Expanding Psychoanalysis: The Contributions of Susie Orbach
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Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : November 2024
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 97842
- ISBN 13 : 9781032861951
- ISBN 10 : 1032861959
Also by Brett Kahr
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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.
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Brett Kahr’s meticulously edited text gathers cutting-edge clinicians to honour Susie Orbach’s pioneering work. They pay tribute to Orbach’s impact, which radically weaves political, cultural, gender-power dynamics, and psychoanalysis. This inspired book confirms Orbach’s enduring influence in challenging toxic psychosocial messages about the body and countless other critical mental health topics.
Dr. Zack Eleftheriadou is a parent-infant, child and adult psychotherapist and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, as well as a member of The Bowlby Centre, London
This outstanding volume captures the essence of Dr. Susie Orbach’s brilliance and her profound impact as a thinker, clinician, writer, feminist, and social activist. The prominent contributors bring multiple perspectives that illuminate Orbach’s work as a beacon of knowledge, hope, and empowerment for people all over the world.
Dr. Galit Atlas is a Faculty Member at the New York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and the author of Emotional Inheritance
Susie Orbach has made many great achievements in the mental health field for over half a century; in consequence, I commend this enriching and glowing tribute of her professional life and work. Brett Kahr has prepared a beautifully edited “Festschrift” in Orbach’s honour, and I hope that the chapters contained herein will encourage us all to read and re-read Orbach’s many enlightening publications.
Julia Samuel is a psychotherapist and the author of Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
This book not only celebrates the life and work of the iconic feminist Susie Orbach, it also deepens, extends, and enriches it, and does so critically. The collection of essays will be of interest not only to the psychotherapist, but also to the “ordinary” citizen.
Dr. Farhad Dalal is a group analyst and a psychotherapist, and the author of Thought Paralysis: The Virtues of Discrimination
Susie Orbach’s remarkable career has brought a brilliant integration of clinical commitment, feminism, and psychoanalytic-political insight to the widest public audience. This book is an essential guide to her radical and intimate sense of how “the personal is political”, leavened with personal honesty and great common sense.
Professor Stephen Seligman is Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, as well as a Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He is the author of Relationships in Development: Infancy, Intersubjectivity, and Attachment
The work of Susie Orbach has changed how we think about the body, how we speak about it and how we inhabit it. Over several decades, she has campaigned tirelessly against social injustice and ideologies of bodily blame, as well as having a huge influence on the promotion of emotional literacy and the powers and possibilities of therapy. This marvellous and highly readable collection of essays shows the scope and importance of her work, as well as containing many chapters which add original research and thinking into the mix. It offers not just an introduction to Orbach’s work but a significant review of developments in her field. A pleasure to read.
Darian Leader is an author and a psychoanalyst at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, London.
Table of Contents
Contributor Biographies
A Note on Confidentiality
Introduction
Susie Orbach and the Modernization of Mental Health
Brett Kahr
Part I - Orbach in Context
1. A Tribute to Susie Orbach
Luise Eichenbaum
2. Radio Karnac: An Unpublished Broadcast with Dr. Susie Orbach.
Brett Kahr
Part II - Orbach in the Consulting Room
3. Shame and Shamelessness
Jane Haberlin
4. Embodied Intimacies
Sarah Benamer
Part III - Orbach in Politics and Society
5. Therapists as Consultants: Experts, Relationals, Visionaries, Antidotes, Fools... and Leaders
Andrew Samuels
6. Bodies as Profit Centres: Orbach’s Work in the Context of Performance
Roanna Mitchell
Part IV - Orbach in the Media
7. “Psychotherapy is not a spectator sport”: The Dissemination of Psychoanalysis from Freud to Orbach
Brett Kahr
Part V - Orbach From a Personal Perspective
8. A Reflection on Susie Orbach’s Work: Risking the Radical Edge of Relationship-Seeking in Theory and Practice
Kate White
9. A Celebration of Susie Orbach
Valerie Sinason
Epilogue
In Dialogue with ...
Susie Orbach
Susie Orbach’s Professional Biography
Brett Kahr
Acknowledgements
Index
About the Editor(s)
Professor Brett Kahr has worked in the mental health profession for over forty years. A clinical registrant of both the British Psychoanalytic Council and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, he is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and, also, Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health at Regents University London.
Over the decades, Kahr has worked in the National Health Service and in private practice in Central London with both individuals and couples. He is currently Consultant Psychotherapist to The Balint Consultancy and, additionally, Consultant in Psychology at The Bowlby Centre. He also serves as Chair of the Scholars Committee of the British Psychoanalytic Council, as well as Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health.
Professor Kahr is the Honorary Director of Research at Freud Museum London and, also, an Honorary Fellow of the museum. Previously, he served as Deputy Director of the International Campaign for the Freud Museum from 1986-1987 and, more recently, as Trustee of both Freud Museum London and of Freud Museum Publications from 2011-2020.
In addition to his clinical practice, Kahr has collaborated with the media in order to promote mental health knowledge. Formerly Resident Psychotherapist on BBC Two, broadcasting about mental health issues to millions of listeners, he has appeared on over one thousand radio and television programmes. In recognition of his work in this field, he has become Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University. The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy recently awarded him an Honorary Fellowship for his contributions to public service.
Professor Kahr is the author of sixteen books and series editor of more than seventy-five additional titles on a wide range of subjects.
His solo-authored books cover a range of topics, including clinical investigations of extreme psychopathology and forensic mental health, such as his titles, Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surviving Psychological Shrapnel, as well as Dangerous Lunatics: Trauma, Criminality, and Forensic Psychotherapy. He has also written on Sex and the Psyche, a Waterstones Non-Fiction Bestseller and a chosen title in the Sunday Times Book Club, based on his study of the traumatic, unconscious roots of over 20,000 adult sexual fantasies, as well as Celebrity Mad: Why Otherwise Intelligent People Worship Fame. His historically orientated books include the very first biography of Donald Winnicott, entitled D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait, which received the Gradiva Award for Biography, as well as the popular titles, Life Lessons from Freud, Tea with Winnicott, and Coffee with Freud. Most recently, he has released Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis, the inaugural title in the new Freud Museum London Series of history books, published by Karnac Books exploring not only how Sigmund Freud navigated the tragedies of his own lifetime but, also, how he would have handled the COVID-19 pandemic and what lessons our world leaders might learn from those pioneering psychoanalytical concepts.
Professor Kahr has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with Karnac Books and has produced many books with this publisher and has also served as series editor or series co-editor or consultant to four of its monograph series. More recently, he has become Series Editor of the Freud Museum London Series, hosted by Karnac Books in association with Freud Museum London, as well as Advisory Editor-in-Chief to Karnac Books and to its sibling imprint Confer Books.
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