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New Book by Professor Brett Kahr
THE LATEST BOOK BY PROFESSOR BRETT KAHR.
FORENSIC PSYCHOANALYSIS:
FROM SUB-CLINICAL PSYCHOPATHS TO SERIAL KILLERS.
(Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, 2025).
Part of the “Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series”, sponsored by the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy.
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.
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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
For more information, visit:
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…
Professor Brett Kahr
PROFESSOR BRETT KAHR’S LATEST BOOK
AND “IN CONVERSATION” EVENT WITH SUSANNA ABSE.
The Balint Consultancy is delighted to announce that Professor Brett Kahr has just published his eighteenth book, entitled Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis: From Freud’s Death Bed to Laing’s Missing Tooth, which appears as one of the inaugural titles in the “Freud Museum London Series”, published by Karnac Books.
On Friday, 17th November, 2023, at 4.00 p.m., Professor Kahr will have the opportunity to discuss this book “in conversation” with Susanna Abse, the former Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council and a current Trustee of Freud Museum London, at Sigmund Freud’s old home at 20, Maresfield Gardens, London NW3 5SX.
Here is the link to the event:
Freud’s 4 pm Session: Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis
https://web.archive.org/web/20230928064350if_/https://www.freud.org.uk/event/freuds-4-pm-session-hidden-histories-of-british-psychoanalysis/embed/#?secret=pEXgz0WSxx#?secret=x8Pkhl9fpb
And here is the link to the publisher’s website:
And here are the endorsements for the book, written by several esteemed members of the psychoanalytical community:
BOOK ENDORSEMENTS FOR PROFESSOR KAHR’S NEW TITLE.
“Based upon painstaking archival research and personal interviews with the London glitterati of psychoanalysis (e.g., John Bowlby, Enid Balint, Pearl King, R.D. Laing), Brett Kahr, the most eloquent, enlightened, and entertaining historian of psychoanalysis, offers us yet another masterpiece. Replete with luminous and dark glimpses into the development of psychoanalysis in the United Kingdom and into the virtuosity and whims, even madnesses, of his dramatis personae, Kahr’s book is as informative as it is a pleasure to read!”
Professor Salman Akhtar, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College, and Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, whose many books include Tales of Transformation: A Life in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and, more recently, the multi-volume Selected Papers of Salman Akhtar.
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“This is a very sneaky book. Ostensibly it is a series of tales from the history of Anglophone psychoanalysis in the twentieth century. But, in reality, it is a readable, often funny, account by the best historian of psychoanalysis of his generation, Brett Kahr. As much autobiography as historical account, it shows what happens when a brilliant mind meets an intractable object. The essay on the young student Brett Kahr and R. D. Laing’s missing tooth is itself worth the price of the volume, and has the possibility of becoming the classic essay on the pitfalls of celebrity.”
Professor Sander L. Gilman, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Emory University, and author of numerous books, including Seeing the Insane: A Cultural History of Madness and Art in the Western World and The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siècle.
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“Using storytelling, clinical and research tools, Brett Kahr’s sorcery brings to life several well-known personalities in the British psychoanalytic panoply – its “superstars” as well as its “bad boys”. While profoundly respectful, Kahr’s thoughtful critique of rigorously sourced archival papers, oral history research, and personal interviews rewards the readers with much wisdom and inspiration from foundational figures of psychoanalysis.”
Professor Joan Raphael-Leff, Ph.D., Retired Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London and at the University of Essex, and Leader of the Academic Faculty of Psychoanalytic Research at the Anna Freud Centre, whose many books include Between Sessions and Beyond the Couch, and, more recently, The Marion Milner Tradition: Lines of Development: The Evolution of Theory and Practice Over the Decades.
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“Brett Kahr has earned a reputation as the eminent narrator and in-depth analyst of the vagaries and the most protracted motifs that animate the legacy of psychoanalysis. In an engaging and well-documented fashion, Kahr takes us back to the contingent elements that, together, gave psychoanalysis in the United Kingdom its inescapable force and necessary radiance. Kahr’s Hidden Histories is a labour of love that in its caring attentiveness humanises the great figures on whose shoulders it stands. Highly readable and greatly enticing, this latest addition to the Freud Museum’s and Karnac’s new promising series, will speak to professionals, historians, and the wider public alike.”
Professor Orna Ophir, Ph.D., Associate Director of The DeWitt Wallace Institute for Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College, New York, and a Member of the History of Psychoanalysis Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and author of Schizophrenia: An Unfinished History.
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Rubenesque is not a dirty word
Susie Orbach
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The Daily Telegraph September 23rd 2023