Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis

From Freud’s Death Bed to Laing’s Missing Tooth

Brett Kahr (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2023
Phoenix Publishing House (Verlag)
978-1-80013-190-3 (ISBN)

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In this compellingly written and meticulously researched new book, Professor Brett Kahr draws upon extensive unpublished archival sources and upon his four decades of oral history interviews to paint fascinating portraits of many of the icons of mental health. Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis: From Freud’s Death Bed to Laing’s Missing Tooth includes detailed accounts of Kahr’s interviews with such noted figures as Enid Balint, Marion Milner, Ronald Laing, John Bowlby and his wife, Ursula Longstaff Bowlby, as well as numerous members of Donald Winnicott’s family.

Framed as a series of glimpses into the early history of British psychoanalysis, Kahr explores how the German-speaking Sigmund Freud learned how to psychoanalyse English-speaking patients; how Enid Eichholz (the future wife of Michael Balint) pioneered couple psychoanalysis in the wake of the Second World War; how Donald Winnicott treated “The Piggle” in the midst of his own health crises; and how Masud Khan degenerated from a clinical sage into an anti-Semite.

A breathtaking combination of interviews, reminiscences, and well-documented scholarship, this book provides a gripping overview of many of the key figures in British psychoanalysis, all of whom made unparalleled contributions to the mental health profession, and whose lives and careers deserve to be visited and revisited.

Professor Brett Kahr has worked in the mental health profession for over forty years. He is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and, also, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health. He holds posts as Consultant to The Bowlby Centre and, also, as Consultant Psychotherapist to The Balint Consultancy. Having worked for many years in the National Health Service, he currently maintains a private practice in Hampstead, North London, for individuals and couples. Professor Kahr is a Trustee of the Freud Museum London and of Freud Museum Publications, and he is also a trained historian with a special concentration in the history of psychoanalysis. Author or editor of eleven books, his titles include, D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait, which received the Gradiva Award for Biography; Sex and the Psyche, which became a chosen title in the Sunday Times Book Club and which appeared in serial form in both The Times and The Observer; Tea with Winnicott, selected as one of the “Books of the Year” in The Guardian newspaper; Coffee with Freud; and, most recently, New Horizons in Forensic Psychotherapy: Exploring the Work of Estela V. Welldon, an edited Festschrift in honour of Dr Welldon’s eightieth birthday. He has served as series editor for over fifty-five further titles in his capacity as Series Editor of the “Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series” and, also, as Series Co-Editor for both the “History of Psychoanalysis Series” and the “Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis”, all published by Routledge.

Introduction:

My Love of Deceased Psychoanalysts

PART I: SIGMUND FREUD AS AN ENGLISHMAN

Chapter 1:

“Zooming” in Old Vienna: How Sigmund Freud Became an English-Speaking Psychoanalyst

Chapter 2:

Freud’s London Death Bed: Notes on the “Invalid Couch” at Maresfield Gardens

PART II: UNPUBLISHED WINNICOTTIANA.

Chapter 3:

Donald Winnicott’s Wives: From Alice Buxton Taylor to Clare Britton

Chapter 4:

“The Piggle” Family Papers: Unpublished Archival Gems Regarding Winnicott’s Most Iconic Case

PART III: DR. AND MRS. BOWLBY.

Chapter 5:

“Half-Baked Pseudo-Scientific Rubbish”: How John Bowlby Reinvented Child Psychiatry

Chapter 6:

Ursula Longstaff Bowlby: The Creative Muse of Attachment Theory

PART IV: TWO TRULY UNASSUMING ICONS.

Chapter 7:

Breakfast with Marion Milner: Reminiscences of the World’s Oldest Psychoanalyst

Chapter 8:

Enid Eichholz Balint: The Birth of Couple Psychoanalysis in England

PART V: THE BAD BOYS OF BRITISH PSYCHOANALYSIS.

Chapter 9:

Rajah on the Couch: The Magnificence and Misery of Masud Khan

Chapter 10:

R.D. Laing’s Missing Tooth: The Secret Roots of Genius and Madness

Conclusion:

How to Be Intimate with a Corpse: The Role of Psychoanalytical Historiography

Acknowledgements

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Freud Museum London Series
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
ISBN-10	1-80013-190-9 / 1800131909
ISBN-13	978-1-80013-190-3 / 9781800131903
Zustand	Neuware