Caroline Bainbridge is Professor of Culture and Psychoanalysis at Roehampton University. Her books include The Cinema of Lars von Trier (2007) and A Feminine Cinematics (2008), co-edited volumes such as Television and Psychoanalysis (2013) and Media and the Inner World (2014), and curated special editions of journals such as Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and Free Associations. She is a Fellow of the College of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, where she is also editor of the film section. Caroline’s editorial commitments also include series editorship for the ‘Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture’ list published by Routledge. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a registered coach with the A-N International Coaching Network. Her research interests focus on psychoanalytic approaches to cinema, television, gender, and popular culture

I have worked as an academic in the university sector for 30 years. My most recent post was at Southampton University as a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health. Before this, I worked at UEL on our psychoanalytically informed psychosocial studies BA and at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust as a course leader on the MA in Psychoanalytic Studies. I am a BPC accredited psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist, BPC accredited DIT practitioner and BACP psychodynamic counsellor. I am a visiting clinician and clinical supervisor at Tavistock Relationships and I am on the editorial board of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. My publications are in the broad area of mental health, romantic love and psychosocial studies.

Max Cavitch, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, an affiliated faculty member of the programs in Comparative Literature and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, and a founding faculty member—and, since 2020, Co-director—of Penn’s Psychoanalytic Studies program (https://web.sas.upenn.edu/psys/), in which he also regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on psychoanalytic history, theory, and practice. Professor Cavitch is the founding editor of the blog, Psyche on Campus (https://web.sas.upenn.edu/psycheoncampus/), which has been cited for the past four years in a row (2021-2024) as one of the “Best Psychoanalysis Blogs and Websites” by FeedSpot (https://psychology.feedspot.com/psychoanalysis_blogs/) and received the 2022 Award for Excellence in Journalism (https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/news/2022/11/21/psyche-campus-wins-apsaa-journalism-award) from the American Psychoanalytic Association. Professor Cavitch’s psychoanalytic publications include articles in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and History of the Present, and a new book, Psychoanalysis and the University: Resistance and Renewal from Freud to the Present, which is forthcoming from Routledge. In 2017, he was an Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center, and in 2025 he will be the Fulbright/Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis at the University of Vienna.

I research digital visual cultures and the impact of social media on conceptions of the self and wider society. I have authored works on themes ranging from play in children’s animation to citizen witnessing and the shifting aesthetics of visual media expertise. I also research new conceptions of community in digital culture and the impacts of ‘the networked society’ on citizen town planning processes. Further information about my current projects and a list of my publications can be found on my institutional homepage.

Dr Zack Eleftheriadou MSc MA Dip IMH, Dip NCFED, is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, Chartered Scientist and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (HCPC reg). She has trained as an adult (both Integrative & Psychoanalytic), child as well as a parent-infant psychotherapist (UKCP reg.) Since 1990, she has provided training and has published extensively in the following areas: developmental issues, cross-cultural work, refugees and trauma, including the text ‘Psychotherapy and Culture’ (Karnac) and the replacement child forum. Currently, she is guest tutor and clinical supervisor at ‘The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education’ and The Bowlby Centre. Alongside her teaching work, she runs a consultancy, providing psychotherapy and supervision. She is a visiting external examiner for Doctoral level university counselling psychology & psychotherapy students.

Dr Nini Kerr is a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. She is a Psychoanalytic practitioner living in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Her teaching approach embraces anti-oppressive pedagogical praxis and advocates for a politically sensitive curriculum that addresses social and political inequality training and in therapeutic settings. She was awarded the university-wide research award in the category of ‘Positive Disruptor’ for her sustained achievements in addressing social inequality through research in 2022. She has also been recently awarded the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS) in 2023 for her project on ‘Decolonising Counselling and Psychotherapy: Reflections from Psychosocial Perspectives’ which was also the first project to engage with the decolonial initiatives in counselling training at Edinburgh.

She is extensively published in psychosocial studies and her most recent works include ‘Culture as the Bad Object’ as well as a chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies entitled ‘Psychosocial Reflexivity in Counseling Education’ – both of which unravel “the many paradoxes and unrelenting complexities within our subjectivity”.

She is currently leading a BA/Leverhulme funded research project in collaboration with Dr Lucy Stroud and Station House Media Unit (shmu) addressing youth poverty in Scotland.

John Fletcher is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of ‘Warwick. He has published on a range of psychoanalytic topics, mainly associated with the work of Freud, Julia Kristeva and Jean Laplanche, five volumes of whose work he has edited and co-translated into English: Jean Laplanche: Seduction, Translation and the Drives (1992), Essays on Otherness (1999), New Formations no. 48 Jean Laplanche and the Theory of Seduction (2003), Freud and the Sexual: Essays 2000-2006 (2011) as well as Seductions and Enigmas: Laplanche, Theory, Culture (2014), coedited with Nicholas Ray. He has recently published a monograph on Freud and the Scene of Trauma (2013). His presentation of Laplanche’s metapsychology has appeared in “Seduction and the Vicissitudes of Translation: the Work of Jean Laplanche’, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, LXXVI, no 4, 2007; also “Jean Laplanche: the unconscious, the id and the other”, vol.33, no 1, 2017.

He has also published numerous articles on literary and film topics from a psychoanalytic perspective: Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus, the fiction of E.T.A. Hoffman, the ghost stories of Henry James, E.M. Forster’s Maurice, Wilhelm ]ensen’s Gradiva; the poetry of William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Gerard Manley Hopkins; and the films of Alfred Hitchcock, John Brahms and George Cukor.

He is currently Honorary Senior Research Associate, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London.

I have a practice, teaching and management background in Social Work and Social Policy and more than twenty years of research into the arts in health, welfare criminal justice and community settings. I am currently running projects on the arts in civic and place based renewal. An additional recent focus is on AgeTech and speculative design. I am founding member and Chair of the Association for Psychosocial Studies and Co-Commissioning Editor for a Policy Press Series: Advances in Biographical Methods.

Dr. Fuery’s research explores why we mediate the world around us in the ways that we do, examining how our inner worlds influence the social and cultural contexts which influence our choices. She is the author of five books, including Visual Cultures and Critical Theory (co-authored, 2003), New Media: Culture and Image (2009), The Gift and Visual Culture: Doubles, Disruption and Exchange (2008), Wilfred Bion, Thinking and Emotional Experience with Moving Images (2018), and Ambiguous Cinema: From Simone de Beauvoir to Feminist Film-Phenomenology (2022). Her current project is an edited collection titled Film Phenomenologies: Temporality, Embodiment, Transformation, (forthcoming, EUP 2024). She is a founding scholar for the British Psychoanalytic Council, an Editorial Board Member for Film-Philosophy journal and Special Issues Editor for Film Matters.

Dr Wayne Full is Director of Diversity, Development and Research at the British Psychotherapy Foundation (bpf). Wayne has a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies (2021) and a MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies (2013), both qualifications from the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London (UCL). He is a British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) Scholar and a member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). He is a Editorial Board member for the Counselling and Psychotherapy Research (CPR) journal and a peer reviewer for the British Journal of Psychotherapy (BJP). He has had research and papers published in peer-reviewed journals and has taught psychoanalytic theory at postgraduate level at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and at UCL. From 2013 – 2021, he was a member of the BPC Task Group on Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity. Wayne is a passionate advocate for a UK psychotherapy profession that is inclusive, diverse, collaborative, pluralistic, interdisciplinary, and evidence-informed. He plans to train as a Jungian analyst at some point in the future.

Recent publications:

– Full, W. (2024). (Upcoming). Analytic/Jungian psychotherapy and same-sex/queer desire: research findings and implications for theory, practice, and training. British Journal for Psychotherapy.

– Full, W., Vossler, A., Moller, N., Pybis, J., & Roddy, J. (2023). Therapists’ and counsellors’ perceptions and experiences of offering online therapy during COVID-19: a qualitative survey. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 00, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12707

– Full, W. (2023). Review of Outcome Measures and Evaluation in Counselling and Psychotherapy by Chris Evans and Jo-Anne Carlyle. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 39(4): 842-845.

