hidden-spring-a-journey-to-the-source-of-consciousness/
Please note: this event has already taken place therefore booking is for recording access only. On booking, your unique access codes will be included in your Eventbrite confirmation email and will have access for 30 days.
Tickets are offered on a pay-what-you-can basis, with a suggested donation of £10. Thank you in advance for your support of the museum at this very difficult time.
Booking closes at 11.30pm on 31 July 2021.
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The era-defining book that will forever change the way you understand your mind.
‘To say this work is encyclopaedic is to diminish its poetic, psychological and theoretical achievement. This is required reading’ – Susie Orbach, author In Therapy
‘Truly a remarkable book. It changes everything’ – Brian Eno
Join psychoanalyst, neuropsychologist and author, Mark Solms as he discusses his latest publication, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness with psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, writer and social critic, Susie Orbach.
The neuropsychologist who discovered the brain’s mechanism for dreaming returns with a jaw-dropping insight into human consciousness that reframes everything we know about the workings of the mind.
How does the mind connect to the body? Why does it feel like something to be us? For one of the boldest thinkers in neuroscience, solving this puzzle has been a lifetime’s quest. Now at last, the man who discovered the brain mechanism for dreaming appears to have made a breakthrough.
The very idea that a solution is at hand may seem outrageous. Isn’t consciousness intangible, beyond the reach of science? Yet Mark Solms shows how misguided fears and suppositions have concealed its true nature. Stick to the medical facts, pay close attention to the eerie testimony of hundreds of neurosurgery patients, and a way past our obstacles reveals itself.
Join Solms on a voyage into the extraordinary realms beyond. More than just a philosophical argument, The Hidden Spring will forever alter how you understand your own experience. There is a secret buried in the brain’s ancient foundations: bring it into the light and we fathom all the depths of our being.
The Hidden Spring is available to purchase via the Freud Museum London online shop >>
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NEWS FROM PROFESSOR BRETT KAHR.
June, 2021.
NEW ROLE AT FREUD MUSEUM LONDON.
The Balint Consultancy is delighted to announce that Professor Brett Kahr has recently been appointed as Honorary Director of Research at the Freud Museum London. Professor Kahr has maintained a long-standing relationship with the museum, having worked there as Deputy Director of the International Campaign for the Freud Museum during its first year of operation and, subsequently, having served three terms of office as Trustee of both Freud Museum London and of Freud Museum Publications. In this new role he will help to support the museum and its scholars with the development of historical-archival research on the life and work of Sigmund Freud and the growth of psychoanalysis.
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Olivia Laing & Susie Orbach
DATE AND TIME Wed, 19 May
7:00pm LOCATION Free to Register Online Via Zoom BUY TICKETS
On Bodies, Protest, Gender and Freedom: hear the acclaimed author Olivia Laing discuss her timely new book, Everybody, in conversation with leading psychotherapist Susie Orbach.
Olivia Laing Everybody
Olivia Laing is the author of three acclaimed works of non-fiction, To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring and The Lonely City, which has been translated into seventeen languages. Her first novel, Crudo, was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the 2019 James Tait Memorial Prize. She’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2018 was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Laing writes on art and culture for many publications, including the Guardian, New York Times and
frieze. Her collected writing on art, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, was published in 2020. She lives in Suffolk.
Susie Orbach In conversation
Susie Orbach is a psychoanalyst and writer. She co-founded The Women’s Therapy Centre in 1976 and is the author of many books including Fat is a Feminist Issue, Hunger Strike, On Eating, The Impossibility of Sex, Bodies, and In Therapy. Susie has a clinical practice seeing individuals and couples.
Author of ‘Deliacy’, Katy Wix, interviews Dr Susie Orbach on her seminal classic, ‘Fat Is A Feminist Issue’.
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N6NnsLjpCg
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Susie Orbach on BBC Radio 4
A Point of View, BBC Radio 4 at 8.50pm on Friday, February 19th
and 8.45am on Sunday, February 21st 2021
and on BBC Sounds
A Sense of an Opening
As a psychotherapist, Susie Orbach spends her working days helping people find words to express their emotional dilemmas.
But the seesaw of the pandemic presents particular challenges.
“We are not simply able,” she writes, “to breathe into a difficult situation, roll up our psychological sleeves or dig ourselves in without the emotional cost of feeling constrained, nervous, watchful, touchy.”
Producer: Adele Armstrong Show less Release date: 19 February 2021
9 minutes