Curing Madness

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 Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health at Regent’s University London. A trained historian, Kahr is both an Honorary Fellow and the Honorary Director of Research at the Freud Museum London. He is the author of twenty-two books and the series editor of over eighty-five additional titles.

• A Note on ConfidentialityIntroductionHow To Transform a LifePart One. My First Two PublicationsChapter 1.Of Psychiatric Cant: Programme Notes for Equus. Chapter 2.Psycho-Analysis in Oxford: A Study in Heresy.Part Two. Clinical ContributionsSection One. Extreme Psychopathology.Chapter 3.From the Treatment of a Compulsive Spitter: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Profound Disability.Chapter 4.Did the Nazi Holocaust Cause Schizophrenia?Section Two. Psychological Infanticide.Chapter 5.The Infanticidal Attachment. Chapter 6.Pet Murder and the Infanticidal Attachment. Section Three. Sexuality and Couples.Chapter 7.Erotic Tumours.Chapter 8.Micro-Separations: How to Traumatise Your Spouse on a Daily Basis.Part Three. Historical Contributions.Chapter 9.Sigmund Freud as the Father of Attachment Theory.Chapter 10.“led astray by their half-baked pseudo-scientific rubbish”: John Bowlby and the Paradigm Shift in Child Psychiatry. Part Four. Public Contributions.Section One. Expanding the Profession.Chapter 11.How to Make a Forty-Seven-Minute Television Programme in Only Three Years. Chapter 12.All-Party Parliamentary Group for Strengthening Couple Relationships. Section Two. Musicalising Psychoanalysis.Chapter 13.How to Write a Musical for Prince Charles in Six Months or Less.Chapter 14.A Night at the Opera: The Freudians at Covent Garden. Conclusion.Towards The Twenty-Second CenturyBrief Biographical Notes About Brett Kahr.EndnotesOriginal Sources of ChaptersAcknowledgementsReferencesIndex