Expanding Psychoanalysis

The Contributions of Susie Orbach
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-74615-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

Expanding Psychoanalysis explores the work of the acclaimed psychoanalyst, writer, and activist Susie Orbach.

The book studies Orbach’s multifaceted career in five sections, examining her multitudinous contributions to the mental health profession, from the creation of feminist psychotherapy to the enhancement of media psychology, to the growth of political and social consultation. The book contains clinical, historical, and personal chapters, examining Orbach from a range of perspectives. Each chapter investigates a key aspect of Orbach’s work and its impact on the professional, the social, and the personal level. The book concludes with an epilogue by Orbach herself.

Expanding Psychoanalysis will be essential for all readers interested in the work of Susie Orbach.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kahr, Brett

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Radio Karnac: An Unpublished Broadcast with Dr.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

Über Autor(innen)

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 twenty 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.