– Longhurst, P & Full, W. (2023). Disabled people’s perceptions and experiences of accessing and receiving counselling and psychotherapy: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open 2023;13:e069204. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069204

Dr Noreen Giffney is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a psychosocial theorist. She is the author of the book, ‘The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic’ (Routledge 2021), and the author and/or editor of a number of articles and books on psychoanalysis, psychosocial studies, arts and mental health, and gender and sexuality studies. She is particularly interested in the emotional and unconscious use we make of cultural objects and experiences (film, art, literature, music); the writings of Wilfred Bion; and the clinical impact of psychosocial factors on the transference-countertransference dynamic. Noreen is the Director of ‘Psychoanalysis +’, an international, interdisciplinary initiative that brings together clinical, academic, and artistic approaches to, and applications of, psychoanalysis. She lectures and undertakes research on psychoanalysis, psychosocial studies, and reflective practice at Ulster University, Belfast in Northern Ireland. She is a member of the editorial team for the BPC’s ‘New Associations’ magazine.

Amin is an interdisciplinary researcher from Iran working on cultural history of music employing ethnography, archival research and psychoanalysis. He focuses on the links between creativity and subjectivity, the regimes of truth, and the transformations of the paradigms. He is currently a research fellow at the music department of the University of Aberdeen, holding a Leverhulme fellowship, examining the making of the subjectivity of musicians with Iranian backgrounds through their creative practices in the UK. It runs between 2022 and 2025.

I’m a psychoanalytic psychotherapist (MBACP) with almost 12 years of experience. I hold a BSc in Clinical Psychology and a MA in Family Therapy from Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. I completed the three-year comprehensive training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in HamAva institute in Tehran.

In September 2021, I moved to Belfast to work on my PhD project at Ulster university. My research focuses on the psychodynamics and psychosocial aspects of cinema and television spectatorship in the context of Iran and Northern Ireland.

I work in education and training, in schools, higher education, and public service professional contexts. I have written about ‘psychodynamic incidents’ in teaching and learning, and am in the process of undertaking a clinical training. I have a modest theatre practice (which is also part of my education work).

I am a psychiatrist and psychodynamic therapist working in the NHS. My academic interests and publications include Jungian Theory/Analytical Psychology, Hallucinations and therapeutic communities. My current PhD is investigating the use of short-term psychodynamic therapy for hallucinations.

Coeditor, Free Associations since 2017. Book review editor, Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture from 2002 until 2023. Author or editor of eleven books, including ‘Freud’s Foes, Psychoanalysis, Science and Resistance,’ ‘International Politics and Inner Worlds: Masks of Reason Under Scrutiny,’ ‘Pacification and Its Discontents,’ and the coedited volume “Experiencing The State.” Award-winning documentary filmmaker. Also lectured at Rutgers University, Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Imperial College London and been a visiting academic at the London School of Economics many times.

Professor Brett Kahr has worked in the mental health field for more than 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 former Trustee of both the Freud Museum and the Freud Museum London and, also, of Freud Museum Publications, he has subsequently become Honorary Director of Research at the Freud Museum London with special responsibility for serving as Series Editor of the monograph collection, the “Freud Museum London Series”, devoted to the commissioning, editing, and publishing of texts about the history of mental health, released by Karnac Books.  The Freud Museum London has also appointed Professor Kahr as an Honorary Fellow.

Professor Kahr holds several additional honorary positions, including that of Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London.  Bournemouth University appointed him as both a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Media and Communication, in recognition of his contribution to media psychology, as well as an External Member of the Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and Social Justice.  He also serves as Consultant Psychotherapist for The Balint Consultancy and as Consultant in Psychology and Psychohistory to The Bowlby Centre in London.

Currently, he works full-time in independent clinical practice in Holborn, in Central London, with both individuals and with couples and with families.

He is a clinical registrant of both the British Psychoanalytic Council and, also, the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis, a constituent college of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.  In recognition of his services to the psychotherapy profession, the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy awarded him an Honorary Fellowship in 2021.

Professor Kahr is the author of twenty books, including the best-selling Sex and the Psyche, published by Penguin Books, and Life Lessons from Freud, commissioned by the philosopher Alain de Botton for the School of Life / Pan Macmillan series on “Life Lessons from Great Thinkers”.  His books and chapters have appeared in American, Australian, Brazilian, British, Canadian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish editions.  His book Tea with Winnicott, chosen as one of the “Books of the Year” in The Guardian newspaper in 2016, has appeared subsequently in Chinese, Farsi, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish editions, and its companion volume, Coffee with Freud, has appeared in Chinese, Farsi, Japanese, and Turkish translations.

His most recent books include Freud’s Pandemics:  Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis, released in 2021, as the inaugural title of the “Freud Museum London Series”, and How to Be Intimate with 15,000,000 Strangers:  Musings on Media Psychoanalysis, published in 2023, followed by Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis:  From Freud’s Death Bed to Laing’s Missing Tooth, released in 2024, also as part of the “Freud Museum London Series”.  Other newly-published books include Forensic Psychoanalysis:  From Sub-Clinical Psychopaths to Serial Killers.  And his impending books include the solo-authored text The Holes in Winnicott’s Trousers:  The Brilliance and Shadows of a Psychoanalyst and, also, Grandfather Freud:  The Memoirs of Anton Walter Freud, for which Kahr will be the editor.

Kahr has also served as series editor for more than eighty-five further book titles on such diverse topics as forensic psychotherapy, the history of psychoanalysis, and couple psychoanalysis, having founded the “Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series”, the “History of Psychoanalysis Series”, “The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis”, “Interviews with Icons”, and the “Freud Museum London Series”, as well as having facilitated the formation of the “Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture Series” of books, for which he remains the Consulting Editor.

A media psychologist of long standing, he worked for several years as Resident Psychotherapist on B.B.C. Radio 2, and, also, as Spokesperson for the B.B.C.’s mental health campaign “Life 2 Live”, during which time he would broadcast regularly about psychological topics to an average of more than 15,000,000 people weekly.

Background and Training.

Professor Kahr trained initially as a research psychologist, with a special interest in the cognitive processes of autistic and schizophrenic individuals, and then qualified, subsequently, as an adult psychoanalytical psychotherapist and as a couple psychoanalytical psychotherapist and, also, as a forensic psychotherapist and as a parent-infant psychotherapist.

A Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford, a University Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Yale University, and a Richard William Hopkins Memorial Scholar at Cornell University, Kahr undertook his further postgraduate clinical training at the Tavistock Clinic (subsequently the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust), the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology (subsequently Tavistock Relationships at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology), the Portman Clinic, the London Centre for Psychotherapy (subsequently the British Psychotherapy Foundation), the School of Infant Mental Health, as well as the Institute of Family Therapy and the Centre for Psychosocial Studies in the School of Psychology in the Faculty of Science at Birkbeck College in the University of London.  He also received a Diploma from the British Postgraduate Medical Federation and, also, from the Faculty of Clinical Sciences of University College London in the University of London.  Additionally, he completed his training in the creative arts therapies, awarded by the London College of Dance.

Professor Brett Kahr has trained further as a medical and psychiatric historian at the University of Oxford and at the University of London, specialising in medieval psychiatry, having received two postgraduate degrees in history.  He also holds a diploma in the history of art from the University of Cambridge.

Institutional Positions

Over the decades, Brett Kahr has held numerous senior organisational posts.  He served as the founding Chair of the British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counsellors – the Professional Association of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology – for three successive terms of office.  He is also the Past Chair of the Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists, an organisation which he directed for two successive terms.  He continued his association with the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, having worked as External Examiner for the postgraduate clinical and doctoral training programmes, validated by the Social Work Subject Area Board of the University of East London.  He ultimately became a Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, part of Tavistock Relationships.

Professor Kahr has maintained a long-standing interest in the psychotherapeutic treatment of men and women who struggle with disabilities (either physical or intellectual), and he worked for many years as Course Tutor in mental handicap in the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic in London, and, also, as a founding Director and Trustee of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability, an organisation which he co-founded along with Dr. Patricia Frankish, the former President of the British Psychological Society, Professor the Baroness Sheila Hollins, the former President of both the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Medical Association, and Dr. Valerie Sinason, the esteemed leader of disability studies.  Currently, he has become a Fellow of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability, in recognition of his role as one of the progenitors of the disability psychotherapy profession.

He also worked as Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy in the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College (now Regent’s University London) for approximately fifteen years, throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, during which time he taught psychoanalytical and psychodynamic theory and practice, as well as psychopathology, to more than 1,000 mental health trainees.  During his tenure, he contributed much to the development of both the master’s degree in psychotherapy and the doctoral degree in psychotherapy – the first such qualifications offered in the United Kingdom.  He returned to Regent’s University London as Visiting Lecturer in Psychoanalytic / Psychodynamic and Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling in the Regent’s School of Psychotherapy and Psychology, in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and then, in 2020, he became Visiting Professor in Psychoanalysis and Mental Health in this department.

