Curing Madness

The Selected Works of Brett Kahr
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-07540-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: World Library of Mental Health

Curing Madness: The Selected Works of Brett Kahr presents papers, written between 1983 and 2025, spanning the course of Brett Kahr’s rich and varied career.

Kahr presents a selection of his favourite papers, spanning several themes including clinical work, historical perspectives, couple work and public contributions. Each engaging and accessible chapter highlights an aspect of Kahr’s psychotherapeutic expertise, from the treatment of extreme psychopathology to the exploration of the traumatic origins of profound disability and schizophrenia, the history of psychiatry and his contributions as a pioneering media psychologist who has communicated to millions of Britons over many years. This book presents the most compelling publications of this experienced psychological practitioner, whose passion and commitment to enhancing the field of mental health will inspire future generations of clinicians.

Curing Madness: The Selected Works of Brett Kahr will be of great interest to members of the mental health community including psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in practice and in training.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kahr, Brett

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Familientherapie, Paartherapie, Gruppentherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Kriminalpsychologie, Forensische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Confidentiality

Introduction

How To Transform a Life

Part One. My First Two Publications

Chapter 1.

Of Psychiatric Cant: Programme Notes for Equus.

Chapter 2.

Psycho-Analysis in Oxford: A Study in Heresy.

Part Two. Clinical Contributions

Section One. Extreme Psychopathology.

Chapter 3.

From the Treatment of a Compulsive Spitter: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Profound Disability.

Chapter 4.

Did the Nazi Holocaust Cause Schizophrenia?

Section Two. Psychological Infanticide.

Chapter 5.

The Infanticidal Attachment.

Chapter 6.

Pet Murder and the Infanticidal Attachment.

Section Three. Sexuality and Couples.

Chapter 7.

Erotic Tumours.

Chapter 8.

Micro-Separations: How to Traumatise Your Spouse on a Daily Basis.

Part Three. Historical Contributions.

Chapter 9.

Sigmund Freud as the Father of Attachment Theory.

Chapter 10.

“led astray by their half-baked pseudo-scientific rubbish”: John Bowlby and the Paradigm Shift in Child Psychiatry.

Part Four. Public Contributions.

Section One. Expanding the Profession.

Chapter 11.

How to Make a Forty-Seven-Minute Television Programme in Only Three Years.

Chapter 12.

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Strengthening Couple Relationships.

Section Two. Musicalising Psychoanalysis.

Chapter 13.

How to Write a Musical for Prince Charles in Six Months or Less.

Chapter 14.

A Night at the Opera: The Freudians at Covent Garden.

Conclusion.

Towards The Twenty-Second Century

Brief Biographical Notes About Brett Kahr.

Endnotes

Original Sources of Chapters

Acknowledgements

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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 Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health at Regent’s University London. A trained historian, Kahr is both an Honorary Fellow and the Honorary Director of Research at the Freud Museum London. He is the author of twenty-two books and the series editor of over eighty-five additional titles.