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PROFESSOR BRETT KAHR’S BOOK ON SEXUAL FANTASIES.

The distinguished American bibliophilic website, Shepherd.com, has kindly chosen Professor Brett Kahr’s book on sexual fantasies, Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head?:  The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies (New York:  Basic Books) – published in the United Kingdom as Sex and the Psyche (London:  Allen Lane / Penguin Books) – as one of its core titles.

In response, Professor Kahr has supplied brief reviews of his five favourite books on the “secret underbelly of sexual psychology”.

Please click on the following link:

https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-secret-underbelly-of-sexual-psychology

The best books on the secret underbelly of sexual psychology

By Brett Kahr

Why am I passionate about this?

I have worked in the mental health profession for over forty years. Currently, I serve as Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London, and as Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health at Regent’s University London, as well as Honorary Director of Research at the Freud Museum London. I also hold posts as Chair of the Scholars Committee of the British Psychoanalytic Council and as Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, and I have authored eighteen books and have served as series editor for some eighty-five further titles.  Read more…

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The Writer’s Dilemma

A New Podcast with Susie Orbach

https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/search-books?keyword=%22the+writer%27s+dilemma+podcast%22&page=1

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Susie Orbach

Thursday, 7 March

Beyond the Couch: Psychoanalyst Perspectives with Susie Orbach

The Brent Centre presents an enlightening evening with Susie Orbach, where we’ll delve into fascinating psychoanalyst perspectives.

Location

Freud Museum London 20 Maresfield Gardens London NW3 5SX

Full details and tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the-couch-psychoanalyst-perspectives-with-susie-orbach-tickets-807658888477?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendees

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One to One

Crying: Keith Brymer-Jones talks to Susie Orbach

BBC Radio 4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001mbw6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Susanna Abse

Tell Me The Truth About Love

How to make your relationship last — six tips from a couples therapist.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/6971fa98-d6c2-11ec-8585-951ab3afb4d2?shareToken=ea33f5e6e2ba35c03940beac4c1997c8

For more, download The Times and The Sunday Times app here.

https://welldoing.org/article/what-is-intimacy-anyway
https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/books/susanna-abse-tell-me-the-truth-about-love-1352015.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017cnw
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/may/14/secret-to-saving-your-relationship-eight-lessons-from-a-couples-therapist?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WnxbVcRcddPfYRNlpB9qTp/debunking-relationship-advice-eight-myths-from-reality-tv

https://web.archive.org/web/20230602004644if_/https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/19/how-to-know-when-its-time-to-end-your-relationship-16670228/embed/#?secret=ogw5c3oelS#?secret=M9eNwMihTE

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Professor Brett Kahr at the Chalke Valley History Festival

In June, 2022, Professor Brett Kahr spoke at the Chalke Valley History Festival in Broadchalke, near Salisbury, in Wiltshire, about “Are We All Mad?:  The History of the Human Mind, its Brilliance, and its Frailties”.  He had the privilege to participate in an “in conversation” with the distinguished novelist, Sebastian Faulks, author of a gripping novel on nineteenth-century psychiatry called Human Traces.

After the conversation about the past, present, and future of “madness” with Mr. Faulks, Kahr enjoyed meeting many of the guests at a Waterstone’s book-signing.

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Chrissie Pollard Interviews Professor Brett Kahr

The esteemed B.B.C. broadcaster has recently interviewed Brett Kahr about his book on Freud’s Pandemics:  Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis, as well as such topics as the nature of self-destructive behaviour and other-destructive behaviour during the coronavirus pandemic.

Here are the links to the podcast, available both on Chrissie Pollard’s website and, also, on YouTube.

TV Portfolio

https://web.archive.org/web/20230602004644if_/https://chrissiepollard.com/portfolio/tv-portfolio/embed/#?secret=82AmUxa0ED#?secret=o7t1bV4a7r

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtLzDib5zolefUx0UrBZP9Q
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Group Analysis India

Talking Women & Bodies — Susie Orbach in conversation with Sarah Benamer (& Yasmin Paul)

Playlist of current and previous talks. See video number 10.

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Liminal Spaces: Between No Longer and Not Yet

With Susie Orbach

Mofe info here

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We are all vulnerable: that’s where a new conversation about masculinity begins

Susie Orbach

Guardian 10th February 2023

The likes of Andrew Tate want to return to an imagined idyll in gender relations. It would be a disaster for everyone.

‘Andrew Tate speaks of how to be a different kind of man.’ 
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Can we think a bit more deeply about masculinity? Toxic masculinity has a certain usefulness and punch as a phrase. It expresses what some men put out into the world but it doesn’t address the whys deeply enough.

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