Other positions have included those of Staff Psychotherapist at the Young Abusers Project in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic, co-sponsored by the Department of Health, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and the National Children’s Home Action for Children.  Additionally, he worked for many years as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Music Therapy at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as an Honorary Psychologist in the Division of the Psychiatry of Disability at St. George’s Hospital Medical School in the University of London, and as a Tutor in the Department of Primary Care and Population Studies at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School of the University of London.  He also served as a Visiting Scholar and Campus “Luminary” at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, attached to the Psychoanalytic Studies Program and, also, to the Office of the Provost.

Between 2009 and 2015, he served as Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Language, in the School of Arts, at Roehampton University (subsequently styled as the University of Roehampton), London.  He also held the Winnicott Clinic Senior Research Fellowship in Psychotherapy during a sabbatical from his regular teaching at Regent’s College, London, funded by the Winnicott Clinic of Psychotherapy.

In 2022, he became the Chair of the Clinical Advisory Group of the John Fisher Network, an organisation devoted to the dissemination of psychotherapeutic services among bishops in England and Wales, who maintain a huge responsibility caring for millions of parishioners who might thus require psychological support.

Publications

In addition to his work as a clinician and as an historian of psychoanalysis, he has produced over 1,000 publications on a range of psychological topics.  His many books include D.W. Winnicott:  A Biographical Portrait, the very first biography of the English paediatrician, child psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Dr. Donald Woods Winnicott, for which he received the Gradiva Award for Biography in 1997.  He also edited two further books on the work of Winnicott:  Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology:  Winnicottian Perspectives and, additionally, The Legacy of Winnicott:  Essays on Infant and Child Mental Health.

He has also written a volume on Exhibitionism for the Freud Museum series on “Ideas in Psychoanalysis”, and he has edited two further books on forensic mental health, namely, the aforementioned Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology:  Winnicottian Perspectives, as well as New Horizons in Forensic Psychotherapy:  Exploring the Work of Estela V. Welldon.  His most recent contributions to the study of criminal psychology, namely, a history of the treatment of psychiatrically ill offenders, entitled Dangerous Lunatics:  Trauma, Criminality, and Forensic Psychotherapy, appeared in 2020 as part of the launch of Confer Books, followed by a further text, Forensic Psychoanalysis:  From Sub-Clinical Psychopaths to Serial Killers, published in 2025.

Moreover, Kahr has authored a best-selling book, Sex and the Psyche, published by Allen Lane / Penguin Books in the United Kingdom (and now a Penguin Books paperback), based on Kahr’s eight-year research investigation – the British Sexual Fantasy Research Project – on the psychology of sexual fantasies and their traumatic origins.  This book has already been published in American, British, Canadian, Croatian, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish editions.  Sex and the Psyche featured as a Sunday Times Book Club choice, and as a Waterstone’s Non-Fiction Bestseller, and has been serialised in The Times of London and in The Observer Review of The Observer newspaper.  The on-line dictionary “Wiktionary” has used Kahr’s book as its source for many of its technical terms in the field of sexology.

Brett Kahr also published Life Lessons from Freud for Pan Macmillan, which appeared in the widely circulated School of Life book series on “Life Lessons from Great Thinkers”.  This book has already been released in American, Brazilian, British, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, and Turkish editions, and will soon be translated in French.

His text on Tea with Winnicott, an exercise of “imaginative non-fiction”, introduces students to the life and work of Donald Winnicott through a “posthumous interview”.  He also published Coffee with Freud.  These books appeared in the Karnac Books series on “Interviews with Icons”.  The Guardian newspaper chose Tea with Winnicott as one of its “Books of the Year” for Christmas, 2016.  Kahr’s volume, How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist, has become the best-selling title for Phoenix Publishing House.  And an updated, revised new edition of that title will appear in 2025 from Karnac Books.  His most recent books include Bombs in the Consulting Room:  Surviving Psychological Shrapnel; Celebrity Mad:  Why Otherwise Intelligent People Worship Fame; and On Practising Therapy at 1.45 A.M.:  Adventures of a Clinician.

He subsequently released a book on Freud’s Pandemics:  Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis, which served as the inaugural title in the new “Freud Museum London Series” of books on the history of psychoanalysis, which Kahr implemented.  This series represents a joint initiative between the publisher Karnac Books and the Freud Museum London.

More recently, he has published two new books, first of all, How to Be Intimate with 15,000,000 Strangers:  Musings on Media Psychoanalysis, released by Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, which examines Kahr’s contributions to the dissemination of psychological ideas through the media, exploring his work at the British Broadcasting Corporation, and second of all, Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis:  From Freud’s Death Bed to Laing’s Missing Tooth, produced by Karnac Books as part of the “Freud Museum London Series”, which investigates Kahr’s many decades of oral history and archival research on the origins of the profession.

His very next books include The Holes in Winnicott’s Trousers:  The Brilliance and Shadows of a Psychoanalyst, due for publication from Karnac Books in mid-2025.  He has also written Winnicott’s Anni Horribiles:  The Creation of ‘Hate in the Counter-Transference’, an exploration of one of Winnicott’s most famous classic publications, and examines the psychobiographical background to its composition in great historical detail.  This book will be produced by Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, followed soon thereafter by his intellectual biography of Sigmund Freud for the series “Routledge Historical Biographies”.

In addition to his work as an author, Professor Kahr serves as Series Editor or Consultant to four book series for Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group.  He is Series Editor of the “Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series” and has both commissioned and written the foreword to some twenty-two volumes on such diverse topics in criminal psychology as murder, paedophilia, and genital exhibitionism.  This book series became incorporated as the official monograph of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy in 2022 in recognition of the many iconic titles contained therein.  Also, he served for twenty years as Series Co-Editor of “The History of Psychoanalysis Series”, during which time he commissioned over thirty new books, some twenty-eight of which have appeared in print, with many others in press or in preparation.  Moreover, he is Series Co-Editor of “The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis”, for which he has commissioned eighteen titles which have appeared in print thus far, with several more in production.  Furthermore, he serves as Series Editor of the book series “Interviews with Icons”, which includes his two best-selling books Tea with Winnicott and Coffee with Freud, as well as his forthcoming title Cigars with Freud.  And he is also Consulting Editor to the monograph series on “Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture”, in which twelve titles have been published to date.

More recently, he has become the Series Editor of the new book series on the history of psychoanalysis sponsored jointly by the Freud Museum London and by Karnac Books.

Over the years, Professor Kahr has written numerous chapters in books edited by colleagues and has also contributed to many different psychological journals in various capacities, whether as a peer reviewer, as a member of the editorial board, or in other roles.  Most recently, he has become the Consultant Historian to the “History Section” of the journal Attachment:  New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, as well as a Consultant to the Editorial Board of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis.  Moreover, he has become Consulting Editor to The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy, the official journal of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy.

Kahr’s many essays and reviews have appeared in such diverse psychological publications as American Imago:  Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences, the American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Athene:  Magazine, Attachment:  New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy:  An International Journal for Theory, Research and Practice, Boundaries, Boundaries:  European Society for Communicative Psychotherapy Newsletter, The British Journal for the History of Science, the British Journal of Psychotherapy, the Bulletin of the Association of Child Psychotherapists, the Bulletin of the British Association of Psychotherapists, the Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, Clio’s Psyche, Community Care, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, Dialogue:  Familles et couples, Dialogue:  Recherches sur le couple et la famille, Dialogue:  The Bowlby Centre Newsletter, Division / Review:  A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum, Frame:  The Newsletter for the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy, Free Associations, Friends News:  Freud Museum London, the I.A.F.P. Newsletter, In Brief, the International Journal of Communicative Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the International Journal of Social Science Research and Review, the IPD Newsletter, Inside Out:  The Irish Journal for Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy, the Jahrbuch für psychohistorische Forschung, the Journal of Child Psychotherapy, The Journal of Psychohistory, the Journal of Psychological Therapies, the Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology Reflections, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Journal of the Balint Society, the Journal of the British Association of Psychotherapists, the Journal of the Society of Existential Analysis, New Associations, New Psychotherapist, the Newsletter:  School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent’s College, The Newsletter:  Tavistock Relationships Association of Psychotherapists and Counsellors, the Newsletter of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the National Health Service, the Newsletter of the Cultural Centre for Freudian Studies and Research, NewSquiggle, the Philadelphia Association Newsletter, Psychoanalysis and History, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Couple Work, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The Psychoanalytic Review, Psychoanalytic Studies, Psychohistory News, The Psychotherapist, The Psychotherapy Review, Reflections, the Scholars Newsletter, The Scholar’s Study:  The BPC Scholars Newsletter, Scholars’ Study, the Society of Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists Newsletter, the Tavistock and Portman Gazette, Therapy Today, the UAPS Newsletter, and the Universities Psychotherapy Association Review, among others.

