ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author offers a very detailed account of his years of service as “Resident Psychotherapist” at the British Broadcasting Corporation, providing a full portrait of how this post developed and how it expanded during his tenure. Professor Kahr writes about the ways in which he championed the identity of the “psychotherapist” at the BBC, in spite of the broadcasters’ own hesitancy to publicise the mental health profession, and in spite of the fact that many people, at that point in time, regarded the process of undergoing “therapy” as rather frightening and shaming. Kahr provides us with a rich description of a memorable midnight broadcast on the Helen Mayhew programme in which he spoke to a person who had recently become traumatically bereaved. Kahr has provided a clear narrative about how he endeavoured to work with this member of the public and how he arranged for this caller to receive a private mental health referral after the conclusion of the broadcast.
