Brett Kahr

On Practising Therapy at 1.45 A.M.

Adventures of a Clinician

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Produktbeschreibung

On Practising Therapy at 1.45 A.M: Adventures of a Clinician derives from experiences of talking to millions of Britons about their mental health needs, both off camera and on.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781782206804
• ISBN-10: 1782206809
• Artikelnr.: 53506266

Autorenporträt

Professor Brett Kahr has worked in the mental health field for over forty years. He is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, in London, and Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health. A Trustee of the Freud Museum London and of Freud Museum Publications, he has written or edited fourteen books, and he has served as series editor for more than fifty-five other titles. He is Consultant Psychotherapist at The Balint Consultancy and works full-time with individuals and couples in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude: Of Mavericks and Medias
Introduction: On Practising Therapy at 1.45 A.M.
Section One: Consulting Room Essays
Chapter 1: The Handshake
Chapter 2: Tissues
Chapter 3: The Ten-Minute Gap
Chapter 4: On Painting the Consulting Room
Chapter 5: The Bookshelf
Chapter 6: Baseball Caps, Overcoats, Orange Suits, and Neckties: On Patients and Their Clothing
Chapter 7: On Patients Who Remove Their Clothing in Sessions
Section Two: Media Essays
Chapter 8: How to Make a Forty-Seven-Minute Television Programme in Only Three Years
Chapter 9: Filming Sexual Fantasies
Chapter 10: How to Make 120,000 People Happy in Just Ten Weeks
Chapter 11: A Night at the Opera: Freudians at Covent Garden
Chapter 12: Defending "Lady Macbeth": Testimony of an Expert Witness
Section Three: Historical Essays
Chapter 13: Four Unknown Freud Anecdotes
Chapter 14: Why Freud Turned Down $25,000: Mental Health Professionals in the Witness Box
Section Four: The Mind of the Psychotherapist
Chapter 15: Musings of a Musicophiliac
Chapter 16: I Suffer from Karnacitis
Postlude: In Camera and On Camera, or, a Maverick's Manifesto
Acknowledgements
Original Sources of the Chapters
References
Index