Mental Health Broadcasting and Media Psychology

A public communicator, as well as a clinician and scholar, Professor Brett Kahr has worked for many years as a mental health broadcaster.

Since 1984, he has appeared on numerous radio programmes, discussing a vast number of mental health topics.  He has conducted interviews with, or has been interviewed by, such distinguished broadcasters as Dame Joan Bakewell, Melvyn Bragg [Lord Bragg], Jane Garvey, Gyles Brandreth, Dame Jenni Murray, Dame Esther Rantzen, and Jeremy Vine.

He held the specially created post of Resident Psychotherapist on B.B.C. Radio 2 from 2004 until 2007, speaking to more than 15,000,000 people weekly on mental health topics.  He also served as Spokesperson for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s mental health campaign “Life 2 Live”, bringing solid psychological information and research to the general public.  Commissioned directly by Lesley Douglas, then Controller of B.B.C. Radio 2, to help educate the British public about mental health issues, he broadcast two and three times weekly on all of the network’s flagship programmes.  The “Life 2 Live” campaign formed part of the B.B.C.’s strategy for the successful renewal of its Royal Charter.

Kahr also maintained an ongoing presence at the B.B.C. by providing regular webcasts and live interviews with members of the public, in which capacity he arranged mental health referrals for large numbers of people in search of counselling and psychotherapy.  Additionally, Kahr has appeared on such diverse programmes as After Hours, All in the Mind, Focus on Faith, Front Row, Good Evening Wales, Good Morning Wales, In Our Time, Janice Long, Jeremy Vine, Late Night Live, The Male Room, Newsbeat, Night Waves, Today Programme, The Usual Suspects, The Westminster Programme, Woman’s Hour, You and Yours, and numerous others.  B.B.C. Radio 4 selected him to participate in its special programmes on both Sigmund Freud and on Carl Gustav Jung.  He has also broadcast regularly on Australian and Canadian networks and for the B.B.C. World Service and, additionally, for the British Forces Radio worldwide.

To date, Kahr has appeared on over 1,000 radio programmes.

In terms of television work, Kahr has served as a presenter or as a commentator on several hundreds of programmes round the world.  In 1985-1986, while working as a University Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Yale University, he hosted the year-long programme Fifty Minutes, which ran for fifty-one weeks, discussing psychology and psychoanalysis.  This programme holds the distinction of being the first weekly television programme dedicated exclusively to psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.  After many more years of appearing as a cultural commentator, he presented the documentary Britain’s Sexual Fantasies for Five television, in which he reported the results of his large-scale research study, the British Sexual Fantasy Research Project, conducted in collaboration with the international polling agency YouGov.  This documentary examined Kahr’s survey of more than 22,000 adult sexual fantasies and his research on the role of trauma in the creation of the sexual mind.

Kahr has also co-presented the four-part, prime-time factual programme Making Slough Happy for B.B.C. 2, which helped to popularise the field of “positive psychology” in the United Kingdom.

For I.T.N., both Brett Kahr and the historian Dr. David Starkey served as commentators with Kirsty Young for the funeral of Princess Diana, and in this capacity, he discussed the importance of grief and mourning for mental health, broadcasting both from the I.T.N. studios and, also, from the gardens of Kensington Palace.  He also became the consultant to such high-profile medical and mental health dramas as Doctors, for the B.B.C., and Green-Eyed Monster, also for the B.B.C., which treated the subject of pathological jealousy and murder (and for which he established a B.B.C. help-line for distressed viewers), as well as for the Channel Four dramas May 33rd, about dissociative identity disorder, and Poppy Shakespeare, about life in a psychiatric hospital.  In each of these instances, Kahr served as Advisor to the scriptwriters and the director and, also, worked with the cast to ensure greater authenticity in their performances.  Anna Maxwell Martin, the lead in Poppy Shakespeare, received the award for Best Actor (Female) from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Kahr has also made numerous broadcasts on all of the major television news programmes:  B.B.C. Breakfast, B.B.C. News 24, G.M.T.V., I.T.N. News, Channel Four News, Channel Five News, and Sky News.  He has also contributed as a mental health commentator on such popular programmes as Esther, for the B.B.C., Trisha, for I.T.V., and The Vanessa Show, for the B.B.C.  Furthermore, Kahr has appeared on many scholarly historical documentaries, including The Queen’s Mother-in-Law, discussing Sigmund Freud’s consultation with Princess Alice of Battenberg, as well as Queen Victoria and the Crippled Kaiser and, also, Hitler’s Women, all for Channel Four Television. He has served, moreover, as a consultant to numerous television companies, including all the major British broadcasters (B.B.C. 1, B.B.C. 2, I.T.V., Channel Four Television, Five, and Sky) as well as such noted independent production companies as Bazal Productions, Betty T.V., Blakeway Associates, Blink Films, Diverse, Endemol Entertainment, Fox World, Granada Television, Ideal World Productions, Initial, Leopard Films, Love Productions, Maverick Television, Mentorn Television, October Films, Optomen Television, R.D.F. Media International, Tiger Aspect Productions, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Twenty Twenty Television, and many others.

He has written popular articles and reviews on mental health topics for newspapers such as The Daily Express, The Daily Telegraph, The Express on Sunday, The Guardian, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The New Review of The Observer, the Observer Magazine, The Observer Review of The Observer, The Sunday Express, The Times, The Times (Public Agenda section), and The Times Higher Education Supplement and, also, for such magazines as E.S. Magazine [Evening Standard], as well as for Community Care, Glamour, Marie Claire, The New Review of The Observer, The Observer Magazine, Psychologies, and the Radio Times.  His work has also been extracted at length in The Huffington Post.

Additionally, he has developed a long-standing speciality in consulting to theatre production companies, advising and commenting on psychological issues in drama.  Over the years, he has worked with, or at, such organisations as Glyndebourne Opera, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the South Bank Centre, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Royal Opera House, as well as fringe theatres and small theatre companies such as the Drill Hall theatre, Faction Theatre Company, the Jermyn Street Theatre, the King’s Head Theatre, the Rose Theatre, the Southwark Playhouse, and many others.

As a public speaker, he has lectured all over the world, and maintains a particular interest in bringing psychoanalytical and psychotherapeutic ideas not only to a wide range of mental health organisations but, also, to many different public cultural and business institutions; and, in this respect, he had the privilege of speaking at, or on behalf of, such organisations as B.A.F.T.A. (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts), the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Chalke Valley History Festival, Channel Four Television, the Criminal Bar Association, Daunt Books (Marylebone, London), the Drill Hall Theatre, Foyles Bookshop, the Freud Museum, the Freud Museum London, Glyndebourne Opera, the Groucho Club, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Hay Festival, the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Jermyn Street Theatre, the King’s Head Theatre, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Musicals Alliance at the Performing Right Society, the Oxford Business School at the University of Oxford, the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at the University of Oxford, the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the South Bank Centre, The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Right Coutts, the Rose Theatre, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Courts of Justice, the Royal Opera House, the School of Life, the Science Museum, the Sheffield Documentary Festival, Southwark Playhouse, Tate Modern, The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art and Natural History, Waterstone’s (Gower Street, London), Waterstone’s (Islington Green, Islington, London), Waterstone’s (Manchester), the Wellcome Collection, and many others besides.

For these public organisations, he has addressed a vast range of psychological themes, including the roots of happiness at work; the treatment of children in distress; the role of psychotherapy in the reduction of physical illness; the use of music in the cure of mental illness; the psychology of dissociative identity disorder; the role of sexual abuse in drug addiction and promiscuity; forensic psychology and psychotherapy; the dynamics of marital relationships; the childhood of Benjamin Britten and its impact upon his music; paedophilia; and many other topics besides.  He has also recorded webcasts, podcasts, or tour tapes for an exhibition on the history of medicine at the Science Museum, and for Tate Modern and, also, for the Wellcome Collection.

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Between 2009 and 2015, Brett Kahr served as founding Ambassador to the School of Life in London, and, also, as founding Director of its Psychotherapy Service, in which capacity he assembled a team of fifteen experienced psychotherapists – all of whom Kahr had personally supervised on their clinical work – who provided a “Life M.O.T.” to members of the public who otherwise had little awareness of how to access high-quality psychotherapy.  The School of Life, under the directorship of its founder, Alain de Botton, has since promoted this work as an example of “High Street Psychotherapy”, bringing mental health more prominently to the general public.

