Expanding Psychoanalysis: The Contributions of Susie Orbach

The Freud Museum is pleased to announce an in-house conversation between Dr. Susie Orbach and Professor Brett Kahr to celebrate the publication of ‘Expanding Psychoanalysis: The Contributions of Susie Orbach’, edited by Prof. Kahr.

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 critical contributions to the creation of feminist psychotherapy (with Luise Eichenbaum also a contributor to this volume), 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.

Join us for an evening to celebrate this new publication as well as Orbach’s impressive career.

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Speakers:

Professor Brett Kahr 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. Additionally, he serves as Chair of the Scholars Committee of the British Psychoanalytic Council and, also, as a Lifetime Fellow of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. A trained historian as well as a clinician, he is Honorary Fellow and Honorary Director of Research at the Freud Museum London as well as Series Editor of the “Freud Museum London Series”. Professor Kahr is the author of twenty books and the series editor of over eighty-five further titles. His most Freud-friendly books include Life Lessons from Freud and Coffee with Freud, as well as Freud’s Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish War, and the Nazis. A Consultant in Psychology to The Bowlby Centre and, also, a Consultant Psychotherapist at The Balint Consultancy, he works with both individuals and couples in independent practice in Holborn, in Central London.

Susie Orbach is a psychoanalyst and writer. She co-founded The Women’s Therapy Centre in 1976 and is the author of many books including Fat is a Feminist Issue, Hunger Strike, On Eating, The Impossibility of Sex, Bodies, and In Therapy. She was a visiting Professor at LSE for 10 years, visiting scholar at The New School and Hertford College Oxford. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, is the recipient of The British Psychoanalytic Council’s Lifetime Achievement award and has several Honorary Doctorates. She has been a Trustee and is an Honorary Fellow of the Freud Museum. She is a consultant psychotherapist with The Balint Consultancy.

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Tickets: £25

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The purpose of this event is to raise funds for the Freud Museum London, which receives no regular Government income. We are grateful to you for supporting our independent museum as generously as possible.