Expanding Psychoanalysis

Professor Brett Kahr has worked in the mental health field for 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. A trained historian, Kahr is both an Honorary Fellow as well as the Honorary Director of Research at the Freud Museum London. He is the author of nineteen books and series editor of over eighty-five further titles. He serves as Chair of the Scholars Committee of the British Psychoanalytic Council and, additionally, as a Consultant Psychotherapist at The Balint Consultancy. He works with individuals and couples in Central London.

CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES

A NOTE ON CONFIDENTIALITY

INTRODUCTION.

Brett Kahr

Susie Orbach and the Modernization of Mental Health.

PART ONE.

ORBACH IN CONTEXT.

CHAPTER ONE.

Luise Eichenbaum.

A Tribute to Susie Orbach.

CHAPTER TWO.

Brett Kahr.

Radio Karnac: An Unpublished Broadcast with Dr. Susie Orbach.

PART TWO.

ORBACH IN THE CONSULTING ROOM.

CHAPTER THREE.

Jane Haberlin.

Shame and Shamelessness.

CHAPTER FOUR.

Sarah Benamer.

Embodied Intimacies.

PART THREE.

ORBACH IN POLITICS AND SOCIETY.

CHAPTER FIVE.

Andrew Samuels.

Therapists as Consultants: Experts, Relationals, Visionaries, Antidotes, Fools ... and Leaders.

CHAPTER SIX.

Roanna Mitchell.

Bodies as Profit Centres: Orbach’s Work in the Context of Performance.

PART FOUR.

ORBACH IN THE MEDIA.

CHAPTER SEVEN.

Brett Kahr.

“Psychotherapy is not a spectator sport”: The Dissemination of Psychoanalysis from Freud to Orbach.

PART FIVE.

ORBACH FROM A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE.

CHAPTER EIGHT.

Kate White.

A Reflection on Susie Orbach’s Work: Risking the Radical Edge of Relationship-Seeking in Theory and Practice.

CHAPTER NINE.

Valerie Sinason.

A Celebration of Susie Orbach.

EPILOGUE.

Susie Orbach.

In Dialogue with ...

SUSIE ORBACH’S PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY.

Brett Kahr.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INDEX