Kahr has also helped to establish other outward-facing organisations which educate members of the public about mental health issues.  In 2004, with Dr. Margot Sunderland, he co-founded the Centre for Child Mental Health, a training and educational institution which has provided hundreds of lectures and conferences on psychological topics to teachers and nurses and support workers in the childcare field. Years previously, in 1998, with colleague Jane Ryan, he helped to develop Confer, an organisation which has hosted thousands of public lectures for mental health professionals, and which became the principal supplier of Continuing Professional Development services to psychotherapists in the United Kingdom.  For more than twenty years, he served as the organisation’s Academic Adviser.

He has maintained a long-standing relationship with the Freud Museum, London, since its inception in 1986, having served originally as the Deputy Director of, and Consultant to, the International Campaign for the Freud Museum and as founder of its British Campaign Committee.  In 2011, he became Trustee of the Freud Museum and, in 2013, he began his tenure as Trustee of Freud Museum Publications.  He served three terms of office as Trustee of the Freud Museum London, until 2020, in which capacity he promoted public education in psychoanalysis and mental health, and also completed three terms of office as Trustee of Freud Museum Publications, until 2022.  Upon completion of his double-trusteeship, Kahr became an Honorary Fellow of the Freud Museum London as well as its Honorary Director of Research.  Moreover, he continues to serve as the founding Series Editor of the museum’s monograph collection, the “Freud Museum London Series”, published by Karnac Books.

Contributions to the British Psychoanalytic Council

Professor Kahr, a clinical registrant and, also, a Clinical Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council, has enjoyed the privilege of contributing to the work of this organisation in various capacities over the years.

Initially, he served as a Delegate on the organisation’s Council of Institutions and, subsequently, as a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council’s Future Strategy Working Group.  He also held the position of Chair of the organisation’s Media Advisory Group, prior to having become the Chair of the Academic Membership Committee and, subsequently, the Chair of the Scholars Committee and the Scholars Network.  Furthermore, he joined the Working Party of the British Psychoanalytic Council’s collaboration with the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, endeavouring to improve the impact of the British Psychoanalytic Council more broadly overseas.  Additionally, he held the post of Consultant to the organisation’s newsletter New Associations.

Selected List of Books by Professor Brett Kahr

Kahr, Brett (1996).  D.W. Winnicott:  A Biographical Portrait.  London:  Karnac Books / H. Karnac (Books).

Kahr, Brett (1996).  D.W. Winnicott:  A Biographical Portrait.  New York:  International Universities Press.

Kahr, Brett (1997).  D.W. Winnicott:  A Biographical Portrait.  [Second Impression with Revisions].  London:  H. Karnac (Books).

Kahr, Brett (1997).  A Vida e a Obra de D.W. Winnicott:  Um Retrato Biográfico.  Carolina Alfaro and Davy Bogomoletz (Transls.).  Rio de Janeiro:  Exodus Editora.

Kahr, Brett (1999).  Donald Woods Winnicott:  (Retrato y biografía).  Vivienne A. Sarobe Sopranis (Transl.).  Madrid:  Asociación Psicoanalítica de Madrid / Biblioteca Nueva, Editorial Biblioteca Nueva.

Kahr, Brett (Ed.). (2001).  Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology:  Winnicottian Perspectives.  London:  H. Karnac (Books), and New York:  Other Press.

Kahr, Brett (2001).  Exhibitionism.  Duxford, Cambridge:  Icon Books.

Kahr, Brett (2001).  Exhibitionism.  New York:  Totem Books.

Kahr, Brett (2001).  Exhibitionism.  Crows Nest, New South Wales, Australia:  Allen and Unwin Pty.

Kahr, Brett (Ed.). (2002).  The Legacy of Winnicott:  Essays on Infant and Child Mental Health.  London:  H. Karnac (Books), and New York:  Other Press.

Kahr, Brett (Ed.). (2002).  Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology:  Winnicottian Perspectives.  [Reprinted Edition].  London:  H. Karnac (Books), and New York:  Other Press.

Kahr, Brett (2002).  Témata psychoanalýzy II:  Libido, Eros, Perverze, Exhibicionismus.  Jiří Papoušek (Transl.).  Prague:  Portál / Edice Spektrum.

Kahr, Brett (Ed.). (2003).  The Legacy of Winnicott:  Essays on Infant and Child Mental Health.  [Reprinted Edition].  London:  H. Karnac (Books).

Kahr, Brett (2005).  D.W. Winnicott:  Un Ritratto biografico.  Bruno Marchi (Transl.).  Rome:  La Biblioteca / Edizioni Bari-Roma.

Kahr, Brett (2005).  Exibicionismo.  Carlos Mendes Rosa (Transl.).  São Paulo:  Viver Mente e Cérebro / T.T. Duetto / Segmento-Duetto.  Rio de Janeiro:  Relume Dumará Editora.

Kahr, Brett (2006).  Ekshibicionizam.  Predrag Raos (Transl.).  Zagreb:  Naklada Jesenski i Turk.  [Series on “Ideje u Psihoanalizi”].

Kahr, Brett (2007).  Sex and the Psyche.  London:  Allen Lane / Penguin Books, Penguin Group.

Kahr, Brett (2007).  Sex im Kopf:  Alles über unsere geheimsten Fantasien.  Sebastian Vogel (Transl.).  Berlin, Deutschland:  List Verlag / Buchverlage Ullstein.

Kahr, Brett (2007).  Seks:  Fantasieën, dromen en betekenis.  Bert Bakker (Transl.).  Amsterdam, Nederland:  Forum / De Boekerij bv.

Kahr, Brett (2007).  Indovina chi viene a letto?  Il mondo segreto delle fantasie sessuali.  Valentina Abaterusso and Pietro Formenton (Transls.).  Milano, Italia:  Ponte alle Grazie / Adriano Salani Editore.  [Collana Saggi].

Kahr, Brett (2008).  Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head?:  The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies.  New York:  Basic Books / Perseus Books Group.

Kahr, Brett (2008).  Sex and the Psyche:  The Truth About Our Most Secret Fantasies.  London:  Penguin Press.

Kahr, Brett (2008).  Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head?:  The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies.  Toronto, Ontario, Canada:  Viking Canada.

Kahr, Brett (2008).  Sex im Kopf:  Alles über unsere geheimsten Fantasien.  Sebastian Vogel (Transl.).  Berlin, Deutschland:  Ullstein Taschenbuch.

Kahr, Brett (2008).  Le Livre des fantasmes.  Pierre Demarty (Transl.).  Paris, France:  Bernard Grasset / Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle.

Kahr, Brett (2008).  Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head?:  The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies.  [Paperback Edition].  New York:  Basic Books / Perseus Books Group.

Kahr, Brett (2008).  Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head?:  The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies.  Seattle, Washington:  Kindle / Amazon.com.

Kahr, Brett (2009).  O sexo e a psique:  A revelação de nossas fantasias secretas na maior pesquisa realizada sobre o tema.  Lourdes Sette (Transl.).  Rio de Janeiro, Brasil:  Editora Best Seller.

Kar, Bret [Kahr, Brett] (2009).  Seks i psiha:  Istina o našim najskrivenijim fantazijama.  Ksenija Vlatković (Transl.).  Belgrade, Serbia:  Imago / Clio.

Kahr, Brett (2010).  Sexo y fantasías:  La investigación más completa y reveladora sobre nuestro mundo sexual interior.  Margarita Cavandóli (Transl.).  Madrid, España:  M.R. Ediciones [Ediciones Martínez Roca] / Ediciones Planeta Madrid.

Kahr, Brett (2010).  Indovina chi viene a letto?  Valentina Abaterusso and Pietro Formenton (Transls.).  Milano, Italia:  TEA [Tascabili degli Editori Associati] / Gruppo Editorial Mauri Spagnonl.

Kahr Brett (2010).  Exibicionismo.  Miguel Serras Pereira (Transl.).  Coimbra:  Almedina.

Kahr, Brett (2013).  Life Lessons from Freud.  London:  Macmillan / Pan Macmillan, Macmillan Publishers.

Kahr, Brett (2015).  Freud:  Great Thinkers on Modern Life.  New York:  Pegasus Books.

Kahr, Brett (2015).  Lições de vida Freud.  Clóvis Marques (Transl.).  Rio de Janeiro:  Zahar / Jorge Zahar Editor.

Kahr, Brett (2015).  Freud’dan Hayat Dersleri.  Şeyda Öztürk (Transl.).  Istanbul:  Sel Yayincilik.

Kahr, Brett (2015).  Lecţii de viaţă de la Freud.  Luana Schidu (Transl.).  Bucharest:  Trei / Editora Trei.

