Professor Brett Kahr
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. Additionally, he serves as the Honorary Director of Research and as Honorary Fellow at the Freud Museum London. A Founding Clinician Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council, Kahr is the Chair of the organisation’s Scholars Committee and Scholars Network.
A trained historian as well as a clinician, Professor Kahr has published twenty-two books and has served as series editor for more than eighty-five additional titles on such fields as clinical psychopathology, forensic psychotherapy, couple psychoanalysis, sexology, media psychology, and the history of psychoanalysis.
His solo-authored books include the first biography of the psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott, which won the Gradiva Prize for Biography, as well as Sex and the Psyche, published by Penguin Books, which became a Waterstone’s Non-Fiction Bestseller, serialised in The Times. He is Series Editor of the “Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series” and Series Co-Editor of “The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis” and serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. Additionally, he works as the Consulting Editor of The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy, and as the Historical Consultant Editor of the journal Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis.
Professor Kahr has received an Honorary Fellowship from the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy in recognition of his clinical and professional achievements. In 2024, the British Psychoanalytic Council awarded Professor Kahr its ‘Outstanding Professional Leadership Award’ in appreciation of his many contributions to the psychological community. He works with both individuals and couples from his private practice in Central London, where he maintains a special interest in effecting long-term characterological change.