ABSTRACT
Although Professor Kahr spends most of his week facilitating traditional psychoanalytical sessions with his patients, in his spare time he has had many professional adventures outside the consulting room, broadcasting as Resident Psychotherapist for the B.B.C., lecturing about the intimacies of couple psychodynamics on the stage of the Royal Opera House, and defending “Lady Macbeth” in a murder trial at the Royal Courts of Justice in conjunction with members of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
In this compellingly written and unputdownable book, Kahr shares his wealth of adventures both inside the consulting room and in the wider cultural sphere, disseminating psychoanalytical ideas more broadly. The book suggests that the “traditionalist” and the “maverick” aspects of the practising clinician can exist side by side in a fruitful collaboration. These adventures will encourage those embarking upon their first steps in the helping professions to entertain more creative ways of working.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|75 pages
Consulting Room Essays
chapter Chapter Six|13 pages
Baseball caps, overcoats, orange suits, and neckties: on patients and their clothing
part II|66 pages
Media Essays
chapter Chapter Eight|9 pages
How to make a forty-seven-minute television programme in only three years
part III|20 pages
Historical Essays
chapter Chapter Fourteen|6 pages
Why Freud turned down $25,000: mental health professionals in the witness box
part IV|20 pages
The Mind of the Psychotherapist