Kahr, Brett (2016).  Tea with Winnicott.  London:  Karnac Books.

MπPET K MπPET KAP [Kahr, Brett] (2016).  MAØHMATA ZΩH∑ A∏O TON ØPOŸNT [Life Lessons from Freud].  rIΩPrO∑ ^AMπPAKOI∑ (Transl.).  Athens:  EK∆∑∑I∑ πATAKH [Patakis Publishers].

Kahr, Brett (2017).  Coffee with Freud.  London:  Karnac Books.

Kahr, Brett (2017).  Tomando el Té con Winnicott.  José María Ruiz Vaca (Transl.).  London:  Karnac Books.

Kahr, Brett (2017).  [Darshaayeh Freud baraayé zendegi].  Second Printing.  Saleh Najafi (Transl.).  Tehran:  Hanooz Pub.

Kahr, Brett (Ed.). (2018).  New Horizons in Forensic Psychotherapy:  Exploring the Work of Estela V. Welldon.  London:  Karnac Books.

Kahr, Brett (2018).  D.W. Winnicott:  Une Esquisse biographique.  Mage Montagnol (Transl.).  Paris:  Ithaque / Éditions Ithaque.

Kahr, Brett (2018).  Freud’la Bir Fincan Kahve.  Şehnaz Layikel (Transl.).  Istanbul:  Sfenks Kitap.

 

Kahr, Brett (2018).  چاي با وينيکات.  [Chãy Bã Winnicott].  Mahyar Alinaghi (Transl.).  Tehran:  Binesh No.

Kahr, Brett (2019).  How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist.  Bicester, Oxfordshire:  Phoenix Publishing House.

Kahr, Brett (2019).  [Ghahve Bã Freud].  Mahyar Alinaghi (Transl.).  Tehran:  Binesh No.

Kahr, Brett (Ed.). (2019).  Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology:  Winnicottian Perspectives.  [Hardback Edition].  London:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, and Abingdon, Oxfordshire:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group.

Kahr, Brett (Ed.). (2019).  The Legacy of Winnicott:  Essays on Infant and Child Mental Health.  [Hardback Edition].  London:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, and Abingdon, Oxfordshire:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group

Kahr, Brett (2019).  Tea with Winnicott.  [Hardback Edition].  London:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, and Abingdon, Oxfordshire:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group.

Kahr, Brett (2019).  Coffee with Freud.  [Hardback Edition].  London:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, and Abingdon, Oxfordshire:  Routledge.

Kahr, Brett (Ed.). (2019).  New Horizons in Forensic Psychotherapy:  Exploring the Work of Estela V. Welldon.  [Hardback Edition].  London:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, and Abingdon, Oxfordshire:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group.

Kahr, Brett (2020).  Bombs in the Consulting Room:  Surviving Psychological Shrapnel.  London:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, and Abingdon, Oxfordshire:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group.

Kahr, Brett (2020).  Celebrity Mad:  Why Otherwise Intelligent People Worship Fame.  London:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, and Abingdon, Oxfordshire:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group.

Kahr, Brett (2020).  On Practising Therapy at 1.45 A.M.:  Adventures of a Clinician.  London:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, and Abingdon, Oxfordshire:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group.

Kahr, Brett (2020).  Dangerous Lunatics:  Trauma, Criminality, and Forensic Psychotherapy.  London:  Confer / Confer Books.

Kahr, Brett (2020).  Dangerous Lunatics:  Trauma, Criminality, and Forensic Psychotherapy.  [Reprinted Edition].  London:  Confer / Confer Books.

Kahr, Brett (2020).  Tomando el Té con Winnicott.  [Electronic Edition].  José María Ruiz Vaca (Transl.).  London:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, and Abingdon, Oxfordshire:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group.

Kahr, Brett (2020).  [Ghahve Bã Freud].  [Second Printing].  Mahyar Alinaghi (Transl.).  Tehran:  Binesh No.

Kahr, Brett (2021).  Freud’s Pandemics:  Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis.  London:  Karnac / Karnac Books, Confer.

Kahr, Brett (2021).  چاي با وينيکات.  [Chãy Bã Winnicott].  Mahyar Alinaghi (Transl.).  [Third Printing].  Tehran:  Binesh No.

Kahr, Brett (2021).  [Chegūne Darmāngari Shokūfā Shavim].  Mahyar Alinaghi (Transl.).  Tehran:  Binesh No.

Kahr, Brett (2021).  [Jonune Shohrat].  Mahyar Alinaghi (Transl.).  Tehran:  Binesh No.

Kahr, Brett (2022).  Winnicott’la Bir Fincan Çay:  Psikanaliz Sohbetleri – 2.  Şencer Cem Irmak (Transl).  Üsküdar, Istanbul:  Sfenks Kitap.

 

Kahr, Brett (2023).  How to Be Intimate with 15,000,000 Strangers:  Musings on Media Psychoanalysis.  [Hardback Edition].  London:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, and Abingdon, Oxfordshire:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group.

Kahr, Brett (2023).  How to Be Intimate with 15,000,000 Strangers:  Musings on Media Psychoanalysis.  [Paperback Edition].  London:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, and Abingdon, Oxfordshire:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group.

Kahr, Brett (2024).  Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis:  From Freud’s Death Bed to Laing’s Missing Tooth.  Bicester, Oxfordshire:  Karnac / Karnac Books.

Kahr, Brett (2025). (Ed.).  Expanding Psychoanalysis:  The Contributions of Susie Orbach.  London:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, and Abingdon, Oxfordshire:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group.

Kahr, Brett (2025).  Forensic Psychoanalysis:  From Sub-Clinical Psychopaths to Serial Killers.  London:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group, and Abingdon, Oxfordshire:  Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group.

Kahr, Brett (2025).  The Holes in Winnicott’s Trousers:  The Brilliance and Shadows of a Psychoanalyst.  Bicester, Oxfordshire:  Karnac / Karnac Books.  [In Press].

Kahr, Brett (Ed.). (2025).  Grandfather Freud:  The Memoirs of Anton Walter Freud.  Bicester, Oxfordshire:  Karnac / Karnac Books.  [In Press].

Kahr, Brett (Ed.). (2025).  Fragments of a Life:  The Memoirs of Estela Welldon.  Bicester, Oxfordshire:  Karnac / Karnac Books.  [In Preparation].

My research and scholarly work draws on psychoanalytic theory, sociology and Critical Theory, with an emphasis on feminist, queer and decolonial perspectives. I have a particular interest in the philosophy, theory, politics and aesthetics of social reproduction and care, and the contribution that psychoanalytic understandings of subjectivity can make to developing knowledge in this area. In my monograph, Donald Winnicott and the Politics of Care, published in the Palgrave Macmillan series, Studies in the Psychosocial, in 2022, I investigated what the work of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott can contribute to understanding, as well as addressing, the crisis of care at the heart of contemporary society. My more recent work and current projects explore the relationship between psychoanalytic thinking and social and symbolic change.

More broadly, my research foregrounds the relationship between psychoanalysis, culture and society. I explore psychoanalytic thinking as a critical discourse in the Humanities, and as both a product, and active agent, of social and cultural change. I am concerned with the relationship between psychoanalysis, as theory and practice, and social justice; the politics of mental health; and the politics of reproduction and care. Theoretically, my work draws on a range of psychoanalytic perspectives, including Freudian, Lacanian, object relational and Laplanchian approaches, as well as Critical Theory; feminist theory; gender studies; queer theory and cultural studies. Much of my research to date has explored the knots that bind psychoanalytic thinking to cultural practices and social processes.

Annette Kuhn is Emeritus Professor in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of the European Academy. Her previous academic posts were at the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University and in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. She holds degrees in Sociology at the Universities of Sheffield and London and has held Fellowships and Visiting Professorships at the Australian National University’s Humanities Research Centre, at Mount Holyoke College, USA (as Fulbright Senior ResearchScholar), and at Stockholm University. She was an editor of the journal Screen for many years, directed the ESRC-funded project ‘Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain’, and is currently working on an AHRC-funded project ‘Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive’: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/cmda/. She convened the Transitional Phenomena and Cultural Experience (T-PACE) study group, and writes on film history, on object-relations psychoanalysis and film theory, and on cultural memory in relation to photography and cinema. Publications on include An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory (2002); Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination (2002); Little Madnesses: Winnicott, Transitional Phenomena and Cultural Experience (2010; and Edploring Cinema Memory (2023). She is co-author ,with Queen Mary colleague Guy Westwell, of the Oxford Dictionary of Film Studies (2nd edition 2020).

