#903 UK Prof Brett Kahr Celebrated Psychoanalysis Historian Returns

#903 UK Prof Brett Kahr Celebrated Psychoanalysis Historian Returns

Author: David Van Nuys, Ph.D. May 22, 2024 Duration: 0:00


Professor Brett Kahr has worked in the mental health profession for well over forty years.
He is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and, also, Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health at Regent’s University London.
Kahr is the Chair of the Scholars Committee of the British Psychoanalytic Council, and he now works in full-time independent practice with individuals, couples, and families in Central London.
A trained historian as well as a clinician, he is Honorary Fellow and, also, Honorary Director of Research at the Freud Museum London.
He has authored nineteen books and has served as series editor of over eighty-five additional books.  His best-selling titles include Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head?:  The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies – described in The Observer newspaper as “The new Kinsey” – based on his research project about the erotic fantasies of over 30,000 British and American adults.  He has also produced many clinical books, such as Bombs in the Consulting Room:  Surviving Psychological Shrapnel, and, also, the very popular How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist.

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