I have published widely in the field of psychoanalysis and the humanities, with a particular focus on visual fields. I am currently completing a monograph, ‘Fanon’s Freud’, for Stanford UP

I am a trainee member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation and the British Psychoanalytic Council and interested in the space between cultural and clinical thinking.

Dr. Jeanne Magagna, Tavistock trained child, adult and family psychotherapist, has worked with children and their parents as a nursery teacher, secondary and university teacher as well as subsequently being  Head of Psychotherapy Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children for 24 years. She has also worked as a consultant to Family Futures Adoption and Fostering Consortium and previously  Coordinator of Training at Centro Studi Martha Harris in Florence and Venice, Italy, where she now  continues to teach.

Throughout her professional life her aim is to help parents and professionals observe the deeper aspects of infants’ personality in order that infants can be better understood and have more rights to good parenting.   Her books The Silent Child: Communication without Words and Being Present for Your Nursery Age Child discuss how important it is to collaborate with parents to support and understand their children and parents have been involved in these writing projects. With the collaboration with Roz Read  she has edited Contemporary Child Psychotherapy.  Other collaboratively edited books include: Psychotherapy with Families, Intimate Transformations,  Creativity and Psychotic States and A Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Children and Young People.  Jeanne currently works on most continents teaching infant observation, discussing collaborative work with parents, and engaging in clinical discussions.

Phd in Child Psychotherapy from the Tavistock Clinic and University of East London
Former Head of Psychotherapy Services, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK

I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, BPF member and BPC Registrant.

Psychoanalysis, literature, and culture are my main interests. I have written a book on the poet Veronica Forrest-Thomson; a range of other articles, literary and psychoanalytic; and co-edited Contemporary Women’s Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practice with Deryn Rees-Jones.

I am an editor of the journal Women: a Cultural Review, and would be pleased to hear of papers and articles that may be suitable for the journal.

I’m a scholar of political theory with an interest in the history of ideas, forms of public speech, and aesthetic approaches to politics. I have drawn upon psychoanalytic theory to explore types of political argument and the affective dispositions these incite.

Ana Martinez Acobi is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Training Therapist in private practice since 2001. She has trained both in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychodynamic Counselling at the Westminster Pastoral Foundation (WPF). She also holds an Honours Degree in Psychology (BSc) from Goldsmiths’ University, London.

She is accredited by the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and the Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling (FPC), and is a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS).

Ana is interested in studying the unity between Psychoanalysis and Metaphysics. In October 2022 she published a book with Routledge titled: ‘The Emergent Container in Psychoanalysis: Experiencing Absence and Future’.

Dany Nobus is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology at Brunel University London, former Chair and Fellow of the Freud Museum London and Associate Editor of the journal ‘Psychoanalysis and History’. He has also been Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and Professor of Psychiatry at Creighton University in Omaha NE. He is the author of numerous books and papers on the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis, most recently Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Studies in Lacanian Theory and Practice (Routledge 2022). In 2017 he was the recipient of the Sarton Medal of the University of Ghent for his outstanding contributions to psychoanalytic historiography.

Michael O’Loughlin, is professor in the College of Education and Health Sciences and in Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University. He is co-editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. He published The Subject of Childhood in 2009 and edited Imagining Children Otherwise: Theoretical and Critical Perspectives on Childhood Subjectivity with Richard Johnson in 2010. He is co-editor with Cora Smith and Glenys Lobban of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Contemporary South Africa: Contexts, Theories, and Applications (2013), and in 2013 he also edited two books on children’s emotions: The uses of psychoanalysis in working with children’s emotional lives and Psychodynamic perspectives on working with children, families and schools. He edited The ethics of remembering and the consequences of forgetting: Essays on trauma, history and memory, in 2015, as well as a companion volume, co-edited with Marilyn Charles, Fragments of trauma and the social production of suffering. In 2018 he edited and wrote the introduction to Lillian Muofhe and Ndanganeni Phaswana’s book, And we forgave them: Stories from the struggle against apartheid in Venda, South Africa. His newest book (with Secil Arac-Orhun and Montana Queler) is Lives interrupted: Psychiatric narratives of struggle and resilience, to be published in 2019. He also edits a book series, Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts, and he is co-editor with Awad Ibrahim, Gabrielle Ivinson and Marek Tesar of a second book series, Critical Childhood & Youth Studies: Clinical, Educational, Social and Cultural Inquiry, both with Lexington Books. He has a private practice for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis on Long Island, New York.

Website: michaeloloughlinphd.com
Profile page: https://www.adelphi.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.php?PID=0064

I am a PhD researcher at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. Supervised by Dr. Jacob Johanssen, my project focuses on the rise of online gendered politics, performances of masculinity and male embodiment in fitness culture. My research builds on growing interdisciplinary literature that blends psychoanalysis and media studies together by investigating gender and identity through a psychoanalytical lens. Psychoanalysis features as both a theoretical compass and a methodological tool throughout my research as I undertake a qualitative approach that adopts a multimodal angle. This involves the combination of free-association narrative interviewing (FANI) and a media go-along. I retain a psychoanalytic-impetus throughout by harnessing a free-associative energy that encourages fluid, (un)conscious interactions between myself and my interviewees. Ultimately, the aim of the project is to investigate the logic and rationale behind these men and their digital labour.

Barry Richards is Professor of Political Psychology at Bournemouth University, UK. After training and working in clinical psychology he undertook a PhD in sociology and began an academic career. Prior to moving to Bournemouth in 2001, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Human Relations at the University of East London. His books include Images of Freud: Cultural Responses to Psychoanalysis (Dent, 1989), Disciplines of Delight: The Psychoanalysis of Popular Culture (Free Association Books, 1994), The Dynamics of Advertising (with I. MacRury & J. Botterill, Harwood, 2000), Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror (Palgrave, 2007), What Holds us Together: Popular Culture and Social Cohesion (Karnac, 2018) and The Psychology of Politics (Routledge, 2019). He was a founding co-editor of the Sage journal Media, War and Conflict, and of the interdisciplinary online journal Free Associations. His interests are in the psychosocial dynamics of contemporary politics, especially concerning polarisation and extremism, and the broader dimensions of cultural change.

Poul Rohleder is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and an academic for many years. He is primarily a qualitative and inter-disciplinary researcher, in the areas of sexuality and minoritised and stigmatised identities, and has published a number of papers in this area. He is also interested in psychotherapy research.

I’m a historian of sixteenth-century Germany. I have written a biography of the religious reformer Martin Luther and a number of works on witchcraft in German speaking lands between 1500 and 1800. Together with the psychanalyst Daniel Pick I edited a book on Dreams and History. My work has been strongly influenced by psychoanalytic ideas.

I am an interdisciplinary social scientist and group analyst. First trained in sociology, then involved in developing the fields of gender studies, and more recently, psychosocial studies, my research is concerned with how gender, sexuality, subjectivity and intimate life are changing, with citizenship and belonging, and with the role that social movements and collective action play in bringing about social, cultural and political change. I am also interested in how and why gender, sexuality, subjectivity and intimate life don’t change – with individual and collective resistance to change, and how we so often unconsciously resist change and sabotage what might be good and fruitful in our lives.

Alistair’s research focusses on the interface between psychoanalysis and spirituality. He is currently working on some letters written by Harry Guntrip. He is also working on a book re-telling the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur from a psychodynamic perspective.

I am a philosopher with a particular interest in topics surrounding death, mourning and eulogy, which led me into engaging with psychoanalysis. I have recently worked on psychoanalysis in relation to film, friendship, narcissism, environmental catastrophe and vitalist thought.

Mark Stein PhD is Professor Emeritus of Leadership and Management at the University of Leicester, an Associate Lecturer in Consultation and Organisation at the Tavistock Clinic, a Career Consultant at Careers in Depth, and an executive coach and organisational consultant. He is also a founding scholar of the BPC, and has also been an Adjunct Professor and Visiting Scholar at INSEAD, Fontainebleau. He has been awarded the European Academy of Management’s iLab Prize for innovative scholarship; an Emerald Citation of Excellence; the ‘Group & Organization Management’ best paper prize; the Gavin Macfadyen Memorial Essay Prize; and the Richard Normann Prize.

Dr Stroud’s PhD research at the University of Aberdeen focused on analysing Real Life magazines through a psychosocial lens, drawing on her extensive experience as a journalist working on national newspapers and Real Life magazines. Her research highlights the neoliberal agenda embedded in the production and consumption of Real Life magazines, examining their emotional and psychosocial impact on readers and the broader media environment. With her particular interest in socio-economic and political loss, she applies a psychosocial lens to her research to explore the psychical implications of loss and how it becomes inscribed in a particularly classed and gendered form of melancholia.

Since completing her PhD, Dr Stroud has been delighted to work for the Aberdeen cultural organisation Station House Media Unit (shmu), contributing to their work empowering people from lower socio economic backgrounds to take space in the media, make their voices heard and share their experiences authentically – work that helps challenge dominant conceptions of class and gender.

Dr Stroud a Visiting Scholar at Edinburgh University upon receiving the ISRF Early Career Fellow 2023-2024. Her current research works with socially deprived teenage girls in Aberdeen to create a ‘real life’ magazine to explore and archive the lived experiences of this demographic. This demographic, disproportionately affected by the pandemic, report high levels of poor mental wellbeing (Crenna-Jennings, 2021). The project takes further my concept of ‘social melancholia’: the psychosocial phenomenon which manifests when there has been no social or communal space to grieve the many socio-economic and political losses that have been experienced by those from a lower socio-economic background. This lack of resources and opportunity to form collectives, gain and sustain support from one another further isolate the already vulnerable individuals.

Dr Stroud is on the Executive Board of the Association of Psychosocial Studies, the Editorial Board of The Journal of Psychosocial Studies and is the Chair of the ECR/PhD Association of Psychosocial Studies subcommittee.

I am a historian of subjectivity who uses psychoanalytic theory in my research and writing. Most recently my work has focused on the history of solitude from the late 17th century to the present.

Dr. Theodora Thomadaki, an award-winning academic, dynamic public speaker, and mentor is a distinguished figure in academia and female empowerment. She is an expert in Reality TV, lifestyle media, makeover culture, post-feminism, and object relations psychoanalysis. Theodora completed her B.Sc. in Psychology University of Surrey and Ph.D. in Cultural studies at the University of Roehampton and received her MA in psychoanalytic studies (M16) training from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She has published work in the Journal of Free Associations and also in Clothing Cultures by Intellect.

Dr. Theodora is a notable speaker for the Queens in Business Club, where she shares profound insights into the intersection of makeover TV, feminism, and psychoanalysis. Collaborating with British Fashion expert Gok Wan, Dr. Theodora has been featured in magazines and journals, emphasizing the transformative impact of ’empower dressing.’ Her inspirational chapter in ‘Determined to Rise,’ titled ‘Discovering Your Potential Will Never Go Out of Style,’ empowers women to break through boundaries. Dr. Theodora’s commitment to uplifting women is both acknowledged and celebrated with awards and recognitions.

Dr. Theodora has been an academic lecturer for over 12 years, and in the past two years, she has taken her Tavistock method to the University of East London – Partnerships, leading and managing the School of Architecture, Computing, and Engineering. She has forged successful collaborations with industry giants such as IBM, ITV, WPP, Colas Rail, Morgan Sindall, TfL, Metropolitan Police, British Airways, Vodafone, Royal Navy, and other esteemed employers, bridging the gap between industry and academia. Her outstanding contributions have been honored with the Vice-Chancellor & President Excellence Award 2023 for Outstanding Contribution, a testament to her dedication to empowering students and facilitating groundbreaking industry opportunities, with her psychoanalytic knowledge being at the core of her success.

Michael Uebel has taught literature and theory at the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, and the University of Kentucky. He has also taught at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Social Work where he was appointed Lecturer, and is currently Affiliate of the Office for the Associate Dean for Research. He has been a candidate and instructor at the Austin Center for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and he maintains a private practice in Austin. Uebel was Fellow at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute (now The Center for Psychoanalytic Studies) in 2006-7. He is the author of over 45 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on cultural and intellectual history and on mental health practice. Author and editor of several books, including Race and the Subject of Masculinities (Duke University Press) and Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages (Palgrave), he is currently working on Masochism in America, examining the formation of moral and social consciousness in the post-war period. His recent book entitled The Seeds of Equanimity: Knowing and Being (Mimesis International Press, 2025) describes the concept of equanimity from Eastern and Western philosophical perspectives.

Born in Chicago, grew up in Southern California. Obtained MSW from USC in 1985 and worked thereafter in the field of mental health as a clinical social worker, a manager, and a researcher in two separate countries. In 2015 I wrote a biography of my grandfather, analyst Franz Alexander, after whom I am named and who assumed the role of father for me. In 2018 I wrote a memoir of the growing up with this man as my father, a giant in the field of psychoanalytic thought and practice. Working now on 4th book “Freud’s Honorary Son: Exploring the Theories of Franz Alexander”.

I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice and also a novelist under the pen name of William Rose. As well as my work with patients in psychotherapy I have carried out a considerable amount of teaching and supervision for psychotherapy trainings. For ten years I was Chairman of the Trustees of The Squiggle Foundation, the organisation formed to study and disseminate the work of Donald Winnicott. I have also independently lectured on psychoanalytic topics and on aspects of fine art history, particularly the artistic and literary movement known as Symbolism. This I have seen as a cultural element that was contemporaneous to Freud’s earliest development of psychoanalysis. I have always had a special interest in this period in which there was a growing exploration and understanding of the unconscious.

My first novel, originally published by Karnac and then republished by Sphinx Books, ‘The Strange Case of Madeleine Seguin’, was largely situated in the Salpêtrière hospital of Jean-Martin Charcot and set at a time close to that in which Freud was studying there under Charcot. The study of Hysteria and the use of hypnotism were prominent at this time and these were most relevant to the themes in the novel. I have always had a special interest in this period.

My second novel, ‘Camille and the Raising of Eros’ also made much use of psychoanalytic theory and history, with Princess Marie Bonaparte, who played such an important part in Freud’s life, as a principal character.

I continue with my psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice, and to write and lecture. In my lectures I take items of psychoanalytic interest and attempt to enrich the subject matter with the use of images from fine art.

Dr Deborah L. S. Wright, is a BPC registrant, a Psychotherapist in private practice and an Academic, Lecturer, and Programme Director of the Clinical Professional Doctorate Programs, in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at The University of Essex, as well as an Artist, Printmaker, and Illustrator. Her academic and art works explore human’s relationships with spaces, places and rooms and her book, ‘The Physical and Virtual Space of the Consulting Room: Room-object spaces’ explores Room-object spaces and spatialisation.

Naomi Wynter-Vincent writes on the work of Wilfred Bion in relation to literary criticism, experimental and creative writing, and creative process. She is currently Assistant Professor within the English faculty at Northeastern University London. Her book, Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism, was published by Routledge in 2021, and she has presented in conferences in the UK, Italy, Finland, and Brazil.

She holds a first degree from the University of Cambridge, master’s degrees from Sussex and UCL, and completed her PhD with the University of Sussex. She is also an experienced somatic therapist (certified Advanced Rolfer and Rolf Movement practitioner) and coach in private practice, focusing on embodiment, body dysmorphia, and resilience.

Professor Candida Yates (PhD, MA, BA Hons, FHEA, FRSA) is an interdisciplinary scholar, teacher and group practitioner with a background in psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis and their application to politics, culture, media and society. She works with scholars, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and creative practitioners to provide new understandings of emotion and affect in the public sphere – creating bridges between therapeutic, cultural and academic fields of research and practice.

Prof Yates was Co-Director of the BU Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and Social Justice; and is an Executive Board Member and Trustee of the Association for Psychosocial Studies and an Academic Associate of The Freud Museum; she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Prof Yates has published on a range of psychoanalytic, cultural and political themes in monographs, including ‘The Play of Political Culture and Emotion’ and ‘Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema’. Her edited books include: ‘Media and the Inner World’, ‘Culture and the Unconscious’, ‘Television and Psychoanalysis’, ‘Emotion; New Psychosocial Perspectives’, and also numerous journal articles and special editions. She is a Consulting Editor on Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society (Palgrave), The Journal of Psychosocial Studies (Policy) and Joint Editor of the book series Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture (Routledge).

Prof Yates has led courses on the Master Politics Programmes at Bournemouth University and has supervised PhD students in the areas of psychosocial studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, politics and society.

She is currently leading a research project on the psychodynamics of the maritime imagination and is also working with the Faction Theatre and the Freud Museum to explore psychosocial themes and emotions in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Pericles.

Caroline Zilboorg is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and a scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. She is the editor of the Aldington-H.D. correspondence as well as H.D’s Bid Me to Live and the author of Transgressions, a historical novel about H.D. and Aldington. Her most recent work is a biography of her father, the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg. She is currently writing a memoir entitled A Psychoanalytic Childhood: Growing Up in Mid-Century New York. She lives in a granite farm house in Brittany with her six cats.